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Outlook users, if you find yourself entering the same things into email messages, you should take a look at the Quick Parts feature, which saves snippets of both text and images for easy reuse.
Click Here for the instructions.
Outlook doesn't support creating calendar items that countdown (or count up) to a specific date. You'll need to create each item individually and the easiest way to do this is outside of Outlook and import the file to the Calendar.
Full set of instructions
After writing yesterday's article about creating a shortcut to the Safely Remove Hardware dialog, a number of readers mentioned to me that they'd like create a shortcut to immediately eject a specific drive, so we'll cover that here.
Using the built-in Windows dialog is more powerful and probably would suffice for most people, but for those of us that want complete control there's a small freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector.
Note: This utility only works for ejecting USB devices, so if you need to eject another type of device you'll have to use the Windows method.
Using USB Disk Ejector from the GUI
This utility is really quite slick… launch it and then either double-click or press enter on the usb device you'd like to eject. There's literally nothing else to it.
If you assign a hotkey to the executable through a shortcut, you can operate the entire thing from your keyboard. Quite useful for keyboard ninjas!
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Speed Up Network File Copying While Playing Audio in Windows Vista SP1
Windows Vista restricts network traffic to 10 packets per millisecond while playing multimedia to prevent skipping. Unfortunately this causes network speed to be pitiful on a gigabit network, especially during file copies over the network.
Service Pack 1 includes a new registry tweak that can be used to change the throttling percentage so you can at least partially fix this problem, but you should be careful to test it out, because you don't want your audio to skip either.
Note: This setting is only really useful if you are on a gigabit network - the default values should be fine for a Wireless network.
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Whenever a new version of a service pack for XP is released I always run it through the slipstreaming procedure to see if everything works as expected. Service Pack 3 (SP3) is the latest release so it was time for another round of testing. For those of you that have a copy of SP3 and want to give it a try the procedure I used is presented below. I experienced absolutely no problems with the procedure based on an original Gold Edition XP Professional CD. The slipstreamed CD booted and installed perfectly to a freshly formatted hard drive.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp3_cd.htm
The How To section of Outlook Tips will show you how to use many of the features in Outlook and attempts to explain the reasoning behind some of the features.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/
