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a million monkeys typing » D*I*Y Planner 2.0 Released Update : These sets, and many more, are now available free at www.DIYPlanner.com. In particular, you might want the newest version of this, which is located on the D*I*Y Planner Classic/A5 page. Well, it’s been a busy few months, but I’m happy to announce that the D*I*Y Planner version 2.0 has finally been released. The D*I*Y Planner is a set of free do-it-yourself templates, covers, documentation and other gear for creating your own highly customised and tweakable paper planner system. Some highlights: Over 50 different templates and forms spanning everything from calendars to finances, from project management to reference lists, from notetaking to specialised subjects like web design and story writing. As with the last package, version 2.0 is released under a Creative Commons license, which means that it is free for personal and non-commercial use. The package can be downloaded here: diyplanner2.zip. Update 2 : Please don’t ask for other size templates (like 8.5″x11″) for now.
How to disable or uninstall the pilot version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications This article applies to the version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications for Windows XP that is distributed during the pilot program. For example, this version is included in the pre-release version that accompanies the Microsoft Software License Terms. To safely and easily uninstall the pilot version, you must install the general release version of WGA Notifications. If you do not install this version, you can follow the steps in this article to disable or uninstall the pilot version. Important These instructions have not been tested on the general release version of the WGA Notifications. For more information about how to obtain the latest release of WGA Notifications, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) Description of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application Regardless of genuine status, users are not denied access to critical updates. Fix it for me
Why Windows takes so long to shut down. We all have been there. It is 4:55 and you want to get out of work…But you want to make sure your system is shutdown for the night. You dutifully close all of your applications and start shutting down 5 minutes later it *finally* powers off It happens to more machines that it should. This can happen when third party, or even Microsoft applications have not properly cleaned up when exiting. This is why Microsoft released the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service This free utility automatically cleans up user profiles and prevents you from playing the timeout wait game. Once you run the setup wizard it will look like the installer did nothing. The idea of this program is to reclaim resources when a task is finished (memory, handles, etc). Now when you go to shutdown, logoff or restart it will happen within seconds. One more thing…Subscribe to my newsletter and get 11 free network administrator tools, plus a 30 page user guide so you can get the most out of them.