| General Tips and Tricks |
| Virus Protection - See this tip for how to protect your computer against viruses. |
| Parts of a
Computer - This tip describes different parts or your computer, eaching
performing one or more functions - input, output, processing, or storage. |
| Send a card
online - This tip provides you with some websites that allow you to send
greeting cards by email to your friends and family. |
| Search Engine
Tips - This tip provides you with some tips for finding what you're
looking for using search engines. What's your favorite search engine? Take our
SURVEY that is included on this page. |
| Screen
Resolution - The resolution defines how much stuff you can view at once
on your screen. The higher your resolution, the more visible room you have
available. What's your screen resolution? Take our SURVEY that is included on
this page. |
| Open with
? - See this tip for how to open a file when a program does not open and
you are prompted to select a program. |
| Keyboard shortcuts - Save
time using keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste, close windows, switch programs and
more. See this tip for common Windows and Macintosh keyboard shortcuts. |
| Password
security - See this page for tips on selecting a secure password and how
to change your password. |
| Windows |
Windows XP Profiles - See this tip for information on how to create and use Windows XP user profiles. |
| Keep your
computer up to date See this tip for general guidelines for
cleaning up unwanted files and defragmenting your hard drive in addition to
getting updates from Microsoft. |
| Disabling Messenger Service popups - Tech tip for disabling the popup windows for "University Diploma" and other messenger popup windows often seen on Windows XP. |
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System File Checker (SFC) -and- System Configuration Utility (SCU) - See these pages for information on how to use the System File Checker to scan for altered files or extract files that need to be replaced. For Windows ME and Windows XP, the SFC is part of the System Configuration Utility.
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| Web browser |
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Popups too big to hit the close (x)? - Try using Alt+F4. You can also use F11 to bring it down to size and then hit the x to close as usual. |
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Save your
bookmarks - See this tip for how to back up and restore all those links
you've collected in your bookmarks/favorites folder. |
| Saving images on web
pages - Want to save an image from a web page to your hard drive? - as
your desktop? See this tip for how to save images from the web. |
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Web page
printing tips - This tip shows you how to preview a web page before
printing, remove or customize headers and footers when printing, print web page
with margine that are too wide for 8 1/2 x 11 paper and result in clipped
content, printing from a single frame on a web site that uses frames, conserving
color ink by printing in grayscale, printing selected content, and watching for
printer friendly pages. |
| Troubleshooting: Diagnostics and Utilities |
| Ping and
Traceroute - The ping and traceroute utilities are used to diagnose
problems related to Internet connectivity and routing. See this tip for how to
use these utilities and interpreting results. |
| Email and News |
| Email
links - If you receive email with a link to a webpage that spans more
than one line and therefore cannot get to that page, see this tip. |
| Autoresponder: Vacation time! - If you are
going on vacation and will not be checking email, set up an autoresponder to
alert people who email you to the fact that you are away. |
| Instant Messaging |
| Selecting an Instant
Messenger - Summary of the benefits of each of today's most popular IMs.
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