Category Archive: Hack

Jan 03 2012

How To Extend Office 2010 Trial Period

This can be achieved by running the Office OSPPREARM which is located in the Program Files folder.   Running this will command the Trial will be extended by 30 days, it can be run five times. How to extend the Office 2010 Trial period 1.  Open a Command Prompt  as Administrator (Quickest method is to the …

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Jan 04 2011

How to: Login to Messenger twice…

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Logging in to Windows Live Messenger using separate accounts. I’ve been looking for a way to do this a the last couple of months.  Why would I want to do this?  Well when I’m at home in the evening I want friends to see me and I don’t mind work colleagues being to contact me.  …

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Jul 11 2008

SBS CAL Resets

  This has happened to me on a number of SBS boxes whit low hard drive space, generally on drive C: SBS resets the cal count to 5! We have just had a customer call and this has happened to.  Normally we backup the CALS using the built in backup utility within SBS Console. Found …

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Feb 08 2007

Windows Live Messenger Adverts

I was reading PC PRO April 2007 Edition, which landed on the door mat at lunch time today. While reading Jon Honeyball’s column he mentions this utility which allows you to remove the advets from Windows Live Messenger (among lots of other things). You can download it from here: http://apatch.ikhost.com/downloads.php  

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