Tips to manage taskbar Windows

It’s very often the case that many users (especially Windows Admins) requires multiple applications to be running yet don’t want to actively monitor them in taskbar.  Many users opt for grouping taskbar Windows to workaround that problem, however there will be atleast one window lying on the taskbar representing the grouped application windows. As many of you know that some applications comes with an option called “Minimize to tray (or) Hide when minimized” which simply avoid Window on the taskbar and yet keeps application running and provides easy option to activate the Windows whenever needed.  Here are the few applications […]

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Cygwin

Default: gunnalag@Sys1 ~ $ echo $PS1 [e]0;wa]n[e[32m]u@h [e[33m]w[e[0m]n$ gunnalag@Sys1 ~ $ echo $PS2 > gunnalag@Sys1~ $ echo $PS3 gunnalag@Sys1 ~ $ echo $PS4 + gunnalag@Sys1 ~ $ echo $PS5   My Custom: gunnalag@Sys1:$ PS1=”[e]0;wa]n[e[32m]u@h:[e[33m][e[0m]$ “;

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Managing Outlook files

some quick notes to personalize Outlook client files as you want: Create below key to have your .PST files located in a folder you wish (note, you can’t do this via Outlook GUI Options) C:>reg query “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Outlook” /v ForcePSTPath HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Outlook ForcePSTPath    REG_EXPAND_SZ    C:OutlookPSTs C:> Use OST to PST converter tool if your excg server is inaccessible.  Tool I tested is “Advanced Exchange Recovery(AEXR)“  

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