To help celebrate St. Patrick's Today - the Windows Live OneCare Team is kicking off a brand new campaign: Get Green Stay Green.

The Get Green Stay Green campaign is designed to make sure Windows Live OneCare users are staying "green" - meaning their PC Health Status. Here is Amy Barzdukas, Senior Direct here at Microsoft, to talk about Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC safe. Amy leads the Windows Live OneCare Team.

Video: Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

I use Windows Live OneCare on my 3 personal home PCs - which are connected together in an OneCare Circle (you can have up to 3 PCs in an OneCare Circle). This lets me manage the PC Health for all my personal PCs. If any of my PCs in my OneCare Circle have their PC Health Status change to yellow or red, I can quickly see which PC it is and why. I can then do what is needed to bring that PC back to green. Keeping all my PCs green is very important to me. If any of my PCs slip into yellow or red - I fix it immediately.

I have a few tips to share from personal experience in keeping my PCs green in my OneCare Circle that you can use to help keep your own PCs green:

• Make sure you have your PCs backed up. Windows Live OneCare can backup your PCs automatically to a centralized point on your home network. In my case, I have all my home PCs backed up to my Windows Home Server which Windows Live OneCare detects.
• Have your firewall turned on. Windows Live OneCare can maintain and monitor your firewall - protecting your PC from attacks. Even though I'm behind a pretty secure router - I have the firewall turned on for all PCs in my OneCare Circle to add an extra level of protection.
• Make sure Protection Plus (malware definitions) are up to date. This ensures your PC is protected from the latest internet garbage.
• Do a PC Tune-up! Windows Live OneCare can do regular Tune-ups that can ensure your PC is running at its best.
• Make sure your PC has the latest updates from Windows Update. Important updates are key to ensuring your PC stays green.

Again, keeping my home PCs green is very important to me and the above tips help me to do so.

Do you have any tips for Windows Live OneCare and keeping your PC green? I'd love to hear them. Leave a comment below. I would be particularly interested in hearing about how you use Windows Live OneCare to ensure your PCs are backed up.

Users can also visit http://www.getgreenstaygreen.com/ and find out what it takes to keep their PC "green".

SpyAway Descriptions:

SpyAway, also know as Spy Away, is one of the latest counterfeit anti-spyware softwares that endangers the world of computers. SpyAway usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Vundo Trojan, Zlob Trojan, Virus or fake software. SpyAway will display fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the paid version of SpyAway, in order to remove the potential and reported problems. Not only does it cause your machine to slow down dramatically, it would also put your privacy and data in risk.

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Manual Removal Instructions:

Stop SpyAway Processes:
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SpyAway.exe

Find and Delete these SpyAway Files:
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SpyAway.exe
sa_ie_monitor.dll

Remove SpyAway Registry Values:
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4698D99D-CA8F-438A-AC82-96495A2DE714
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A set of five Vista icons that is sure to bring the old world charm back. This set includes such classics like a typewriter, globe and wooden garbage can. I love icons like these because they bring us back to a time when patience was common place and everybody took time to relax. A far cry from todays world.
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Here you go Restoring it..

Click Start > Control Panel > Classic View > Personalization

Then click the option to "Change desktop icons" from the left-hand column as seen below:

From there just tick Recycle Bin box and click OK.
And now your done...You will be able to see your Recycle Bin again..

The Lazy Admin has not been as lazy as he seems.

I have been hard at work writing on all sorts of projects that unfortunately take away from my TLA writing time. I just wanted to let everyone know that a good deal of the stuff I have worked on is now available!

Here are some of the projects.

1) The Microsoft Solutions Accelerator team has been hard at work writing amazing guidance documents about Windows Servers architectures  . They are just the sort of compact to the point document Lazy Admin's everywhere will appreciate.

You can check out the guides online at: www.microsoft.com/ipd or download them at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&displaylang=en

The guides also come with a nifty PowerPoint presentation so after you finish learning about architecture of these services you can present them to all your great new knowledge to your colleagues.

2) I have also contributed on a book about Microsoft Forefront technologies: now available on Amazon and books stores

3) I have also been involved with The Vista Spring Board program, This is a really great resource for ITpros looking to get information about Windows Vista. The site is organized so that you can get the information you need at the right level you need it. So if you just haven't had time to even look at Vista check out the Discovery section. Then once you have a good handle on the basic elements of Vista check out the wealth of information in the Explore section including dozens of hands on labs to get you up to speed on all the new stuff in Vista. Finally there is deep dive content available on how to pilot Vista, and finally role it out. Wether you manage 5 PCs or 50 000 this site has something for you!

Now that we are all caught up, The TLA posts should be picking up. If you have any new tips, or ideas for a post please email them to tlatopic@thelazyadmin.com. For the most part I'm going to cover that new Server operating system this little company called Microsoft just released :)

Have a great Week.

Daniel

Generic Instructions:Note: An example account name was used through the instructions. Please substitute your POP3 email address information for the account used in the instructions.

The example address is: name@domain.com Account name is: name@domain.comDomain is: domain.com

Configuration Steps:
1. Start your email program.
2. Find the Options/Accounts menu where you can input a new account. Look for key words such as your incoming/POP3 Server or outgoing/SMTP Server.
3. Go through the steps to add a new account to your email program, so that whenever you check mail using this email program it will check your POP3 email account.
4. When you are asked to enter specific information regarding your new account, use the following as a reference:
Your Name: Enter your name as you'd like it to appear in the From field on your emails. User name/Account Name/Subdomain/Alias: Enter the whole email address (yourname@yourdomain.com)Email address: Enter your POP3 email address .Incoming/POP3 Server name: POP3.ChangeIP.comOutgoing/SMTP Server name: SMTP.ChangeIP.comPassword: Enter your POP3 account password.
5. If you are unsure about what to enter in a specific field within your email program, please email Support@ChangeIP.com. Please include your email program name, your domain name, and the areas that you are unsure about so that we can help you solve the problem.

Follow the steps detailed below to use Microsoft Office Outlook to send/receive Email.
Start Microsoft Office Outlook On the Tools menu, Select EMAIL ACCOUNTS.
Select ADD NEW E-MAIL A/c and click NEXT
Choose POP3 and click NEXT.
Enter NAME of COMPANY OR PERSON and Add E-mail Address [name@domainname.com] .
Mention INCOMING MAIL SERVER as (mail.domainname.com / domainname.com) and OUTGOINGMAIL SERVER as (mail.domainname.com / smtp.domainname.com).
Specify USER NAME as Complete email account for E.g.: name@domainname.com, Enter PASSWORD: ****** and Select On REMEMBER PASSWORD [If you wish to avoid entering password every time] – Recommended
Go to MORE SETTINGS choose Outgoing Server, select My Outgoing Server Requires Authentication.
Further Select the 2nd point, "LOG On Using" and specific user name as (email@domainname.com) and Enter password and check Remember Password for your convenience and Click "OK".
Your Email account is successfully incorporated - to check this click on Test Settings. You should not get any error in this test and a test mail will be received in your Inbox in some time.
Once All tests are completed successfully. Click Close to continue and then Next.
Click Finish to save the settings you have made.
Click send/receive mails to get a test mail from Microsoft Office Outlook Test Center.
You have successfully incorporated your email account with Microsoft office Outlook.

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