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While you are on the Go, you will always want to know, what the road ahead is! So, in similar lines, AA which is the UK’s largest motoring solution provider which provides a host of services ranging from Breakdown assistance to insurance to financial services to driving assistance etc. With the help of route planning service which comes for free, allows the drivers to plan the trips across Ireland and whole across UK and Europe very easily online. AA Route Planner Features The route planner of AA comes packed with many features, like just key in the From and to field and you are presented with the route instantly. What’s more is you can also add the via routes, lets you to choose to avoid motorways or the tolls/congestion charge and also can choose the reverse route options so that you can plan your drive very comfortably. Steps to Plan a Route on AA Route Planner So, don’t you want to know how you can plan your route? Let’s get started and know how you can plan one....

Whenever you open and start the Skype application, it first loads the skype.exe and also along with this another process which is skypePM.exe is also loaded. Basically, the skype.exe is the plugin manager which always loads during the start of the skype even though if you are not using a single plugin in skype. Considering the fact that, this process uses over 15 MB of RAM which actually does nothing. Since it uses 15+ MB of RAM, we will see now the way with which you can get rid of this plugin manager process skypePM.exe. The simple and powerful way is to simply rename or even you can delete the folder named Plugin Manager which generally installs during the installation of skype. As soon as this folder is deleted, the skypePM.exe process during startup doesn’t load up which in turn speeds it up quite a bit and thus saves the RAM as well. If you are unable to find the folder of Plugin Manager then in some cases  it’s located on the same directory level as my Sky...

You’ve thrilled to Windows Internals, now thrill to Mark Russinovich’s latest masterpiece, the novel Zero Day . It looks somewhat like Daniel Suarez’s Daemon, I think: An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction. At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes tha...

If you have been getting a dream of getting a Job at Google then its time you should check out the following video and get more insights on what kind of facilities you would get. Freebies ranging from Food, Gym to personal trainers you also get a free body massage on your birthdays. None of these service charges are deducted from your monthly pay which is also expected to be a big number. If you would like to have a detailed look at the GooglePlex in Mountain View then the following video can help you. It has amazing info on how the employees are given Pool tables, hot tubs, electric vehicles, pets allowed etc

The SMB survival guide for printers will not get into where to buy your companies toner or ink cartridges. The best type of paper to use or formatting a print job. This article will cover only the technical aspects of printers. Any tech will tell you that beside migrating an old PC to a new PC that printers can be the biggest pain to configure and troubleshoot. below are some of the reasons why. 1. Dealing with Print Drivers. There are different print drivers for each version of Windows Operating Systems. lets also include the fact that we now have 32 and 64 bit versions. 1A. Print Driver Software on provided CD Be prepared to install printer software that will start updating you on everything from low ink to no paper. Nice additions but they also prompt for where to buy your ink and paper. In the old days you could install the print driver only for the printer . Now you need to install a mini printer operating system to have them work. You can still just install ...

My customer has a 2003 Small Business Server environment that has been in production for five years. Every application offered in the SBS 2003 package is being used. Because the customer is using multiple friendly addresses from the outside to connect to there Share Point, Web Mail access, FTP and a custom web app. They purchased a wild card SSL from GoDaddy to make it easier and use one SSL certificate. The wild card *.mydomainname.com allows them to provide one SSL for all the friendly names each website application needs. The customer decides to migrate to Small Business Server 2008 with the newer versions of Exchange, IIS and SharePoint . Microsoft provides a migration path from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 that takes longer then building a new network from scratch for this company. After all the applications are migrated and working the old SSL is imported onto the new server. The company begins to have problems connecting to the apps from the outside or allowing In...

SBS 2008 Migration highlights: 21-day grace period to complete the migration Answer file generator must be used Migrate without taking down servers Destination server joins the existing domain (replica DC) Uninterrupted mail flow between both servers No need to touch client workstations Migration should be able to take place during business hours even! Pre-migration tasks: Configure a full backup of the source server (include boot and system partitions, and system state) Make sure you have any 3rd-party backup software that you might need available Verify the backup (restore random files) Exchange Server: Verify database integrity, Delete unnecessary mail, Archive old mail (for speed of migration) Remove junk documents: SharePoint, Shared folders, Former employees’ profile folders SBS 2003 Best Practice Analyzer (SBS BPA) checks: Exchange Server Update service Network configuration Windows support tools Netdiag (Help isolate network/connectivity issues) Dcdiag (ana...