Using the telnet command, tech-savvy ones can remote control other computers or check HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and more plain-text connections over the web, by using the telnet command. Though, apparently this command has been removed in Windows 7. It has not.
Some of you have problems while trying to sign in to Messenger, receiving error code 81000306. Let’s take a look at the solution.
I just received the following e-mail from Connect: “The Beta release of Office 2010 marks the end of the Technical Preview program.”
More than 20,000 Windows Live account credentials were published recently. That is why you should change your own password, even if your account was not among them. Here is how to change your password using the Windows Live account center.
Open the Windows Live account center at https://account.live.com/ChangePassword.aspx.
If prompted, sign in using your Windows [...]
If you have Windows Live Sync installed on your computer, you can connect a computer to a synchronized folder to synchronize files. You must install the Sync software from the Sync website, on every computer that you want to synchronize files on.
You can connect multiple computers to a personal folder, but each one must [...]
The Windows Live OneCare successor Microsoft Security Essentials (code name “Morro”), currently in closed beta at Microsoft Connect, has been upgraded to version 1.0.1500.0. The update is delivered using the built-in updater, and brings us a new system notification icon. The final release is expected for the end of 2009.
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After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]
Are you using Windows Live Messenger in a corporate intranet, and experiencing the error code 80072ef3 when trying to sign in? Changed port configurations in Messenger 2009 cause this error to happen, and you will have to bypass your corporate proxy for the Messenger servers.
I still remember the times when there was only limited amount of disk space available (hard disk sizes of 20 MB were common), so keeping files as small as possible was most important. This prerequisite has gone, but there is another one: not everybody has a high-speed web connection!
Sure: T1, cable, DSL, these all [...]
Windows Live Messenger is using the same Internet libraries as Internet Explorer, and thus also using the same connection settings. This means that if Internet Explorer is set to Work offline, Messenger will consider this and deny to sign in.
To disable Internet Explorer Offline mode, try the following.
Click Start, Internet Explorer.
On the right, [...]
