Run “SCANPST.EXE” to repair Outlook pst file.

For Office 2007:
/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office 12/SCANPST.EXE

Make sure you backed up the pst file before proceeding.

I have been using Windows 7 since the early Beta version and have been using the RTM version for more than 6 weeks to the launch date. I installed Windows 7 on multiple computers for testing purpose. A Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading desktop, a Centrino laptop, a MacBook Pro Core Duo, a Core 2 Quad desktop and an 8-core Mac Pro amongst many.

I personally don’t believe what many “tech journalists” have said before.

What I found out is that Windows 7 is not a leap and bound compared to Windows Vista. Windows 7 still a memory hog, albeit less than Windows Vista. On older computers Windows 7 is not pleasant to use. On current and powerful computers, Windows 7 does excel.

My experience certainly does not reflect of those of most computer users.

One shining feature of Windows 7 for me is the native support for AVCHD format. I own and use several AVCHD camcorders; Windows 7 now can now be integrated into the workflow.

Windows 7 is something new, but I’d recommend buying a new computer when the need arose. Please avoid buying computers because they are cheap. Buy the best possible hardware that you can afford.

P.S. B.B. King rocks the Blues!

Sharing files between my computers couldn’t be any easier; considering that I’m running different Operating Systems.

It’s on a Toshiba Satellite notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM.

All existing Calendars in the BlackBerry won’t transfer to Outlook 2007. Only new entries can be synced.

I’m reading through a lot of articles on BlackBerry Support forums right now.

UPDATE:
Found the solutions to this particular problem on multiple discussions.

Go to:

• Options > Advanced Options > Default Services
• Delete the email account with (CICAL) appended to it

For some reasons after a few reboots, iSight driver kept crashing. At this point Apple has not officially supported Windows 7 yet.

As expected, Windows 7 prompted me to install some anti-malware software and I opted to install Microsoft Security Essentials Beta. Shortly after Windows 7 started crashing. I tried to roll back Windows 7 using System Restore, but unfortunately it failed. I tried uninstalling Microsoft Security Essentials Beta but it wouldn’t run under Safe Mode. Windows 7 always crashes unless it is in Safe Mode.

I am going re-format and install the system all over again.

Try out Google Sync for iPhone. It’s available for Mac and Windows.

http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

Windows Task Manager is disabled.

Mozilla Firefox Failed Chrome Registrations (in Windows Vista).

I’ll be working on the computer tomorrow, and I’ll try documenting this problem in details.

Originally Laporte asked his audience if Paul Thurrott would be good for his Microsoft-centric podcast. Despite of the opinions against Thurrott, Laporte proceeded with the Original Microsoft Defender an produce the auditory abomination known as “Windows Weekly”.

Paul Thurrott, also known as the unofficial Microsoft P.R. Machine and the Original Microsoft Defender, has been making a living writing anything about Microsoft. He’s been showing his true color of disliking anything that is nt from Microsoft. Who in their right minds think that Microsoft Zune is a great product. (Pardon me for using the following term) Only Microsoft Sheep do, and that includes one of the biggest of them all, namely Paul Thurrott. Thurrott praises XBox 360 and look down upon Nintendo Wii. Despite of Wii’s triumph over XBox 360, Thurrott calls Nintendo Wii as a “joke” and a novelty console.

As for the Wii, I’m going to have to disagree with the consensus and call it as I see it: Unless you have very young kids with no video game experience at all, skip out on this console. The Wii is a joke, a novelty console that doesn’t offer much staying power.

It must have pained Thurrott greatly to call Sony Playstation 3 an XBox 360 equal. Let’s face it, XBox 360 sees the highest failure rate in the recent video game console history. I for one have seen containers full of defective XBox 360 ready to be shipped to China for “repairs”. They all are suffering from the same problems that is called the red ring of death.

In the recent auditory abortion called “Windows Weekly”, Thurrott tried to explain the whole Microsoft $300 Million campaign. Despite of the poor perceptions from the technology crowd, Thurrott steps in as the Microsoft P.R. and defend the campaign. Thurrott implies that he has the inside knowledge of the campaign and keep interrupting Leo Laporte on the subject. Thurrott also thinks that “Mojave Experiment” is such a success of sticking it to Apple and their “Get A Mac” ad campaign.

It is clear that Thurrott is being Passive-Aggressive and Defensive about the subject.

If only Thurrott would shed the “I’m an unbiased tech-enthusiast” and admit that he is a Microsoft Fanboy, then there would be no problems at all. After all, I also listen to Laporte’s “Macbreak Weekly” podcast. At least the people in “Macbreak Weekly” admit that they are huge Apple fans.

If you could be objective and have the patience to listen to the droning voice of Thurrott, you can find all the self-contradicting statements Thurrott made in “Windows Weekly podcast. One of the recent one he’s made is about bloat-ware. In “Windows Weekly” 74, Thurrott takes a stab at iTunes 8 and essentially call it as a bloated software. In “Windows Weekly” 66, Thurrott defends Microsoft Windows, and says that it is OK for being bloated because the hardware now can support the software. Thurrott would do the technology world a favor by keeping his opinion (if he has any, it’s all Microsoft P.R. materials anyway) to himself.

“Windows Weekly” is in need of a good panel to discuss the world of Microsoft. It is tiring to listen to Thurrott alone spewing Microsoft propaganda, ad garbage about everything non-Microsoft. It is possible that Leo Laporte couldn’t find anyone who would work with Thurrott on the podcast. At one time Laporte let people call in and contribute to the podcast. Definitely there were a few people callrd on Thurrott’s lies.

Paul Thurrott calls himself as a non-partisan tech-enthusiast just like Fox News call themselves as “Fair and Balanced”.