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| March 15, 2003 |
Expensive Ink for inkjets | Matte paper vs Glossy. · Matte uses less ink · Matte lasts longer · Matte is about half the price · Matte looks just as good behind glass Back to top of page March 22, 2003 |
Switching office and home network connections · If you're setting up a network at home, setup wireless at home(for your laptop) or a combo of wireless and land, and use wireless(home) and land(office) on your lap top. · If you do this you won't have to save the lap top and desk top configuration, and then restore them each time you move from place to place. Example: · The office uses a static IP address, so I config my internal land(RJ45) network connection to the static or DHCP settings. These would include ip address, gateway, dns and protocols. You could save this config, in fact you still might want to, but the point is you don't have to restore the saved config each time if you setup your home computer using a wireless PcCard. That way when you go home just disable the office connection(RJ45 land connection) in control panel / network stick in the wireless PcCard and you're running ` It's just something to make life a little easier. Good luck! Back to top of page March 29, 2003 |
Printing from the web · If you want to save paper and ink listen to this · When you're on a web page and you want to print just a small section of the page do the following · Click the beginning of the section you want to print · Now hold down the shift key · Next click the last letter or section of the area you want to print · The whole area should be highlighted · Next click the file menu in IE or Netscape · Click Print · From the print menu you'll see a radio button next to the word SELECTION · Click the radio button, and then click Print or OK if using Netscape · You should get a printout of just the SELECTION you highlighted. Back to top of page April 5, 2003 |
Windows History If you want a history of how windows evolved checkout the following link: Windows History This will bring you to the windows home page, from there click the Windows History link left hand frame . This is a summary written by Microsoft that tells you exactly how Windows evolved and why. It's a total of 5 pages, but 2 of the pages are just graphic timelines. With each evolution Microsoft explains the new features that are added to each OS. Why is this important? Say your buying a 2nd hand computer with Windows 95 on it. If you check out the history you'll see that USB is not fully supported until WIN98. Or if someone offers you a system with WINNT you should know that plug and play was not supported.
You should also know what your current operating system supports and see if
Once again this is a summary and you should look a little further into it but April 5, 2003 |
Backing up Microsoft Outlook 2000 or 2002 (This is not for express) Because most of us are constantly using email we should consider backing it up as often as possible. · You wouldn't want to lose Emails, attachments, folders · Microsoft keeps a file with the extension of .pst in your user folder. This file keeps all of your personal folder and email details. If you want you could just copy this file on your own to a safe place. · But if you're like me and you need a reminder, Microsoft has a FREE backup utility to do just that and you can find it at this link: Outlook backup · The download and install instructions are on the web page. · It's really easy. Just download the file to your local drive or desktop. Then click the exe file, and the install is very quick, there are no options. · After the install start Outlook Once it's started click the file menu. · You'll notice that BACKUP is now an option on your file menu. · Click BACKUP and then click the OPTIONS button. This will allow you to set the number of days to go before you are reminded to do a backup. This menu also allows you to set the destination of your backup. · If possible you should choose a drive other than your default drive. · Of course this isn't all you should backup but it's a good start. April 19, 2003 |
Computer Maintenance Cleaning your monitor CRT or LCD: · Turn off the power and disconnect the monitor. The monitor retains a voltage of 20,000 plus watts in a capacitor, so if possible you should wait until the next day to be absolutely safe. · To clean the outside of the monitor you can use Isopropyl Alcohol. You could use soap and water but if water drips inside the monitor or pc it will do much more damage as it dries slower than alchohol · To clean the screen / glass spray a glass cleaner on a rag or preferably non-static cleaners are available on the web or in your local computer store. If you have an LCD (liquid Crystal Display / flat screen monitor) be sure not to press to hard as this could leave permanent marks Dust and Expansion cards: Compressed Air · Use a can of compressed air to get at the hard to get at places like a keyboard or motherboard · If you use compressed air on your motherboard make sure you take expansion cards out and clean them separately. Leave the expansion slots open and blow the dust from the motherboard out the back away from the power supply Expansion Cards · If you remove an expansion card from a slot in your computer make sure you replace the slot cover when you're done. · A slot cover is a thin piece of metal that usually connects to the computers chassis using a screw or tab. · If you don't replace these and leave the slot open, you'll not only collect more dust in your computer, but you'll also disrupt the designed airflow inside the computer and therefore disrupt the cooling design. Back to top of page | ||||||
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