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* 33 Hard Drive - Check Amount of Space Used/Left *
* 35 Hard Drive - Get More Room *
* 31 Desktop - Your Own Pictures as a Screen Saver *
* 52 Internet Explorer - Save Your Favorites List To A File and Print *
* 111 Outlook Express - Preview Pane *
* 70a Outlook Express - Add Sounds *
* 70b Outlook Express - Save Sounds *
Tips of the Month
Open Questions & Answers
33 Hard Drive - Check Amount of Space Used/Left
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Left click on Start and select My Computer
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When the My Computer window opens, left click on View and select Thumbnails. |
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Left click on Local Disk
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You should get something like the following. |
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Under Details - Total Size: and Free Space: will be shown.
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35 Hard Drive - Get More Room
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When you begin to get messages stating there is insufficient space to do certain applications such as "defrag", then it's time to start looking for some way to accommodate the needs of your daily computer operations.
See * 33 Hard Drive - Check Amount of Space Used/Left * and record the Free Space: and Total Size: You should have in excess of 15% free to function without getting the "insufficient space" message.
Left click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools and select Disk Cleanup
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Left click on the OK button |
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Right click on the disk with insufficient space and select Properties. |
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When you have completed the Disk Cleanup, left click on Start and select Control Panel
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When the Control Panel window opens, double left click on Add or Remove Programs
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Remove unused programs. |
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When unused programs have been remove, more cleanup is required, follow the steps below. |
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See
* 22 - Ten Minute PC Tune up *
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* 179 - Clean up All "Temp" Files *
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* 34 - Defrag your Hard Drive *
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Check your disk properties again to see if space enhancements has met your requirements. If not, proceed with the following.
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Left click on Start and select Help and type in a search for compress
and follow the instructions as they are clearly written
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Check the properties of the disk you have just compressed and compare the Used and Free spaces. You should easily gain approximately 30%.
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31 Desktop - Your Own Pictures as a Screen Saver
| There are many Screensaver applications on the internet, some good, some bad. For something simple and spam free, use Google
Click here for a Google
Photos Screensaver
Be sure to select what you want or else you'll be downloading everything Google has to offer over the next few hours if your on dialup. The Adobe Reader is approximately 22.3MB in size and would take at least 1 hour if your dialup was running
normally at 48kbs.
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When you click on Save File, direct yourself in the Save in: field to My Pictures. |
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When you get to My Pictures window, create a new folder called ScreenSavers
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Open ScreenSavers and click on Save
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Left click on
 and select My Documents
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Open My Pictures and click on ScreenSavers
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Right click on Google Updater.exe and select Open
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When the Google Updater window indicates the Downloads and Installs are completed, you can close all open windows on your Desktop
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Right click on your Desktop and select Properties
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When the Display Properties window opens, select the Screen Saver tab |
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In the Screen saver field, select Google Photos Screensaver
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Left click on Settings
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When the Google Photos Screensaver window opens, adjust the settings to your preference |
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Left click on the OK button |
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The Display Properties window will become active, left click on Preview |
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Press any key to exit the Preview
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Left click on the OK button to activate your new Screensaver and close the Display Properties window |
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52 Internet Explorer - Save Your Favorites List To A File and Print
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When you buy a new computer, you might want to keep your Favorites to transfer or, just to print out what you have saved. Whatever the reason, you can start by left clicking on the Add to Favorites button as indicated below and select
Import and
Export...
When the Import/Export Wizard window opens, left click on the Next> button
When the above window opens, select Export Favorites and left click on the Next> button
To export all of your Favorites, select the Favorites folder and again left click on the Next> button
Take note of the location and name of the file you are about to create
Left click on the Next> button
Left click on the Finish button
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To Print the file |
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Use the Search operation to find and Open bookmark.htm
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Left click on the Printer icon and select Print...
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To Transfer the file to another computer |
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Use the Search operation to find and Copy bookmark.htm to suitable media useable by the receiving computer |
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On the receiving computer, open Internet Explorer. |
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Left click on the Add to Favorites button as indicated above and select Import and
Export...
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Continue with the Import/Export Wizard using the Import function |
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111 Outlook Express - Preview Pane
| Outlook Express defaults to a Preview Pane for reading your e-mail in the lower half of the screen. While being very handy, this feature means you are OPENING every e-mail you click on.
This shows Outlook Express window with the Preview Pane enabled. The selected message is already visible in the Preview Pane as soon as you select it even if you
want to delete it, the message is "opened". Sorry, too late, new malicious code has bypassed your day old virus checker and on its way to royally screw up your PC
With Outlook Express open, left click on View and select Layout...
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When Window Layout Properties opens, under Preview Pane, remove the checkmark for Show preview pane. |
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Left click on the Apply button |
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Left click on the OK button |
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70a Outlook Express - Add Sounds
| With the holiday seasons, birthdays, births, anniversaries or you just want to wish someone a good day, it is possible to add your own personal voice message to an email. It is recommended to write a note with a brief outline of what
you want to say to prevent unnecessary spaces in your speech as you search your mind for what next to say (women should have no problem with this). You will be limited to only 60 seconds (women will have a problem with this) and the resulting file
will be approximately 1000 KB.
Left click on
and go to All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, and select Sound Recorder.
When the Sound - Sound Recorder window opens, left click on File and select Properties
When the Properties for Sound window opens, note the Details. Any setting other than what is shown here could make your recorder unusable or the recording length too short.
To change, left click on the Convert Now... button.
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When the Sound Selection window opens, for the Format: and Attributes: fields, select the options as shown. |
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Each time you start a new recording, check the Properties for Sound as M$ in their wisdom like to reset everything to a state of non functioning. |
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For more information on compressing sound files left click on this microphone |
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When you have completed your recording, left click on File and select Save As...
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Choose a suitable name and location. |
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Open Outlook Express and left click on the Create Mail button |
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Click anywhere in the message window. |
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Left click Format go to Background, and select Sound...
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Browse... for the name of the file you want to include and the number of times you want the file to play |
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Left click on the OK button |
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Finish your message and send it off to the unsuspecting to show them your wisdom of handling email |
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| 70b Outlook Express - Save Sounds
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Tips of the Month
 Dress up your email with background stationery and music, click on this icon to connect you to a good web site with lots of holiday stationery.
 Want to add animated graphics and music to your email? Click on this icon. When you connect to the web site, you will hear the music. To save the music,
you have to Search your HDD for *.mid. They will appear somewhere in your Temporary Internet Files. Copy them for later use into My Music.
For more Christmas graphic images, click on this icon
Open Questions & Answers
Q: - Would it be possible to have a field trip to the BECKETT ADULT LEISURE CENTRE where they also have a club
similar to our Computer Support Group?
A: - An email to our contact in Brantford has sent us this message
Hi:
Just got home from shopping in Buffalo on Black Friday. They had some fantastic computer buys. Really enjoyed it.
I called John and asked him if he minded if your club came for a visit and he said no problem. We only have one meeting in January and it is on the 15th. The reason we don't have an earlier one is that it would have been just the day after New Year's and a lot of people are away at that time. February's meetings are the 1st Tuesday of the month and the 3rd Tues. Would you let us know when you will be coming about a week before you do come please, and let us know approximately how many are coming, as we will then have seats set up for you. We are looking forward to seeing you and your members at our club.
I have checked out the website you gave me about your meetings periodically and you are doing a fantastic job with your Computer club. You are doing a great job of teaching. Way to go.
Take Care
Irene
Q: - How do I get rid of a paperclip with googly eyes on right bottom of my window?
A: - The paperclip with googly eyes is the Microsoft Office Assistant. You can drag it to another spot on the page, or to get rid of it, just right click on it and tell it to Hide.
If you want to know where he hides, click on Help |
