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  • Forget WordPress Admin Password

    After setup local WordPress environment, WordPress will generate a password for admin logon. The password is so strong that forget the password can easily happen. The easiest way to get admin password back is reset it again in database.

    Here is the SQL command that will do it:

    UPDATE ‘wp_users’ SET ‘user_pass’ = MD5(‘PASSWORD‘) WHERE ‘user_login’ =’admin’ LIMIT 1;

    Note you need update red PASSWORD to the real password you want reset.

    After the command succeeds, you will be able to login to WordPress with new password.

  • Install Local WordPress Environment on Windows

    WordPress is one of most popular blog applications. This application is very easy to use however setup a local environment for theme or plugin development on windows system is not that easy for bloggers. In this post, I will walk thru you how to setup local WordPress environment using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 with just a few clicks. (I am using 64bit Windows 7 in this tutorial but same steps work windows server 2008 as well)

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  • Change Theme in Outlook 2010

    To change theme in Outlook 2010

    1. Open outlook, click Files, then Options
    2. On the General tab, select a different theme in Color scheme drop down. image

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  • Some shortcuts no longer work in Outlook 2010

    It turns out Alter Shortcuts, e.g Alt+R (Reply), Alt+L (Reply All), and Alt+W (Forward), no longer work in Outlook 2010 BETA at all, though they worked in Outlook 2007 and previous Office 2010 CTP version.

    Actually, these shortcuts are not lost, they just change Alt to Ctrl for some reason. Users have to use Ctrl+R to Reply instead of Alt+R, use Ctrl+Shift+R to Reply All Instead of Alt+L, use Ctrl+F to Forward Instead of Alt+W.

    Hopefully MS won’t change these again in RTM builds.

    Updates

    22th April – Microsoft brings them back in final Office 2010 RTM build 14.0.4763.1000, the shortcuts for reply and forward are same as Office 2007

    Reply: Alt+R  or  Ctrl+Shift+R

    Reply All: Alt+L

    Forward: Alt+W

  • OneNote: Unread Highlighting cannot be cleared

    I recently upgraded to Office 2010 BETA and I notice an annoy bug in OneNote 2010.

    There is a feature in OneNote 2010 which will highlight unread content after notes are synced between two PCs. However, it can’t detect whether those content is read or not so the green highlighting will stay there forever.

    The workaround is right-clicking on the notebook and choosing to Mark as Read. By doing this you tell OneNote I read it and please remove the green highlighting. This also makes unread bolding go away.

    Update:

    29th April – This is gone in final Office 2010 RTM build 14.0.4763.1000

  • SysInternals tools now accessible over UNC

    Two tools that I use frequently when troubleshot issues on servers are Process Explorer and Process Monitor. Since these are not windows built in tools (though they owned by Microsoft), I always have to go to Sysinternals site and download them one by one.

    I just notice that SysInternals tools are accessible over a public UNC, all I need to do now to get latest system internals tools is just access \live.sysinternals.comtools. Great time saver! (more…)

  • Large email sizes in Outlook 2010 BETA

    In Outlook 2010 BETA, an email in the default HTML format might take much more space than the other formats. Sometimes, a simple msg takes upward .5 MB to 1 MB or even bigger after a few replies.

    Microsoft has released a fix for this, which is available at microsoft download center:

    Alternatively, you can wait for Office 2010 RC and upgrade when it’s available.

  • Install Windows Live Messenger on 64bit Windows XP and Server 2003

    Windows Live Messenger cannot be installed on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. It seems that these OS are blocked in Windows Live Messenger setup.

    Eventually I found this blog Install Windows Live Messenger 2009 from .msi files. The instruction on this page works well on windows server 2003. It also works on other unsupported OS such as x64 windows XP and windows server 2008

  • Where is OOF Assistance, Print, Save and my other tools in Outlook 2010

    Q: Where is OOF Assistance, Print, Save in Outlook 2010?

    A: Click on the ‘File’ button (upper left hand side) to access all the tools you have found in various menu items.

  • Outlook Mailbox Cleanup

    Here are a few tips to clean up mailbox in Outlook.

    • Find email larges than 1MB and clean up
    • Use AutoArchive to archive old emails from default mail folders to pst files.
    • Use Clean Up Conversation if you are using outlook 2010
    • Use Shift + delete to delete emails without moving them to deleted items folder.

    Clean up conversation feature is a new feature in Outlook 2010. It can be found from Home tab in the Ribbon, select ‘Clean Up Folder’ or ‘Clean Up Folder and Subfolders’.

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