Open Command Prompt Here Window on a Folder in Windows Vista

May 18, 2007

If you find yourself switching back and forth between your Windows Explorer and Command Prompt shell, especially for a power user of Windows who needs to run tasks and operations that require the use of the Command Prompt window.

The quick and easy way is running cmd.exe from the Run Command but this goes to the default folder and you may have to change folders to say your Visual Studio folder where you wish to complile code using your command prompt.

Here is a tip that will enable you to open a command prompt window to a specific location using Windows Vista

Step # 1: Open Windows Explorer and browse to the required folder .. say your Visual Studio folder

Step # 2: If you right click on the folder to see the context menu, you can see that there is no option for opening command prompt

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How to Prevent Forwarding of an Email Message

May 18, 2007

There might be times when you are forwarding a sensitive document or say a joke or something and you don’t want your recipient to forward it to anybody else. Follow the steps outlined below to prevent forwarding of an email message you sent to someone using Outlook

Prevent Forwarding of Email

Step # 1: Compose your mail as usual with your recipient(s) in the To option

Step # 2: Now, go to File, select Permissions and then select Do Not Forward

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How to Add Voting Options in an Email Message

May 18, 2007

You can now use Voting Buttons in your email message to get a response from your intended recipient or recipients of your email using Outlook. This Voting button option in Outlook is very handy when you are trying to decide upon a meeting time or anything else to determine where your email recipient(s) are leaning. You can even use Outlook to do the grunt work for you and tally the votes for you.

So, if FaceBook or IM is not an option for you and you wish to decide where to meet up after school or after work, then use the Email Voting Option provided through Outlook or Outlook Express Email

How to insert Email Voting Buttons into your Email message

Step # 1: Create your New Email Message

Step # 2: Select the Options tab

Step # 3: Select Use Voting Buttons option

Step # 4: Under Voting Buttons, you have four options to choose from. They are Approve; Reject, Yes;No , Yes;No;Maybe and finally Custom

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How to Resend an Email message using Microsoft Outlook

May 17, 2007

There might arise a situation where you may have to resend an Email message because your intended recipient of the email never received it or accidentally deleted it. In such a situation, you may have to resend your Email Message. To do this,

Step # 1: Go to the Sent Items in your Outlook’s Navigation Pane on the left hand side

Step # 2: Open the Email message that you need to resend

Step # 3: Go to Actions and then select Resend this Message

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How to Recall or Replace an Email Message

May 17, 2007

Redfaced about making a spelling misteake in an important email you sent to your Professor or your Manager? Ever clicked send on an Email and forgot to send that attachment, wishing you can bring back that Email. So, how can you undo your error? How do you recall the originial email message and send it back with the all important missing attachment. In this article we will learn how to correct them by learning how to Recall an email message using Outlook.

Why Outlook, because this method works only in Outlook. For example you send an Email to say your buddy with a Gmail account, it would not work. This method only works with someone also using Outlook as their Email client and not to any other PoP3 email account.

How to Recall an Email Message

If the recipient has not read the message, you may be able to recall it. The message will be deleted from the recipient’s mailbox before it is ever read.

Step # 1: In Outlook, go to the Navigation Pane and click on Sent Items

Step # 2: Open the message you want to replace.

Step # 3: In the Actions menu, click Recall This Message

Step # 4: Click Delete unread copies of this message

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How to Delay Sending an Email Message in Outlook

May 17, 2007

Email messages are sent immediately when you click the Send button in your email client whether that it Microsoft’s Outlook Express or Outlook 2003 (part of Microsoft Office 2003) or the latest Outlook 2007(part of Microsoft Office 12). In some cases, you might want to delay sending the email message or postpone it for a while when using Outlook. Now you can delay sending the email message by postponing the send date in your Email client which in this case is Microsoft Outlook by following the steps below

Step # 1: Compose a new email using Outlook

Step # 2: In the new Email window, click on Options

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Set Multiple Home pages in Firefox Browser

May 15, 2007

Most of us use Firefox having dumped Internet Explorer a long time ago. I use Firefox for the faster browsing speeds I get and plus it takes up less memory and not slow up my computer unlike Firefox. So Ryan at TechCounter gives us an awesome tip today on using Firefox.  If you are still stuck using Internet Explorer, you can now

Most of us go visit multiple websites in one session. Instead of going to them one after another like AskStudent, then CNN or SI.com or wherever your journeys might take you, how about a tip that could launch all of them in tabs whenever you open Firefox.

All you need to do is

Step # 1: Go to FireFox Tools menu.

Step # 2: Hit Options then under options select Main or General(for older versions of Firefox)

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