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How To Roll Back The Clock on your Windows Vista Machine With System Restore

Thumbnail image for How To Roll Back The Clock on your Windows Vista Machine With System Restore June 30, 2010

Installing a new piece of software on your computer can sometimes feel like Russian Roulette. Most of the times, everything goes exactly as planned.  But every once in awhile…  poof! The most obvious solution would normally be to run the Uninstall Wizard that came with your program.  But unfortunately, these are not perfect… and they [...]

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Transfer email message rules from Outlook Express to Windows Mail

May 31, 2010

If you had Windows XP and was using Outlook Express, it was a simple step to backup your email message rules by exporting a registry setting and restoring it to the new computer. However now there is Windows Vista and the message rules are stored in a different area in the Windows registry. Not only [...]

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Backup your email local folders in Outlook Express

May 30, 2010

By Mitz If you want to transfer your email folders which include the inbox, outbox, etc to another computer or just back them up, I will tell you the hidden path to where they are stored. They are not only stored deep in your computer, but is also classifies as a hidden folder in Windows. [...]

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Restoring Explorer.exe – Lost Desktop in Windows XP

May 26, 2010

Free computer help by Mitz Sometimes everything disappears from your desktop (computer crashes) when an error occurs in a program you are using. This is actually Windows Explorer that has closed. You will notice that the desktop icons, the taskbar, and sometimes the start menu all disappear. Here are some tricks I use to restore [...]

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Restore the Run Command Window to the Start Menu

May 26, 2010

Computer users are often faced with the dilemma of a missing run command window in the Windows XP start menu and need to restore the run command to it’s usual place. This is also a common problem in Windows Vista as the run command has to be added to the start menu manually as it [...]

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