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Recently I haven’t been doing much work on both my laptop and desktop and thus I noticed that the version of my MSN Messenger is quite old. I just can’t remember if I was using the old 8.2 or even older 8.

Actually it doesn’t really matter much coz I’m using MSN for some occasional chatting and catching up; maybe just a couple of people a day. Other than chatting, I don’t use msn for other purposes. Voice/Video is done on pfingo, which is way stable.

Messenger Updates itself via Windows Update

While updating my Windows XP manually using the web update interface, I discovered that you can actually update your Live Messenger via the interface. That means, if you’ve enabled auto updates, you should be receiving a copy of the latest Messenger.

Isn’t it cool?  So, have you upgraded your MSN? If not, visit Windows Update to have it upgraded! MSN 8.5 means more features and less bugs.

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Lately I was googling for the shortest and simplest way of generating some random passwords. So here we go. I’ll share with you what I found and how I applied them.

VB.Net

Public Function GenerateRandomPassword(ByVal length as Integer) as String
Dim strGuid as String = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
strGuid= strGuid.Replace(”-”, String.Empty)
Return strGuid.Substring(0, length)
End Function

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