Monday, April 15, 2013

Tutorial For Hiding The Security Alert Icon In Windows


The Windows Vista and 7 operating systems from Microsoft comes built-in with a security center that includes a Firewall, anti-virus, Internet Security suite, and some applications meant for the purpose of maintainance. This is a very useful feature since it provides overall security cover to your computer. If you have installed a third-party security program, you would obviously want to disable the security center. Now the problem is that if you do so, a notification icon will appear on the system tray right next to where the clock is located. This will throw up regular alerts informing you that many of the security center feature is disabled. Fourtunatley there is a way that lets you to turn off this option keep the alert icons hidden. To know more, read through the rest of the article.

Instructions for Windows 7 users

  1. Hit the “Start” button located on your taskbar. The button bears the logo of Microsoft and is easy to identify.
  2. Highlight the option which says “Control Panel” from the start menu and click on it. This will open up the control panel window.
  3. Continue with this procedure by clicking on the link which says “System and Security”.
  4. From the newly opened window  select “Action Center” and then click on the option labeled “Change Action Center Settings”.
  5. Decide on the security alerts that you want to disable, and unmark the respective checkboxes. 
  6. Once you are done with that, hit the “Ok” button.

Instructions for Windows Vista users

  1. Start off with this Windows help procedure by clicking the Windows “Start” button. 
  2. Continue by selecting “Control Panel” from the given menu.
  3. Select the option which says “Security” and then “Security Center”. This will open up t he Windows security center window.
  4. From the Windows Security Center window, select the option labeled “Change the way security alerts me” located on the left side. This will open up the “Do you want to be notified of security issues?” window.
  5. Choose the option that best represent the level of alerts that you want to turn off.
  6. Finally end this procedure by restarting your computer for the changes to take effect.

If you have followed all these Windows help instructions to the letter, you will not have any trouble with the security alerts or icons. For more information on the same, visit our forum.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Fixing Office Live Meeting Problems


Office Live Meeting is a discontinued web conferencing service designed and marketed by the well known Microsoft Company. The application is available to users for free, and they can easily download it from the Microsoft’s official website. Along with basic web conferencing, Windows Live meeting also supports online audio and video chatting, making the communication more realistic than ever before. Windows Live Meeting 2007 is the latest edition released, and it includes several new features such as rich media presentations, public events page, personal recordings etc. Moreover, the Live Meeting application is compatible with Java, and therefore is possible to install on non-windows OSx, including Mac OS and Linux.

Like other software and programs, Office Live meeting is also prone to errors. So to handle such situations, you must know some basic troubleshooting techniques. This article serves you some basic troubleshooting tips, provided by the most reliable Microsoft Chat crew, for resolving the common problems with the Windows Live Meeting application.

Go through the Internet Connections settings

Before launching the Live Meeting program, make sure that you have an active and complete internet connection. If you experience any error while trying to establish a connection, check the internet connection cables to ensure they are properly connected. If you noticed anything wrong here, fix it immediately, and after that, try to visit a website after launching your web browser.

Audio and Video settings

For customizing the audio and video settings, you need to access the Options tab under the heading, Voice and Video.

Now click on the option that reads Set up Audio and Video, and follow the onscreen prompts to make the needful changes. When done, close the Audio And Video Setup window.

Unable to chat though Office Live Meeting – what to do?

Sometimes you may encounter issues hearing the voice of the attendee. In such cases, you can make use of the chat function to send text chats to that particular attendee. For this, right-click the name of the particular attendee and choose the chat option from the context menu thus shown, to start a chat session.

In some situations, you can’t access the chat option directly. If so, double-click the name of any attendee and select the Permissions tab from the contextual menu, and then click Chat. Now the Chat function will automatically get enabled.

For additional troubleshooting tips on Office Live meeting application, invoke the Microsoft Chat team. They’ll be online 24/7 to help you fix your issues.