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This how to is enable IIS in Windows7, either using GUI or CLI. This is one of the pre-requisites for installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows7 for development purposes.

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In Windows XP, there is no calender before year 1980! How exciting?! I was having a discussion with my sister about the day of my birth in the year 1975 and I just launched the calender in XP. To my dismay, there is no calender before 1980!

Well what do you think? What’s it like in Vista? Shocker isn’t it?!!

Earlier I had written on how to get HTML signatures in Outlook 2007. Preview handlers are not available in Outlook 2007 under Windows XP. That is the bane of many users. We had a healthy comment discussion on this here. Douglas has written an original mac-pc debate as well ;-)

These handlers have been ‘turned off’, presumably for security reasons. But hey, Azar has written a preview handler wrapper for Outlook 2007 under Windows XP! Filetypes that you will be able to run in Outlook 2007 are:

PDF

SWF

HTML/HTM/XML

ASF/WMV/WMA/AVI/WAV/MPG/MPEG/MP3/MIDI/AIFF/AU

ZIP/GADGET/MSI/RESX/SNK/KEYS

CS/VB/SQL/JS

Read more about it here.

Windows live is in news again, for all good reason. I came across some windows live links, that are not known of. If you did know even one of the links, then it’s cool cool

I saw these links on Zack’s Blog.

teamseattle.live.com – helping children in need with associations with Live Search by raising money for Children’s Hospital in Seattle.
edu.live.com – designed for US university students to use a range of Windows Live services using your .edu email address.
helpcommunity.live.com – a place where you can get community support for Custom Domains and improving the community.
desktop.live.com – the website for Windows Desktop Search, helping you find more of your files quicker.
silverlight.live.com – a companion service for Silverlight developers to host 4GB worth of files to make the community brighter.
postmaster.live.com/snds – enabling you to access your CSV files (Hotmail and Messenger) without Windows Live ID (techy’s only)
outlook.maps.live.com – use Live Search Maps within Outlook and save time.

I’d think, silverlight is now pretty much known. What do you think?

A new beta program for “Messenger, Mail, and Writer” has just appeared on Microsoft Connect . This means that these three programs will be releasing into beta soon.

To participate in the beta, you need to answer a nomination survey. 21 questions to be precise. Questions range covers all 3 Windows Live products.

Some of the questions are listed here:

1. Are you able to read and write English? *

2. Using beta software can potentially expose you to bugs that may harm your computer, including data loss. Knowing this, do you still want to participate in the beta? *

*The minimum system requirements for this beta are as follows:

• Windows XP SP2 or Vista
• Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or higher
• 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor screen resolution of 800×600 or higher
• Processer speed of 233MHz or higher

3. Is your system able to meet these requirements? *

4. Do you read or subscribe to newsgroups? *

5. Do you read or subscribe to RSS feeds? *

6. Do you have a blog? *

7. If you have a blog, which, if any of the following blog services do you use? (check all that apply) *

Windows Live Spaces

Blogger

Community Server

dasBlog

LiveJournal

Moveable Type

Radio Userland

Sharepoint

TypePad

WordPress.com

WordPress

None of the above

They will notify after few weeks, if you can participate. Head over if Windows Live interests you, especially Windows Live Messenger, if you have seen the leaked build.

Windows Live beta signup

Update: They have been released here. Go Get them.

Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and Windows Live Mail.

Look no further then Xplorer2. If you want to add power to your file management, you will want this app that fits on your USB drive! It will make browsing multiple folders, copying, pasting, moving and searching file system easier!

Installing the lite – as in free for personal and academic use – will give you some of the features that are available in the pro version.

• Tabbed dual-pane interface
• Manage files from many folders simultaneously
• Compare and synchronize folders
• Customizable user interface
• Advanced file management
• Keyboard shortcuts and overall usability
• Filtering of item visibility
• Mass renaming

Download Xplorer2

Xplorer2 Manual

Via Lifehacker – - visit for visuals and more in depth analysis of Xplorer2