That's the title of a new document the BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center posted today.

Linked via the Read prompt below this post, this involves several steps. Each of these has their own steps-with-steps.

I'll tell you the major steps for Windows XP. Follow the link I just mentioned for Windows ME or 98 machines.

1. Close BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
2. Open the Control Panel and double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3. Select BlackBerry Desktop Software and click Change/Remove.
4. On the InstallShield Wizard window, click the Remove option, followed by Next.
5. On the Confirm Uninstall window, click OK.
6. On the InstallShield Wizard window, click Finish.

Follow along, now:

I've just received my monthly copy of BlackBerry Connection.

This issue's lead article is about Smart Card security, as practiced by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Inside, there are pieces about ensuring your BlackBerry changes its time settings to Daylight Savings Time, BlackBerry solutions for various industries, and even how to play Tetris on your BlackBerry.

So maybe today's the day you want to perform what is called a "knife-edge cutover" of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0 or 4.1 from one computer to another.

"Oh, joy," you say to yourself.

But you're in luck, because the BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center has just posted a How-To document that walks you through the process. I've linked to this document below this post.

Because this is fairly detailed stuff I will refer you to the Document for the detailed, well, deets.

But if you want a top-level view of the procedure involved, I'll tell you there are five general steps involved.

These are:

1. Gather BlackBerry Enterprise Server Information.
2. Ensure permissions are correctly configured.
3. Move the BlackBerry Configuration Database.
4. Stop the BlackBerry services.
5. Install the new BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

The BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center has just posted a new support document entitled Unable to integrate a POP3 email account after changing messaging and collaboration servers.

This happens when, after messaging servers are changed, a BlackBerry device user working with BlackBerry Internet Service can't integrate or receive emails from a POP3 email account.

The document tells us that when a mail server is changed, it takes a few days for the DNS (Domain Name System) servers to update the IP (Internet Protocol) address.

Rather than just have you wait, this document (linked below) provides a five-step resolution.

I'm just about to tell you what those steps are.

While the instructions I cited for removing the "Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld" tagline does not work on the Pearl, BBHub reader and ardent ham radio guy David Kozinn provides this solution for performing that action on the BlackBerry Pearl.

"On the Pearl, go into the messages list, and press the menu key (the one to the left of the trackball)," David advises. "Scroll down to and select "Options," then "Email Settings" and make sure that "Use Auto Signature" is set to "Yes." You'll then be able to change your signature.

But then David adds an important point.

"Note that this procedure applies if you are using a corporate BES server," he writes. "If you\'re using a BIS server (i.e., you have an email address like someone@carrier.blackberry.net), you have to change the setting on their website."

In her Quick Fix column in the Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Blackwell tackles a subject I don't recall that we've done here- nor any of the other BlackBerry-centered blogs and forums have either.

Her topic partially involves how to fix those "Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld" taglines at the end of your outgoing emails. Like the one I am showing you in that grab over there on the right.

This doesn't work on the Pearl but should on most other BlackBerry devices.

"To get rid of the BlackBerry tagline using the device itself, " Elizabeth writes, "go to 'Messages,' click on the dateline, which will prompt 'Options.' Select 'E-mail Settings,' then 'Auto Signature.'

Now you are ready to send your tagline away.

"You'll see the 'Sent from Blackberry' message in a text box," writes Elizabeth. "Simply delete it or type in a personalized signature instead>"

I'm writing this post not out of some grand revelation, but because this common question has surfaced on the forums again.

This time it is the BlackBerry section of the Howard Forums.

"Can I have Desktop Manager (shown above) on two computers and use the same BB 7103e on each (not at the same time)," asks ScottPV. "I currently use the BB as a EVDO modem and data sync on one laptop and want to also use it on my Samsung Q1 (XP handtop)."

ScottPV then clarifies that he really only wants to use the 7130e on the Q1 as a modem.

"I have never been able to get the 7103e to work as a modem on my laptop without Desktop Manager and I assume the same will be true for the Q."

Well, ScottPV, you are in good luck.

In a popular Experts-Exchange BlackBerry article entitled BlackBerry wireless backup restore (link below), MisUszatek asks if this is possible via BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

We have a running BES 4.1 with wireless backup enabled for all the users," MisUszatek writes. "Where and how can I manage it? I want to see what is being backed up, when and where. How do I do the partial restore on the same handheld or a full restore on the replacement phone? "

Well, hate to break this to you on the cusp of New Year's Eve, but what you are asking for isn't the easiest.

In fact, you have to stick to a BlackBerryForums thread on this very subject.

In the BlackBerry section of Experts Exchange, the fifth-most read newer thread is entitled "Upgrade BES From 3.6 to 4.1.2."

"If I run an upgrade of my BES from 3.6 to 4.1.2 do I need to get new SRP info from the network?," asks thread-starter stagetech.

Not to make matters easier, he tells us that he gas the download but cannot find the SRP code other than the one he had with his Blackberry Enterprise Server 3.6.

Top-ranked Blackberry expert garycutri has the answer.

These days, the fourth most read question/answer sequence on the BlackBerry section of Experts-Exchange has to do with Error 15000. It seems to be related to BlackBerry Mobile Data Service not exactly making beautiful music with BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Specifically, BlackBerry Enterprise Server eazstream wants to know what's happening.

In a thread he's started called "event log error message event ID : 15000 Source: BlackBerry Mobile Data Service" (link below) he writes that he keeps on getting this error message daily on his event log under application tab on my BB server...

event ID: 15000
Source: BlackBerry Mobile Data Service
Type: Error
Category: None

Next, eazstream informs us of the Description (or lack thereof) he obtains when he looks into this issue:

"Error: <ITEM>: Failed to start font exporting process. Please verify that installation completed successfully".

OK, so you are working with the Plazmic Content Developer's Kit to work up some cool themes for your BlackBerry.

Or other's BlackBerry's.

But then you hit a rough patch. Say you jes' can't seem to ignite the font exporting process when you try to export a theme.

You see an error code like the one at the top of this post.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

On this blog, the "candle" becomes a workaround or resolution. Similar to that recommended in a newly posted BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center Support document entitled, "Failed to start font explorting process when trying to export a theme."

There are two possible causes for this. Each has a Resolution (not the New Year's type, but the workaround type.

I've been counting down the ten most-read BBHub posts of 2006.

According to our server logs, #5 was "Here's how to unlock the BlackBerry Pearl."

I've been noticing that these "unlock" threads get lots of traffic. And since this thread went up on September 20- the week after the much-anticipated Pearl was released- I knew when I posted it that this one would be exceedingly popular.

The post (click the Read link below) is a walk-through of how Howard Forums Member ChrisDressler approached the issue.

On the BlackBerry section of Experts-Exchange, the #2 most-read newer document is "Any way to wireless sync with Public Folder With BES?"

"We have a centralized calendar and contact list in Exchange Public Folders and would like to wireless sync with this," writes FASTECHS. Is this possible?

Well, it sure is. Drawing on a BlackBerryForums thread devoted to the subject, 2006's top-rated Experts-Exchange BlackBerry expert garycutri offers these tips:

Seems like BlackBerryForums Member lintakoc has been having a rough patch insofar as his BlackBerry is concerned.

Maybe not just a rough patch. A wet one.

In fact, linkatoc started a thread yesterday morning entitled, Help! Lost My Phone In Rain 7105t. (Link below)

Here's prob:

"PLEASE HELP ME. THe battery has the red mark and the phone does too, i think that means water damage.....obviously. umm is there any chance it might still work if it dries off?," writes linkatoc, who is from College Station, Texas (where it rains a lot).

"It has been outside for a long time, 8hrs probably with drizzling rain. I blew it dry with a hairdryer, but when I shook it, i heard water moving inside. how do i get this case off ASAP?"

Well, lintatoc, help is on the way from one of BlackBerry Forums most frequent posters of helpful info.

That'd be John Clark, who is from Oregon where it rains a hell of a lot (including right at this very sec. outside my Oregon door on the cliffside here in Portland).