How to empty your Outlook deleted items folder automatically ?
From time to time you might want to save some space over at your Outlook mailbox by emptying your deleted items folder. If you are running Outlook 2003 and 2007, this can be easily automated, by following this procedure:
- Open Outlook
- Click Tools, then choose Options
- Go to the Other tab
- Mark the Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exiting check box.
- From now on, before closing Outlook, you’ll be prompted to empty your deleted Items folder.
How to change your Hotmail password ?
Easy instructions for changing your Live Hotmail password.
If you have registered an account with a free web based email service provider (such as Hotmail / Live Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo Mail etc’), you might want to keep your account secure by periodically changing its password.
Is it wise to delete your MSN email account ?
If you happen to be thinking to delete your MSN Hotmail (now Live) account, you better be aware of two facts:
Where to find a cool quote for your AIM profile?
If you use AIM, you might want to share your wisdom with your buddies by displaying some enlightening, hilarious or funny profile quotes . The problem is that not always you will have something important, funny nor intelligent to say, and thus you better know where to easily find such quotes. For your convenience, i prepared a list of resources in which you can look for aim profile quotes:
- Good Quotes (opens pop ups).
- Wisdom Quotes - “deep” stuff, but nothing funny here
- Cool Funny quotes - Funny stuff
- Amusing quotes - Funny stuff, annoying advertisement
How to incorporate quotes to your AIM buddy info ?
1. Pick your quote of choice , copy it to your clipboard.
2. Login to your AIM 6.1.
3. Click Edit, then click My Buddy Info.
4. Paste your quote, then click the Save button.
5. From now on, your favorite quote will be visible to your buddies as your aim profile quote 
Enjoy!
How to restore the recycle bin icon ?
Not long ago, Shankar proposed a Windows XP registry tweak that will allow you to remove the recycle bin from your desktop. Today, i would like to show you the opposite trick, namely, how to restore the recycle bin icon after it was removed from your Windows XP desktop.
Remember: the implementation of the following trick requires that you manually modify the system registry. This is an advanced task that if done incorrectly can break your operating system and cause a severe data loss. Implement this trick at your own risk.
- Backup the registry file. Use the instructions provided in section 2 here.
- Click Start, the click Run and type Regedit to open your Registry Editor.
- Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace. - Right click it, click New and then Key.
- Type {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and click enter.
- Go to the right pane, right click the newly created key and double click Default.
- Assign a name of your choice to the Recycle bin icon.
- Click OK and close the registry editor.
- Go to your desktop, the Recycle Bin icon is now restored.
- When you send or receive a message
- When your buddies sign in or out
- Daily WAV
- Find Sounds
- WavSounds.com
- Pacdv- free sound effects
- TalkingWav.com
- Wav Source
- A1 Free sound effects
- Simply the best
Note: This trick applies to Windows XP - in Vista, it can be done without manipulating the registry.
A full list of Internet Explorer 7 keyboard shortcuts
Not long ago, i spotted over at Microsoft a nifty list of all Internet Explorer 7 keyboard shortcuts. So if you like Internet Explorer and prefer shortcuts, you might go over this list.
The Favorites center shortcuts are specially handy. The one i like the most over there is CtrL+J - open feeds.
Enjoy!
Where to find the best AIM buddy sound ?
Where to find a cool AIM buddy sound
I am a heavy user of the AIM (America Online IM) application for quite a long time. Among the features i like about AIM is the fact it lets you pick the sounds it plays in the following events:
Many AIM users are not aware to the fact that they can use every file in .wav (sound) format as their buddy sounds of choice and do not limit themselves to the options offered over at the AOL website.
AIM sounds download
For your convenience, i compiled a list of web sites in which you can find the .wav files that you can easily use as your free buddy sounds for AIM :
Now how do i change my aim sounds ?
After you chose and downloaded your *.wav file from one of the sites i listed below, you can easily incorporate it to your AIM client. Do it by opening your AIM client, click Settings, and then click the Sounds tab, then browse your computer for the .wav file you downloaded and replace the AIM sound.
