Windows XP EOS To Revive PC Sales

Windows XP comes into the category of the most popular operating system that has brought much success for the tech giant Microsoft. Even though it was introduced many years ago, the popularity of Windows XP has never decreased and it currently holds the second place in the market share just behind Windows 7. However, the tech giant ended the Windows XP help and support provided to this old operating system on April, 2014, which was a bad news for many of the users and companies who entirely depended upon Windows XP.

According to Gartner, businesses that had not ditched Windows XP until now are trying to get rid of it in a hurry. This is the reason why the sales of PC devices are on a rise. The main reason for such an increase is because of the fact that those businesses who are using Windows XP desktops are replacing them with newer versions of the operating system. In 2014, it is expected that PC sales decline will go from 9.5% last year to 2.9%, according to the research director at Gartner named Ranjit Atwal.

This was predicted by Ranjit Atwal by taking notebook, desk-based and other premium ultra mobile devices into consideration. He says, “2014 will be marked by a relative revival of the global PC market.” This means that there will be a total of 5 million sales all across the world. He says that, if you are taking traditional PCs, laptops and desktops into consideration, then the PC sales decline for this year will be 6.7%, which is expected to be 5.3% next year. Moreover, he predicts that this year, there will be 270 million sales of desktop PCs.

In a statement, Atwal says, “Business upgrades from Windows XP and the general business replacement cycle will lessen the downward trend, especially in Western Europe," and he continued by saying, “This year, we anticipate nearly 60 million professional PC replacements in mature markets.” He found out that there would also be some increase in the number of sales of the premium ultra mobile devices. According to him, the sales of tables are expected to grow by 23.9%, whereas a 49.9% growth will be seen for ultra premium mobile devices.

The Atwal’s report says that all the major operating systems like Apple, Android and Windows will show an increase in sales, but their share will decrease from 27.1% this year to 21% next year. Reports suggest that Android will dominate the market with 52.8%, whereas Windows and Apple will have 14.4% and 11.6% respectively.

For more news and information regarding this, contact the Windows XP help and support team.

Resolve Outlook Express Issues

Outlook Express is one of the most popular email clients, which comes bundled with earlier versions of Internet Explorer. The best thing about this free email management program is that it is compatible with both IMAP as well as POP3 protocol. Moreover, it even contains a built-in newsreader. Though it sounds similar to Microsoft Outlook, there is not much in common with them, except for the same architectural philosophy that they both share.

Outlook Express normally functions without issues, but like any software program, it is not immune to corruption and various other issues entirely. Obviously, any issue in the program requires troubleshooting. So, read on to learn some easy troubleshooting steps to deal with common issues in the application, as provided by the Outlook Express help team.

Addressing the issues in Outlook Express

The most annoying issue is the one when your Outlook Express takes a good deal of time to load. Outlook Express help team highlights that the issue can be resolved easily, by tinkering with some settings in the program. Let us see how to do that.

Steps to follow

• Launch Outlook Express and then go to Tools menu.
• Open Options, and uncheck the Automatically log on to Windows Messenger option. 
• Restart the program, and check if the troubleshooting helped to fix your slow loading issues. 

Another common issue is the Error 0x800420CB. This error restricts Outlook Express from launching. Here is how to fix it.

• Go to Tools menu in Outlook Express application and open Accounts. Proceed to the Mail tab in the pop-up box. 
• Select the duplicate mail account there and then click on Remove. You need to keep doing this until all the duplicated accounts are deleted. 
• When done, restart the application and check if the error is resolved.

In case you are still facing the issue, then try changing the name of the Outbox.dbx file. You will be able to locate this file using the Windows search utility.

Another problem in Outlook Express involves the hyperlinks not working in the email client. For that, open Run command box, type regsvr32 urlmon.dll in the text field. Now, launch Internet Explorer, go to Tools, open Internet Options, and click on Reset Web Settings. This will fix your problems with hyperlinks opening.

These are some of the common issues in Outlook Express and their resolution. For more such troubleshooting tips, browse through other posts here, or call our tech support team for online chat support.

Set Confirmation Before Sending A Message In Microsoft Office Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is probably the best email management software created by the world’s largest software developer, Microsoft Corporation. Outlook has many useful features for various emailing needs. Apart from email sending and receiving, there are many other features available in Outlook. Most Outlook features are available for the purpose of enhancing the overall emailing experience. The true potential of Microsoft Outlook is in the excellent customizability of it. Using Outlook you can tailor-make your own email the way you like it to be displayed and send it to the recipient. In this article, we will discuss about the Outlook setting for forcing a confirmation for a moment before sending an important business email.

There can be many reasons why you may require setting up Outlook to ask for confirmation before sending a mail. The confirmation will then force you to pause for a moment before sending an email. Actually, Microsoft Outlook 2013 does not have a dedicated feature that explicitly provides you the facility to add Confirmation before sending an email. But, there is a workaround, which is more often useful. In your Outlook setting you will see that you are asked to indicate whether you want Microsoft Outlook to remember your account password. Now, if you choose not to have the email client remember your password, the program will prompt for password verification. This will happen every time you send an email. This way, you will be required to stop and confirm that you want to send the message.

• This is a wonderful method giving you time to decide whether you want to send the message or not. This avoids mistakes done unwittingly like sending a message that you should have not sent. Here are the instructions to guide you with enabling the workaround.
• First, you need to go to ‘File’ in Outlook. Then, you need to click on ‘Account Settings’ and then click on ‘Account Settings’ again. This way, you will load Outlook's Account Settings panel.
• Next, you need to click on the ‘Email’ tab. Then, you need to choose the email account, for which you want to add Confirmation. 
• Then, you need to click on the ‘Change’ button located just above the list of accounts 
• After that, you need to click on the box labeled ‘Remember Password’ to remove the check mark from it. 

This is an excellent workaround providing you a moment’s time to decide whether you wish to continue with sending your email. This way, you can avoid blunders like sending a wrong message to wrong person or many other things you might not have noticed.

Directions For Importing Emails From Gmail To Outlook

Gmail is a webmail service. According to some statistics, it is the most widely used webmail service in the world. Like all other webmail services, you sign in to your Gmail account via your web browser. You need active internet connection to do anything in your Gmail account. If the internet connection is interrupted, you won’t be able to log into your Gmail account or view any email messages in the inbox.

By importing all your email messages from Gmail to Microsoft Outlook, you can view all the inbox messages in the Outlook inbox. You can operate all Outlook features except sending and receiving emails when there is no internet connection. So, once you have your emails in Outlook, you can read them even if there is an internet outage. The changes you have to make in your Outlook setting in order to import emails from your Gmail account are discussed below.

Instruction

• First of all, you need to add your Gmail account to Microsoft Outlook. For this, log into your Gmail account and navigate to Gmail Settings.
• Select the tab labelled Forwarding POP3/IMAP. Under this tab, you will see the option to enable POP3/IMAP email forwarding. Verify your email protocol. It should be either IMAP protocol or POP3 Protocol. You should add your account to Outlook based on the email protocol. Once the email protocol is added to Outlook, it will be enabled to import email messages from your Gmail inbox.
• The major difference between POP3 and IMAP protocols is that the former allows email client applications like Outlook to import only the copies of the emails. On the other hand, IMAP Protocol enables the email client to synchronize the account. While using POP3 protocol in Outlook, you will be able to delete email messages from either of the inboxes without impacting the other. On the other hand, while using IMAP protocol, you won’t be able to delete messages from one inbox without affecting the other.
• Once you are done with modifying Gmail settings to enable IMAP/POP3 forwarding, launch your Outlook application. Go to the Outlook setting and make necessary changes in it to start importing the email messages. Remember, you need to have active internet connection in order to import emails from Gmail in Outlook. 

With the help of the above instructions, you would have enabled Outlook to import emails from Gmail. You can enable Outlook to import emails from any of your favourite webmail accounts in the same manner.  

All You Need To Know About The Windows Registry

All the data and settings of your operating system are stored in the Windows Registry. All the Windows Registry entries contain a specific value that determines the characteristics of a setting or program. According to Windows tech support, you can make changes to the registry entries using the tool Registry Editor. However, changing the registry entries to the wrong values or deleting an important registry entry can affect the operating system and could even lead to its crash.

Many errors show up in the computer due to a change in the registry entries or due to wrong registry entries. In such situations, you can open the Registry Editor, navigate to the corresponding wrong entry and change it. This will fix most of the issues associated with the program. In this post, we will find out how to use this tool to change the registry entries.

First, let us find out how to launch the Registry Editor program.

• If you are a Windows XP user, select the Start button and choose the option Run. If you are using Windows 7 or Windows Vista, press the Windows key and R together to open the Run window. 
• In the Run window, type regedit and click the button OK. 
• If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you will receive a window that asks you to confirm your selection. Choose the option Continue to launch the Registry Editor window.

As per Windows tech support blogs, registry entries are very important for the smooth running of the operating system and a change made to any of the critical operating system files could lead to its crash. Therefore, the next step is to take a back up of the registry. Follow the steps below to take registry backup.

• Choose the option File from the menu.
• From the drop down box, select Export.
• The above step opens a window for Export Registry File. Choose any location on your computer, enter a file name and select Save. This will create a copy of registry entries, which can be used to restore if the changes made by you to the registry create troubles.

If you are in search of a particular registry entry, you may press the keys Ctrl and F together and search for the entry using the keyword. If you know the location of the registry entry, you may use the arrow keys in the keyboard to navigate to the location of the entry.

Miradore To Add Windows Phone Support To Their MDM Service

Many companies these days are implementing the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy allowing employees to bring their own smartphones and tablets to work. This reduces the IT infrastructure burden on the company and makes things easier for the employees.

Using the Miradore MDM service

One of the main concerns many organizations have about implementing BYOD policy, is with networking all these different devices properly online, ensuring secure transmission of the data among these devices, and so on. There are many IT firms providing the online cloud service to take care of these needs. A good example is the Mobile Device Management service from Miradore.

Using Miradore’s online cloud service, you can easily manage all the different mobile devices connected to the corporate network. Miradore launched this service only recently, and is still in the beta phase. But, Mobile Device Management is currently available for free, and you can install the app in all the mobile devices to start using the service.

When the beta version of the service was first launched, it supported only the Google Android and Apple iOS phones. There was no Windows support, which left this service out of reach for all the Windows Phone users. The main reason for this decision was the small user base for the Windows Phone OS.

However, Miradore soon started receiving requests to launch the service for the Windows Phone OS as well. And, the company has now added Windows support to their online Mobile Device Management service. There are slight differences when it comes to the features of this service on different mobile OS platforms.

You can visit the Miradore website, where you will find a table displaying the features and options available for the service on different smartphone operating systems. Remember that the MDM service is still in its beta phase, and more features and options are likely to be added in the coming. For now, the free version MDM service sets no limit on the number of devices that can be attached to the network. But, this might change when the service moves from the beta phase to production.

Miradore has made it clear that the free version will still be available even after the beta phase. But, some of the features will be locked and you will have to upgrade to a paid version for accessing them. The full paid version is expected to be launched before the end of this year.

Managing SkyDrive With iOS Devices

If you are using SkyDrive online storage service, you can easily access all the information you have stored in the application using your iOS devices. Be it your iPhone, iPad or even iPod, you can access the stored data in SkyDrive through any of these devices.

According to the Microsoft help and support team, you need to adhere to some tips while accessing SkyDrive from your iOS device.

View buttons:

You can find four buttons across the middle of the bottom bar of the app, wherein you can use the first three to change your file view. Along the middle of the lower bar, another set of three buttons will be available, which can be used to view your files. These three buttons include Files, Recent and Shared options.

Settings:

At the very right bottom bar, there is another button by the name Settings button. This gear wheel button comprises of only one item on this list that the users can change. With the options available here, the users can see the account they are logged in, the available storage as well as different links to the app’s privacy statement and other help resources. The only changeable option would be under Photo Uploads.

Edit/Add button:

You can find a button at the upper right of the SkyDrive interface that will help you to easily edit and add files. While you select to add a file, you will be able to create folders, take new photos to add by using the built-in camera option as well as select the existing photos to upload from the iOS device.

File Options:

You can tap on a file to open it in its own screen. According to the Microsoft help and support team, while doing so, you can see buttons appearing at the top and bottom of the screen. While the left-facing arrow can redirect you to the main SkyDrive interface, the four buttons available at the bottom of the screen can help you to work with the file. The buttons that are present from left to right on the screen enable the users to share a file as well as perform other related functions such as changing the permissions of the file and copying a hyperlink for it to the Clipboard.

Therefore, the next time you use your iOS device to access the information stored in SkyDrive, make sure you follow these useful tips. To know more about the features of SkyDrive, feel free to contact our technical support personnel.