Set your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device with a custom email signature with these steps.
1. While on a message list, press Menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Email Settings.
4. Set the Use Auto Signature field to Yes.
5. Type in your custom signature.
6. Press the Menu key.
7. Click Save.
How to prevent Windows Update from downloading and installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 automatically.
1. Hold down the Windows Key and press R.
2. Type regedit and click OK.
3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
then Software
then Policies
then Microsoft
then Windows
then click WindowsUpdate
4. Look for an entry on the right side for DoNotAllowSP. If it doesn’t exist, you will need to create it. To do so, right-click on WindowsUpdate and select New > DWORD Value. Give the value a name of DoNotAllowSP. Press the Enter key when you are done.
5. Right-click the DoNotAllowSP entry and click Modify.
6. Set the Value data to 1 and click OK.
Now Windows Vista Service Packs will not be allowed to install automatically.
How to prevent Windows Update from downloading and installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 automatically.
1. Click Start > Run.
2. Type regedit and click OK.
3. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
then Software
then Policies
then Microsoft
then Windows
then click WindowsUpdate
4. Look for an entry on the right side for DoNotAllowSP. If it doesn’t exist, you will need to create it. To do so, right-click on WindowsUpdate and select New > DWORD Value. Give the value a name of DoNotAllowSP. Press the Enter key when you are done.
5. Right-click the DoNotAllowSP entry and click Modify.
Today we were trying to get into the Gtalk chat application in Gmail from our work. It seems that the administrators at our company have blocked it on the firewall. Nobody on the entire company network could get into it. All of us received an error:
Your network administrator or ISP has chosen to block chat in Gmail
We tried clearing the cookies from our browser, but of course that didn’t help. So we decided to try the secure Gmail site at https://www.gmail.com. Would you believe it worked? It looks like the administrators didn’t think of blocking the secure address. So we can chat in Gtalk until the administrators get wise again.
Set the amount of time that elapses before the BlackBerry Bold 9000 series backlight times out and automatically shuts off.
1. From the Home screen, press the Menu key.
2. Click Screen/Keyboard.
3. Enter the number of seconds for the Backlight Timeout field.
4. Press Menu.
5. Click Save.
How to enable or disable the backlight timeout on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device.
1. From the Home screen press Menu.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Screen/Keyboard.
4. Set Automatic Backlight to On or Off.
5. Press the Menu key.
6. Select Save.
How to enable Call Forwarding on your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device.
First verify that call forwarding is enabled on the plan with your provider.
Add a phone number for forwarding.
1. From Home, press Menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Call Forwarding.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click New Number.
6. Enter in a phone number and press the Enter.
7. Press Menu.
8. Click Close.
Now you can setup Call Forwarding to forward to this number.
How to hard reset the BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device.
There is no setting or button that resets the device. You will have to:
1. Remove the battery from the unit for more than 5 seconds.
2. Replace the battery.
If you wish, you can also delete all data off of the Bold.
How to enable or disable Call Waiting on your RIM BlackBerry Bold: 9000 series device.
1. From the Home screen press Menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Call Waiting.
4. Change the Call Waiting Enabled field to Yes or No.
5. Press the Menu key.
6. Click Save.
How to delete all the data off your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series device.
1. Under Options, select Security Options.
2. Click General Settings.
3. Click the trackwheel and choose Wipe Handheld.
4. Click Continue.
5. Type blackberry.
Your BlackBerry Bold data will then be erased.
Ending a process in Windows using a command can be handy if you’re writing a batch file. You can accomplish this by using the TSKILL command. Let’s try this command out by ending the Notepad process.
1. Open Notepad by clicking Start > Run or hold down the Windows Key and press R.
2. Type notepad and click OK.
3. Click Start > Run or Hold down the Windows Key and press R.
4. Type CMD and click OK to bring up a DOS command box.
5. At the command prompt, type TSKILL notepad.
6. The Notepad application should close.
You can also use wildcards:
Typing TSKILL note* will close all processes that start with note.
You can also kill the process by the ID:
Type TSKILL 15203
See also:
HOW TO: Use the TSKILL Command to End Processes in Windows 2000 Terminal Services
Today I was helping a user that couldn’t read or write to files in a folder on the network. I figured something was set on the files that had them set to Read Only. So I ran the following DOS command on the folder containing the files:
attrib *.* -r +a -s -h /s
Some of the files were changed fine, but others threw an access denied error message. At first I thought it was permissions on the files. I discovered that we had full control permissions on the file.
I then restarted the computer in Safe Mode, thinking that the some type of software had the files locked. I still couldn’t do anything with the files in this folder. I couldn’t even move them from the folder to another.
Finally I decided something was wrong with the file system or disk. I ran CHKDSK /F from a DOS command prompt on the hard drive.
Finally, after the scan was finished I tried running the ATTRIB command again. Success! Finally I could read and write to the files again.
How to clear the browser cache on your BlackBerry device.
1. While in the browser, press the Menu key.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Cache Operations.
4. Next to a cache type, click Clear.
How to turn off the trackball sounds on a BlackBerry Pearl 8100, 8110, 8120 or 8130.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Screen/Keyboard.
4. Set Audible Roll to Mute.
5. Press Menu.
6. Click Save.
Now you won’t be annoyed with the sounds of the trackball anymore.
How to enable or disable the Bluetooth LED indicator light on your BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8310, 8320 or 8330 device.
1. From the Home screen, press Menu.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Bluetooth.
4. Press the Menu key.
5. Click Options.
6. Set LED Connection Indicator to On or Off.
7. Press Menu.
8. Click Save.
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