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

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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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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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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

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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...