Once you install the Firefox 4 Beta, you will notice the Feedback Add-on in the upper right corner. You can use this to provide instant feedback at any time. You will also be notified about user studies (run by Mozilla Test Pilot) which collect information about how you use Firefox, but not which websites you [...]

Internet Explorer 9 has a streamlined design, fewer dialog boxes to click through, more intuitive navigation, and many new features that speed up your web browsing experience. Features like Pinned Sites let you pin your favorite website directly to the taskbar for one-click access. Other features, like hardware acceleration, deliver an all-around faster browsing experience. With [...]

Skype 5.2 Beta for Windows brings new presence icons, improved handling of calling attempts made when the user has run out of credit and improved access to sharing functionality. Additionally it doesn’t just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel [...]

Determines whether the system saves a copy of a user’s roaming profile on the local computer’s hard disk drive when the user logs off. This policy, and related policies in this folder, together describe a strategy for managing user profiles residing on remote servers. In particular, they tell the system how to respond when a [...]

This article explains how to use the System Policy Editor to modify the registry on the Terminal Server computer to delete locally cached profiles. Create Terminal Server roaming profiles for all users. On the Terminal Server computer, click Start, click Run, and then type poledit. On the File menu, select Open Registry. Double-click Local Computer, and then double-click Windows NT User Profiles. [...]

This step-by-step article describes how to delete a user profile from a local computer. If you use the method presented in this article, you delete the SystemDrive\Documents and Settings\Username folder that contains the user’s My Documents folder, desktop settings, Startmenu, Favorites, and cookies. This method also deletes the profile from the ProfileList key in the registry. How to [...]

The following example describes how to use Delprof.exe to delete user profiles on the local computer that have been inactive for 30 days: Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt. At the command prompt, type delprof /p /d:30, and then press ENTER. For each user profile that has not been used on the computer [...]

The following example describes how to use Delprof.exe to delete user profiles on a remote computer that is named Server1. Note that if you do not specify a computer in the command, Delprof.exe defaults to the local computer. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt. At the command prompt, type delprof /p /c:\\server1, and [...]

This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem [...]

To Disable User Profiles Restart the computer. At the Windows logon screen, click Cancel. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Passwords. On the User Profiles tab, click All users of this PC use the same preferences and desktop, and then click OK. When you are prompted to restart the computer, do so.

Ultra Monkey is a project to create load balanced and highly available network services. For example a cluster of web servers that appear as a single web server to end-users. The service may be for end-users across the world connected via the internet, or for enterprise users connected via an intranet. Ultra Monkey makes use [...]

Many files you import into Visio drawings as graphic or OLE objects are stored as Microsoft® Windows® metafiles, an exchange format used to store vector-based graphics. Raster-based graphics from BMP and DIB files are stored as bitmaps. You can edit both metafiles and bitmaps on the drawing page much like other shapes by moving, rotating, [...]

From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains fundamental concepts. The wide range of tools to help students with complex mathematics includes a full-featured graphing calculator that’s designed to work just like [...]

Do more with Windows on your PC with free programs fromMicrosoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. Get it all in one simple download. Messenger Stay in touch with the people you care about most from your PC, phone, or the web. Share photos and videos as you chat, and see the latest updates [...]

This is actually more of a web app than one that gets installed on your machine,so you can access it from just about any computer.Hoot Suite supports Facebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,MySpace,Pingfm,Wordpress,Foursquare and Mixi and will let you access up to five social networks for free,and an unlimited number of networks for a monthly fee. Multiple Networks Save your [...]