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Today's Tips 07/11/2006

View Maximum Screen Real Estate While Browsing In Windows XP!

If you find yourself constantly scrolling web pages while surfing online, you can easily view more of Internet Explorer's screen with a simple keyboard stroke. Simply press [F11], and Internet Explorer switches to Full Screen mode. In this view, the Windows taskbar and system tray on the bottom of your screen disappear. To get the most possible viewing space, right-click on the empty gray area on the right side of the top menu bar and select Auto-Hide. This will hide the top menu bar as well. Simply hover your mouse over the bottom or top of the screen to display the corresponding menu or taskbar. You can exit this view mode by pressing [F11] again.

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Quickly Adjust Your Speakers By Adding The Volume Icon To The System Tray In Windows XP!

If you often need to adjust the volume of your speakers or headphones while listening to tunes at work, you can have faster access to volume control settings on your Windows XP system simply by adding an icon to your system tray.

All you need to do is open the Control Panel and double-click on the Sounds And Audio Devices applet. On the Volume property sheet, select the Place Volume Icon In The Taskbar check box, and then click OK. You can now adjust your sound settings by double-clicking on the speaker icon in your system tray.

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Delete Unnecessary Thumbs.db Files In Windows XP!

Have you ever been mystified as to how the small Thumbs.db files end up in your Windows XP folders? When viewing a folder with the Thumbnails view, Windows XP creates a Thumbs.db file, which is a cache of the current pictures in that folder. If you want to get rid of these annoying extra files and save a little disk space, you can easily do so.

Open Windows Explorer, choose Tools | Folder Options, and then select the View tab. Under Files And Folders, select the Do Not Cache Thumbnails check box, and then click Apply and OK.

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Assign A Drive Letter To A Network Computer Or Folder!

1. Open My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.
3. In Drive, select a drive letter.
4. In Folder, type the server and share name of the computer or folder you want.

Example:
\\servername\sharename.
-or-
Click Browse to find the computer or folder.

Side Notes:
- To open My Computer, double-click the My Computer icon on the desktop.
- To reconnect to the mapped drive every time you log on, select the Reconnect at logon check box.
- Mapped drives are available only when the host computer is available.
- Network drives are assigned letters from Z to A, and local drives (your hard drive and removable storage devices) are assigned letters from A to Z.
- You can assign a computer or shared folder to a different drive letter by disconnecting from the drive and then reassigning it to a new drive letter.

Gary Chambers

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