1.) Goto My Computer

2.) Right Click on the drive where you are trying to create the Virtual Hard Disk

3.) Uncheck “Compress this drive to save disk space”

This issue should be resolved now.

1. Download Pe2USB

2. Unzip contents and run .EXE

3. You will see the screen below

4. Make sure your USB drive is detected. Once that is done, mirror the settings shown in the screen shot with the exception of the source path

5. For the Source Path I would recommend pointing to a previous PE build folder with the i386 files. This will ensure that the USB build includes all plug ins. If not pointing to the Windows XP cd will be sufficient to build a basic BartPE USB recovery drive.

6. Once you click Start you will answer yes to the next question and it should begin.

**In order for this to work you system must support booting to USB**

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I have heard of it running smooth on Celeron 933 systems too though!

Anyway if you happen to have the Intel 915 Chipset you won’t find much support for Vista let alone Windows 7. You will find that the supplied drivers simply do not cut it. I have come up with a solution that at least works on my system and will help others I hope.

After the Windows 7 upgrade I was pretty giddy and upbeat with this brand new OS, but soon realized what a headache it was trying to find a solution to the lackluster driver situation. No help from Microsoft or Intel and the forums did not have the answers I needed either.

After some hours of research I finally came across a driver package from HP that supports the 915 chipset. The reason for the Vista driver is simply that my games, videos and other graphics intensive applications worked just fine with Vista SP2.

After extracting the files, running the setup.exe in Compatibility Mode of Vista, my games run smoother now and no BSOD’s or any other driver related errors or problems. For steps downloading and installing the drivers follow below.

1. Download SP34749.EXE

2. Once file is downloaded extract files to location of your choice

3. Find the setup.exe within the extracted files and than right click and choose Properties and than Compatibility. Make sure the options shown in the screenshot are selected.

That is pretty much it.

Make sure when you are done installing the new driver to also set Compatibility on the application or game you are having issues with. I found setting them to “Windows Vista” work  just fine.

Microsoft has released the latest Service Pack for Office 2007. If you use Office 2007, be sure to update with Windows Updates or click here to download the stand alone installer.

of some big areas of improvement that are included in SP2.

Microsoft Office Access

• Lets you export reports to Microsoft Office Excel.
• Supports memo fields in the mailing label wizard for addresses.
• Fixes issues that occur in the import data wizards, in report printing and previewing, in macros, in Excel integration, and in date filters.
• Includes updates to Access Developer Extensions.

Microsoft Office Excel

• Improves the charting mechanism in Excel 2007. This includes better parity with Office 2003, improved robustness, and targeted performance improvements.
• Adds a chart object model to Word and to PowerPoint.
• Improves shapes that are surfaced in Excel. This includes better parity with Office 2003 and targeted performance improvements.
• Improves the method by which Excel prints graphical content, especially when it prints to PCL printers.
• Adds conversion rates to the Excel Euro Currency Tools add-in for the Maltese lira and for the Cypriot pound.

Microsoft Office Groove

• Improves Groove 2007 form tools. In particular, international users in certain locales will benefit from correct interpretation of spaces for digit grouping in currency values.
• Limits the number of file-sharing workspaces to 64 to make sure that all workspaces can be synchronized. This limit applies only to adding new file-sharing workspaces. If you already have more than 64 file-sharing workspaces, you can continue to use them.
• Optimizes synchronization reliability.

Microsoft Office InfoPath

• Fixes for overall security and stability in InfoPath 2007
• Provides improved compatibility between InfoPath forms and other Microsoft products, such as Groove and Outlook.

Microsoft Office OneNote

• Improves SharePoint sync functionality. This helps reduce the load on SharePoint servers, and it helps produce fewer sync errors.
• If the OneNote tray notification icon was previously dismissed, the icon will now appear in the notification area. Additionally, this icon can now be dismissed only in the Options dialog box in OneNote.
• Adds support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the Japanese language.

Microsoft Office Outlook

• Performance improvements that apply to the following general responsiveness areas:
  • Startup
    Removes lengthy operations from initial startup.
  • Shutdown
    Makes Outlook exit predictably despite pending activities.
  • Folder View and Switch
    Improves view rendering and folder switching.
• Calendar improvements
  Improves underlying data structures and the general reliability of calendar updates.
• Data file checks
  Greatly reduces the number of scenarios in which you receive the following error message when you start Outlook:
• Improvements to Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
  There are now fewer duplicated items.
• Object Model improvements
  Now contains many customer-driven fixes.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint

• Improves the control of shape editing while you are zoomed in.
• Provides faster file resaves.
• Improves image quality after files are saved in the .jpeg, .png, and .gif formats.
• Provides better text representation when the representation is saved in earlier PowerPoint formats.
• Fixes several printer-specific problems.
• Provides better compatibility with Explorer preview in Windows Vista.
• Provides fuller integration of the Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model.

Microsoft Office Publisher

• Improves the printing of double-sided postcards and small booklets.
• Fixes issues in print preview, in HTML layout of grouped objects in Internet Explorer 8, in tab-stop, in e-mail, in content library, and in Design Checker.

Microsoft Office Word

• Improves the fidelity of .pdf and .xps output.
• Improves Outlook performance.
• Provides fuller integration of the Office Excel Chart Object Model.

Changes that affect multiple products

File formats

• OpenDocument Format (ODF) support
  
  
• Extensible File Formats: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint now include a converter interface that lets you plug third-party custom file formats into these Office programs. A developer can create a converter for files of a particular extension. When this converter is installed on a user’s computer, the custom file format effectively behaves like a built-in file format. Specifically, users can open files of this format and save them by using the Open or Save UI. They can even set the custom format as their default file format. For more information, visit the following MSDN Web site:
  
  
• Built-in Save As PDF/XPS support
  PDF/XPS support is built into SP2 for Word, for Excel, and for PowerPoint. Users no longer have to download the add-in separately.

Office graphics

• Improves application performance when many graphic objects are present, especially for Excel 2007.
• Fixes several issues that involve the object model. These fixes let you better achieve parity with Office 2003 when the object model works with graphical objects.
• Increases printing fidelity of graphical objects in many scenarios.
• A new XML-based representation of each SmartArt graphic in a document is saved with the file to optimize interoperability. This new feature uses the standard DrawingML markup to describe the visual properties of the SmartArt graphic.
• Improves the Edit Points feature. This enables more accurate shape editing and increased interoperability with Office 2003.

Office security

• Fixes certain scenarios in which documents in trusted locations were treated as non-trusted.
• Improves several cryptographic or encryption scenarios.
• Provides a method to ignore time stamping expiration.
• Provides better security warnings when a certificate is revoked.
• An updated password algorithm that is in sync with the document ISO requirements.
• Provides an ISO-OOXML-compliant password verifier for Excel, for PowerPoint, and for Word.
• Enables smarter AVAPI blocking for encrypted macros.

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Have you ever wondered were the alternatives are for Adobe Acrobat? Well, there are a few and I will give you a few that are recommended.

1. PrimoPDF – Supports over 300 file types and PDF’s can be created in a snap. I currently use this software on my own system and highly recommend its use.

2. CutePDF – Reliably and faithfully creates PDF documents from virtually every application I’ve tried it from. Whether it be an image, text document, or web page.

3. PDFCreator – Works without much effort. A neat feature for this PDF generator is the ability to encrypt the PDF’s.

4.PDFOnline – PDFOnline will allow anybody with an Internet connection to convert to  from multiple file types by uploading online. PDFRecommended if you do not want to install software on your system for whatever reason.

Solution: Open an elevated Command Prompt, type BCDEdit /set pae ForceEnable and press Enter.

The pae parameter enables Physical Address Extension (PAE). On 32-bit versions of Windows, PAE is disabled by default. PAE is an addressing strategy that uses a page-translation hierarchy to enable systems with 32-bit addressing to address more than 4 GB of physical memory. PAE also supports several advanced system and processor features, such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP; “No execute”), Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA), and hot-add memory, so it is also used on computers with less than 4 GB of memory. PAE must be supported by the processor.

On a computer that supports hardware-enabled Data Execution Prevention (DEP), PAE is automatically enabled when DEP is enabled and automatically disabled when you disable DEP. To enable PAE when DEP is disabled, you must enable PAE explicitly: Open an elevated Command Prompt.
Type BCDEdit /set nx AlwaysOff & BCDEdit /set pae ForceEnable and press Enter.

To fix simply Double Click the grey area at the Top!

Below is a list of popular command line switches for Outlook 2003. To use simply go to Start\Run and type Outlook /chosen_switch

/c messageclass – Creates a new item of the specified message class, works for any valid MAPI form. For example:
/c ipm.activity creates a Journal entry
/c ipm.appointment creates an appointment
/c ipm.contact creates a contact
/c ipm.note creates an e-mail message
/c ipm.stickynote creates a note
/c ipm.task creates a task

/CleanClientRules – Starts Outlook and deletes client-based rules. For non-Exchange users.

/CleanFinders – Sets Outlook 2003 Search Folders back to the default state (deletes custom Search Folders)

/CleanFreeBusy – Cleans and regenerates free/busy information.

/CleanProfile – Removes invalid profile keys and recreates default registry keys where applicable.

/Cleanpst- Launches Outlook with a clean Personal Folders file (.pst)

/CleanReminders – Cleans and regenerates reminders.

/CleanRules – Starts Outlook and deletes client- and server-based rules.

/CleanSchedPlus – Deletes all Schedule+ data (free/busy, permissions, and .cal file) from the server.

/CleanServerRules – Starts Outlook and deletes server-based rules. Used only with Exchange server accounts.

/CleanViews – Restores default views.

/FirstRun - Starts Outlook as if it were run for the first time.

/ImportPrf prffilename – Launches Outlook and opens/imports the defined MAPI profile (*.prf). If Outlook is already open, queues the profile to be imported on the next clean launch.

/Profile profilename – Loads the specified profile. If your profile name contains a space, enclose the profile name in quotation marks

/ResetFolderNames – Resets the language of the default folders to the language of the Outlook client.

/ResetFolders – Restores missing folders for the default delivery location.

/ResetOutlookBar -  Rebuilds the Outlook Bar.

/ResetWunderBar – Rebuilds the new Outlook Control Bar in Outlook 2003.

/Rpcdiag – Opens Outlook and displays the remote procedure call (RPC) connection status dialog.

/Sniff - Starts Outlook and forces a detection of new meeting requests in the Inbox, and then adds them to the calendar.