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Open Outlook or Outlook Express.
Click the ‘Tools’ menu, and select ‘Accounts…’

Click ‘Add,’ and then click ‘Mail…’

Enter your name in the ‘Display name:’ field, and click ‘Next.’
Enter your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) in the ‘Email address:’ field, and click ‘Next.’
Enter ‘pop.gmail.com’ in the ‘Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:’ field. Enter ’smtp.gmail.com’ in the ‘Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:’ field.
Click ‘Next.’

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If you have more than one storage group (SG), more than one message database, or if your database is greater than 16GB, you have Exchange 2003 Enterprise.

Another way to verify your Exchange Server edition is to open the Exchange Server Setup Progress.log file, which is located on the root of your system drive. Search for one of the following entries:

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When you try and click on a .log file served from IIS6 you receive a 404 error.

You need to look through you log files and find out exactly what 404 IIS was giving. If it was 404 with a sub status of 3, then it is denied due to MIME Type, so make sure to add a .log/bat MIME Type at the website/vdir level and it should immediately be downloadable.

You can add the .log extension with application/octet-stream in the MIME types.

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Transparent Screen Lock enables IT professionals to prevent unauthorized system access, while maintaining the ability to view applications running on the desktop for monitoring purposes.

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You can lock the Windows 2000 or XP desktop with a click of an icon. Create a shortcut icon on the desktop to run the following command:

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

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Lets say your current directory is
C:\games\Steam\Counter-Strike>

and you want to get back here. Use the pushd DOS command.

pushd .

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Windows XP comes with builtin support for uncompressing zip’d files. If you prefer to continue using a dedicated utility like pkzip or winzip which has more functionality, you probably need to disable the limited capability of XP to prevent interactions and problems, run the following command:
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

Want to re-enable the builtin zip capability, run the following command:

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You can disable these alerts using the following Windows XP registry hack:

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 disables alerts

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