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Today's Tips 10/18/2006
Locate A Forgotten Microsoft Internet Explorer
Web Page In Windows XP!
If you're a frequent web surfer, you likely browse through dozens of
pages every day, and may sometimes forget to bookmark a crucial page.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 gives you a way to recover the page using
its History feature. To enable and use it, open Internet Explorer and
click the History button (or choose View | Explorer Bar | History). The
History pane appears on the left side of the Internet Explorer window
and contains shortcuts to every page you visited up to three weeks ago.
By default, the links are organized by date. Click on the link
corresponding to the week in which you believe you last viewed the site.
Links in each week's groupings are listed alphabetically.
You can also change the number of days pages are saved in the History
pane. To do so, choose Tools | Internet Options. On the General property
sheet, change the number in the Days To Keep Pages In History spin box.
Then, click OK.
Gary Chambers
Remove Your Name From The Start Menu In Windows
XP!
Windows XP places the name for the person currently logged on to the
system at the top of the Start menu. The reason for this is to make it
easier to tell which user is logged on to a Windows XP system set up
with multiple users. However, if you're the only person using the
computer, you don't really need to have your name at the top of the
Start menu. You can remove it using the Group Policy console (the
Microsoft Management Console snap-in used to edit Group Policy objects).
1. Launch the Group Policy console (Gpedit.msc).
2. Go to User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Start Menu And
Taskbar.
3. Locate and double-click the Remove User Name From Start Menu setting.
4. Select the Enabled option button and click OK.
5. Exit the Group Policy console. The change will take place
immediately.
Note: This tip applies
only to Windows XP Professional.
Gary Chambers
Cycle Through An Application's Task Panes
Without Using The Menu Bar In Office XP!
Microsoft Office XP's task bars are supposed to make accessing an
application's tools and features quicker and easier. Many users,
however, still use the options accessible through the menu bar along the
top of an application to launch the appropriate task bar--only then do
they locate the tool or feature they're after in the corresponding task
pane. (I understand, old habits are hard to break.)
But once you become familiar with an application's task panes, you don't
need to use the menu bar to open the task panes. Instead, you can easily
switch to a new task pane by clicking on the arrow to the right of the
active task pane's name in the task pane's title bar. Then, simply
select the new task bar to want to display from the resulting menu. As
you become accustomed to looking for features on task panes, you'll find
that you'll be returning to cascading menus in the menu bar less and
less frequently.
Cathy Chambers
Changing The Default View In Windows 2000
Explorer!
When you open Windows Explorer by choosing Start | Programs |
Accessories | Windows Explorer, it defaults to displaying the contents
of your user account's My Documents folder. If you would prefer to have
the default view for Windows Explorer be the contents of My Computer
instead, you can do so by modifying the program’s shortcut. Begin by
choosing Start | Programs | Accessories. Next, right-click on the
Windows Explorer shortcut and choose Properties. In the Target text box,
type %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe
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and click OK to save your changes. Windows Explorer will now open
with My Computer as the default view.
Gary Chambers
MSConfig Is Short For The Microsoft System
Configuration Utility!
MSConfig is short for the "Microsoft System configuration Utility," a
little program that comes with Windows 98, Me, and XP. To run it, click
the Start menu button, click Run, type "msconfig" (without quotation
marks), and press Enter.
When you click the Startup tab you'll see a long list of programs that
run when you load Windows. Some of these are definitely unnecessary, but
others perform functions you may need. Since every system varies, I
can't tell you which ones you can safely turn off. You can use trial and
error, of course, nothing in here is absolutely critical.
I'd suggest leaving on most programs that live in the Windows folders,
they're likely useful Windows tasks. On the other hand, you can safely
turn off items such as the RealOne quick start that exist solely to put
an advertisement in your system tray.
In XP's Services tab, you'll want to turn off Messenger.
Gary Chambers
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Performance Tips For Windows! I Just Listed Them On A Web Page Because
Some Are Registry Edits.
1. Speed Up The Start Menu In XP!
2. Disabling Hibernation In XP!
3. Optimize System Performance In Windows XP!
4. Want To Enable Boot Defragment?
5. Balance System Performance and Visual Effects!
6. Customize the CPU Cycles Given to Programs and Processes!
7. Turn Off Multimedia and Graphics on Web Pages!
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