I recently learned from an issue that having the default created by MS which will allow for a user to create an entry with no end date could eventually lead to the entry itself being corrupt over time causing outlook entries to be out of synch by an hour. I suggest disabling this feature. For Outlook 2003 this will be similar. The registry entry will be Office10 vs Office12 as described below. Also, in the event you have some calendar entries that are off by an hour you can try running the MS TZ migration tool for Outlook. However, if the calendar entries are corrupt this tool will not help you. There is really no remedy to recover from a corrupt calendar event other than to delete and recreate it or move the event to the proper time manually.

1. Exit Outlook 2007.
2. Start Registry Editor.
* In Windows Vista, click Start
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the Start button
, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

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User Account Control permission
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation.
* In Windows XP, click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
3. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences
If you use policies, select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences
Note Both these registry keys perform the same function.
4. After you select the key that is specified in step 3, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type DisableRecurNoEnd, and then press ENTER.
6. Right-click DisableRecurNoEnd, and then click Modify.
7. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.

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During the past week, I’ve been experimenting with Windows 7 on a newly built desktop system. The installation and initial configuration process alone is quite a contrast compared to my experiences with XP and Vista. Way better than XP or Vista.

If you haven’t installed Windows since the days of XP, you’ll find that things are much easier now. With XP it’s a real pain if the drivers aren’t on the Windows CD. In many cases you had to create a floppy disk that has the drivers, or create a special Windows install CD that contains the drivers you need. Windows 7 (and Vista) accept a separate CD with drivers, so there’s no need for a floppy drive or a lot of advance preparation.

This system is far from plain-vanilla hardware. It has an Intel flash drive as its primary “hard disk” and a hardware RAID-1 (mirrored) drive array as its second disk. The motherboard’s built-in BIOS takes care of the RAID configuration, which often means that Windows needs special drivers before setup can even see the drives. Not so this time. Windows 7 saw the drives and had no problem using them. I’ll admit to a bit of “cheating” when it comes to compatible hardware. Rather than choosing bleeding-edge components, I bought ones that had been shipping for at least six months. I also went for big names like Intel for the system chipset and NVidia for the graphics. That improves the chances there will be some in-box driver for the hardware.

Post-setup configuration was pretty straightforward. There are certain things that I always do after setup, such as telling Explorer not to hide file extensions or system files, setting up desktop icons etc, I am not sure why MS does not by default show all desktop icons since home users are completely cluless at time on how to find them or modify them. I also reduce the amount of space taken up by System Restore; backups are good, but I don’t want them taking up fifteen to twenty percent of a drive. I also turn off the Aero Glass transparency; burriness behind title bars and borders drives me crazy. The majority of settings haven’t moved since Vista, but if you’re coming over from XP it will take a while to find where they’ve hidden everything.

One little glitch happened after I got things set up. As a final step I went over to Windows Update and selected two optional driver updates. One of them was for the motherboard’s built-in network port. After installing the driver, the network setup stopped working completely. After a driver rollback and reboot I got things working properly again. An average user might not know how to do that. it would be helpful if the Windows Update status not only showed you what had been installed, but let you back it out directly from that dialog as well. I also noticed that IE8 is far more stable on W7 than on Vista or XP; No surprise there. Overall, it seems that Microsoft has done a pretty good job. I think its ready for prime time.

Security software vendors hope to tackle the growing number of fake antivirus products circulating on the internet by creating a public list of legitimate vendors and programs.

Run from the website of the Common Computing Security Standards Forum (CCSS), an organisation set up in March of this year by Comodo CEO and chief security architect, Melih Abdulhayoglu, the purpose is to give ordinary internet users something with which to check programs and publishers before buying software from the internet.

In recent times, the phenomenon of scareware anti-malware programs – which dupe users into believing that their PCs are infected with malware when they are not – has grown into a significant sector in the online crime world. Typically, the bogus programs ask for a licence fee to ‘clean’ malware, and in the worst cases even install real malware on a victim’s PC.

A wide range of vendors are named on the provisional list, including the big names, Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee , with smaller vendors such as Kaspersky Lab, Check Point, Panda, Sunbelt Software, Fortinet, and Webroot, also prominent. The CCSS was confident that it had involved “95 percent” of legitimate software security vendors, Abdulhayoglu said.

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“Whether they pay for their security software or they use a free version, internet users have a right to know that their software is protecting them, not exposing them to danger or adware,” he added.
According to Abdulhayoglu, normal security software could not protect users against such programs because they did not necessarily perform any non-legitimate actions. The CCSS’s remit was wider than just tacking scareware but this would be one of its main priorities while it established itself as a legal entity in the coming months.

“There hasn’t been an organisation that gets the industry together to solve problems,” said Abdulhayoglu. “There is no unifying voice from the AV industry to the operating system vendors.”

To stop bogus companies getting their products credited, new membership applications were voted on in a peer review fashion by established members. As to analysing what was and was not legitimate, “It is the intent that matters”.

What about the possibility that scareware writers would launch DDoS attacks on the company’s website or even block potential victims from visiting its domain to check whether a program was legitimate? The best defence against this was to distribute the list of legitimate companies to other organisations on the Internet

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Water- Everyone knows water and circuitry don’t go well with one another. In essense, pure H2O will not harm electronics. It’s the impurities that cause shorts. If you do dunk a gadget in a drink or some liquid watery substance, turn it off immediately, remove the battery, open up or unscrew any cover/plate etc that is easy to remove in order to air-dry for a few days….that will give you a 50-50 chance:(

Shock- Impacts do the most damage to components, especially to such as moving gears, harddisk drives, watches, cameras, laptops etc. When not in use is good to store these devices and/or invest in a good bag or backpack specifically designed to store devices like these.

Dust- Sand and fine dirt are like water that never evaporates. Electronics that spend a lot of time in pockets can get clogged up with dust, which can jam up buttons, clog airflow and short out circuit boards. Take regular passes over your digital gear with canned air…

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