Split a large .pst file in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Here Is An Important Trick to Make You Comfortable While You Working With Microsoft Outlook 2007.

You Might Have faced some performance issues while working with Outlook 2007 which can cause Outlook to stop responding or it became very slow.
This non responsive behaviour of outlook can occur while sending, receiving, deleting or moving mails. The major Reason for this Malfunction is that the size of the .pst file has increased more than 2 GB.
This increased size of pst file can later cause the corruption and you may lose your Outlook data.

For proper functionality of Outlook it is required to reduce the size of the large .pst file to save it from corruption. One of the methods to reduce the size of a large pst file is to split the file. PST file which have exceeded the 2 GB limit can be split into multiple small .pst files

Ways to Split large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files. In Outlook 2007 you can split a large .pst file into multiple smaller .pst files by following below mentioned steps.

A. Move items to a new .pst file by using “archive” feature

Select .pst file in navigation pane.
*Click File menu –> Archive –> Archive this folder and all sub folders and select a folder from the list
*Select a date from the Archive items older than
*Browse to specify a destination path and name for the new PST file

This new PST file is stored in Mail folder list as Archive folders but if you want to change the display name of .pst file then follow these steps.

Right click on Archive Folders, Select Properties –> Advanced
In the Personal Folder dialog box enter the new name for the file
B. Move items to a new .pst file by using “Move to Folder” feature

Select File menu –> New –> Outlook data file –> Office Outlook Personal Folders File
Enter a new file name and path for .pst file
In Create Microsoft Personal Folders, enter the .pst file that will be used in mail folder list
Select items in the folder to move in the new .pst file
Click Edit –> Move to folder –> Move items –> New –> Create new folder, enter a name for .pst file and in Select where to place the folder click new .pst file
Now in Move items select the new folder in the new pst file and click ok.
By following above steps you can split pst file into multiple small .pst files. But, if even after following these steps you are not able to split a pst file then a third-party tool can be used which can enhance the performance of outlook.

Disable Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson is an debugger in Microsoft Windows operating system.It is named after Doctor Watson character of Sherlock Holmes Books who was known for his intelligence and error collecting and analysing the case Helping holmes.

It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows.

When a error occurs on windows it detects and diagnoses program errors and pops a window showing the error,It is very useful as it alerts about the bugs and Rectifies it.But this may sometime quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly.


Here is a Tip to disable the Dr.watson service

*Start the registry editor
Goto Start --> Run --> type "regedit.exe" and Hit enter.
*Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
*Click on AeDebug and click Del

or just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable it, type: drwtsn32 -i at the run.

Can't get into Add/Remove Programs(solved)

Problem:one cannot get into add or remove programs utility in windows 
This happens when Appwiz.cpl is no longer registered or removed from system folder of windows .




Solution: to resolve this problem one has to re-register Appwiz.cpl


follow this steps to re-register


*goto start -->run-->regsvr32appwiz.cpl
*hit enter


then a window is poped up with the message "DllRegisterserver in appwiz.cpl succeeded" and click ok


or you can simply download from here
Appwiz.cpl

after downloading the file extract it using winrar


place the extracted file in C:\Windows\system32

How to stop programs that start up automatically on Windows XP

It often annoys anyone whenver the computer starts with the programs that pops right away .
Before going to work we have to eventually close all these pop ups which annoys us.This continues to go on increasing by installing new software .Everytime when computer starts this problem arises.cant we control this , yes we can.....
*Go to run
*type msconfig and hit enter.

*Then a window opens exactly as this

*then Select option start up
* By unchecking the options on the application on which you dont want on start up

* click ok(Make sure you arent unchecking the system utilities )
*Restart

Taskmanager has been disabled by administrator

Taskmanager has been disabled by  administrator
this error occurs when computer gets infected with virus, trojan, or piece of spyware
To open the Task Manager, you might normally do one of the following:
1)Press CTRL+ALT+1DEL on the keyboard
2)Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC on the keyboard
3)Right-click on the taskbar and choose Task Manager
then you may find this error message

there are couple of ways to fix this problem:
METHOD 1:
Using the Group Policy Editor
Click Start -->run-->type gpedit.msc and ok
next select user configuration--> administrative templates -->system-->ctrl + alt + del options -->select remove task manager option -->double click on it
Choose the option "Not Configured" and click Ok.


METHOD 2:
start-->run and type (paste code)
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f


METHOD 3:
start-->run -->regedit and ok
next select HKEY_CURRENT_USER-->Software-->Microsoft-->Windows-->currentVersion-->Policies-->System


find and delete the value named DisableTaskMg ,set the value to 0
hope your problem gets rectified:)

How to Fix Mss32.dll Errors

Mss32.dll error messages might appear while using or installing certain programs, when Windows starts or shuts down during installation process.
it also occurs due to hardware failure,virus infection or the manual deletion of the Mss32.dll files from the folder.
it may occur due to registry errors
the display message for this would be:
Mss file is missed reinstalling application may fix the problem.
The file mss32.dll is missing.
how to fix this issue:
1)update drivers:
in most of cases this error arises when installing 3D games
download the latest version of directrix ,keep video card drivers up to date
you can download from here:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/DirectX-9.0c-Redistributable-Download-3545.html

2)run virus scan ,check for virus,adware,spyware

3)check for registry problems,fix them
download registry cleaners ex:registry mechanic
http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/

4)resinstall the application: on most of the cases it might fix the issue.