There are many posts on the Internet stating that the RSS feeds folder cannot be removed however this is not the case. Following the simple steps below you can remove the RSS Feeds folder. When creating the necessary registry key you will need to create the sub directories if they do not exist.

1. Download Templates: First download the Administrative Templates from Microsoft by clicking here.
2. Install Templates: Now you need to extract the templates to a directory on your PC. I chose to extract to C:\AdminTemplates but the location does not matter. Make sure that you note the path to the templates for later.

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Tags: E-Mail, microsoft, Microsoft Management Console, MMC, MS Office, Outlook, Outlook 2007, registry, RSS Feeds, vista, windows

Importing contacts from Outlook Express into ICDSoft’s webmail is easy. First you need to export the contacts from Outlook Express’s address book. Follow the first set of instructions below.

1. Open Address Book: Open up Outlook Express and click on the Address Book.
2. Start the Export: Click File, then click Export, and choose the type of export as Other Address Book.

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Tags: Address Book, CSV, export, icdsoft, import, microsoft, Outlook Express, webmail

Below is a step by step guide to export your Microsoft Outlook contacts to Excel as well as a step by step guide to export your Windows Mail to Excel. If you are running Windows Vista follow the Windows Mail steps and any other Windows version, including Windows XP, should use the Microsoft Outlook steps.

Export Contacts from Windows Mail to Excel:

1. Open Windows Mail: Click Start Icon, Click All Programs, Choose Windows Mail
2. Select Contacts: From Windows Mail Select Tools, Select Windows Contacts, Left Click Windows Contacts.



 

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Tags: Contacts, Excel, exporting, microsoft, MS Excel, Outlook, Outlook Express, vista, windows, windows xp, xp

From time to time the need arises for me to create a command line application for Windows using Visual Studio 2008.  Lately I keep forgetting the same thing for my project and when I copy the application over to another Windows machine that doesn’t have VS2008 installed, I run into the following error “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.”. Unfortuantly what I fail to remember is that by default VS2008 wants me to create managed code.

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With some of the security changes in Vista you can no longer release/renew IP addresses or flushdns with a normal user account even if that account is within the administrator’s group.  When you attempt this with any user except for the “administrator” user you get the message: “The requested operation requires elevation” 

To get around this issue launch cmd.exe by right clicking on the icon and select “Run as administrator”.  The cmd.exe process that launches will now have the correct permissions to run ipconfig as well as other system protected commands.