A follow-up to my previous post, I found this nifty little article in PCMAG which shows you a way to delete empty folders with a single command. No software required to be downloaded…
Read it here.
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Delete empty folders in Windows with a single command
March 17th, 2008 — Microsoft
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 : IE 8 Features Revealed
March 5th, 2008 — Microsoft
Microsoft has released the Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 and put up a dedicated page for Internet Explorer 8 Beta.
The IE 8 Beta 1 page lists out the new features which will be available in Internet Explorer 8 along with download links to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
The new features in Internet Explorer 8 are :
- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
That’s it. No more new features. Sadly, I don’t find any feature above exciting enough for me to be waiting for Internet Explorer 8. Neither do I find any new UI for Internet Explorer 8 from the screenhots on the page. 
Hopefully MS will add more features on the way and also give a new UI to Internet Explorer 8. If not Mozilla Firefox 3Â will be THE browser for me. Anywayz it is even now. 
Internet Explorer 8 New Features
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008Â
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download Page
Update : Mozilla Links has put up a review of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and compared it to the Firefox 3 Beta which is under development now. A post worth reading….
Delete empty directories in your Windows PC with RED
March 3rd, 2008 — Cool Tools, Microsoft
A Windows only program, RED is a nifty little utility for deleting empty directories in your Windows system. RED stands for Remove Empty directories and helps you in batch deleting folders which are empty.
Just point RED at the drive you want to clean up. RED scans and gives you a list of all empty folders in that drive. You can target a folder too. Then hit the button “Delete All” to get rid of those folders. Or if you want you can selectively delete folders.
I found this program to be very useful when I had auto-organized by music files which left behind a lot of empty folders. 
Download Remove Empty Directories
P.S. - Do not run this on system drives. You may run into problems.
2 things you did not know about Remote Desktop for Microsoft Windows
February 21st, 2008 — Microsoft
So you use Remote Desktop to connect to a remote Windows system ? Remote Desktop Connection can come in pretty useful when you need to connect to a remote system be it for work, for some files which are in your home PC or just for solving some technical problem you friend is facing.
Once connected, Remote Desktop gives you mouse and keyboard control over your computer while showing you everything that’s happening on the screen. With Remote Desktop, you can leave your computer at the office without losing access to your files, applications, and e-mail.
What Remote Desktop basically allows you to do is work on a remote desktop system as if you are sitting in front of it. So here are two tips which can help you utilize Remote Desktop for Microsoft Windows even better.
1. Transfer files between local system and remote system
Using Remote Desktop for Windows, you can easily transfer files to and fro between your local system and remote system. All you need to do is turn on a simple setting in Remote Desktop.
Open Remote Desktop and go to Options. Then click on “Local Resources” tab and tick the checkbox “Disk Drives” under Local Devices. Now you will be able to transfer files between the local and remote system.
2. Shutdown Remote System using Remote Desktop
By default, Remote Desktop does not give you an option to shutdown the Remote System. Instead you get a “Disconnect” option. But you can still shutdown the system. Here is how. When you finish working on the Remote System, open a command prompt and type shutdown -s.
The remote system will be shutdown after 60 seconds and then you will be disconnected.
That’s it. Do you use Remote Desktop ? What do you like about it ?
Microsoft bids for Yahoo! - Offers $44.6 billion
February 1st, 2008 — Microsoft, Yahoo!
The rumours have been settled. Microsoft has formally announced its intentions of acquiring Yahoo! . Leaving aside the complexity of the financial offer, one simple thing is Microsoft is offering $31 per share, a whopping 62% premium on the present share price of Yahoo!.
An excerpt from Microsoft’s press release …
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft common stock, with the total consideration payable to Yahoo! shareholders consisting of one-half cash and one-half Microsoft common stock. The offer represents a 62 percent premium above the closing price of Yahoo! common stock on Jan. 31, 2008.
But what does this mean for me ?
A bigger competitor for Google but no idea how effective the acquisition will be if at all it happens.
Whatever will happen to Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Flickr, three services I use almost all the time.
What do you think of this acquistion ? Does Microsoft buying Yahoo! make sense ?