AOL Active Update pop-up

AOL is my work's preferred msnger service and I have had to use it even though I prefer GTalk to most other clients.
Annoying part about AOL is the Active Update popup that keeps popping up when something new is available, and it just wont stop until u actually install it. There isnt any option to disable in Preferences. Google to the rescue! I looked up the issue and yes, someone has already done extensive research to find where the issue is coming from.
I just went ahead and deleted both the problem folders! Dont see any popups now.

Thanks to folks who spent time on it! :)

-Elf.

Windows 7 and the Intel 855GM Video Driver "Solution" « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that “stuff” in-between

Now that I have Windows 7 on my aging laptop, I have been looking for ways to improve on my usability with this configuration. My main issue - Video Graphic driver. The default that got installed gives a best resolution of only 1024x768. When looking around, I found this post - throws some light...I havent tried that tool either, will give it a shot when I have time for multiple installs some time later next week.

-Elf.

How to resize a partition in Windows Vista

I am getting a new machine with Vista on it. I was looking for ways to be able to partition in Vista and found this link that provides steps to be able to 'shrink' or 'extend' volumes. Will know next week if it works for me :)

-Elf.

How to make chrome work on machines with Symantec Antivirus

I couldnt make Google Chrome work on my office machine. Turns out, its due to Symantic installed on all office machines.
Little googleing and I found a solution here - http://tech.wowkhmer.com/post/2008/10/24/Fix-Google-Chrome-e28093-Ah-Snap!-Something-went-wrong-while-displaying-this-webpage.aspx
There are 2 solutions suggested; I would prefer using the 1st one - dont want to mess with the office machine anti-virus setup...
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Right click on the Chrome’s shortcut and select property and add “--no-sandbox” without quotes to the end of Target.
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Thanks to whoever took the trouble to find a solution!

-Elf.

How to improve Outlook 2007 response

I had been seeing slow responses in my Outlook for a while and when I googled I came across this post which talked about disabling add-ins - http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2007/04/is_outlook_2007.html
I tried it and does look like its improved. I had actually installed Adobe Acrobat and that had added an Outlook addin. This was recently and I think that was the main culprit!