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How To Connect To Remote Desktop Of Any Computer (Windows, Mac OSX) Over Internet Using TeamViewer

TechTips.co.za — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:11:54 +0000

Whether you are trying to access your home PC from your office, or your office workstation from home, you need to establish a remote desktop connection over Internet. Many times accessing a remote computer is not so easy. For instance there could be firewalls blocking access, or the two PCs could be on different OS [...]

Close All Running Applications on Single Click In Windows PC

TechTips.co.za — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:18:24 +0000

If you are a pro computer user and lot many times you feel that so many applications are running on your computer. Lot many windows opened and these running applications and slowing down your PC. If you go ahead and close each of them one by one, it will involve around 15 – 20 clicks [...]

How To Solve Frequent Auto Restart or Shutdown of Computer

TechTips.co.za — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:14:45 +0000

Sometimes you will see your computer getting restarted or shutdown automatically without any instruction from your side. This is a frustrating scenario when you are working on some important stuff and your computer restarts without any notice. Of course this is an improper restart or shutdown and may damage your computer’s hardware like Hard Disk [...]

Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life

TechTips.co.za — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:24:19 +0000

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put [...]

How to: Enable Facebook connector to work directly within Outlook.

TechTips.co.za — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:19:49 +0000

The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook allows you to connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues. You can see status updates and recently posted items from your Facebook contacts. You can also use Outlook Social Connector to display a quick view of related [...]

How to: Steps to prevent you FACEBOOK account from being hacked!

TechTips.co.za — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:22:10 +0000

Recently, there has been a lot of fuss over facebook & twitter accounts getting hacked. I just thought of pointing out some important points to be kept in mind while dealing with this situation.90% of such incidents occur due to carelessness of people who tend to click on suspicious/unknown links. Well I don’t blame them [...]

How to: set up BlackBerry Internet E-mail via your BlackBerry

TechTips.co.za — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:23:21 +0000

To set up BlackBerry Internet E-mail via your BlackBerry®, perform the following steps: Verify that your BlackBerry handheld is connected to the wireless network and is displaying uppercase GPRS in the top right corner. If your device is not displaying uppercase GPRS, go to BlackBerry Internet E-Mail Management and Troubleshooting. From the BlackBerry handheld Home [...]

Fix: Blackberry Enterprise Server – http error 413 request entity too large

TechTips.co.za — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:15:29 +0000

To Resolve “HTTP error 413 request entity too large” is received when attempting to browse to a web page using the BlackBerry Browser For BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 4.1 Simply follow these steps. 1. Open BlackBerry Manager. 2. On the left pane, click MDS-CS service. 3. On the right pane, click Edit Properties. 4. In the [...]

Windows 7: Set up or change automatic backup settings

TechTips.co.za — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:14:08 +0000

Backups help ensure that your files aren’t permanently lost or damaged. With automatic backups, you don’t have to remember to back up your files. You can change your automatic backup settings (such as how often you back up, the type of storage you use, or the types of files you back up) whenever you want. [...]

Outlook How To: Rebuilding your Instant Search catalog.

TechTips.co.za — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:11:12 +0000

If you search for items in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and do not receive the results that you expect, the indexing of your Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office system data files (the search catalog) may not be complete. You can rebuild the search catalog, which restarts the indexing of your data files. To rebuild your [...]

How to: IIS7 : restart an individual Web site or recycle an application pool

TechTips.co.za — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:26:18 +0000

When you use the iisreset command in IIS 7.0, the IIS Admin Service, the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) are stopped and restarted. You should avoid using iisreset unless absolutely necessary, because the Web server shuts down all applications that depend on these three services until [...]