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Look as if another Windows Live service stopped ! Windows Live alerts will soon stop based on the warning posted on the website.

Thanks for your interest in Windows Live alerts. After careful consideration, we decided to discontinue this service as part of the Windows Live offering.

Please connect directly to Windows Live Alerts partners to receive their newsletters or other content updates. Hotmail calendar alerts and reminders are always managed by Windows Live Alerts.

Windows Live Alert Service will stop on October 1, 2010. read more

Do you have a file that you cannot open? Do you think you need expensive software to open it? Chances are there is an excellent free program that is just as good as the expensive program!

OpenWith.org provides detailed information on most file extensions and links to free programs that can open and create any type of file.

There are many good programs that will cost you hundreds of dollars to do what you need. What you probably don’t know is that there are usually free software that is just as good. You just don’t know. read more

Two days ago Microsoft announced that Windows Live Essentials 2011 15.4.3538.0513 will soon be available for download. It is now available for download. This new version improves performance and quality of service and would also include full support for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) in Windows Live Mail and the latest Bing bar.

In Windows Live Mail, Microsoft fixed a sorting problem in the Sentems folder and improved the reliability and download instrumentation in Photo Mail.

In Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft fixed some stability issues and made several changes to improve voice and video quality. Fixed an issue where the sound was lost after the update, and improved performance when displaying the MSN Today page in the main window. read more

There are many Mac users who want to install the Windows operating system on their Mac computer to get the most out of both worlds. Now, with Boot Camp Assistant you can easily install Windows 10/8/7 on your Intel Mac. You have a dual boot system with your Mac OS on one partition and Windows on the other.

Install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp software

Use your Safari browser to navigate to the Boot Camp Assistant download page on your Mac and download the program. Before downloading, check for updates. You can also download them if necessary. Open the’Finder’ window, select ‘Applications’ > ‘Utilities’ and double-click ‘Boot Camp Assistant’. Press ‘Next’ to start the installation process. By default, the software informs you of the installation of the latest drivers for Windows. The next step is to set the partition size for Windows. Windows 10/8/7 itself requires at least 16 GB of partition space and more applications; you must provide additional free space for the new operating system. Make a rough estimate and when you are satisfied with the diagram, press ‘Partition’. After this action, the hard disk partitioning is started. The process may take some time. When finished, you will see a new’BOOT CAMP’ icon on your Mac computer. Insert the Windows 7 DVD and click ‘Start Installation’. In a few seconds, your Mac computer restarts and starts on the Windows DVD. Here you will be invited with a window. You will be asked which partition you want to install Windows on. Select the labeled partitions ‘BOOTCAMP’ and simply click Disk Options. Then click ‘Format’ with the volume‘BOOTCAMP’ always selected. A warning is displayed with the following message ‘Files lost’, click ‘OK’. Soon Windows will start the installation. Be sure to remove the DVD from Windows as your system will reboot during installation. Your Mac will automatically restart under Windows and continue the installation until it is complete. Insert the OS X Lion DVD and start it by selecting RunSetup.exe. When the Boot Camp installer starts, click`Next’. Do the same after accepting the terms of the license agreement. Check box ‘Apple Software for Windows’ then click ‘Install’. Click ‘Finish’ once the driver installation is complete. Remove OS X DVD from drive and press ‘Yes’ to restart your Mac computer. Shortly after installing the software, you have the choice of running Windows or Mac OS X, as the installation turns your Mac computer into a dual boot system with Mac OS on one partition and Windows on another.

Requirements :

1. 1. 1. All firmware updates installed on your Mac
      2. A Windows 7 installation DVD with a product ID (full version, no update)
      3. A Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion installation DVD
      4. A copy of the latest training camp.

      Intel-based Mac computers can support both new installations and updates of the Boot Camp Wizard.

      See this message if Boot Camp could not switch between Windows and Mac OS.

      This article shows how to install Windows on Mac OS X with VMware Fusion. read more

The information is stored somewhere. Sometimes it is not suitable for the original location. If you have little space, add a new disk array or are just curious, it’s a simple procedure to move a database in Microsoft SQL Server to that new desired location. It is clear that best practice procedures must be maintained for the DB’s proper investment. It is always a good idea to separate your databases to allow maximum I/O.

Moving the Microsoft SQL Server database

Many things you need :

1. An account in the local administrator group
2. An SQL Server instance
3. SQL Server Management Studio
4. SA privileges for your SQL Server

This would probably work :

Locate the directory of your SQL database you want to move. By default (which is not good practice) the location of your databases is here : read more

Today we read that Microsoft has decided to extend support for its Windows Vista operating system until April 2017. Now there is also good news for Windows 7 consumers!

Microsoft announced that it will extend Windows 7 support until January 14, 2020. The main support for Windows 7 should end in January 2015, until then it will continue to receive feature updates and security patches. But now with this revision, Windows 7 consumers will receive security updates until January 2015. 2)

Difference between Mainstream Support and Extended Support on Windows

This table explains the difference between Mainstream Support and Extended Support. read more

We have already seen the difference between SQL and NoSQL. Now in this article I will explain the fundamental difference between SQL and MySQL. Most people find it difficult to deal with SQL and MySQL, and you could be one of them. There are books on SQL everywhere, and for good reason! Reading these books helped me to distinguish the two concepts SQL and MySQL.

Let us first explain the two technologies and how they are defined :

SQL vs MySQL

SQL means structured Query La language. It is a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases. MySQL is a database management system, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, Postgres, etc.. MySQL is a relational database management system (RDMS). read more

One of the biggest questions in the world of operating systems is whether open source operating systems will ever compete with Microsoft Windows operating systems or even reasonably approach them in terms of popularity?

The debate is endless. While supporters of open source talk endlessly and the Windows vs. Linux discussion will continue forever, why Linux is superior to Windows, here are the reasons why I feel Microsoft Windows prevails over open source operating systems.

Linux vs. Windows comparison

1. No operating system is as user-friendly as Microsoft Windows. Nobody wants to write several lines of code if they can do the same job in a few clicks. The Microsoft Windows user interface is much better and easier to customize compared to open source operating systems. This is because Microsoft Windows is designed so that even the simplest users can adapt to the interface. read more

Google Docs is Google’s most popular and best-known online documentation platform for reading, creating, importing and publishing documents, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, etc.

Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel to PDF

Although many people don’t know it, one of the great features of Google Docs is that it has the ability to convert Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into portable document format (PDF) with a single click.

There are times when we need to save PDF files (Portable Document Format) or convert your Word, PPT or Excel files to PDF files on the road. In such a case, it can be easy to convert them using Google Docs. read more

When you run Windows Live Messenger, you receive the error message Description : The application could not be started because its configuration is incorrect. Please refer to the application event log for more details Your Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 redistributable package may be corrupted. This article explains how you can try to correct these types of errors.

Side by side configuration is incorrect

Step 1:

Uninstall Windows Live Messenger programs and functions.

Step 2 :

Uninstall Microsoft Visual C+++ 2008 Redistributable Package of programs and functions. read more