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Ezine InformationTop 10 Tips for WinXP Users
by:
Anna-Marie Stewart
Are you new to WinXp? Simply upgraded, or gotten a new computer maybe? Or you power have friends and contacts who use it and you want to "show off" a little by teaching them a few tricks? I`ve collected 10 of my favourite WinXP tricks, each of them easy to use, and really helpful, and if you follow the manual step-by-step, they activity perfectly. So here goes:
Top Tip #1:
Having a problem fashioning your desktop icons stay exactly where
you put them?
When you temporarily change your desktop to a lower resolution—for example whilst mistreatment Safe mode, Windows can create disturbance
with your careful positioning of desktop icons.
Right click your desktop click arrange icons and uncheck automobile arrange. You can now drag & drop them where
you want them. Note that if you start your computer in SAFE mode you wish have to rearange them again.
Top Tip #2:
Accidentally captive your taskbar and want it back where
it was?
Point your mouse to a 'blank' area inside the taskbar, THEN hold down your left mouse button, and DRAG it down where
you want it to go. It may take a couple of tries to get it over.
Top Tip #3:
Feel like dynamic your Start Menu?
(1) Right click a blank spot on the Start Menu.
(2) Choice Properties
(3) Choice Customize
(4) Choice the Advanced tab.
Most of those planned
items which don't have the option to check or uncheck wish be there. For each item listed you'll have the option to Display as link or Display as menu or Don't display this item. Do your selection as you desire. Note that you wish have the option to display the Control Panel as a menu, which you power find really useful.
Top Tip #4:
Getting grey popup boxes with ads in? Finish the spam like this:
(1) Choice "Start"
(2) Choice "Settings"
(3) Choose "Control Panel"
(4) Choose "Administrative Tools"
(5) Choose "Services"
(6) Right-click on "Messenger"
(7) Choice "Stop"
To for good
disable Messenger:
(8) Right click "Messenger"
(9) Choice "Properties"
(10) Change "Startup Type" to "Disabled" and click "OK"
Top Tip #5:
Having problems viewing sites cos your computer isn`t acceptive
the cookies?
Open a New Browser window.
(1) Click on Tools (in toolbar).
(2) Click on Cyberspace Options.
(3) Click on Privacy.
(4) Click on Advanced.
(5) Click on Override Cookie Control.
(6) Click on Alter 1st Party Cookies.
(7) Click on Alter Session Cookies.
(8) Click OK.
Top Tip #6:
Want to change how you see your emails? Try this:
Click on "view" at top. "Layout" wish allow you to fix what you see. "Sort by" wish let you arrange the order the messages appear in.
Top Tip #7:
Want to disable the Automatic Update reminders in Windows?
Open Cyberspace Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced tab, under "Browsing" take the checkmark out of "Automatically check for Cyberspace Human Updates", click Apply, click OK.
Another thing to try is to:
(1) Click Start
(2) Click Run
(3) Type in: "MSCONFIG" (without the quotes)
(4) Click OK.
(5) Under the Startup tab take the checkmark out of "Critical Updates"
(6) Click Apply
(7) Click OK
(8) Restart your computer.
Top Tip #8:
Got too many a icons on your desktop?
Right click on an empty space on your desktop, highlight "Arrange Icons By", the click on Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Top Tip #9:
Tired of seeing your pointer as an arrow or an sandglass
all the time? Windows XP offers a number of alternative pointer schemes, such as Dinosaur, Ocean and Sports.
Open the Control Panel, double-click Mouse, and choice the Pointers tab. (If you start in Category view, choice Appearance and Themes, then click Mouse Pointers under "See Also.") Next to Schemes, click the down arrow and choice a scheme to preview its pointers. Click OK to apply the scheme to your desktop. Simple as that.
Top Tip #10:
Want to hear your computer talk?
Select Start, Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Narrator. Or press the Windows key plus the letter "U" to open the Utility Manager. Microsoft Narrator, an accessibility option designed to assist readers who are blind or have impaired vision, starts automatically.
Once you've see through the intro screen (or let the Speaker do it), click OK and you'll see a dialog box of Speaker options. Forward you want to leave Speaker running, choice the desired options, then minimize its dialog box. And if you've opened the Utility Manager, feel free to close it.
To turn Speaker off, click the Exit button or right-click its taskbar item and choice Close.
Hope this has helped you get your WinXP working the way you want it to, and given you a little fun too. For much information like this, I extremely
recommend that you visit, see through, marker
and re-visit this site:
http://www.winxpnews.com/issues.cfm
Have Fun Learning!
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