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  • How to delete windows.old after upgrading to Window 10

    Windows.old is a folder that contains archive information from previous windows system when you upgrading to Windows 10.  It mainly stores programs and files that are required to run the earlier version of Windows and contains following folders.

    • Windows
    • “Documents and Settings”
    • “Program Files”

    You might end up having a Windows.old folder taking up 20+ gigs on your system drive. If you don’t need windows.old folder and want to safely delete this folder, follow the instructions below:

    1. Select Start, then All Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and then Disk Cleanup.
    2. If you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8, select Clean up system files. If you are using Windows Vista, select Files from all users on this computer.
    3. Select the Previous Windows installation(s) check box, and click OK.

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    IMPORTANT: Be sure to back up all important documents/files from the previous OS before following this article.

    Remove Windows.old from command line

    takeown /F c:\Windows.old\* /R /A /D Y 
cacls c:\Windows.old\*.* /T /grant administrators:F 
rmdir /S /Q c:\Windows.old

    Windows Server

    If you upgrade a server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012, you need to enable desktop experience to use this disk cleanup utility.

  • Office 2010 reaches RTM

    After Visual Studio 2010 released publicly 12th this month, Microsoft office team announces Office 2010 reaches RTM today. Office 2010 RTM is not available on TechNet yet, MSDN subscribers will have to wait till the officially Office 2010 launch at May 12.

    I am happy to see that all bugs I hit in Outlook BETA are all fixed in RTM.

    OneNote: Unread Highlighting cannot be cleared

    Some shortcuts no longer work in Outlook 2010

    Large email sizes in Outlook 2010 BETA

    Update

    22th April – Office Professional Plus 2010 is available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. This is the first release of Office that contains 64 bit edition. The RTM build number is 14.0.4673.1000

    It’s recommended to install the 32 bit version Office 2010 due to compatibility issues however if you still want to try 64 bit version keep these in mind.

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  • GhostDoc Tutorial

    Earlier I have introduced this excellent comment auto generation tool – GhostDoc. Now you can follow this instructions to get GhostDoc working in just 5 minutes.

    1. Download GhostDoc and install
    2. GhostDoc is a Visual Studio plugin, so after Visual Studio is launched, you’d need to assign a hotkey for automatic comments generation, or just  click skip to use default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + D (more…)

  • OneNote System Tray Icon Reappears

    System tray icon reappears every time OneNote is started, how to turn it off?

    Turn off OneNote System Tray Icon

    Go to File, click options, and then click display tab, uncheck Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar.

    OneNote System Tray

    Note: Turn of OneNote icon in taskbar also turn off  OneNote Snap Tool, if you wish to use Windows key + S to bring up OneNote Snap Tool to capture screenshot, you will need to have option Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar marked.

    Update 5-22 The equivalent in OneNote 2007 is Go to Tools, and click Other and then uncheck Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar

    Turn on OneNote System Tray Icon

    Change Place OneNote Icon in the Notification Area of the Taskbar option back to marked will get OneNote System Tray Icon back.

  • OneNote Is Unable To Start

    You might see OneNote failed to start with following error message displayed

    OneNote is unable to start. This may be caused by insufficient hard drive space or by insufficient write permissions for OneNote’s notebook cache files in you user setting folder. Try to delete any unnecessary files from your computer and then try starting OneNote again. If this message persists, contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x45D
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  • Will the screen saver disrupt my presentation

    If you give presentation to customers you might have the question like will the screen saver disrupt my presentation by locking my laptop screen.

    The answer is NO, if the PowerPoint presentation file is opened in full screen Side Show mode, screen save will never get trigged. However, it must be Side Show mode. If you have presentation opened in edit mode, and the laptop is idle longer than screen save timeout threshold, screen save will still get triggered and lock the screen.

  • Final Visual Studio 2010 available for download

    Visual Studio 2010, the best version of Visual Studio ever, is now available for download in Microsoft download center. The build number for RTM VS2010 and CLR4 is 4.0.30319.1.

    Here is link for free trial

    Visual Studio 2010 Professional

    Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

    Training Resources

    Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

    Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

    Moving to Visual Studio 2010 e-Book

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  • Difference between Chrome Versions

    People might get confused what is the difference between Chrome channels. According to http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

    • Stable channel. Everyone is on the Stable channel when they first install Google Chrome. The Stable channel is updated with features and fixes once they have been thoroughly tested in the Beta channel. If you want a rock solid browser but don’t need the latest features, the Stable channel is for you.
    • Beta channel. People who like to use and help refine the latest features subscribe to the Beta channel. Every month or so, we promote stable and complete features from the Dev channel to the Beta channel. The Beta channel is more stable than Dev, but may lack the polish one expects from a finished product. If you’re writing extensions, you need to use this channel or the Dev channel.
    • Dev channel. This developer preview channel is where ideas get tested (and sometimes fail). The Dev channel can be very unstable at times, and new features usually require some manual configuration to be enabled. Still, simply using Dev channel releases is an easy (practically zero-effort) way for anyone to help improve Google Chrome.

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  • MSI and WIX How to Tutorials

    WiX tutorial
    http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/

    Introducing WiX
    http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/19/wix.html

    WiX Tutorial – Steps to Create an Installer MSI with WiX
    http://www.dalun.com/wix/01.09.2005.htm

    Windows Installer Guide from Microsoft MSDN

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_guide.asp

    General WiX Documentation and Help

  • Manage Hyper-V remotely from windows 7

    Once Hyper-V role is enabled on windows server 2008/R2, Hyper-V manager will be installed automatically. However, you don’t need to log on to Hyper-V host server to use Hyper-V manager. Instead, you can manage Hyper-V machines remotely from you Win7 desktop.

    To manage Hyper-V machines remotely from Win 7, following these steps:

    1. Install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7, download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en
    2. Go to Start > Control panel Under Programs, click on Get programs
    3. On the left panel, click on Turn Windows feature on or off
    4. On the feature list, expand Remote Server Administration roles > Role Administration Tools, mark Hyper-V Tools, then click OK
    5. Go to Administrative tools > Hyper-V Manager, launch it
    6. Now you can manage Hyper-V virtual machines from your windows 7 box. (more…)