June 2010 ~ bench3

Most Common Elements Of An Effective Resume

Labels: Education , English , Job Search

Your resume is a piece of paper (or an electronic document) that serves to introduce you to the people who will eventually hire you. To write a thoughtful resume, you must thoroughly assess your personality, your accomplishments, and the skills you have acquired. The act of composing and submitting a resume also requires you to carefully consider the company or individual that might hire you. What are they looking for, and how can you meet their needs?

There are a variety of ways to organize and present your information. Distilling your work experience, education, and interests into such a small space requires preparation and thought. It serves as a workbook and a place to write down your experiences, while also including the techniques you’ll need to pull all the necessary elements together.

An effective resume is composed of information that employers are most interested in knowing about a prospective job applicant. This information is conveyed by a few essential elements. The following is a list of elements that are found in most resumes—some essential, some optional.

Heading
Objective and/or Keyword Section
Work Experience
Education
Honors
Activities
Certificates and Licenses
Publications
Professional Memberships
Special Skills
Personal Information
References

The first step in preparing your resume is to gather information about yourself and your past accomplishments. Later you will refine this information, rewrite it using effective language, and organize it into an attractive layout. But first, let’s take a look at each of these important elements individually so you can judge their appropriateness for your resume. Good Luck To Land in Your Dream Job!

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Understanding Shell and System Locations In Windows 7

Labels: Hibernate , Microsoft , ShellCommand , Start Menu , Windows 7

On the right side of the Start menu, you’ll see a list of commands that are vaguely similar to what appeared on the XP and Vista Start menu. However, if you’re coming from XP, many of the names have changed. For example, the old My Documents link has been replaced by one named Documents, My Pictures is now Pictures, My Music is now Music, My Computer is now Computer, and My Network Places is now Network. There are some new items, too, as well as some missing items that were present in XP.

At the top of the right side of the Start menu, you will see a link that has the same name as your user account. For example, if you’re logged on as Haja, the first link on the right side of the Start menu will also be named Haja. When you click this link, it opens a Windows Explorer window displaying the contents of your user folder, which is found in C:\Users\Your Username, by default.

This folder contains folders such as My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, and so on. It’s unclear why you would ever need to access this folder, except in rare circumstances. For this reason, you may simply want to remove it from the Start menu and replace it with a more frequently needed command (like Videos).

The Games link debuted in Windows Vista and opens the Games Explorer, which provides access to both games that came with Windows and those you might purchase separately. One feature some people might miss with the new Start menu is the ability to quickly cause the system to shut down, restart, sleep, or hibernate using just the keyboard.

In Windows XP, you could tap the Windows key, press U, and then U for shut down, R for restart, S for sleep, or H for hibernate (the latter of which was a hidden option).

Because of the Start Menu Search feature in the Windows 7 Start menu, these shortcuts no longer work. However, you can still perform these actions with the keyboard in Windows 7.

Now, however, you have to tap the Windows key and then press the Right Arrow key three times to display the submenu shown in Figure below, which provides links to the aforementioned options as well as Switch User, Log Off, Lock, and, if you have a notebook computer with a docking station, Undock. The default option— on the button, not the menu—is shut down.

In Windows XP and Vista, some of these links pointed to special shell folders, special physical folder locations that were reserved for specific purposes. In Windows 7, these links no longer point to special shell folders; they point instead to Libraries, a new Windows 7 feature. From a usage standpoint, Windows 7 Libraries work similarly to special shell folders from previous Windows versions.

Options related to shutting down, sleeping, and locking the PC are available via this mini pop-up menu.

Notice that this menu is, alas, a pop-up menu similar to the All Programs menu in Windows XP. Why Microsoft killed pop-up menus in one place but added them in another is a mystery.

How To Enable Compatibility Mode Manually

Labels: Compatibility Mode , Microsoft , Windows 7

Compatibility Mode: If you do run into an application that won’t work properly in Windows 7, first try to run it within a special emulation mode called compatibility mode. This enables you to trick the application into thinking it is running on an older version of Windows.

There are three ways to trigger this functionality:

Automatically via a wizard, or
Manually via the Explorer shell.
There’s also a third related function, the Program Compatibility Assistant, which appears automatically when Windows 7 detects you’re having a problem installing or using an application.

The first and the third method are automatic. you don't need to do anything with it. So, lets shift our views to the 2nd, that is manually enabling compatibility mode.

Enabling Compatibility Mode Manually

You don’t actually have to hunt around for the Program Compatibility Wizard if you want to run an application in compatibility mode. Instead, find the executable (or, better yet, a shortcut to the executable, such as the ones you’ll find in the Start menu), right-click, and choose Properties. Then, navigate to the Compatibility tab, shown in Figure below.

As you can see, this tab provides all of the options found in the wizard, but in a handier, more easily contained location. Just pick the options you’d like, click Apply, and test the application. Once it’s working correctly, you can click OK and never bother with this interface again.

Compatibility mode is a great (if hidden) feature, but it’s no panacea. Some applications will simply never run on Windows 7, no matter what you do.

Installing Windows 7 On A Mac | Windows On Macintosh Computers

Labels: Apple , Macintosh , Microsoft , Virtual , Virtual PC , Windows 7

When Apple switched its desirable Macintosh computers from the aging Power PC architecture to Intel’s PC-compatible x86 platform in 2006, the computing landscape was changed forever. No longer were PCs and Macs incompatible at a very low level.

Indeed, Macs are now simply PCs running a different operating system. This fascinating change opened up the possibility of Mac users running Windows software natively on their machines, either in a dual-boot scenario or, perhaps, in a virtualized environment that would offer much better performance than the Power PC–based virtualized environments of the past.

These dreams quickly became reality. Apple created software called Boot Camp that now enables Mac users to dual-boot between Mac OS X (Leopard or higher) and Windows XP, Vista, or 7. And enterprising tech pioneers such as VMware and Parallels have created seamless virtualization environments for Mac OS X that enable Mac users to run popular Windows applications alongside Mac-only software such as iLife.

Now consumers can choose a best-of-both-worlds solution that combines Apple’s highly regarded (if expensive) hardware with the compatibility and software-library depth of Windows.

The differences between these two types of Windows-on-Mac solutions are important to understand. If you choose to dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows using Boot Camp, you have the advantage of running each system with the complete power of the underlying hardware. However, you can access only one OS at a time, and you need to reboot the Mac in order to access the other.

With a virtualized environment running under Mac OS X, you have the advantage of running Mac OS X and Windows applications side by side, but with a performance penalty. In this situation, Mac OS X is considered the host OS, and Windows is a guest OS running on top of Mac OS X. This works much like Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode.

Thus, Windows applications won’t run at full speed. With enough RAM, you won’t notice any huge performance issues while utilizing productivity applications, but you can’t run Windows games effectively with such a setup. Note, too, that the Windows 7 Aero user experience is not available in today’s virtualized environments, so you would have to settle for Windows 7 Basic instead.

Regardless of which method you use to install Windows 7, be aware of a final limitation: you need to purchase a copy of Windows 7, as no Mac ships with Microsoft’s operating system. This is a not-so-fine point that Apple never seems to mention in their advertising.

Delaying Windows 7 Product Activation | Extending Windows 7 Activation Grace Period

Labels: Activate Windows , Microsoft , Windows 7

Retail versions of Windows 7 must be activated within 30 days. Otherwise, the system slips into an annoying state in which it notifies you, every 60 minutes, that the system must be activated. Still, the 30-day grace period is useful, especially if you’re just testing some things and want to ensure that your new install is working properly before you lock things down and tie your one product key to this particular PC.

That said, sometimes 30 days isn’t enough, and if you want to extend this grace period, we’ve got some good news: thanks to a barely documented feature aimed at Microsoft’s corporate customers, it’s actually possible to extend the activation grace period up to a total of 150 days. You just have to be a bit vigilant.

The key to extending the grace period is a command-line program in Windows 7 called

Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR), which is actually a VBScript script named slmgr.vbs. (It can be found in c:\windows\system32 by default.) Using this script with the -rearm parameter, you can reset (or, in Software Licensing Manager lingo, “re-arm”) Windows 7’s 30-day activation grace period. This effectively resets the clock on the activation grace period back to a full 30 days whenever you run it.

Unfortunately, you can run this script successfully only four times, so it’s theoretically possible to re-arm the product activation grace period to a total of 150 days (30 days of initial grace period plus four additional 30-day grace periods). That said, even the most careful of users will likely want to re-arm the grace period with a few days remaining each time, but you’re still looking at over 100 days of non-activated Windows 7 usage.

You can view your current grace period in the System window. To do so, open the Start menu, right-click the Computer icon, and choose Properties. The bottom section of this window, Windows activation, displays how many days you have until the grace period ends, and provides a link to activate Windows immediately, as shown

Here’s how to re-arm the Windows 7 product-activation grace period:

Open the Start menu, select Search, and type cmd.
Right-click the cmd shortcut that appears and choose Run as Administrator from the pop-up menu that appears. Windows 7’s command-line window appears.
Type the following text in the command-line window and press Enter when complete: slmgr.vbs -rearm
When the command is run successfully, the Windows Script Host window appears, noting “Command completed successfully. Please restart the system for the changes to take effect.”
Click OK to close the Windows Script Host window and then restart the PC. When
you reboot, reload the System window. The grace period has been reset to 30 days.
Done!

The Software Licensing Manager script wasn’t designed solely to extend the Windows 7 grace period. If you run slmgr.vbs from a Windows 7 command-line window without any parameters, you’ll eventually be presented with the dialog displaying the many possible options...
The most interesting of these include the following:
-ipk: Enables you to change the Windows product key

-dlv: Displays a detailed list of license information about your PC, including the Windows 7 product version and type (e.g., retail)

-ato: Activates Windows 7

-dti: Activates Windows 7 offline, without an Internet connection

List Of All Shortcut Used With Microsoft Office Excel

Labels: Excel , Office , Shortcuts

EXCEL® SHORTCUT KEYS

F2 Edit the selected cell

F5 Go to a specific cell

F7 Spell check selected text and/or document

F11 Create chart

Ctrl + Shift + ; Enter the current time

Ctrl + ; Enter the current date

Alt + Shift + F1 Insert new worksheet

Shift + F3 Open the Excel® formula window

Shift + F5 Bring up search box

Ctrl + A Select all contents of worksheet

Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection

Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection

Ctrl + C Copy selected text

Ctrl + V Paste

Ctrl + D Fill

Ctrl + K Insert link

Ctrl + F Open find and replace options

Ctrl + G Open go-to options

Ctrl + H Open find and replace options

Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection

Ctrl + Y Underline selected text

Ctrl + 5 Strikethrough highlighted selection

Ctrl + O Open options

Ctrl + N Open new document

Ctrl + P Open print dialog box

Ctrl + S Save

Ctrl + Z Undo last action

Ctrl + F9 Minimize current window

Ctrl + F10 Maximize currently selected window

Ctrl + F6 Switch between open workbooks/windows

Ctrl + Page up and Page Down Move between Excel® worksheets in the same document

Ctrl + Tab Move between two or more open Excel® files

Alt + = Create formula to sum all of above cells

Ctrl + ‘ Insert value of above cell into current cell

Ctrl + Shift + ! Format number in comma format

Ctrl + Shift + $ Format number in currency format

Ctrl + Shift + # Format number in date format

Ctrl + Shift + % Format number in percentage format

Ctrl + Shift + ^ Format number in scientific format

Ctrl + Shift + @ Format number in time format

Ctrl + g Move to next section of text

Ctrl + Space Select entire column

Shift + Space Select entire row

Ctrl + W Close document

List Of Shortcut Keys Related To Microsoft Outlook

Labels: Office , Outlook , Shortcuts

OUTLOOK® SHORTCUT KEYS

Alt + S Send the email

Ctrl + C Copy selected text

Ctrl + X Cut selected text

Ctrl + P Open print dialog box

Ctrl + K Complete name/email typed in address bar

Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection

Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection

Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection

Ctrl + R Reply to an email

Ctrl + F Forward an email

Ctrl + N Create a new email

Ctrl + Shift + A Create a new appointment to your calendar

Ctrl + Shift + O Open the outbox

Ctrl + Shift + I Open the inbox

Ctrl + Shift + K Add a new task

Ctrl + Shift + C Create a new contact

Ctrl + Shift+ J Create a new journal entry

Refer my other post to know the list of all Windows Shortcuts.

Shortcut Keys Related To Microsoft Word

Labels: Office , Shortcuts

WORD® SHORTCUT KEYS

Ctrl + A Select all contents of the page

Ctrl + B Bold highlighted selection

Ctrl + C Copy selected text

Ctrl + X Cut selected text

Ctrl + N Open new/blank document

Ctrl + O Open options

Ctrl + P Open the print window

Ctrl + F Open find box

Ctrl + I Italicize highlighted selection

Ctrl + K Insert link

Ctrl + U Underline highlighted selection

Ctrl + V Paste

Ctrl + Y Redo the last action performed

Ctrl + Z Undo last action

Ctrl + G Find and replace options

Ctrl + H Find and replace options

Ctrl + J Justify paragraph alignment

Ctrl + L Align selected text or line to the left

Ctrl + Q Align selected paragraph to the left

Ctrl + E Align selected text or line to the center

Ctrl + R Align selected text or line to the right

Ctrl + M Indent the paragraph

Ctrl + T Hanging indent

Ctrl + D Font options

Ctrl + Shift + F Change the font

Ctrl + Shift + > Increase selected font +1

Ctrl + ] Increase selected font +1

Ctrl + Shift + < Decrease selected font -1

Ctrl + [ Decrease selected font -1

Ctrl + Shift + * View or hide non printing characters

Ctrl + f Move one word to the left

Ctrl + g Move one word to the right

Ctrl + h Move to beginning of the line or paragraph

Ctrl + i Move to the end of the paragraph

Ctrl + Del Delete word to right of cursor

Ctrl + Backspace Delete word to left of cursor

Ctrl + End Move cursor to end of document

Ctrl + Home Move cursor to beginning of document

Ctrl + Space Reset highlighted text to default font

Ctrl + 1 Single-space lines

Ctrl + 2 Double-space lines

Ctrl + 5 1.5-line spacing

Ctrl + Alt + 1 Change text to heading 1

Ctrl + Alt + 2 Change text to heading 2

Ctrl + Alt + 3 Change text to heading 3

F1 Open help

Shift + F3 Change case of selected text

Shift + Insert Paste

F4 Repeat last action performed (Word 2000+)

F7 Spell check selected text and/or document

Shift + F7 Activate the thesaurus

F12 Save as

Ctrl + S Save

Shift + F12 Save

Alt + Shift + D Insert the current date

Alt + Shift + T Insert the current time

Ctrl + W Close document

Difference Between The Suite And Server Versions Of Acronis Disk Director

Labels: Disk Backup , Linux , LinuxServer , Recovery , Windows Server

Please be aware that Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 support Windows 2003 Server but Acronis Disk Director 10.0 does not. Acronis did not have different versions for home users and servers until the 10.0 version of Acronis Disk Director was released.

The main difference between Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 and Acronis Diask Director Suite 10.0 is that the first product is oriented for servers and supports server operating systems and that Acronis OS Selector is included into Suite version only.

Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation does not support Windows 2003 Server, you can use Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows.

I recommend you to download and install the free trial version of Acronis True Image 9.1 Server to see how the software works on your computer.

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/download/

Disable The Memory Dump File Creation In Windows

Labels: Windows Tips

Unless you plan to have continuous Blue-Screens-of-Deaths (BSOD) and unless you have good debugging skills - you don't need the memory dumping feature in case of a system failure.

Follow the next steps:

Right-click My Computer and select Properties (or press the Windows logo key ÿ and the Pause/Break key together).
In the Advanced tab, under the Startup and Recovery section, press the Settings button.
In the System Failure section under the Write Debugging Information drop down list select None.
Press Ok all the way out.
You may need to reboot in order to finish the configuration.

Configure Internet Explorer To Download More Than Two Concurrent Files

Labels: Windows Registry , Windows Tips

IE 6 has a nasty habit of preventing us from downloading more than 2 files at once. Sounds idiotic? Believe it or not, it's true! To configure IE to allow up to 10 simultaneous downloads (it only allows 2 at a time) do the following:

1. Open Registry Editor.

2. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry value:

"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=Dword:0000000a "MaxConnectionsPerServer"=Dword:0000000a

You can change 0000000a to any other value as long as it's hexadecimal.

4. Close the registry editor.

Error 0X0000004E | PFN_LIST_CORRUPT In Windows

Labels: ErrorMessage , Memory , Windows Tips

This error actually not specific to any windows operating system. It can occur to any windows OS. Believe me, it does exist and happen frequently to any PC on which the RAM (memory) in in problem.

The stop looks something like this.

Run a Memory Test Application it will tell you to replace RAM.

If you are having more than one RAM, try one RAM at a time to know which one has the problem.

Most Common Elements Of An Effective Resume

Understanding Shell and System Locations In Windows 7

How To Enable Compatibility Mode Manually

Installing Windows 7 On A Mac | Windows On Macintosh Computers

Delaying Windows 7 Product Activation | Extending Windows 7 Activation Grace Period

List Of All Shortcut Used With Microsoft Office Excel

List Of Shortcut Keys Related To Microsoft Outlook

Shortcut Keys Related To Microsoft Word

Difference Between The Suite And Server Versions Of Acronis Disk Director

Disable The Memory Dump File Creation In Windows

Configure Internet Explorer To Download More Than Two Concurrent Files

Error 0X0000004E | PFN_LIST_CORRUPT In Windows

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