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Compose Appointments via EmailCreate Meetings in Outlook the Easy Way
Most times when you need to set up a meeting in Outlook, the process starts with an e-mail you receive. I used to switch to the Calendar and add a new entry, with the date and time, and then paste the e-mail into the new appointment. But there’s an easier way: Simply right-click on the original e-mail and choose Move to Folder, select Calendar, and hit OK. This actually creates a new appointment entry, complete with the e-mail inserted in the main window. You still have to enter the date, time, and participants, but you get to that point faster.—Michael Muchmore
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WINDOWS
Clear a Print Job Without Rebooting
If you’ve ever had a print job hang, you’re probably familiar with the Windows Print Spooler window. You get to this window simply by selecting the relevant printer from the Control Panel’s Printers and Faxes applet (simply Printers in Vista). In the somewhat unusual event of a printer queue jam, you can go to the Print Spooler and simply delete the job. Sometimes, though, the system won’t let you cut off print jobs that way: It marks the job “Deleting…” but never quite gets there, and you end up rebooting. Here’s a better way to do it.
Open a command prompt (go to Start | Run, then type cmd) and enter the following:
net stop spooler
del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
net start spooler
In Vista you’ll need to open an elevated command prompt by right-clicking on cmd.exe and selecting Run as Administrator. For those of you who remember batch files, use Notepad to save the four commands above as a batch file. I’ve named mine Killqueue.bat.—Craig Ellison
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