Fix for iPhone and BMW iDrive address book not synchronising

Here’s a summary on the steps to add 2000 fake contacts to your iPhone in order to get the contacts to sync with your BMW bluetooth and iDrive.

Clicking web links in Outlook Express not working [FIX]

If you use Outlook Express for email and find that clicking links in emails doesn’t open Internet Explorer and load the page, read this for a quick fix.

Create shortcut to open URL in non-default browser

If like me you have Firefox set as your default browser in Windows XP but need to create a desktop shortcut to a web page but force it to open in Internet explorer or any other non-default browser there are two methods to achive this:
Method 1 – Create from Scratch
Right click on the desktop and [...]

Unable to access google.com (a few other sites) or sign into MSN messenger (fix)

Had a strange problem recently whereby a Windows XP Pro machine didn’t seem to want to connect to the internet, or so it appeared. I tried accessing google.com and hotmail.com and both returned error pages as did MSN Live Messenger when trying to log in.
I checked the BT HomeHub and the broadband light and LAN [...]

Outlook reminders not working (fix)

Having migrated our Exchange server at work to a new machine, several of my employees noticed that the reminder window was no longer popping up to remind them of upcoming appointements, events, meetings, etc.
Luckily there was a nice easy fix:

Quit Outlook
Click Start->Run
Type “outlook /cleanreminders” without the quotes and hit OK.
Outlook will then launch after cleaning [...]

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

If you’ve not come across them yet, Microsoft created a set of PowerToys for Windows XP all for FREE. The image resizer and TweakUI are by far the most useful:Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP