Category Archives: Tips

Here are random tips I find along the way. I hope they help, enjoy!

How to retrieve your lost wireless passkey- Windows 7

Did you ever forget what your wireless passkey was? Or did you ever want to connect to a secured wireless network but didn’t know the wireless key? Here is a tip on how to retrieve a wireless passkey on a Windows 7 computer.

Step One: Go to Control Panel > Network and Internet.Control Panel

Step Two: Select Network and Sharing Center.
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Delete unused Office 365 licenses

Today I upgraded one of our Office 365 customers from Microsoft Exchange (Plan 2) to the Office 365 Enterprise E3 plan. After the upgrade was completed, I was left set with one extra Office 365 license. So I started to dig around in the settings, trying to find a way to delete the extra license. I could not find how to remove the extra license. Finally I ran across this helpful forum post on how to remove extra Office 365 licenses. Here are the steps to remove the unused Office 365 license.

Update 6/9/14 : Apparently Microsoft must have gotten tired of all the phone support and listened to us!! They now have a remove license option as well. When you log into your account click on Billing > Subscriptions and click on the subscription you want to change. You will then see a “change quantity” beside the current amount of user licenses. Click “change quantityChange Quantity                                        and then remove or add licenses!!Remove License                             Thanks Microsoft, you made our job easier.

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First off you have to meet one of these three criteria’s to remove the unwanted license from your account.

A) Upgrading

B) Correcting a purchase made in error within 90 days of when the change was made.

C) Renewing

If you meet the criteria, you need to call Microsoft Technical support in your area. Here is the link for their customer support number.  If you are a Microsoft Partner call this number 1-800-676-7658 and select the cloud services option. They will remove the extra license for you.

Once I was on the phone with Microsoft, I asked if there was a way that I could remove the license myself. He said they (Microsoft) are the only ones that can remove Office 365 licenses from the account, system administrators can’t even remove them. In my opinion, this is rather stupid and I hope Microsoft changes their policies on that soon.  In the meantime, I hope this helps you out and if you find a easier solution to removing a Office 365 license let me know by posting in the comments.

This was posted by techspeeder.

Source: Office 365 Community

 

How to recover your lost Outlook email password

How many times do you find yourself scratching your head because you forgot your email password? Or how about when you are setting up an email account for a friend or customer and they don’t remember what it is?

I recently ran into a situation where I was setting up email accounts on some new computers we had just installed.  The problem was I didn’t know the passwords for the email accounts I was setting up in Microsoft Outlook. That is when I discovered this tool that will reveal the email account passwords in Microsoft Outlook. Here are the steps to retrieve your password if your account was previously set up in Outlook. ( This also works in Windows Live Mail.) 

Go to your Control Panel> User Accounts>Mail > Show Profiles. Select the profile you want.

Then select Properties. Click on the email address that you need the password from and then select change. You should now be at the screen that shows your email account information including your password (with asterisks). Keep that window open.

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Protect your saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox.

Passwords, passwords, passwords it seems like every site you visit, they ask you to set up an account and with that comes another password. Just last week, the Internet lit up with the story of chrome’s password management. Everyone was screaming treason about how visible your saved chrome passwords are. All you have to do is enter  chrome://settings/passwords into your Chrome browser and then click show to view your passwords in plain text. If you use Mozilla Firefox you are not much better off. If you open your Firefox browser and go to Options> Options>Security>Saved Passwords and then click  show passwords, all your saved passwords are visible in plain text to anyone that has access to your computer. However, Firefox has a setting called Use a master password to make your saved passwords more secure. Here is how you set that up.

Step One: Open Firefox.

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Video tutorial on taking a screenshot with the HTC One Google Play Edition

Here is a video tutorial on how to take a screenshot with your HTC One Google Play Edition phone.

If this helped you out please leave a comment. Thank you. This was posted by techspeeder.