Have “Appear Offline” Option in Office Communicator 2007 Status Menu

That “Appear Offline” menu option is _not_ there by default installation of Office Communicator 2007 _but_ you can have it by going through these steps:

1. Click Windows’ Start menu and type regedit in the run command box.

2. In the Registry Editor window, go to Computer > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Communicator

3. Right click in the right panel and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.

4. Key in “EnableAppearOffline” under name and press Enter key.

5. Double click the EnableAppearOffline row entry and update it’s value to 1.

6. Exit Office Communicator 2007 and launch it again to see the Appear Offline menu option among the available Status options.

Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows 7

 

Have you ever wanted to use another computer running Windows 7 within your local area network but does not want to physically move to the said machine? Here’s what you can do:

Configure the other computer to allow remote desktop connections!

STEP 1: Navigate Start Menu > Computer > Properties

STEP 2: Click the Remote Settings link.

STEP 3: Select “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop” option. Hit the OK button.

And there you have it. The other computer can now be remotely accessed from your machine.