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Windows Key + L

Will lock windows and requires your password to unlock

If you haven’t tried Windows 7

Windows 7 Being the next version of windows coming out later this year.

Then Sign up for the the release candidate (final version before release) now.

I am using the beta version and it works great.

You can try the release candidate for year for FREE.

Found this great free tool you can use find what hardware a laptop or PC has.

I used it to find out what chipset a laptop had.

Trust me its much better that trawling through Device Manager.

Which is often somewhat lacking in detail.

Windows 7 and Vista have DVD and CD burning disabled by default, if your using the pc via Windows Remote Desktop.

Why has microsoft done this? no idea its pretty stupid.

Anyway here’s how to fix it.

First open Group Policy Editor….

# Click Start, and then click Run.
# In the Open box, type mmc, and then click OK.
# On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
# Click Add.
# Under Available Stand-alone Snap-ins, click Group Policy, and then click Add.
# If you do not want to edit the Local Computer policy, click Browse to locate the group policy object that you want. Supply your user name and password if prompted, and then when you return to the Select Group Policy Object dialog box, click Finish.

Then enable “Allow direct access in remote sessions” in..

Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | Remote Storage Access | All Removable Storage

This one nearly had me fooled since it had my real name and address in it.

Dear (had my real name and address) ,

PayPal Resolution Center: Your account is limited.

Why is my account access limited?

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue

regarding your account:

Our system detected unusual number of invalid logging attempts on your account from these blacklist ip address.

(Your case ID for this reason is PP-)

How can I restore my account access?

For your protection, we have temporary suspended access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize

for any inconvenience this may cause. In order to assist us with this security measure, we ask that you send us a photocopy or scan of

one document from each of the three categories listed below and return them via email to security@paypalcompany.com :

- A clear copy of your Passport, Photographic Drivers License or I.D. Card (both sides).

- A clear copy of both sides of the credit/debit card on your paypal profile.

- A clear copy of a recent bank statement or utility bill on which your name and address ( Had my real address) are clearly visible and less than 3 months old.

Completing all of the checklist items we will manually restore your account access.

Thank you for using PayPal!

The PayPal Security Department

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Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal

account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

Junction points (NTFS reparse point) to put it simply, are a filesystem folder whose contents have been directed to another folder.

Junction points have many advantages over shortcuts, the main one being programs will treat the junction point excalty the same as a normal folder.

I found a useful program to create Juction Points

Windows 7 doesnt have a quicklaunch bar enabled by default.

I found a way of making a toolbar that does the same thing.

First unlock the taskbar, right click it and select properties…

Then unlock the toolbar…

Now create a new tool bar…

Create a folder called quicklaunch and use it as the toolbars folder..

Now right click the new tool bar and disable “show text” and “show title”…

Done now you can drag it to the left hand side if you want or leave it there.

Just drag and drop folders onto it to create quick launch items.

A client resized a partition using a free piece of software. he found on the net.

He did a scandisk (chkdisk) before he ran the resize, but he should have run it twice.

Because there where still errors on the partition, so the resize stopped halfway through.

So he ended up with a resized partition full of files that are garbage.

Lucky the file recover software I used saw the old partition and is now pulling the files off it, and they seem to be working.

By default Winamp ignores any multimedia keys on your keyboard.

To enable them, go to options, preferences.

Select the general options tab, then Global Hotkeys.

And the click the boxes…”Enable Default multimedia keys”, and “Enabled”

You really check should with your domain registrar.

And make sure your Domain or domains, is locked.

If your Domain is locked it cant be transferred on another owner untll its unlocked. There have been cases of unlocked domains being stolen from their owners