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Fix Error – “Word Cannot Start the Converter MSWRD632.WPC”

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Recently, I had a user in my office get the following error when trying to open a Word document: Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc. Whenever the user clicked the OK button, it would simply pop back up. What was really weird is that if she clicked on the red X button, the document would open just fine! Strange! The user was running Office 2007 and getting this error. After doing some research, we came across a few possible solutions. In this post, I’ll list them out here. Method 1 – Unregister Text Converter Basically, in Windows XP SP2 and above and Windows Server 2003 SP1 and above, if you have a plain text file or another kind of file that is not a Microsoft Word file, but has a .doc extension, you will get this error. This can also happen if you are opening a really...
Increase internet Speed by tweaking QoS in Windows Xp

Increase internet Speed by tweaking QoS in Windows Xp

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The following tweak has been tested with Windows XP only. however I am not denying that fact that these settings may be able to tweak and optimize Windows 7 internet and network speed. The default system behavior is that all 100% bandwidth is available, however, if there is a running application that indicates to the OS it needs to send high priority/real time data, then as long as it has the socket open, Windows XP will restrict “best effort” traffic to 80% of the bandwidth so that high priority traffic can be accommodated. Basically, applications can make this request to the operating system for QoS support using the QoS application programming interfaces (APIs) in Windows and this only applies if a specific app is requesting QoS. If you'd like to change how much bandwidth is reserve...
Facebook Timeline : Know how to Get Back to Old Profile

Facebook Timeline : Know how to Get Back to Old Profile

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In early September Facebook flooded users profiles with lots of new updates which even becomes harder for users to understand and manage. Among those updates, ‘Facebook Timeline’ profile was the major update which could decide Facebook’s upcoming days. It’s not always that all the pushed updates are liked by the users, some even gets irritating for users such as the new Facebook chat and the news ticker, which can be fixed with Facebook News Ticker Remover and FB chat sidebar disabler, all thanks to third party developers. When Facebook introduced the new timeline profile it was available only for developers. So if you are among those many people who enabled the new Facebook Timeline profile utilizing the developer account and among those only few who hasn’t yet revert back to old pro...

7 Super Tips Which Will Save Your Time Spent On Checking Gmail

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Your email inbox is the central point of your online work. If you are a freelancer, blogger or a full time web worker, chances are that you have to deal with a lot of email every single day. Some of these messages are useful, some are spammy while most of them are useless junk. A survey on Internet users reveals the fact that on an average, people spend 4.4 hours weekly on checking email while time spent on social sites is slightly higher (4.6). Fact of the matter is – both the actions are not finite and most people end up wasting a lot of productive time gazing at their inbox. This happens mainly because of three reasons: You are expecting a reply from someone and refresh your email inbox every 2 minutes. You have nothing to do and you keep your email account open in one browser tab, ...
How to Autoforward Emails to Multiple Email Addresses in Gmail

How to Autoforward Emails to Multiple Email Addresses in Gmail

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Sometimes you may want to forward emails from an account to other email addresses you have. Do you know that you can automatically forward emails from Gmail to multiple email addresses using filters. Here is a brief tutorial which works with Gmail as well as Google Apps accounts. Automatically Forward Emails to only one Email address 1. Log in to your Gmail account and go to “Settings”. Click the “Forwarding and Pop/IMAP tab . 2. Select the radio button that says “Forward a copy of incoming mail to”. Enter the email address where you want to forward the incoming emails. 3. Hit “Save changes” and you are done. Now all the emails sent to this email address will be automatically forwarded to the email address you specified above. Read this guide if you want to receive all incoming ema...

Gmail Search Operators – Use to Quickly Find Old Emails in Gmail

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Gmail search operators can be very useful when you are searching for a particular email in your inbox. With time, the size of your inbox increases and it becomes really difficult to remember whether you have a specific email saved in your inbox or not. If you are a power user and have thousands of messages already archived, reading the subject line of every email and trying to find a particular message is next to impossible. Here is a complete guide on Gmail search operators and some techniques to find a particular email with very little effort. Basic Search Operators in Gmail   1. Search the emails sent by a particular user   To search all the emails sent to you by a particular contact, type from:sender in the Gmail search box. So if you are searching for ...
Link Multiple Gmail accounts and check email at One place

Link Multiple Gmail accounts and check email at One place

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If you have Multiple email addresses to check then managing emails can be really tiring. Every now and then you need to check all your email accounts for new mail. Here is How You can connect all Your Gmail accounts and check all your emails at one place. Let us Suppose You have 3 email accounts One is primary and the rest of them are secondary. You want to forward all Your emails from Your secondary email accounts in the primary account and read them at one place. Here is How you do it : Add a Secondary email Address in your primary mail account   1.Open Your primary email account  and click settings from the Top right corner of the Screen. 2.On the Accounts tab  select Add another Email Address. A Pop Up Window Will Open asking you the email address that you wan...

Automatically Respond to Specific Emails in Gmail Using Filters and Canned Responses

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If you get a large number of emails daily then you may wish to set up filters in Gmail and use those Filters to automatically respond to Specific emails.You can also use the vacation Responder to send an Automated email to everyone Who Sends you a mail at a particular period. Send an Auto response to Specific Email Addresses using a canned response   To send an automatic response  to particular emails you have to set up Canned responses which is available from G mail labs. How do I set up the canned response ? To set up the canned response Click on “Labs” in the top right corner of Gmail,Scroll down and Enable the “Canned Response” feature.After that Click “Save changes” and you are ready to go. From now on Whenever you compose a new mail you can save the mail as a “...

Gmailbackup – Back Up Emails From Gmail and Read Offline

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Sometimes You may regret When You do not have an Internet Connection Available. You need to read an old email Badly but you do not have a local copy of that email in your Hard disk.If you are a Web Worker then it may be worthwhile to have all your emails backed up in your Computer for offline reading. Create an offline copy of All Your Gmail MailsWhile outlook 2007 is the Most popular Email client program but i am not a big fan and prefer the browser instead for managing emails.Its very important that I keep a back up of all My emails Which I can read offline in case i need some necessary information .This is exactly what Gmailbackup Does. Enter Your Gmail Login Details and Choose a Folder in your Hard disk. After that specify a start date and a Finish Date and Hit the Magic Button “Back...

Save Gmail chats and conversations as a Google document

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How many Chats or Email conversations you have In your Gmail Inbox ? Hundreds right ? You may wish to Save your Long Gmail Chats and Emails as a Document that you can later read offline.The Gmail Labs team Finally has an Answer.Now You can save your Gmail chats and Emails as Word,Html,PDF,RTF or as an open office Document.Finding the Widget :Just login to Gmail and Click “Settings”.Under the “Labs” Tab you will find a list of Widgets.Find “Create a Document” Widget and Enable it.Then Save your Settings. Saving Your Document :To Save the Document open The Gmail Chat or Email and you will see a ”Create a Document” link in the Right.Clicking that link Opens Up your Document under “Google Docs” and you are ready to save Your Document in your Desired Format It was really tiring for me when ...