Recall a message in MS Outlook
If you sent a message to someone by mistake or you forgot to add or attach something you can try recalling the message.
Outlook Message Recall feature only works if both sender and recipient are using Outlook and their mailboxes are hosted on Microsoft Exchange Server.
Recall a message in MS Outlook 2003
Mailbox > Sent Items > [your message] (double click to open) > Actions > Recall this message
Recall a message in MS Outlook 2007
Mailbox > Sent Items > [your message] (double click to open) > Other Actions > Recall this Message
Recall a message in MS Outlook 2010
Mailbox > Sent Items > [your message] (double click to open) > Actions > Recall This Message
You will be informed by email whether recall succeeded or failed.
Recall will succeed if recipient has not read the message yet.
Recall will fail if message has been read, moved from the Inbox to another folder, or if recipient is not using MS Outlook.
Restore Windows XP zip file association
Restore native Windows XP .zip file association with Compressed Folder utility
Option 1
Start > Run > CMD
REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL
Option 2
Start > Run > CMD
cmd /c assoc .zip=CompressedFolder
Windows XP
Google Search missing from IE search providers list
Internet Explorer uses Microsoft Live / Bing as its default search provider, which is nowhere near as good as Google Search. It should be pretty easy and straightforward to add Google Search and make it the default search provider: just click on a little arrow next to the search box, click on "Find More Providers..." and install your favourite search engine selecting "Make this my default search provider".
Intentionally or not, but in some instances Microsoft doesn't make it easy to find and install Google Search as your search provider.
When you click on "Find More Providers..." Internet Explorer loads a IE Gallery Search Providers page. In some localized versions of this page Google Search is simply missing from the list.
For example, if you are in the UK, Search Providers URL is http://www.iegallery.com/gb/addons/?feature=searchproviders and at the time of writing this article Google search is not there.
To find Google Search simply change gb bit in the URL to en to load a generic non localised version. Full URL would look http://www.iegallery.com/en/addons/?feature=searchproviders
Change OS partition drive letter prior to Windows installation
Although Windows XP can work with OS partition placed on D: E: or any other drive, it's normally recommender to place it on the usual C: drive. You shouldn't change system partition letter after Windows installation therefore you need to ensure that system partition has correct letter during the installation.
If you have multiple partitions on your hard drive in some cases Windows XP setup may mark your intended OS partition as D: and some other (e.g. Recovery) partition as C: (This often happened to me wile downgrading DELL Latitude laptops from Windows Vista or 7 to Windows XP). This is not a problem if you want to delete all partition and install Windows on a blank hard drive. However if you want to keep your Recovery partition, there is no way to fix this inside Windows XP setup.
Normally Windows XP setup sets C: letter for a partition which is flagged as active or boot. So if your Recovery partition has been assigned letter C: it's probably marked as a boot partition (this doesn't mean that Windows will necessary try to boot from it). You can fix it using one of many bootable partition managers.
Free opensource gparted will do the job just fine:
Boot from gparted live CD.
Right click on your Recovery partition > Manage Flags > unselect “boot”
Right click on your OS partition > Manage Flags > select “boot”
After this Windows XP setup should set your OS partition as C:
Be aware that if you already have some OS installed gparted may make it unbootable. This can be fixed, however because you are planning to reinstalled OS anyway, it shouldn't be a problem.
Windows XP installation
- Adobe Reader X error - Before proceeding you must first launch Adobe Acrobat and...
- explorer.exe very high RAM / Processor usage
- Find who is logged on onto remote computer
- Outlook freezes trying to attach a file
- Enable remote desktop remotely
- Clean Windows Explorer "Open With" list
- Error opening .msg files "the command line argument is not valid"
- Create "Sleep" shortcut
- Find all corrupted files and folders on the hard drive
- Implementing WOL