Backing Up Sticky Notes In Windows 7 & 8

Sticky Notes are the helpful (and generally temporary) way to give yourself simple reminders. Like real sticky notes, we don't recommend keeping sensitive information on them as it is easy enough to accidentally delete their information.

Warning aside, there is a way to back up their information. Sticky Notes keeps all currently open notes in a single database file located in: 

C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt

This file can be backed up and restored from this location in the event that something critical happened to be there. The only caveat is that Sticky Notes must have been launched one time prior so that the correct directories were created.

Happy computing!

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Greg Wilson, Office Manager

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San Diego, CA

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Using Powerful Filters in Gmail to Remove Old Emails with Switch and Label Selections

By now, folks around San Diego will start to run into possible Gmail email storage issues.  15gb is a lot of space, and for only $2 a month you can upgrade.  But all being said, zapping some emails that are unlabeled and a few years old can clear a ton of space.  Surprisingly, it's not that easy, but hopefully these will help

Searches like this will basically remove unimportant mail previous to 2014.  This is just an example, use at your own risk!

before:2014/1/1 has:nouserlabels -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred

Conversation view MUST be off to use the above with the has:nouserlabels

Similar, if you had ATT mail forwarding in...

before:2014/1/1 label:ATT -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred 

Kurt Rein

MobileComputerWizard.com

858-345-0382 Office

San Diego Computer Repair

Changes about iPhoto and Aperature for Apple Computers

On Mavericks, it's just called Photos now, just like on iPhones and iPads.  iPhoto and Aperture are not supported any more and have been removed from the app store on Macs.

From wikipedia (here):

On April 8, 2015, Apple released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, which includes the new Photos app. iPhoto and Aperture were discontinued and removed from the Mac App Store.

Kurt Rein
www.MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office

Window 10 for Free!

Yes, it looks like users with Windows 7 or 8 will be able to upgrade for free. Thanks Microsoft!  Read more here.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/features

Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair

The Hybrid Exchange Walk-Through

It takes a little bit of doing but it isn't that bad!

http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/exchange/786.simple-domain-sharing-for-smtp-email-addresses.aspx

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Josiah Thomas
http://MobileComputerWizard.com

858-345-0382
San Diego Computer Repair

A great Spam program for Outlook

If you are at your wits end like many of you are in San Diego.  This plugin for Outlook works pretty well.  The free version does one inbox and the premium does multiple email inbox's.

http://www.cloudmarkdesktop.com/en/download

Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair

Windows 7 Fails to Boot - "autochk program not found, skipping autocheck"

I ran into this issue when cloning a hard drive to solid state recently. This can be caused when cloning a drive with an EFI Windows Boot partition. 

Fixing the issue requires booting into the Windows Diagnostic and Repair menu (DaRT). From there, open a command prompt and type in "regedit" to modify the registry of the cloned Windows install. 

Navigate to HKLM\System\MountedDevices and rename the entire MountedDevices directory. This will cause Windows to reload these entries and your drive should boot into Windows.

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