How to Disable BaiduYun add-ins on Outlook

Hey, the last tutorial that I wrote was 2 months ago. Time flies huh.

I was trying out BaiduYun, a new web storage service from China. I installed the desktop client because I can sync the files that I found on some China websites that being shared on BaiduYun. However the desktop client is a very busy buddy software, it also installed add-ins to my Outlook. So whenever I open the Outlook, the BaiduYun icon will appear. It ever appear in every single email/message windows that I open on Outlook, very annoying. So how to get rid of it?

The best method is to uninstall BaiduYun desktop client, that will take care of the annoying logo on Outlook, but I will not able to sync the folder between my laptop and BaiduYun.

Another method is to disable the add-ins on Outlook, here is how:
1. On Outlook, go to Tools -> Trust Center -> Add-ins
2. At lower part of the Trust Center, there is a "Manage" section, choose "COM Add-ins" if it is not selected, then click "Go..." button.
3. A "COM Add-ins" windows will pop-up, uncheck "BaiduYun Addin" and then click "OK".
4. Now the "BaiduYun" icon now disappear from the Outlook.

Should applicable to Outlook 2007 and 2012.

Additional note: If you are sure to remove BaiduYun Addin, you can select to remove it, instead of just disable it on Step 3.

p/s: If you wish to try out Baidu, you can sign up here:
http://yun.baidu.com
Okay, I will get 512M for every successful referral. Btw, BaiduYun gives only 5GB for free account.


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Brand New Hotmail

How long ago that you last login to your Hotmail account? Can't remember? Now it is the time to take a visit!

Very clean and very metro feel. Looks like Microsoft want to make everything Windows 8 look, including the email service. Okay, I have to black-out some part of the windows to avoid spam! :)



Here is the zoom-in when you click the setting button. There are 12 colors you can change to, blue is the default I believe. You can change the reading pane location or turn it off. Also you can switch back to the old hotmail, but I don't think most people will do that.


When click on the "More mail settings" on the setting, here is a bunch of additional settings you can do with it.


FYI, if you login to hotmail.com, you still get the old hotmail. You have to go to this link to get to the new hotmail. And yes, it is Outlook, not hotmail anymore.
www.outlook.com



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How to Reply to Invitees Who Accepted in Outlook

Few days ago I wanted to send an email to those invitees that accepted my meeting request. The meeting request was scheduled in Outlook and it was being forwarded to other departments. Outlook don't have the feature of just replying to invitees that accepted. The only option is to reply to all, meaning those that never response to the meeting request will also receive your email. Personally I dislike the actions by some people that "reply all" without filtering the recipient.
So how to avoid it?

After some research (google, what else?), I found the best solution.

Before I put down the solution, this is the method that I used.
1. Click "Reply to All" on the meeting request, but do not send the email out yet.
2. Open the meeting again, click on the "Tracking" on the ribbon.
3. Go through the list and remove those names with response are "None" or "Declined" from the email.
Boy, this is very painful even with less than 30 names.

Okay, here is the best solution.



Note: for this to works, you need to enable "Request Responses" for the meeting request. This should be the default setting unless you turn it off for some reason.

1. After you sent out the meeting request, you will getting "Meeting Response" from invitees.
2. Open any of the "Meeting Response" of the same meeting request, copy the list of emails/names that in the "Accepted" row.
3. Start a new email, paste the list into the To or CC box.

That's it. No problem and less hassle.


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Manage Hotmail or Windows Live Mail with Outlook

Hotmail, it was the first ever internet account that I registered. I still keep it until now, just in case someone from schooling time would like to contact with me. Facebook? All of my online account are using Gmail, so no one can find me in Facebook using my Hotmail account.

I never like Hotmail/Windows Live Mail website interface until now. That's why I once I get the invitation to Gmail (yes, it was by invitation at beginning), I moved all my contact/subscriptions to Gmail. Another thing about web based Hotmail nowadays is the ads is very annoying, at least 25% of the Hotmail/Windows Live Mail screen is fill with ads.

Another thing about Hotmail/Windows Live Mail is it is very difficult to manage the contact, especially the grouping of contacts.

Therefore I always use this method to manage my Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account. Too used to it that I forgot to share it in this blog. However when my wife asked me how to create contact group in Hotmail/Windows Live Mail recently, I show her this method.

This method is to use Outlook to manage your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account. Therefore you will need Outlook to be installed on your PC/laptop.

First thing to do is to download Outlook Connector, go to MS website to download it:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA010222518.aspx
Note: 64-bit version works on Outlook 2010 only. If you have older version like mine, download the normal version.

Close and exit Outlook before install Outlook Connector.

At the first time Outlook start after install Outlook Connector, Outlook Connector will ask for Hotmail/Windows Live Mail login name and password. Check "Remember Password" if you are not sharing the PC/laptop. After that wait for it to download emails from Hotmail/Windows Live Mail from server and all the emails will be appear as a personal folder in Outlook, with Inbox, Junk, Sent Items, drafts, etc sub folder inside this folder. Usually the folder name will appear as your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail email address.

If you have calendar and contacts in your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail, it will be sync into Outlook as well. The contacts in Hotmail/Windows Live Mail now will appear in Outlook contacts, but they will not be mix with the original contacts in Outlook. These contacts usually in "Contacts in [email protected]" or "Contacts in [email protected]". Using Outlook, you can now create groups of contacts and use it in when you send emails from Outlook.

With this method, you can also choose to send email from Outlook, using your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account. What you need to do when you writing a new email is change the "Account" (right under "Send" button) to xxx@hotmail or [email protected] or any Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account that you added into Outlook using Outlook Connectors.

Not only emails, calendar and contacts are being sync from Hotmail/Windows Live Mail, but Tasks and Notes from Hotmail/Windows Live Mail are also being sync.

Another advantage of using this method is you can search Hotmail/Windows Live Mail with Outlook. The search in web-based Hotmail/Windows Live Mail is simply too crappy. You can access your emails on Hotmail/Windows Live Mail offline, no longer need to find a Wifi network just to look at one of the email in Hotmail/Windows Live Mail.

Best of all, no more crappy ads! It is just you, Outlook and Hotmail/Windows Live Mail.

One thing to note, this Outlook Connector is not working with Outlook Express. Outlook Express however is not being included since Windows Vista. Outlook connector works for Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 and it is free!

Have fun managing your Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account using Outlook!


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Keyboard shortcut for most used Windows software

Keyboard shortcut always save time, especially when you need to repeat the command for many times. Here is a list of keyboard shortcut for most used Windows software.

• Internet Explorer:
• Control + Shift + P to open an InPrivate browsing window
• Control + E to go to the Search box
• Firefox:
• Control + 1 to 8 to select the exact tab you want [counting from left]
• Control + 9 go to the right most [last] tab
• Chrome:
• Alt and click a link to download its target, such as a picture or PDF file.
• Word 2010 [and 2007]
• Shift + F7 to open the Thesaurus
• Excel 2010 [and 2007]
• Control + Shift + : to enters the current time. 
• Control + Shift + & adds a border around the selected cells immediately
• OneNote 2010 [and 2007]
• Alt + Shift + up- or down-arrow to move the current paragraph or selected paragraphs up or down in a document
• Outlook 2010 [and 2007]
• Control + Shift + I to go to your Inbox
• Control + Shift + O to go to your Outbox
• Thunderbird:
• F8 to toggle the message pane on and off
• T to jump to the next unread thread
• Windows Media Player:
• Alt + Enter toggles full-screen video.
• Adobe Photoshop:
• You can either use theirs or build your own shortcuts right in the program.

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PC/laptop clean up series: Free up disk space 3

After we reorganized/clean up the personal folders in Outlook, the pst file still using showing up as huge file, although you checked the folder size in Outlook and it said a few hundred megs only of Total size (right click on the top of the personal folder -> "Properties for ...." -> "Folder Size").

You can reduce the physical file size of pst file by doing this:

right click on the top of the personal folder -> "Properties for ...." -> "Advanced..." -> "Compact Now".

This is depend on how big the the pst physical size versus the folder size reported by Outlook, sometime it will take more than 10 minutes or more. Make sure you do this during after office hour or during lunch hour, else the Outlook will hang and waiting until it is done.

Only works with pst files that stores mail locally in your PC/laptop.

I did that few days back and I get back like around 2G of disk space, it is not a lot compare to the disk space available nowaday, but it could be life safer if you running out of disk space.


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