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Don’t you find it annoying when an application pops up a window but you can’t get to it as it’s positioned off-screen?

Here’s a quick tip to move that window back on to your viewable screen area.

1. On the Task Bar – right click on the icon for the hidden application
2. Click “Move”
3. Now press one of the cursor keys – this will grab the window
4. Move the mouse around until the window appears – the window will be “stuck” to the mouse pointer
5. Click again to drop the window in the new location

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Tags: Windows

Here’s a quick Outlook tip!   When you open an email with pictures, or view an attachment, the picture is first saved to a temporary folder so that it can be scanned for viruses.

It appears however that this folder can become full – which means that you can no longer view images in emails.   Instead, you’ll just see a red cross where the picture should be.

There’s apparently a limit of 100 on the number of files with the same name, so for example

image001(01).jpg

image001(02).jpg

etc..

The easy fix is to just clear this folder out periodically as it’s not automatically emptied.

The folder can be found here (using Windows XP as an example):

For Outlook 2000 to 2003:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK*.

For Outlook 2007:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\

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Good news!  The popular video streaming service Netflix today announced that they’re expanding their video streaming service to Canada this fall.

There are no pricing details yet, however Netflix have said they’ll offer unlimited movie and TV downloads.

Unlike the American service which offers both video streaming and mail delivery of DVDs and Blu-Rays, the Canadian service will offer streaming only.

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