Personal folders are a good way to store email on a hard drive such that they are not affected by an exchange server's retention policy.  Creating a personal folder is Outlook 2010 is easy, but not straight forward.  Here's how to do it:First, open Outlook and navigate to the File tab.  Click the "Account Settings" button, and choose the "Account Settings..." option the dropdown menu.Navigate to the "Data Files" tab, and click the "Add" button:You will see a prompt to save a new...

In all versions of Windows 7 there is a little known but easy to use utility bundled in called Robocopy.  Why would you want to use Robocopy over just dragging and dropping or copying and pasting files and folders over manually? Here are some reasons why you might want to add Robocopy to your toolbox of useful utilities:Robocopy is MUCH faster at copying a large number of files from one location to another compared to the built in Windows copy.Robocopy can intelligently "Backup" (Mirror) a...

By default, using C-x 3 in emacs splits the window vertically into two buffers.  This is very convenient, but for some reason it disables word wrap (even when word wrap is set in the options).  To enable word wrap on a vertical split, add the following to your .emacs file (typically located in your home directory):;; Word wrap on vertical split(setq truncate-partial-width-windows nil)Alternatively you can enter the same command during your current session if you don't want this to be...