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Whenever you have a new email in your mail box, Outlook can display an alert or pop-up at the right bottom of your desktop. This alert looks like below. How to turn off new email pop up? This new mail pop up can be disabled my modifying outlook settings. See detailed steps below. In Outlook [...]

This post explains you how to disable automatic updates for Adobe Reader. Open Acrobat reader. Click on Edit in the menu bar and select Preferences. Click Updater in the categories list shown on the left. Now select the third option ‘Do not automatically download or install updates‘ Click on OK. That’s all, you have disabled [...]

Windows logon screen shows the user name of the last logged in user.  If you do not want the user name to be displayed you can disable it by modifying registry keys or by changing the security policy on the system. Registry settings Open registry editor and set the below registry key to 1. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\DontDisplayLastUserName [...]

Hibernation/Stand by feature allows us to switch off the machine temporarily and later we can bring back the same workspace or system state when we want to resume using the computer. When we start a computer that is in stand by or hibernate state, we would be prompted for password for logging in. You can [...]

Microsoft Office Home and Business Edition is available for free trial for 60 days. This trial package can be downloaded from the below link.//office.microsoft.com/en-us/redir/XT101937428.aspx You need to sign in with a live id to download the software. You can register for one if you don’t have. After signing in with live id, you will be [...]

Virtual PC allows to create virtual machines with the same or different OS running on it. These virtual machines will exist and run in parallel with the host OS.  Virtual PC software can be downloaded for free from Microsoft portal. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 can be downloaded from the below location. //www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24439 This can be [...]

If you want to provide shutdown option in Windows logon screen, you can do it by either of the following methods.. Using Registry settings: Open registry editor by executing the command regedit from Run window. Navigate to the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem Modify the data in registry value shutdownWithoutLogon to 1. If this key does not exist [...]

Microsoft is offering free Anti virus software (called Microsoft security essentials) for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. There is no trial period or any other condition, it’s completely free. You can download it from the below Microsoft portal. The only thing you need to have is genuine Windows OS running on your [...]

Windows enforces the third party drivers to be digitally signed otherwise it blocks them from being installed on the system. This requirement can be disabled in the following way. Windows XP: Open My computer properties` Click on Hardware tab Click on ‘Driver signing’ button. Select the first option ‘Install the software any way and don’t [...]