How to recover your lost Outlook email password

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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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Windows Seven computer doesn’t recognize wireless keyboard and mouse

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Desktop 800 KeyboardI just had a strange problem recently, one of our customers brought a Windows 7 computer to us and told us that the keyboard and mouse didn’t work. I plugged in a wired keyboard and mouse and it worked fine, but when I plugged in a wireless keyboard and mouse it did not work. Sometimes it would recognize I plugged the wireless usb receiver in and other times it wouldn’t, when it did recognize the wireless receiver it would install a driver and then you had to restart. Once I restarted, it would still not recognize the keyboard and mouse. I searched online on a bunch of forums and tried there tips, but nothing helped.
I tried different usb ports, updated the bios, took out the cmos battery to reset the bios, went into bios to make sure usb was enabled, and tried the keyboard and mouse on another computer. I also could use the wireless keyboard in the bios but not Windows 7. I tried using the keyboard in safe mode and that to didn’t work. I also updated the chipset and graphics drivers to no avail.  I went into Device Manager and found that the PCI Simple Communications Driver was missing. This computer was a custom built computer so I found the motherboard model (DG33TL) and installed the Intel Management Engine Driver from Intel.  I then installed Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard software and Microsoft Mouse Intellipoint software. The computer still didn’t recognize my Microsoft desktop 800 keyboard and mouse, so I plugged in my wireless usb receiver for a Microsoft keyboard 5000 and Windows and the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard software both recognized it. I then unplugged the Desktop 800 wireless usb receiver from the computer and plugged it back it in. Windows then recognized the device and installed the driver. I restarted the computer and everything worked fine.

That was what worked for me. Let me know if this works for you by posting in the comments section.

I hope this helps. This was posted by techspeeder.

Protect your saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox.

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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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Auto-complete in Outlook 2010 missing after migration to Office 365 (Solved)

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I recently upgraded a user from a standard Pop3 email account to a Microsoft Exchange Office 365 email account. The upgrade went great and all the email was transferred, but the user complained about their auto-complete email contacts were not showing up when they typed a contact’s email address in the “send” field. This user was running Windows 7 and was using Outlook 2010. Here are the steps to retrieve the auto-complete file and use it in the new profile.

Step One: Close Outlook

Step Two: Browse to the RoamCache where the auto-complete file is stored. (location is C:\Users\”user.name”\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache

Step Three: Rename RoamCache to old_RoamCache

Step Four: Open Outlook, and create a new email and put a valid email address in the to. . field. Close the new email ( you don’t need to save ). Close Outlook Continue reading →

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

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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.