Gmail to keep a senders email from going to SPAM

With newer algorithms and processes with email servers using technologies such as SPF records etc sometimes out-race the capability on legacy email servers. So you might need to setup your gmail to allow or whitelist some of your contacts that send you email.

This is how its done:

1. Login to your gmail account and got to settings by selecting the gear icon at the top left corner of the main gmail panel.

2. Select Filters from the menu at the top of the gmail panel.

3. Select Create New Filter at the bottom of the filters panel.

4. A dialog window will popup, in the "From: textbox start typing the email of the contacts address you want to whitelist

5. Select "Create a filter with this search"

6. The next page of the dialog will show. Now select the checkbox for  Never send this to spam.

Viola you have now whitelisted your contacts emails. Repeat as necessary to add more contacts to whitelist.

Thanks,
HHI Computer Guys
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Gmail: "Your action was unsuccessful. Please try again." When trying to send an Email? - Fixed

Hello everyone, this issue was quite perplexing as the problem existed on a single computer while other computers had no problem. I had tried many things before finding something to resolve the problem from uninstalling Internet Explorer 9 to resetting the security settings, add-ins etc..

Finally after all else failed, this is what worked: I did a reset of Internet Explorer by going to Tools (gear cog at top right corner of IE window) | Internet Options | then select the Reset button on the bottom of the page.

Close and Reopen IE 9 and try again.. it should work!

Windows Live Mail not responding when forwarding replying

Windows live mail not responding when replying, or forwarding emails.

I worked awhile on this first trying to repair windows live essentials with the add/remove programs to no avail.

what worked: Uninstall and Re-install Windows Live Essentials reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938275

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HHI Computer Guys
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Windows live mail not responding when replying, or forwarding emails.

I worked awhile on this first trying to repair windows live essentials with the add/remove programs to no avail.

what worked: Uninstall and Re-install Windows Live Essentials reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938275

Thanks,
HHI Computer Guys
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Windows XP SP3 System Repair CD Rom Drive Not Recognized GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\CDROM0\I386 not found

When attempting an Repair Install of Windows XP SP3 the CDROM is not longer available or recognized on the first reboot of the setup installation. A message window is displayed with the path GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\CDROM0\I386 which does not exist. 


The method that worked for me was to copy the i386 folder from the cd to the C: drive on the targeted computer. Then when the installer prompts for the directory path above instead add in C:\i386 instead. You may need to do this many times so use the copy/paste key combinations (ctrl+c, ctrl+p) to make it easier. Then click on OK each time you are prompted.


This worked for me hope it helps you.


Thanks,
HHI Computer Guys


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Program shortcut that requires UAC permission

Hi,
I had a customer that just updated to Windows 7. He had shortcut on his desktop that launched an application on a mapped network drive. Everytime he launched the program the UAC window came up and prompted him to indicate whether it was ok or not to run the program on the mapped drive. Very annoying.. So I found this interesting article on how to create a shortcut with an elevated prompt using task scheduler. Nifty. It helped me hopefully it helps you as well.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html 

Thanks,
HHI Computer Guy
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MSI BigBang XPower Raid 5 Setup Intel Matrix Storage

So you want to setup RAID 5 on your new BigBang XPower board? Pretty hard to find the documentation to do this. After a couple of hours, this is what I found to make it work.

1. Download new Intel drivers via the Control Center
2. I also found the live update for MSI drivers on the MSI website here: http://us.msi.com/service/download/
3. Boot into the Bios and select
4. Change the default setting of IDE to RAID
5. F10 save and exit
6. Hit Ctrl+I during boot to get into the Intel Matrix Storage RAID utility
7. Enter the volume name, select the RAID Type, Select the Disks, and stripe size (See hints at the bottom of the screen.), then build the RAID volume.

Moving Thunderbird to New Computer from old disk drive

This is a method I discovered to move a Thunderbird profile to a new Windows 7 computer from XP or other.

1. Install Thunderbird on new computer
2. Copy all data in profile to computer with new profile created on new computer during Thunderbird install
--in XP it's  C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles)
--in Vista and Win 7 it's C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\
3. Run MozBackup to backup Thunderbird - Save the backup
4. Delete all the data in the profile you just backed up on your new computer (since it is all backed up AND since you still have a copy on the old drive you will be safe if something were to flub up).
5. Run MozBackup to restore profile to Thunderbird
6. Open Thunderbird and you should see all your accounts and emails

Please leave comments so I know this has helped!
Thanks,
HHI Computer Guy
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