Windows Vista Recovery Environment Download

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/95b4c03a-ac42-49a4-a90d-8f3736a995271033.mspx

Vista - Only display the user name and password prompt at login

1. Open Control Panel and select System and Maintenance
2. Select Administrative Tools and double-click Local Security Policy (secpol.msc)
3. Expand Local Policies to Security Options
4. Enable Interactive logon: Do not display last user name
   
   This change should match the following DWORD registry setting:

   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \System]
   DontDisplayLastUserName = 1

Design your page to be compatible with Skype

By default, the Skype Toolbar will parse each web page and attempt to find phone numbers within the html code. You can prevent this behaviour by "telling" the Skype Toolbar that your site is compatible with Skype. This will stop it from searching for numbers and make it search only for special Skype tags.

Simply add the following meta tag to your page headers,
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />

Now the Skype Toolbar will only reformat numbers that have special Skype tags. If you have a phone number on your page and you want it to be accessible to Skype users, just code the html using this format,
<!-- sphoneid telnr="+447890123456" fileas="John Smith" -->07890 123 456<!-- sphoneid -->

Outlook 2003 Macro - Move messages to folder, create folder, Inbox archive

Sub Archive()

    On Error Resume Next
    Dim EmailArchiveFolder As String
    'this folder, if doesnt already, will exist in the Inbox folder
    EmailArchiveFolder = "Inbox_Archive"

    Dim objFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, objInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

    Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace, objItem As Outlook.MailItem


    Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")

    Set objInbox = objNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

    Set objFolder = objInbox.Folders(EmailArchiveFolder)

'Assume this is a mail folder

 
    If objFolder Is Nothing Then

        MsgBox "This folder doesn't exist! It will be created.", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation, "INVALID FOLDER"
        Set objFolder = objInbox.Folders.Add(EmailArchiveFolder)

    End If
 

    If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then

        'Require that this procedure be called only when a message is selected

        Exit Sub

    End If


    For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection

        If objFolder.DefaultItemType = olMailItem Then

            If objItem.Class = olMail Then

                objItem.Move objFolder

            End If

        End If

    Next
 

    Set objItem = Nothing

    Set objFolder = Nothing

    Set objInbox = Nothing

    Set objNS = Nothing


End Sub

Flash Video (FLV) Editor

Limited, but useful.  Install Adobe Air first

http://richapps.de/?page_id=120

Putting NTBACKUP back in Vista

Windows Vista includes a whole new backup tool called "Backup Status", which doesn't support BKF-backups made with NTBackup. "Backup Status" can at the same time only make backup of certain filetypes and folders.

Microsoft has released Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility, which allows Windows Vista to restore files saved in BKF-files.

If having a Windows XP system around, then it is possible to copy certain NTBackup files into Windows Vista, which will allow Windows Vista to backup and restore files with NTBackup. Create a new folder on Windows Vista ex. C:\Program Files\NTBackup and copy the following files from Windows XP to the folder:

• C:Windows\System32\Ntbackup.exe
• C:Windows\System32\Ntmsapi.dll
• C:Windows\System32\Vssapi.dll
• C:Windows\Help\Ntbackup.chm
• C:Windows\Help\Ntbackup.hlp

Note to run the Restore Utility or NTBackup on Windows Vista, then one has to enable Removable Storage Management, or else one will get an NTSMAPI.dll error.

1. Open Control Panel and under "Programs and Features" click "Turn Windows Features on or off"
2. Enable "Removable Storage Management" and press OK

Related Configure NtBackup for faster throughput

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Reset Joomla Admin Password

You cannot recover the existing password, but you can reset it to a new password.
The passwords are stored using a one-way MD5 hash which prevents recovering the password.
But you can reset the password by editing the password field in the database.
Set the password to a known value and then you may log-in using that new password.

The password is stored in the MySQL database jos_users  table password  field. (change this for your table prefix if different)
Use a MySQL utility such as phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser to edit this field.
Open the table, find your admin username, and then select that row for editing.
The password must be hashed, you cannot simply enter text into this field.

Set the password to a known value
- password = "this is the MD5 hashed password"
------------------------------------------------------
- admin = 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
- secret = 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69
- OU812 = 7441de5382cf4fecbaa9a8c538e76783
Paste the hashed password into the field, save the change, and log-in using the new password.
Immediately change your password to something more secure!