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The default color scheme of Microsoft Office 2010 is silver. Two additional color schemes — blue and black — are available. The color scheme changes the user interface background of the Outlook program window and backgrounds for most program elements including the Navigation Pane, To-Do-Bar, ribbon, message headers, and forms for contacts and tasks. NOTE     Changes to the color scheme apply to all programs that are a part of Microsoft Office 2010. Click the  File  tab. Click  Options . Under  User Interface options , in the  Color scheme  list, click  Blue ,  Silver , or  Black .

For some odd reason Microsoft decided to leave this feature disabled by default, and place it within a optional feature set called " Desktop Experience ". If your hard drive is getting full and you wish to do a disk cleanup, there are two ways to enable the Disk Cleanup tool . I recommend using option #2 below for several reasons: - Installing the  Desktop Experience  feature will not only install Disk Cleanup, but a lot of other utilities you likely don't need on a server (sound recorder, desktop themes, etc). -   Installing the  Desktop Experience  feature will require a server reboot How to enable the Disk Cleanup tool: 1) Go to Programs & Features, and in the Features section, enable/install "Desktop Experience".     The downside to this is that you will need to reboot your server after installing this and it installs other components you do not need on a server. 2) [REC...

We get this issue while starting a website on Windows Server 2012. Installing via aspnet_regiis wouldn't work here. Instead, go for Add Roles and Features. And voila, we're back to working websites :)

Well, chances are, you're trying to uninstall a windows service. This error tends to happen when you don't stop the service before attempting to uninstall it or/and some associated process or handle hangs around, preventing the service from being uninstalled. One common culprit is  services.msc  - it's particularly bad because if you've stopped the service before running your uninstaller, you probably still have the services.msc window open. Before you go restarting the machine etc, MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE SERVICES.MSC, in your session and any other active rdp session. If you close and reopen the console, you'll probably find that your service has now been successfully deleted. Solved with zero efforts, yippee :)