Recently, I was trying to delete a windows service. Normally it should not be necessary to manually delete a service. Uninstalling an application should remove its associated service (if any). However, I installed some beta products and a service created by one of the applications was not removed automatically. Its very easy to remove a service from registry if you know the right path. Here is how I did that: 1. Run Regedit or Regedt32 2. Find the registry entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/...

After installing the lastest Office 2007 beta 2 technical refresh, I was getting “Document is unavailable” or virus related error message and can not open any old files. The problem is caused by Norton AntiVirus. To resolve the problem, goto option -> miscellaneus and disable the “How to keep Microsoft Office documents protected” and you can work fine...

Today, I heard about "Code Search" from a pod cast. Its very useful for developers, specially the advance search option. see www.google.com/codesearch