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Whether you are seriously considering moving your desktops to Windows Vista or just simply contemplating about it, I highly encourage you to grab your favorite latte or beverage, sit back and read about this great story – one that illustrates how an IT pro had become an instant hero in this company.

Meet Sumeeth Evans - IT Manager of the Collegiate Housing Services (CHS).  Situated just about 2 hours south of the Great Lake Michigan, CHS manages student housing programs for 27 post-secondary campuses in 13 states across the nation.  Late last year (2006), Sumeeth started planning for migrating his company’s computers to Windows Vista but estimated that it could cost $76,000 to get the job done – he assumed that most of his Windows XP machines might not support Windows Vista due the hardware requirements.  Fortunately, he joined the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment beta program and

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Tired of the old Windows Vista default Boot Screen? Well then, there is a simple alternative solution involving nothing more than your copy of the operating system. And just a tad of tweaking, but nothing extensive, and certainly nothing that would cause Vista to become instable or unusable. The fact of the matter is that you will only have to make use of one of the system maintenance tools that ships by default with the platform. And of course that the first tool coming to mind is the System Configuration Utility, or msconfig.

In order to access the System Configuration Utility all you have to do is enter “msconfig” in the Search Box under the Start Menu. (more…)

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The Patent Search technology owned by Google was improved with a pretty useful function that allows users to download a certain patent in PDF format. Until you, you were able to view a patent only on the search results page without having the possibility to download and view it in offline mode. As blogger Ionut Alex reported, “the option is available from the overview page and in the sidebar, when you browse the patent.” Google Patent Search was quite an anonymous technology as the Mountain View company didn’t promote it too often. Although some of the users are claiming that the technology is quite useless and provides irrelevant results, Google Patent Search is a simple way to search the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). (more…)

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You can use the Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration (PFDAVAdmin) tool to recover public folders or items. You can use the following methods when you cannot recover folders or items by using the Recover deleted items command in Microsoft Outlook. PFDAVAdmin is supported when running with Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007.

Note Deleted folders or items are preserved only if the Keep deleted items for (days) option is enabled on the public store.

Recover a deleted public folder

1. Move to the PFDAVAdmin folder, and then double-click the PFDAVAdmin.exe file.
2. On the File menu, click Connect.
3. In the Exchange server box, type the name of the Exchange server to which you want to connect.
4. In the Global Catalog box, type the name of the global catalog server.
5. If it is required, click to clear the Authenticate as currently logged-on user check box. Type an appropriate user name, password, and domain in the respective boxes.
6. In the Connection area, click Public Folders, and then click OK.
7. Expand Public Folders, and then click the parent folder of the deleted folder.
8. Right-click the parent folder, and

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The simple way to access a folder belonging to another user, which normal gives you an ACCESS IS DENIED error!