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The Green Awards™ program recognizes everyday people who are making a Giant difference in their communities and inspiring others to do the same. The Green Awards celebrate and reward individuals with smart green initiatives.

This year, we have submitted a video entry for these awards. It is titled "A Greener IT"  and is listed (approximately half-way down) under the Green Entrepreneur category. Please check out our entry through the link below. If you believe our entry is worth being a finalist choice, we would appreciate your vote.

Note: You must register free at THEGreenAwards.com in order to vote for any entry every day until March 27th at 11:59pm.

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A-PC-SW-How-To: Access Yahoo! Mail with Microsoft Outlook...

Yahoo! Mail is free web-based email service that you access through your browser. However you might prefer to setup your Microsoft Outlook email client to collect messages from your Yahoo account.

The following provides guidelines for the setup of Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook (versions 2003, 2007 and 2010).

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2010 to Receive Yahoo Email

Outlook 2010 is the latest version of the popular email from Microsoft. Tools are available that allow Windows Live or Hotmail accounts to be accessed via Outlook 2010, and Google Mail accounts can be easily accessed using the standard POP or IMAP methods. However Yahoo! uses a different method of storage and online access to its free email accounts - with the result that there is no way to access such an account other than via webmail.

In order to use Microsoft Outlook 2010 to receive Yahoo email, you will have to upgrade your Yahoo! Mail account to premium, and this is a chargable service. Once upgraded, you may go through the following steps to connect Outlook 2010 to Yahoo! Mail.

1. To setup Microsoft Outlook 2010 to receive Yahoo! email via POP, open the mail client and go to File > Info > Add account. Next, choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types.

2. Click Next to proceed, select Internet Email and click Next again. Use the following settings to configure your Yahoo! Mail account:

3. Incoming Mail (POP) settings:

a. POP server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com

b. Use SSL

c. Port: 995

4. Outgoing mail server (SMTP) settings:

a. SMTP server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com

b. Use SSL

c. Port: 465

5. Use authentication

6. Credentials:

7. Account Name/Login Name: Your Yahoo! Mail ID (this is the same as your email address but without the "@yahoo.com")

8. Email Address: Your Yahoo! Mail address (for example, eiffel19@yahoo.com)

9. Password: Your Yahoo! Mail password

Once completed, your Yahoo! Mail account should be accessible via Outlook 2010. If not, you may need to wait a short time following migration of your email account.

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2007 to Receive Yahoo Email
Microsoft Outlook 2007 doesn’t require a premium Yahoo! Mail account in order to it. You need to download a small application called YPOPs. YPOPs is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. YPOPs acts as a gateway between Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook. For those who opted for the new Yahoo Mail beta are good too to use this to access Yahoo! mail using Outlook. Download YPOPs from SourceForge.

You can download YPOPs fron here http://ypopsemail.com/

First, install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.

To fetch mail from and send mail through a Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook 2007:

1. Start Microsoft 2007. Click "Tools" in the toolbar and select "Account Settings." Go to the "Email" tab and click on "New." Choose "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP" and click "Next."

2. Select the "Manually Configure Server Settings or Additional Server Types" check box and click "Next."

3. Enter your name in the "User Information" section. Enter your Yahoo Mail email address, including @yahoo.com.

4. Type "localhost" in the "Incoming mail server (POP3)" and "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)" fields.

5. Enter your Yahoo Mail user name without the "@yahoo.com" in the user name field. Type your Yahoo Mail password into the "Password" field. Select "Remember Password," then click the "More Settings" button.

6. Go to the "Outgoing Server" tab and select the "My Outgoing Server (SMTP) Requires Authentication" check box. Click "OK." Click "Next," then click "Finish."

How to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Receive Yahoo Email
Microsoft Outlook 2007 doesn’t require a premium Yahoo! Mail account in order to it. You need to download a small application called YPOPs. YPOPs is an application that provides POP3 and SMTP access to Yahoo! Mail. YPOPs acts as a gateway between Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft Outlook. For those who opted for the new Yahoo Mail beta are good too to use this to access Yahoo! mail using Outlook. Download YPOPs from SourceForge.

You can download YPOPs fron here http://ypopsemail.com/

First, install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.

To retrieve mail from and send mail through a Yahoo! Mail account in Outlook 2003:

1. Start Microsoft 2003. Select Tools
E-Mail Accounts... from the menu.

2. Make sure Add a new e-mail account is selected.

3. Click Next >. Check POP3. Click Next >.

4. Type your name under Your Name:.

5. Enter your Yahoo! Mail address under E-mail Address:.

6. Type "localhost" under both Incoming mail server (POP3): and Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.

a. If "localhost" later turns out not to work, you can try "127.0.0.1" instead.

7. Type your Yahoo! ID under User Name. Enter your Yahoo! Mail password under Password.

8. Click More Settings ....

9. Go to the Outgoing Server tab.

10. Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.

a. Leave Use same settings as my incoming mail server selected.

11. Click OK. Click Next >. Click Finish.

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A-PC-SW-How-To: Manually Removing QuickTime...

Are you getting the following error message when trying to reinstall/uninstall Apple’s QuickTime:

The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.
Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'QuickTime.msi' in the box below.

If so, you may need to manually remove QuickTime. Try the following steps. They may solve your problem

Note: Make sure you have made a complete backup of all your personal and system data, before proceeding with making any changes to your system.

Take the following steps to remove QuickTime:

1. Download and install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility.

2. Run this utility. It will show you a list of programs. Find QuickTime and remove it.

3. Go to the folder c:\windows\system32 and delete the files QuickTime.qts and QuicktimeVR.qtx

4. Go to the folder c:\windows and delete the files QTFont.for and QTFont.qfn

5. Delete the folder c:\program files\quicktime

Now, go ahead and reinstall QuickTime.

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This blogger has launch a new business website.

Website Description:

Eiffel19 EntreSoft provides information technology consulting and computer services to small businesses, organizations and individual/home users. In addition, we provide software development contracting services. Although we are located in the Boston area, most of our services are available to clients throughout the United States.


We are always available for a FREE consultation to discuss your computer issue or software project. Please visit our website for more detailed information.

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A-How-To: BCDedit to fix Windows 7 Boot...

So your Windows 7 PC System no longer boots and you are getting the "...An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data." system error. You have reached the point that all suggestions on startup repair have failed and you may now have to re-create a clean boot configuration data (BCD) file. The following information on creating a clean, fresh BCD file maybe helpful to you.

We are going to use a system command called BCDedit to re-create the BCD file.

Introduction
BCDedit is a really powerful tool that Windows 7 and Windows Vista uses to manage the boot loader entries.

BCDEDIT needs a boot loader file to boot your system.

A boot loader is a file that contains necessary information that instruct the system how to boot/start an operating system.
• Windows 7 and Vista bootloader file is \bootmgr
• Windows XP bootloader file is \ntldr

Bcdedit edits a file called BCD, which is located in Windows 7's hidden partition under C:\boot\BCD.

NOTE: Before performing any changes to your system, please make sure you have a backup of system and personal data files. A backup is essential if things go wrong, when you are making changes to your system.

How to Create a Clean BCD file:
Put your Windows 7 DVD in the drive and restart your PC. Assuming you've properly configured your BIOS to boot from CDs/DVDs before hard drives, you should get a prompt asking you to "Press any key to boot from the CD/DVD..."

Go ahead and press any key.

In the next window, select "Repair your computer" to continue.

On the next window, choose the Windows 7 installation that you'd like to perform the repair on.



Click the Next button.

Proceed with the process by choosing "Command Prompt" from this list [Image below]. We could select the "Startup Repair" to fix the boot problem, but we are assuming that you already tried this option and it did not work.



In the Command Prompt window we shall perform a number of commands to create the new BCD file.



Note: We're assuming that the boot drive is drive C: below. If your computer is configured differently, be sure to use the appropriate drive letter here instead. Each command shown below is separated by a newline for display purposes only. So, command and its switches must be on the same line.

Enter the following commands:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force

Replace X in the command line above with the device letter to the CD/DVD drive that is running your Windows 7 Recovery Disk.

Now remove the old BCD registry, and create a new one instead.

del C:\boot\bcd

bcdedit /createstore c:\boot\bcd.tmp

bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd.tmp /create {bootmgr} /d "Windows Boot Manager"

bcdedit.exe /import c:\boot\bcd.tmp

bcdedit.exe /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:

bcdedit.exe /timeout 12

del c:\boot\bcd.tmp

Now we have a clean, working Win 7 bootloader. But we need to add a Win 7 entry to it:

bcdedit.exe /create /d "Windows 7" /application osloader

bcdedit.exe should return a message with a GUID for the newly-created entry. It will look something like this:

The entry {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963} was successfully created.

You'll need to use the value that bcdedit.exe returned for you below, along with the drive letter for the drive that Windows 7 is installed to:

bcdedit.exe /set {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963} device partition=C:

bcdedit.exe /set {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963} osdevice partition=C:

bcdedit.exe /set {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963} path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

bcdedit.exe /set {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963} systemroot \Windows

And, last of all, tell the Windows 7 bootloader to boot the new entry by default:

bcdedit.exe /displayorder {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963}

bcdedit.exe /default {fc8bcc18-8a93-11df-baf9-806e6f6e6963}

Now the Windows 7 bootloader has been removed and rebuilt from scratch.

At this point, you have a clean and hopefully a fully-working bootloader with one entry for Windows 7.

Reboot your PC system to get back into Windows 7.

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A-How-To: Reset a User Account Password in Windows Vista/7...

If you forgot the password for a admin and/or user account and you can no longer log into your Windows systems, then this posting will help show you how to reset or change the password to gain access to the account.

More to follow...

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