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Microsoft provides a free edition of SQL Server for training and education purposes. Free edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 can be downloaded from the below link. //www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b3695d9-415e-41f0-a079-25ab0412424b&displaylang=en This edition is called SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Express edition It has downloadable packages for all the architectures – X86, IA64 and AMD64. Additionally SQL Server [...]

Network monitor 3.4 can be downloaded from the below locations. //www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f&displaylang=en The above link has network monitor package for the 3 architectures: x86, x64 and ia64. Network monitor version 3.1 can be downloaded from the below location//www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=12&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d18b1d59d-f4d8-4213-8d17-2f6dde7d7aac%26DisplayLang%3den

In Windows, you can uninstall programs or software using Add or remove programs wizard. Detailed steps are given below. Launch Add or remove programs wizard. For this execute appwiz.cpl from Run command (or) click on Start -> Control Panel -> Add or remove programs If you want to uninstall some in-built windows feature that is [...]

Internet explorer, like any other browser, keeps track of the websites you have visited, the cookies these websites have created, passwords you allowed IE to save etc. This history can be deleted in the following ways. From Internet explorer window click on Tools and then Internet Options Now click on the Delete button (see the [...]

Automatic updates feature in Windows OS checks with the Microsoft updates site and finds out if there are any important updates that need to be installed on the system. These updates include the bi-monthly security updates(GDRs) and service pack updates. Users does not have to bother about keeping track of which updates are installed or [...]

Microsoft Word keeps track of the list of documents opened by the user. This list is displayed in the File menu. Press Alt-F and you can see the Filemenu along with the list of recently opened documents.If you are sharing the account with others and don’t want the list of the documents to be displayed. [...]

I have office communicator 2005 running on my XP SP2 windows.  Today I have faced one issue with the communicator. When I launched the communicator from Start menu -> All programs, it did not open. No window popped up, no error message and no icon in the system tray. I tried it from command prompt by [...]

In Windows XP, default email application can be changed in the following way. Open “Add or remove programs”  wizard either from control panel or by running appwiz.cpl from Run window. Click on ‘Set program access and defaults‘ from the list displayed on the left. You will see the list of configurations available(Computer Manufacturer, Microsoft, Non-Microsoft, [...]

In the default configuration, the mouse pointer is displayed as a white arrow mark tilted towards left. We can change this mouse pointer using mouse  properties window. Open Run window from Start button. Execute the command main.cpl from the Run window. This opens mouse properties window. Select the tab Pointers. Select the one you like [...]