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During my recent conversation with one of my friends, he mentioned that he had to print a large number of PDF documents. He was frustrated as he had to open each file to send it to a printer for printing. He asked me if there are any ways where he can avoid opening each file before sending it to printer. Yes, it is possible. I did my testing on Windows 7 PC. There are two ways to achieve this. The easiest way is: Select the multiple files of same format e.g. all PDFs or all DOCXs Right click on any selected file In context menu, click on Print In this method, you can print up to 15 files together and cannot mix two different types of file format like one PDF document and one word document. There is another way in which you can print different file formats together. To achieve this, follow these steps: Click on Start and select Devices and Printers Double click on printer to open print queue box Drag files you would like to print into print queue box. Click O

One of my friends asked me to help him with his IT issue. He is trying to connect to a PC using Remote Desktop connection and getting error “Unable to log you on because of an account restriction.” To begin with, I verified that the user account is part of local administrator group and Remote Desktop users on a remote PC. Also, I asked him to make sure that he has enabled Remote Desktop on that PC. He replied affirmatively that user account is part of necessary groups and PC is enabled to accept remote connection. He also mentioned that he can log in locally using same account but receives error message when he is trying to connect remotely. During further questioning about his current setup of a PC, I figured out that, he is using blank (null) password for the user account. If you are trying to log in to a PC remotely with a user account which has been setup with blank password, Remote Desktop connection cannot be established and you receive above error message. There is

Hi everyone, I would like to share my knowledge on how to install Terminal Server role and install applications for Terminal Server users. To explain the whole process in better way, I fragmented it in to three different stages. Installing Terminal Server Role on existing server Configuring Remote connection settings for users Installing Applications on Terminal Server (TS) Installing Terminal Server Role on existing server Let’s start the process. First of all, we have to install Terminal Server Role on a server. Please follow these steps to install Terminal Server role: Log in to server where terminal server role will be installed Go to Server Manager Run Add Role Wizard by clicking on Add Roles Select Terminal Services role, click next twice. Select below Role services to install and click Next Terminal Server On Uninstall and Reinstall Applications for Compatibility option, click Next . On Specify Authentication Method for Terminal Server page, Se

At regular interval, Microsoft stops providing support to their previous Operating System. I am wondering how many people know about it and do they really understand the effect of this on their PCs. Hence, I thought about writing this article. Every Microsoft product has its lifecycle. It starts when it was launched and ends when it is no longer been supported. It is useful to know when your OS is no longer being supported so that you can take decision about upgrading OS and make necessary changes to your applications. Microsoft announces End of Support date for their products that means from that particular date, Microsoft will no longer offer any fixes, updates or technical assistance of that product. As a user, you will have to make sure that you’ve installed latest update or service pack available for that program. Here are some key dates from Microsoft: Operating System Latest update or Service pack End of mainstream support End of extended suppo

Recently, I was doing a troubleshooting on one of the Windows 7 PCs and came across this situation. As a part of my troubleshooting steps, I had to check whether relevant service is running or not for that particular program. When I launched services.msc, I found that required services were not running. I thought it’s very simple; I will double click on service to open its properties box. Within that properties box, I will change Startup Type to Automatic and run service by clicking on Start button. But it wasn’t that easy because options to Start and Startup type were disabled and I could not change them. (I ran Services.msc as an Administrator) Now, I had to find a way to enable options in Services so that I can start it. To di this, I had to make changes to Registry key. I went through following steps to make necessary changes in Registry to allow me to make amendments in services’ properties box. Open Registry as an Administrator ( Start > type Regedit in the sea

Hi all, today I want to share my experience of setting up redirect my blogs to custom sub-domain URL. Well, you might think that’s very easy, search for help on website on which you have your blog and you will get your answer. I partially agree with the above statement. Here is my story. I started to write blog on blogger.com and have http://arpitbhavsar.blogspot.com URL for my blogs. I also own www.TechieTalks.co.uk domain. I am also working on designing a website that helps IT support professionals all latest news and security updates for various platforms like Microsoft, VMWare, Linux, Apple, Android and third party applications. After I logged in Blogger.com, I followed the below steps to setup redirect to my custom sub-domain URL. I clicked on Basic option under Settings in left-side column. In the Publishing section, I clicked on link to add custom domain. An option appeared to write sub-domain like. Blog.aarsuh.co.uk. I clicked on Save button. An error message

Today, I received a query from one of the followers of my blogs about how to recover lost local admin password on Windows Standard 2008. From the given information, I understand that he had installed Windows Standard 2008 server on a PC and made it a domain controller. He used to log in to server locally by using Administrator account. Now, he can’t log in to PC, as he doesn’t remember the password. He asked me if I could suggest some solutions to overcome this situation and save his time to install Server again. In addition to that, he said that he doesn’t have server installation disk. I thought, it’s very challenging, as he doesn’t want to reinstall server. So, my first reaction was, let me test this on virtual PC running on my Server. I installed Windows Server Standard 2008 and made it domain controller. Now, I was ready to try different things to see if I can recover local admin password. So, I started to search on Internet. I found couple of ways to do it. First option