On Windows Vista operating system, Aero glass effect can be enabled as follows. Click on Start icon. (or Ctrl-Esc) Click on Control Panel Under ‘Appearance and Personalization‘ click on ‘Change the color scheme‘ Select ‘Windows Aero‘ in the list of options under Color Scheme Click OK
Start menu redirection can be enabled for all users in a domain by configuring group policy settings. In Windows 2003 domain server this can be done as follows. These steps would be more or less similar in Server 2008 domain server. Log in to the Domain Controller machine. Open the Group policy object editor( see … Read more
On Windows XP/2003/Vista/ Windows 7 we can enable or disable webclient service using the following method.(In Windows Server 2003 webclient is disabled by default whereas in XP/Vista/Windows7 it is enabled by default i.e start type is set to Auto. Open Service configuration console(services.msc). Find webclient entry in the list of services displayed in the right … Read more
In Microsoft Outlook application we use meeting request to invite people to the meetings. The Receivers of this meeting request can accept or reject the meeting request based on their availability or willingness to attend the meeting. When the user accepts a meeting request, the mail gets deleted from the mailbox / Inbox and would … Read more
We can disable firewall using firewall.cpl user interface. Another way to do the same is by editing the registry key “EnableFirewall“. We can find this registry key under in the below node. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSharedAccessParametersFirewallPolicyStandardProfile Setting the data in this parameter to 0 will disable firewall on the machine. To enable firewall you need to set the … Read more
Offline files provides a configurable setting called Slow Link policy, which, if enabled, will reduce the network traffic between client and server. Suppose you are working from home and are connected to your office network. If your network connection is very slow, the time CSC takes to synchronize the local cache with the server files … Read more
Though offline files is a very useful feature there are many scenarios where the feature does not work as expected. One such issue is discussed below.When you try to mark a file/folder for offline availability(i.e right click the folder and click on ‘Make available offline’) you may get an error message ‘Errors occurred while windows … Read more
On Windows XP/2003 machines we can delete or reinitialize offline files/CSC cache in any of the following ways. User Interface Open My computer from start menu Click on Tools Click on Folder Options Select Offline Files tab Press CTRL+Shift and click on Delete Files. Using Registry key Add a new value named FormatDatabase of type … Read more
If you are using Windows Server 2008 you might have noticed that you can’t see ‘Enable Offline files‘ option anywhere. Reason for this is that Server 2008 edition does not support offline files feature by default. We need to install Desktop Experience for this. Offline files is something that is used when one tries to … Read more
Appdata registry key controls the location of application data folder. In Windows XP/2003, the default location of application folder is at C:Documents and SettingsUsernameApplication Data. In Windows 7, it is located at C:UsersUsernameApplication Data. One can change this default location of Application Data by editing the registry key appdata which can be located under the … Read more