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Category: Windows

Windows being the most used operating system, the posts in this category will provide information about software that can run on Windows.

  • Methods to Get Back the Original Performance of Microsoft Outlook 2007

    Methods to Get Back the Original Performance of Microsoft Outlook 2007

    Microsoft Outlook 2007 uses UNICODE format for storing the data in PST or Personal Storage Table file. The Outlook 2007 PST file theoretically does not have any size limitation, but practically it has limited its size to 20GB. This means; if PST file of Outlook 2007 crosses this limit, then chances of PST file corruption are high.

    However, you start encountering performance issue with your Outlook 2007, as its PST file crosses 20GB size. You may find momentary stoppage in various Outlook operations like opening an email, deleting a mail, or moving mails from one Outlook mailbox folder to different folder.

    Outlook PST files having size greater than 2GB and less than 4GB are generally dependent upon hardware. Therefore, if you have fast hard drive and big RAM, then you may not face Outlook performance issues between this size slabs.

    PST files larger than 4GB start behaving abruptly frequently despite any hardware; and if your PST file is larger than 10GB, then you will encounter more frequent pauses while performing various typical Outlook activities.

    The best way to avoid such pauses and get back the performance of Outlook 2007 is splitting the large PST file into smaller PSTs. You can use any of the below mentioned methods to split your PST file.

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  • Tips to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook Express

    Tips to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook Express

    Every folder in your Outlook Express mailbox has a connected database with a .DBX file extension. Thus given ‘N’ folders in your Outlook Express mailbox, you also have ‘N’ databases linked to each folder, such as Inbox.dbx, SentItems.dbx, and so on. Another way of stating this is to say that Outlook Express generates separate .DBX files for each folder in your Outlook Express mailbox. This explains why all received email is stored in the Inbox.dbx file, all sent items in the SentItems.dbx file, all contacts in the Contacts.dbx file, and so forth. Individual DBX database files serve as the repository for your Outlook mailbox data.

    It’s no wonder that .dbx files are essential to proper operation of Outlook express, then. But occasionally, you may observe that a majority or sometimes even all of your emails to be missing from your Inbox, Sent Items, or some other folder. Or sometimes while cleaning up an Outlook Express folder, you may accidentally delete some messages. In such situations you can try various steps to recover deleted Outlook Express messages, as explained hereafter.

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  • How to Remove Duplicate Items from ‘Sent Items’ Folder in Outlook?

    How to Remove Duplicate Items from ‘Sent Items’ Folder in Outlook?

    Outlook is a place where you create your to-do list, maintain calendar of events, and access your work emails, and if you want your personal emails like email messages of Gmail there, then you need not to worry. Outlook is a versatile email client and with various other useful features, it facilitates you to set up your Gmail account in Outlook very easily. After setting up your Gmail profile in Outlook, you can access all incoming and outgoing emails in its web interface as well because they are also stored and archived there. However, this feature of Outlook at times creates troubles when you start getting duplicate emails in “Sent Items” folder.

    This situation occurs as you are sending emails via SMTP server in Gmail and configured Outlook in a way that it saves the copy of every sent item. Since emails routed via SMTP server are saved in the ‘Sent Items’ folder and as you have checked the option to save the copy of sent item in Outlook, thus a copy of every sent email is saved by Gmail and other by Outlook. However, neither the recipient nor the web interface of the Gmail gets two copies of this sent item.

    Best way to work around such situations is sending emails through the SMTP server of Outlook (i.e. email client) instead via SMTP server of Gmail. Other way could be disabling the option to save a copy of sent items in Gmail account.

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  • How to Repair Your Registry

    How to Repair Your Registry

    The Windows Registry is a common section in your computer that experiences a number of problems from time to time. In turn, these problems may cause errors in your computer such as software errors or loading, error messages popping up, and even crashing your whole Windows operating system. That’s why here, you’ll learn on how to repair your registry for free.

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  • Windows 8 Will Make or Break Microsoft

    Windows 8 Will Make or Break Microsoft

    Microsoft has long dominated the desktop platform. No other company was even close. They enjoyed a dominance unlike anything we had seen before. Then the early part of the last decade saw a revived Apple begin to chip away at Microsoft dominance. Apple would go on to release devices that would change the way we worked, learned, and communicated.

    Apple’s rise lead to many seeing Microsoft as the old technology company that just didn’t ‘get it.’ Microsoft would continue to release newer versions of Windows, some good and some really bad, and newer version of their office suite – Microsoft Office. While doing so, one thing became apparent – it just didn’t seem they could innovate anymore.

    With Apple continuing to be the darling of the technology world, and Google entering the mobile device world with their Android operating system, Microsoft was beginning to be left behind. One thing started to become clear: they needed to reinvent what they have or disappear from the technology world.

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  • Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool

    Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool

    The Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool is an inbuilt utility of MS Outlook to handle Outlook PST file corruption, and thus recover items present in your PST file. Despite the benefits of this tool, many Outlook users do not know how to use it.

    Mentioned below are the steps that users must follow in order to use this efficient tool.

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  • Outlook Password Recovery – Easiest Way to Recover Your Lost or Forgotten Outlook Password

    Outlook Password Recovery – Easiest Way to Recover Your Lost or Forgotten Outlook Password

    Microsoft Outlook is one of the largely used email clients especially across organizations and corporate world for sending and receiving business critical information like shared mailboxes and calendars, exchange public folders, SharePoint lists and meeting schedules.

    There are various third-party add-on applications that help to integrate Outlook with devices such as BlackBerry mobile phones and with other software like Office & Skype internet communication. So, we can say that Outlook mailbox of a professional person is one of the treasure which someone can not afford to lose.

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  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012’s AlwaysOn Feature Creates Availability

    Microsoft SQL Server 2012’s AlwaysOn Feature Creates Availability

    SQL Server is used by business applications, web applications, individual programmers, and for content-intensive websites. Microsoft SQL is popular among the developers because it is a powerful, expandable, and upgradeable choice for database solutions. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is equipped with various features. Many server makers have built products based on this platform, such as the Dell SQL server. We will be discussing the AlwaysOn feature of SQL Server 2012 in this article.

    For the sake of explanation, you can consider AlwaysOn as a secondary server, which is reserved for failover environment. The secondary server remains active and works continuously. Its response time is somewhat slow, but the applications do not suffer any data loss.

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