Microsoft has a free Add-in for Office 2007 that will allow you to export your Word documents to PDF file. The Save As PDF add-in allows you to export and save to the PDF format in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format.
Open Microsoft Word and create your document.
1. Click the Office button (the round button with the Microsoft logo on it) and select the Save As option.
2. The Save As window will be launched. Enter a name.
3. Now, from the Save as type drop down select the PDF (*.pdf) option.

Sometimes, if the computer goes down and if there is no CD/DVD drive then this comes handy to boot up your computer.

Here are the steps to create a bootable USB drive:
I. Insert your USB drive into one USB port on your computer

II. Click the “Start” button at the bottom left on your computer screen

III. Type “cmd” in the RUN window to open a command prompt

IV. Type “disk parts” into a command prompt and press Enter. After that type “list disk” and press Enter again.

V. Determine which of the disks that display the list of which is a USB drive. (For example, 4GB USB drive, then the option with 4GB size that you need to see). Record the number that identifies your USB drive it in the paper.

VI. Type the following command into the command prompt to format on a USB drive.

“Select the disk A,” replace “A” with the number you get in step 5 earlier. Press Enter
“Clean.” Press Enter
“Create Partition Memory.” Press “Enter.”
“Select Partition A.” Press “Enter.”
“Format FS = NTFS.” Press “Enter.”
“Assign.” Press “Enter.”
“Exit.” Press “Enter.”

VII. Insert the installation CD of Windows XP or Vista you. Your computer will read the installation CD, and a window will appear on the screen. List of all drives will be displayed there. Look for the letter which is a symbol of the CD-ROM and a USB drive. Take note of these letters in the paper.

VIII. Type the following command into the command prompt:

“B: CD boot,” replace “B” letter which is the symbol of the CD-ROM. Press “Enter.”
“CD boot.” Press “Enter.”
“Bootsect.exe/NT60 C:,” replace “C” with the letter which is a symbol of the USB Drive. Press “Enter.”

IX. Copy the boot information from the installation CD to a USB drive by entering the following command into the command prompt:
“Xcopy c: *.* / s / e / f B: /,” replace “B” letter which is the symbol of the CD-ROM and replace “C” with the letter which is a symbol of the USB drive. Press “Enter.”

Let the computer to copy data from the installation CD to a USB drive.

X. Unplug the USB drive from the USB port, replace the lid, and give the label “bootable” with markers. Save the USB drive it in a safe place. Remove your Windows installation CD and return it to its place.

Remote installation service (RIS): Very interesting service to get experienced! I knew little about this service, but I haven’t got any practical session until my laptop crashed completely including CD-ROM. There was no way to reinstall OS and resurrect my poor laptop without purchasing a new CD-ROM. But how hard am I, I don’t want to spend a penny on this but still want to get it done!

Although there could be numerous ways to get it fixed. However, this situation triggered me to give a try this fascinating Windows service (RIS). And finally I was able to bring my machine alive. Let’s see how I did it.

How to do RIS?

1. First of all what we need is, a Windows Server computer with following configurations:

• Active Directory
• Domain Control
• DHCP enabled.

2. Once you have all of the above features, now install RIS from Add/Remove program. From Add/Remove, click on Add/Remove Windows Components and install RIS.

3. After installing RIS restart the server computer.

4. Once computer is restarted login with the admin privileges and insert Windows OS CD/DVD into the drive and then select Remote Installation Service Setup. Because when you start Remote Installation Service Setup it will compile all the necessary files and folders from the disk to create installation file. To thoroughly understand the process read the wizards carefully and proceed.

5. After completing this process, hock your dead/new/client computer to network and boot it with PXE LAN (network boot) and follow the instructions and proceed.

6. That’s it! And using this service one can install Windows on multiple computers at a give time.

This KB article applies to moderate computer geek! Have fun……..

While opening IE7 on the computer, it shows “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” even if there is a Internet connection. If someone try to access webpage by typing in URL like www.yahoo.com in the address bar it gives “The address is not valid” with “http:///” in the address bar. This is caused by proxy setting enabled to localhost (127.0.0.1). See figure below.

Solution: Disable the proxy setting or remove the localhost IP address.
Steps:
1. Click on Tools option and select Internet Options as shown below.

2. Click on Connection Tab and click on LAN settings as shown below.

3. Now uncheck Proxy server or remove the localhost IP 127.0.0.1 and the port number. Or simply uncheck the proxy server setting as shown below.