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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Kindergarten Graduation Day Debut Speech by Venus

Venus Rinith

DMIS kindergarten graduation day debut speech by Venus - (Age: 5 ½ years)

Rehearsal at home

Lil Masters

How to Change the Product Key in Windows 8

First hurdle after windows 7 to windows 8 in-place upgrade which I came across is the licensing factor. Fairly there are easy mechanisms to tackle this as well which I have mentioned below:

Unfortunately, if you try and activate a PC using a generic volume license key (GVLK) through Microsoft's Activation Servers

Microsoft provides two fairly easy mechanisms to perform this task: one from the command line and the other from the GUI. Today we're going to tackle both methods.

Run the command prompt using elevated admin permission. With your valid Multiple Activation Key (MAK) at the ready, login to the Windows 8 PC using an account that has administrative privileges. Be sure the PC is connected to the Internet, otherwise the activation portion of this exercise is doomed to fail. However, even if you don't have Internet access you can still change the product key now and activate it later. But for now, it's time to get this show on the road.

First, move the cursor to the lower left hot corner and perform a right-click. Click Command Prompt (Admin) from the popup menu.

Click Yes if you're prompted by the UAC to Elevate.

At the command prompt type: slmgr.vbs -ipk {MAK Product Key gets entered here} then press Enter.

(An example of this command line is slmgr.vbs -ipk AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE )

Click OK when prompted that the product key was installed successfully.

If you enter an incorrect product key, a dialog box will pop up stating that the product key is invalid.

If you happen to stumble upon this invalid product key message don't fret. Double check that you have a valid MAK and then try the command line again.

Once you have a valid MAK in the system, it's time to activate. Type slmgr.vbs -ato and then press Enter. Click OK to acknowledge that Windows 8 has been activated.

Using the GUI to Change the Product Key in Windows 8

One method down! Now here's how to do the same process from the GUI.

First, move the cursor to the lower left hot corner, right click, and then click Run (alternately, press the Windows and R keys at the same time).

In the Run dialog box that appears, type slui.exe 3 then click OK. The Change Product Key GUI will open.

Enter the new MAK product key in the text box. If the product key is valid, you'll see a message below the text box that reads, "Your product key works! Continue when you're ready."

Press the Activate button.

The screen will change and display "Activating Windows".

After a few seconds (occasionally a bit longer), you should see a screen letting you know that everything went swimmingly. Click Close.

That's it -- you're finished! You now can quickly and easily change a Windows 8 PC from using a GLVK to a MAK.

Win 8 HOT STUFF..!

I started using windows 8 (beta version) since Sept. 2012. After reviewing the new OS, I would rate this as HOT STUFF and fantabulous on the placards. I have come across lot of them saying 'windows 8 is a crap'. But, in reality is not. The point is, one should actually know how to use it. Improvised technology released with a new version is always the better than the previous is what I would say in general. "You have to adapt the technology, it's shortcuts and its transition methodology..!"

Animation Converter Software

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Motto of The Scholars International School Doha, Qatar (CBSE Indian School)

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Solution: Outlook 2010 Search Not Working

Search feature in Outlook saves 10 times of your manual email search time. Do you still need a manual search in this hoo-ha world? So, why not if the feature is not working get it sorted out.

Outlook 2010 Search Not Working

Applies to: Windows 7 OS with upgrade of Office 2010 with Outlook from Office 2007 or 2003.

as per articles I tried re-building index, however didn't work for me.

re-indexing in outlook 2010, showed no satisfactory results..

In windows XP, installing 'windows search' plug-in showed the proper results, however complaints were reported about performance of system and was a bottle neck for such plug-ins.

For OS windows 7 onwards:

Considering the solution from lots of articles was to Turn Windows Indexing Service back on.

1. Control Panel >> Programs >> Programs and Features >> Turn Windows Features on or off

2. Tick (check mark) the Indexing Service check box and hit OK

You may want to restart your computer just for good measure. You will need to wait for a while for the indexing service to Index everything (many hours), but after a short time (half hour) you can check your email search bar and find that some of your email is now showing in the search results.

This feature worked for one of the reported client in our org. However, for me the status of index remained the same. Search results didn't either show any results.

So I disabled and turned the feature OFF as it was earlier. If you don't turn off, unnecessary resource would be added at the background and such piled up resources at a later stage will create performance bottleneck.

So, the only solution for me was to REPAIR the Office 2010. And in next 15 mins it showed the results positively.

To do this in win 7 just click start and type programs and features and click the result as seen below:

Click Change option under microsoft office 2010 which will bring up the option to repair the corrupted office files

selection window

progression window

The overall process might take 15mins. That's it. After a reboot of system, my search results showed results as expected.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Completing 7 yrs with RA

Email from Supervisor:

To: Rinith KT
Subject: RE: Completing 7 yrs with RA

Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013

Rinith,

You have done exceptionally well since I have started working here. We have achieved significant milestones in last 5 years and you have played pivotal role in most of them. You're quick learner, sincere, hardworking and dependable which are very good qualities for an IT professional. I am absolutely confident that you will do well under the new leader. I will miss you all after June.

Best of luck

Umesh

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Email to Supervisor

From: Rinith KT
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013

There are some magical numbers in life to bestow upon and I surely consider completing another gracious milestone of 7 Years as RA Employee

I can keep writing this on-and-on, but let me pause and appreciate some good things that did happen:

Great Learning – I have said this to a number of my colleagues. The learning experience that I get just by being inside RA is a zillion!!! I learn from every single conversation that happen here. Connection with Microsoft at all innovative levels (GP, SharePoint, Cloud computing, HyperV, SQL Consolidation), other infrastructure support vendors AvePoint, Symantec, McAfee, VMWare, Websense, Citrix, and so on, is so much fun. I don’t have words to express the same.
Great people and friends – I think this is the best of the best part. I have made exceptionally great friends in this journey of completing 7 years. Many inside the company with the interactions, and multiples of them outside the company too. Some of ex-colleagues still in constant touch with me across the globe.
Passion with mix-Community – IT community is endless which keeps on crawling ever since past 17 years of my entry to IT domain and is still going strong. I had also opportunities to share my tech expertise to other communities outside the company.
New Challenges everyday – It sometimes comes down to what I am doing new to keep my interest levels on the high. You will be surprised that, it is not the routine job functions that keep me busy but the new challenges to try and do something new for self and for the best interest of business continuity and projects in the sessions is what makes every day drive to the office exciting. It is not always that you get to do what you love, but find opportunity to explore and do your bit to learn what you love the most.

So, thank you once again for being an exemplary supervisor which I believe is the strongest pillar behind an employee’s success.

-Rinith

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From: Rinith KT
Sent: Sunday, 26 February, 2012 17:15
To: IT-Group
Subject: completing 6 yrs with RA

Dears,

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about a great milestone here at RA today. Today, I complete 6 years of my journey at the RA. 2 years of a journey filled with stories of struggles from pillar-to-post, and thereafter success, fights, fun and joy with greater IT professionals of different calibres. This journey is made even more memorable because of the larger effort that each one of you put in here at work. I take pride in THANKING each and every one of you here for the continual support given to me. With the advent of this milestone in my life and with RA, I intend to extend myself as a ‘sailor’ and further dig & explore all the possible hidden treasures in me… neither boasting nor going more philosophical.. so, thank you all once again for the candy-coated smiles.

-Rinith