How to open Admin command prompt in VISTA

Category              : Outlook 2007
Operating System : Vista & Win7


Click Start ,  type cmd on start search

Right click on the cmd.exe icon which shows under programs and Click on Run As Administrator. 

-shortcut : type cmd on start search and press & hold Ctrl+Shift and Enter

User Account Control (UAC) interface will be prompt. Insert the admin username and password.

      

As for some computers (e.g. office computer) will requires Domain name. This domain name will be automatically detected by system and the name of the domain will be displayed as a note below password input bar. For any sort of reason (basically OU issues) , to change the domain just type the username in the format of Domain\Username

Well If you have used admin/full access account to login, UAC will just prompt as indication bar and you will only need to click OK (username and password entry not required)

Check the title bar to confirm  whether its an admin command prompt or not. If its not admin bar or UAC prompt to enter username and password again, it means your account / access does not have admin privillage. You need to check with your Access Management. Well if its a home PC and you are a teenager, ..talk to your dad!! 

                                                  !!cheers!!

Outlook Cached Exchange Mode is grayed out

Category              : Outlook 2007
Operating System : Vista

Symptoms            : Outlook status showing Online with Microsoft Exchange
Error Message      :  nil

(for advance users who are searching fix for Outlook Cached Exchange Mode grayed out issue, please scroll/skip down  to FIX - Outlook Cached Exchange Mode is grayed out)

Well some of you guys might have encountered this issue, whereby when you are connected to office network, your outlook works find, but when you open outlook at home, outlook gives variable error messages and inbox become empty.

It happens because (on layman words) : the outlook have failed to find/create OST file , OST file is a copy of all the messages (inbox) into you hardisk, as for the fact the outlook inbox is directly connected to the exchange server and not located in local machine.

Therefore, your outlook (inbox) is directly connected to exchange server without any copy in hardisk, this is why outlook will only work at office network (direct exchange connection) and not at your home (offline).

So how to check? outlook status will be indicated as "Online with Microsoft Exchange"

FIX

To fix this problem, click on Tools > Account Settings..

Double-Click on your email address

Tick on Use Cached Exchange Mode check box

Click Next > Finish. Relaunch outlook and outlook will start updating / creating ost file. The outlook status now will become Connected to Microsoft Exchange.

Well sometimes the Use Cached Exchange Mode check box will be grayed-out. This might cause by several factors like group policy. Below will be the registry key which need be modified to enable the option.

FIX - Outlook Cached Exchange Mode is grayed out

1. Start a admin cmd (command prompt) window

2. Type regedit in the admin cmd window to launch Registry Editor

3. Go to HKEY_USER\User SID\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\OST

4. Right click on the NoOST entry on the right and click Modify

5. Give it a value of 0

6. Restart Outlook 2007 and the Use Cached Exchange Mode option should no longer be grayed out anymore.

                                                           !!cheers!!

Battery Health Check For HP Laptop

Category              : Laptop (HP)
Operating System : w2k or Vista


For Laptop models running on Windows 2000

1. Download the softpaq sp32299.exe from HP Battery Check

2. Install softpaq(sp32299). It takes about 5 -10 minutes to install.

3. Go to Start> Program> Hewlett-Packard > HP Battery Check

For Laptop models running on Vista 

1. Download the softpaq sp37021.exe from HP Battery Check (Vista) 

2. Install the softpaq (sp37021.exe).  It takes about 5 -10 minutes to install.

3. Open a normal user command prompt, go to C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Battery Check  (My Computer > Program Files > Hewlett-Packard > HP Battery Check) and run HPBC.exe 


Please check whether the battery is slotted properly. The machine should be on AC power (power ad) while running the application.  Cheers!!


                                                        

Hiragana Stroke order and direction

The following table shows the method for writing each hiragana character. It is arranged in the traditional way, beginning top right and reading columns down. The numbers and arrows indicate the stroke order and direction respectively.