How to Disable/Clear Recent MRU Items from Jump List of Windows 7

The easiest way of doing this is to follow these steps:

1. Right Click on Taskbar and Select Properties

2. Now click on Start Menu Tab

3. Uncheck “Store and Display Recently Opened Items in the Start menu and the taskbar”

Taskbar window

If you just want to clear complete recent item list then  *uncheck* the selected option

Hope it helps.

How TO: Clear Skype 4.1x IM Chat and Call History?

All you need to do is choose Tools > Options, go to the Privacy tab then Privacy Settings and hit the ‘Clear History’ button.

A dialog box will popup asking you for confirmation regarding deleting all previous text chats, voicemail, calls, file transfers and SMS messages. Hit Delete and you’re done. The Skype call and chat history has been deleted.

Also, If you want to disable or turn off Skype history, just use the ‘No History’ option under ‘Keep History for’ in the Privacy tab.

How to Boot Windows7 More Faster?

One of the new features in windows 7 is that now you can configure your services to start a bit later after you have logged on to windows. To configure any service earlier windows had only 3 options:

• Automatic
• Disable
• Manual

But now windows have a new option Automatic (Delay Start); so now you can setup services that are not system specific and you can feel the difference. To setup it you can goto Services and right click a service and select the new option that is shown below

make windows to work faster for you

Latest Chrome Beta Standalone Installer!

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How to calculate hours for a task in MS Project?

If you want to make your planning and estimation little easier then you can add a Custom Field Column in project that will calculate the total hours for a task and group of tasks.

to achieve this start project with new plan and the basic screen that you will see is below

Now right click on Start column and add a new Field, like you see in below snapshot

Now right click on newly added column and select Customize Fields. Also notice that i selected Formula option and the other option of Sum for a group of tasks like you see below

Now click on Formula button and just enter [Duration]/60 that you see below

where, 60 is value for 1 minute i.e. 60 seconds [MS project does all calculation in seconds ]

Click ok to messages and now you will that your newly addes column shows the total hours for a task as well as for a group too. This is how the final screen looks like

But one thing i observed is when you change the timings in calendar from 7 hours a day or 8 houres or so then project changes the value of duration column but the Custom Field values remains proper.

Use the Organizer (Tools > Organizer) to copy the custom field to Global.mpt. Each new project created from that point forward will have the formula in the field.

Hope it helps someone

Error Codes in Windows

Here is a list of common Microsoft Windows Error Numbers and their Description…

Code Description

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1 Incorrect function. 
2 The file specified. 
3 The path specified. 
4 The system can not open the file. 
5 Access is denied. 
6 Invalid descriptor 
7 The control blocks of memory have been destroyed. 
8 Not enough space to process this command. 
9 Address of control block storage invalid. 
10 Environment incorrect. 
11 Attempt to load a program incorrect format. 
12 Access code is invalid. 
13 Data not valid. 
14 Insufficient memory for this operation. 
15 The reader specified. 
16 Unable to delete the directory. 
17 Unable to move the file to a different disk drive. 
18 There are no more file. 
19 Media write protected. 
20 The device specified. 
21 The device is not ready. 
22 The device does not recognize the command. 
23 Data Error (cyclic redundancy check). 
24 The program issued a command length incorrect. 
25 The reader can not find area or specific track on the disc. 
26 Unable to access the disk or the disk specified. 
27 The reader can not find the sector requested. 
28 The printer is out of paper. 
29 Writing on the device not specified. 
30 playback on the device specified. 
31 A device attached to system not functioning properly. 
32 The process can not access the file because it is used by another process. 
33 The process can not access the file because another process has locked a portion. 
34 The reader does not contain the correct diskette. Insert xxx (serial number of volume: xxx) xxx in the drive. 
36 Too many files opened for sharing. 
38 End of File reached. 
39 The disk is full. 
50 This claim is not supported.

SilverLight for Windows7

Microsoft has come up with silverlight for windows7; you can install it from Windows Update->Optional section or you can install the setup here