Sometimes Microsoft Outlook gets stuck in a loop trying to receive mail. There can be many causes of this, but often this situation is due to a bad piece of mail in the inbox on your mail server that Outlook and/or your Antivirus software just cannot process. The offending email may have a bad attachment/virus, or the email may be badly formatted in some other way.
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Pre-configured Windows 2003 servers are commonly ordered by small businesses. Dell ships some great ones, but they have an annoying habit of configuring a very small C partition for the pre-installed OS. Sometimes they do this even if you have specifically modified the order to prevent it. For Desktop PCs, a terrific tool you can use to resize any partition is Acronis Disk Director. Equivalent tools for servers are very expensive, but if you get a new Dell Windows 2003 server shipped in this state, there is a neat trick to fix the issue if you so wish that does not rely on expensive third-party software.
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We’ve been testing the Windows 7 Release Candidate recently launched by Microsoft.
I must say this is very impressive, and I think it is very likely that Microsoft will be able to make a quality delivery of this new version of Windows to the marketplace in time for the 2009 Christmas season.
This release is what some say Vista should have been. More posts to follow.

This is a fix for one of those annoying messages in Vista Media Center - unable to connect to internet to update guide data - error 13.

• Make sure %windir%\ehome\mcupdate.exe is allowed by firewall
• Launch a CMD prompt
• NET STOP “Background Intelligent Transfer Service”
• NET START “Background Intelligent Transfer Service”