Two weeks ago, my system disk toasted (damn western digital, got two hard disk failed from you) and I had to re-install the Windows XP on another spare hard disk to bring my computer life back. Glad I had my data on a different hard disk and backed-up everything to the external disk every week.
During the re-installation process, I thought it would be better if I record every application I had to install first to be productive and enjoyable before I sit down to do anything else. And, inspirited by the post from lifehack.org The first 10 free Apps to install on a new Windows PC, I decided to write this post.
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As I mentioned in my previous post Fixed the Outlook 2007 …issue, I would have to remove one of my .pst file to make the new upgraded Outlook 2007 run smoothly. But I really need the emails in that pst file.
So after my Outlook finally settled down, I tried to add that .pst file back to my Outlook 2007. But every time when I did the “Add new Data File…” from the Outlook 2007, the crash occurred again. And when I used the Control Panel — Mail option, I would have the following error message:
RUNDLL
An exception occurred wile trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\MLCFG32.CPL",@0"
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I just decided to upgrade my main work machine to the Outlook 2007 after testing on the laptop for the past weeks. But I did not expect it would cost me two days to trouble shoot an annoying issue: the Outlook 2007 just kept crashing on me when it tried to open my Exchange profile.
Here is the details: After the installation, Outlook 2007 crashed whenever I tried to open it. After crashing, Outlook would offer to open in safe mode the next time I tried to run it, again crashed. Then it offered to detect and repair, and I did (a couple of times), but with no good news. I unloaded the whole Office 2007 and re-installed again, but with no results.
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Recently I love to edit DOS batch file command to get some works done. Some time, the simpler, the better. Especially when I need to move a lot of files from different servers periodically, the Windows GUI always failed me due to some network connections time-out glitches. But the simple “move” DOS command is as reliable as the old DOS days. And even we worry about the same time-out problem will occur, we can use some loop functions to automatically try again.
Let me give you a real example: I would like to move all web log files from the production web servers to the log analytics application server every month (read the previous psot:How to get previous month in DOS shell command in a batch file for AWStats website log parse tool). To make the DOS shell script smart enough to try the copying files again if something wrong happens, I will add a :RETRY label in my previous DOS batch file.
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If you are the user of Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral), you already enjoyed the advantages of centralized virtual phone number, receiving forwarded calls, checking voice messages in email, etc. And last week, I discovered another good feature of Google Voice, you can use it to dial out phone calls as well.
Yes, it is true. And it is a little different than it was in the Grand Central period. Before, we just used the Google Voice or GC to receive phone calls. But when you dial out the phone calls and the recipients still see your real phone number. So what did the new feature of Google Voice make differences? Well, you can allow you to make calls with your own phone set but the other side will see your Google Voice phone number on their in-coming caller ID screen. Continue reading ‘How to use Google Voice to dial out free long distance phone call’
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