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Microsoft Outlook is a wonderful app that helps you manage your emails perfectly with labels, flags, filters etc. If you have a good configuration laptop/ PC, using outlook is butter. But! If you have a low configuration system, Outlook becomes laggy over time. This has partly to do with the offline caches stored by outlook. What are offline caches? Outlook has feature called “caching” which downloads a copy of your mailbox to your local storage. This feature allows you to access your email even when you are offline. While this has some benefits such as improved performance considering the fact that our mailboxes are nowadays housed in a centralized server delaying the access time. Outlook’s local cache of mailbox data in an OST file which has varied size limits (up to 50 GB in Office 365). As the size of this IST file grows, the performance of Outlook starts degrading. Moreover, larger OST files can also get corrupted. ...

Create multiple folders with file names in PowerShell

I’ve been a long-time user of Chocolatey, primarily using it for clean installations and uninstallations of software. Recently, I started using Chocolatey to manage and upgrade existing software on my PC, combined with PowerShell. Here’s how I achieved it. To update all the software on your PC, the command choco upgrade all -y works perfectly. Since the packages come from verified sources, I generally don’t worry about malware. This command performs an unattended installation of all possible software, as Chocolatey can take over existing installs and handle uninstalls in most cases. If there isn’t a chocolateyUninstall.ps1 script, Chocolatey won’t be able to uninstall the software. ...