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At Google, employees get 20% time where they can work on their own projects every week. At Microsoft, it’s called The Garage and consists of an actual physical space for side projects. That space and time given to employees is bearing fruit as a new software release called Mouse without Borders demonstrates.

Truong Do, a Microsoft Dynamics developer in Redmond, got frustrated having to switch between different keyboard and mouse configurations for each PC he had in his office. So as a side project he started developing a way to control them all with a single keyboard and mouse.

That project became Mouse without Borders, and goes well beyond just navigation of multiple PCs. Using the software Truong has developed it’s possible to login and out of multiple Windows PCs with a single keyboard and mouse. You can also seamlessly move between up to four PCs, and best of all, file copying through drag and drop works across those machines too.

It is the equivalent of having a single PC and four screens, only in this case you have multiple machines running those screens. All it requires is that you have a home network setup as that’s the communication method Truong has taken advantage of to get this system working.

Not only has Mouse without Borders made Truong’s desk a lot less cluttered, Microsoft has decided to make the software available to download for free for everyone to use. It’s a 1.1MB file which you can download from the Microsoft IT website (direct download link).

TeamViewer is an excellent screen-sharing and file-transfer app that can be used to facilitate business collaborations, remotely access a second computer, or help distraught relatives diagnose and cure computer problems. Along with being free for noncorporate use, it gives users precisely the tools they need to share screens securely, send files with a minimum of hassle, control access rights, and even flip which user has control.

The options available while you’re in control work smoothly. You can maximize the pane that the other computer’s screen is visible in, as well as utilize several smart options from a drop-down toolbar in the center of the window. A big X lets you close the connection, while the Actions button lets you switch who’s in control, disable remote input, and reboot remotely. The View menu hides options to adjust the screen resolution, the optimization toward speed or quality, and control multiple-monitor displays. New features that work just as effortlessly as the old ones include VoIP audio and video conferencing, and integrated teleconferencing. These features push TeamViewer a notch above the rest because they will work without requiring firewall reconfiguration.

When you log in, you’re given an access code and a password. Sharing those allows your computer to be controlled by the level you set it to: remote support, presentation, file transfer, or VPN. The TeamViewer servers remember which computers you’ve connected to, so reconnecting to previously shared computers happens faster. TeamViewer also has a Web-based version, for remote connecting to home from public computer. Even the installation process is impressive. Users can toggle admin rights, can opt out of running at startup, and can opt into installing the TeamViewer VPN driver for more secure screen sharing. TeamViewer makes screen-sharing and file-sharing as fluid and unobtrusive as it should be, and is a must-have for the home or remote office user.

1. Launch the program.
2. Hold down the Shift key.
3. Right Click on program icon located on taskbar to bring up the options menu.
4. Release the Shift key and Select Move (In case Move is grayed out select Maximize then repeat step 2 , 3, and 4).
5. Hit any one of the arrow keys.
6. The program is now selected and ready to move.
7. Now just move the mouse around and you should see program.
8. Click the mouse button to release it.

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You may have accidentally hit a sequence of keys and now you notice your Windows’ screen is upside down. Don’t panic. It’s easy to use a couple of quick hotkeys to rotate your screen back to normal. Or, maybe you would like to flip your monitor to sit vertically instead of horizontally. In doing so, you will need to rotate the screen to accommodate for your monitor’s orientation.

Press Ctrl + Alt + arrow (left, right, up or down) to rotate the screen.

Press the hotkeys and arrow keys until you have the desired rotation. This works with most video drivers on Windows XP. If this doesn’t work, proceed to the next option.

Click “Start,” then “Control Panel,” “Display,” the “Setting” tab, and then the “Advanced” button. Check for an “Orientation” option. Select your desired orientation.

You can also change it in the graphic’s properties. Example is for Intel Graphic card.

Account Lockout Status (LockoutStatus.exe) is a combination command-line and graphical tool that displays lockout information about a particular user account. LockoutStatus collects information from every contactable domain controller in the target user account’s domain.

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We’ve all heard about fake antivirus programs, also known as scareware. These programs falsely claim that your computer is infected with malware and prompt you to buy a product that will do nothing for you, except put your credit card number into the hands of criminals.

Well now there are fake disk defraggers that masquerade as applications that fix disk errors on a computer. In a post today the GFI Labs (formerly Sunbelt Software) blog Dubbed the programs FakeAV-Defrag rogues and said they had names like HDDDiagnostic, HDDRepair, HDDRescue, and HDDPlus.

It would appear that the scammers are trying out the new programs to see which might best confuse potential victims and evade detection by legitimate antivirus software. The defragger clones emerged last month with names like UltraDefragger, ScanDisk and WinHDD and which pretended to find “HDD read/write errors. Earlier this month, there was PCoptimizer, PCprotection Center, and Privacy Corrector that were more generic security products rather than specifically antivirus, the post says.

Computer users should be suspicious of applications that are advertised via e-mail, pop up warnings about problems (especially immediately after you click on a Web page video), demand that you make a purchase before it will fix the problems, and prompt you to update your browser, GFI Labs said.

If you aren’t sure if a program is legitimate, you can search by the name on a search engine or on GFI Labs’ site.

User Profiles:
With the release of Vista/Win7, Microsoft significantly changed the folder structure and mechanisms used by the operating system for user profiles. One of these changes was to make roaming profiles more explicit. Roaming profiles allow users to log onto other systems in the domain and have their profile information follow them. They have been around for many years, and in Vista/Win7, Microsoft decided to make what follows a user, and what doesn’t follow a user much more explicit. Hence within a user profile in Vista/Win7, there are now two different set of folders: Roaming and Local. For our purposes, we want to be able to determine where our browser artifacts will be located in this new file structure. Traditionally Microsoft has included cookies in a roaming profile and excluded cache and history files by default. Thus, cookies are now found under the Roaming folder and history and cache can be found within the Local folder.

Soluto tracks your boot time and gives you the break down on what applications are causing hang ups-including grouping them into “No-Brainger” and “Potentially Removable” groups for easy weeding.

Excel.exe – Corrupt file

The file or directory C:\docume~1\username\Local Settings\Application data\Microsoft\Office is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.

Solution: Go the the location above and rename the Office folder. Office will create a new one when you launch any of the  office application.