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Increasing Internet Explorer's default consecutive download limit

With today's high speed internet connections, you may find that the default limitation in Internet Explorer 7 and earlier of two consecutive downloads to not meet your needs. In the days of old, you could open the registry and adjust this value, but Microsoft has taken this process one step farther and simplified it.

Exchange Build Versions

I was trying to compare my current build with the most recent build availale and found two great pieces of information. First is the Microsoft KB that lists out the builds for each version of Exchange. Second was the powershell command required to gather the current information:
Get-ExchangeServer | fl name,edition,admindisplayversion

Windows 2008 Activation Fails - 0x8007232B

I received this error when I tried to automatically activate my Windows 2008 server today. I found the following in the past, and despite a different error code, the procedure worked flawlessly. Bear in mind here that I am using legit media, and keys. From Smokey's post

"If you see this failure (with Windows Server 2008 ):

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Windows could not be activated.

Error: 0xc004f039
The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated.

PDF Previewer for Outlook 2007/Vista

It used to be that I was a faithful Adobe Reader user and anytime I opened a PDF...there was my old friend. Then I found Foxit Reader from Foxit Software and found that I am much happier. It has a smaller footprint at install, and just plays nicely. I especially like the tabs view (though I am sure Adobe does that now). So you're thinking...who cares, right?

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