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In this article we will demonstrate how you can lock and unlock access to a folder on your desktop or Windows machine using a batch file. When the folder is locked and if anyone tries to access it, they would not get any error message but will not be able to access it. This is not the same as locking a folder using the "Deny All" NTFS permission, which can be very dangerous and harmful at times. This trick comes in very handy if you share your computer desktop and logon with someone and want to keep them from snooping in to your private things. This is a very cool and almost harmless Windows 7 hacks, if you would like to see other cool Windows 7 hacks, you can check out the Windows 7 God Mode.

In this article we will show you how to connect to your Hotmail account using Outlook 2007 so that you are able to send, receive and manage (including setting up rules, permanently delete email, manage your calendar and manage junk mail features) as if your were logged on to your Windows Live Hotmail site online. Previously, you could just go to the Tools -> Accounts menu in Outlook 2003 or 2007 and add your hotmail account just by specifying your email address and password and the client had the capability to auto configure the settings. This procedure however was changed when Hotmail migrated to the Windows Live Format

If you are new to Windows Seven like most of us, you would want to know cool tips and tricks too. Today we have brought a very cool Easter Egg (Easter Egg is hidden feature generally not publicly revealed) for the Windows Seven and Vista 32 bit operating systems. Usually in order to administer or run different features for the core operating system (Windows Seven) you have to go through several clicks from the Control Panel. This is not a prank, get all the power you need all in one place with this hack!

Google has just launched its free DNS called Google Public DNS, which is a faster way to resolve DNS queries using its DNS servers . It uses the DNS cache on Google's DNS servers to resolve queies faster and in turn, takes you faster to the web page you requested.  DNS stands for Domain Name System and basically translates numeric IP addresses of servers that host web content into words. In addition to the fact that it can resolve DNS queries faster, Google's DNS also has security safeguards built in that prevent spoofing attacks. Spoofing attaks are when you think a website belongs to let's say a Bank but it does not really, the web page shown looks like exactly of that your Banks website but it is another website altogether, put in place for malicious purposes. In this article we will show you, in easy steps as how you can configure your Windows computer to use Google's DNS instead of the one provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

If you use Outlook and work with an Microsoft Exchange or any other LDAP server, this information might be useful to you. You might have recovered emails from your deleted items folder and later realized that you needed them. Microsoft Exchange gives users the ability to recover their deleted emails if the retention is set right on the server. Retention means, the server can still maintain messages that you have deleted in its database even after you delete them from your deleted items folder.

However, recovery of deleted items through retention is possible for items deleted from deleted items folder only. If you shift + delete a message, it does not go to your deleted items folder, it gets permanently deleted. This article shows you how to recover your 'permanently deleted' email messages, that you deleted using shift delete.