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Today's Tips 07/10/2006
Making The Windows XP Favorites Menu More Useful In Windows Explorer!
Similar to Internet Explorer, the Favorites menu in Windows XP appears
in Windows Explorer. This makes it easy for you to access the Internet
from within Windows Explorer. However, it really serves no other purpose
in Windows Explorer—even though it has the potential to do so much more.
You can make hard disk and network navigation much easier and more
efficient if you use the Favorites menu as a place to keep shortcuts to
deeply nested folders on your hard disk, as well as to network drives
that you access frequently. Doing so just takes a bit of rethinking
about how you use and organize the Favorites menu.
Here's how:
1. Press [Windows]R to access the Run dialog box, type Favorites in the
Open text box, and click OK to open the Favorites folder in Windows
Explorer.
2. Use the "Make A New Folder" command in the File And Folder Tasks pane
to create three new folders naming them Internet, Local Folders , and
Network Folders.
3. Move all of your Internet links, except the folder titled Links into
the newly created Internet folder.
4. Navigate to some of the deeply nested folders on your hard disk that
you access frequently and use the Add To Favorites command on the
Favorites menu to create links in the Local Folders folder.
5. Navigate to some of the network shares that you access frequently and
use the Add To Favorites command to create links in the Network Folders
folder.
Now, when you're in Windows Explorer you can use the Local Folders and
Network Folders shortcuts on the Favorites menu to make quick work of
your regular hard disk and network navigation.
Note: This tip applies to both Windows XP Professional and Home.
Gary Chambers
Quickly Renaming Digital Files In Windows XP!
Windows XP offers a method of renaming a group of files. It doesn't
offer many options, but it can help get you organized. To select a
series of files to rename, select the first filename, and then hold down
[Shift] and click on the last item. To select nonconsecutive files, hold
down [Ctrl] and click on each item. Then, right-click on the group and
choose Rename to open the Rename dialog box. Next, type your new
filename and press Enter. The selected filenames are changed to the new
name plus a sequential number starting with (1), except for the first
file, which will just contain the new name. So, if your new name was
InternetFixes, your files would be renamed InternetFixes, InternetFixes
(1), InternetFixes (2), etc.
Here's another renaming tip for Windows XP. If you find another group of
photos you want to add to a renamed group, select the files, right-click
on them and choose Rename. Then, enter the series name followed by the
next number in the sequence. For example, the new name InternetFixes
(10) would yield consecutive filenames of InternetFixes (11),
InternetFixes (12), InternetFixes (13), etc.
Gary Chambers
Control Your Cookie Intake In Windows XP!
If you're worried about too many cookies being stored on your PC, you'll
be pleased to know that there's an easy way to control your PC's cookie
intake. Just click the Start button and then choose Control Panel. If
you're using Category view, click on the Network And Internet
Connections link and then click on Internet Options. If you're using
Classic view, double-click on the Internet Options icon.
Next, select the Privacy tab, and use the slider bar to modify your
cookie settings. To increase your PC security, try out all the privacy
settings in this property sheet to choose the best one for your needs.
The lowest level is Accept All Cookies while the highest is Block All
Cookies, with Low, Medium, Medium-high, and High settings in between.
Gary Chambers
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