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| <title>Windows Tips & How-To's</title> | |
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| <td width="118" height="512" valign="top" align="left" background="images/rghtbor_1.gif"><p align="center"><!--webbot bot="ImageMap" rectangle=" (5,6) (84, 73) synaps-it.htm" src="images/images/synaps_it_1synaps___it_1.jpg" alt="Synaps-it! Impression Program" border="0" startspan --><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="5, 6, 84, 73" HREF="synaps-it.htm"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.exe/winhow_2.htm/map"><img height="81" ismap alt="Synaps-it! Impression Program" border="0" src="images/images/synaps_it_1synaps___it_1.jpg" usemap="#FrontPageMap" width="86"></a><!--webbot bot="ImageMap" endspan i-checksum="59538" --><br> | |
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| <td width="390" height="512" valign="top" align="left"><img src="images/logo_bottom.gif" alt="Image provided by MicroSoft OEM program." WIDTH="138" HEIGHT="34"><p><small><font face="Arial"><strong>Here | |
| we pass on tips for Windows</strong> from our own archives and experience. Need to | |
| rename an icon that won't allow you to rename it? Want to make windows better out of | |
| the box or do you need help with NT Drive Maintenance? The help you need may not be | |
| far away and we will post new tips and how-to's weekly. Tips and How-To's are listed | |
| randomly. The latest post being at the end of the nav bar.</font></small></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Arial"><small>| <a href="#Hiding Annoying">Hide Screen Tips</a> | |
| | <a href="#Renaming the Recycle Bin">Rename Recycle Bin</a> |</small><br> | |
| <small>| <a href="#Cascade">Remove Favorites Cascading Menu</a> | <a href="#Ever">Speedy | |
| Menus</a> |</small><br> | |
| <small>| <a href="#Most Y2K">Y2K Added Insurance</a> |</small></font></p> | |
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| <p><font face="Arial"><small><strong><a name="Hiding Annoying">Hiding Annoying ScreenTips | |
| in Windows 98</a> </strong>as seen when you point at a desktop icon or at the Close, | |
| Minimize, and restore icons in any window and a description of what your pointing at | |
| appears. This annoying feature can be removed from the desktop by a simple checkbox, | |
| but you have to hack the Registry to hide the others.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open Explorer and choose View, Folder Options. | |
| Click the View tab and uncheck the box labeled Show Pop-up Description for Folder | |
| and Desktop Items.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 2: </strong>Click Start, Run, and type in REGEDIT. Find the key | |
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop, and locate</small><br> | |
| <small>UserPreferanceMask. This Value consists of four groups of two characters. | |
| You'll need to change the first character in the first value; if the value is AE 00 | |
| 00 00. for example, the character you'll change is A.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 3:</strong> Double-click the UserPreferenceMask value and | |
| replace the first two-character value. Use the following list to re[place the first | |
| character: A=2, B=3, C=4, E=6, 8=0. <em>Do not change the second character</em>. | |
| For example, AE becomes 2E.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 4:</strong> Exit REGEDIT</small></font></td> | |
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| <td width="100%"><font face="Arial"><small><strong><a name="Renaming the Recycle Bin">Renaming | |
| the Recycle Bin</a> </strong>is not as easy as it is to rename your other desktop icons. | |
| It will take a registry hack to do it.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 1: </strong>First back up the registry. That way if you make a | |
| mistake you only need to restore the file to get your system back to normal.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 2:</strong> Click Start button, select run, type regedit and hit | |
| ENTER.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 3:</strong> Navigate to (find) <small>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-002F954E</small></small><br> | |
| <small>Double-click on the default key and enter your new name for the Recycle Bin.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 4: </strong>Exit Regedit, click on the Recycle Bin and press F5 to | |
| make the name change appear on the desk top.</small></font></td> | |
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| <td width="100%"><font face="Arial"><small><a name="Cascade"><strong>When you install IE4 | |
| or later, it adds</strong></a> a cascading menu to the Start Menu, letting you display the | |
| contents of your Favorites folder without opening a new window. If your Favorites | |
| folder has been well stocked with shortcuts and subfolders, you'll quickly find out that | |
| the new menu is nearly unusable. This usability blunder can be eliminated | |
| fortunately.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 1:</strong> Bring up Regedit by clicking Start, Run, then type | |
| REGEDIT.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 2:</strong> Navigate to the key <small>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\</small><br> | |
| <small>Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer </small>Choose Edit, New, DWORD | |
| value.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 3:</strong> Change the default name to NoFavoritesMenu and press | |
| Enter and change the contents of the Value Data to 1.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 4:</strong> Click OK and close the Registry Editor. The | |
| next time you start Windows the Favorites menu will be available from any Explorer window, | |
| but you won't see it on the start menu.</small></font></td> | |
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| <td width="100%"><small><font face="Arial"><a name="Ever"><strong>Ever notice that when | |
| you click on the Start button</strong></a>, then Programs how the menu takes a second or | |
| more to appear? That's because Windows has a built-in delay before displaying the | |
| fly-out menus. Follow these steps to reduce that delay for quicker service.<br> | |
| <strong>Step 1:</strong> Back up the REGISTRY.<br> | |
| <strong>Step 2:</strong> Bring up Regedit by clicking Start, Run, then type REGEDIT.<br> | |
| S<strong>tep 3:</strong> Find the key <small>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control | |
| Panel\Desktop\</small>. Choose edit, New, String Value, and call the new value | |
| MenuShowDelay. Right-click on the new key, choose Modify and enter a value of 1.<br> | |
| <strong>Step 4:</strong> Exit Regedit. Restart Windows click the Start button | |
| and any of the fly-out menus and see how they run!</font></small></td> | |
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| <td width="100%"><font face="Arial"><small><a name="Most Y2K"><strong>Most Y2K problems | |
| happen because</strong></a> a program misinterprets a two-digit date you enter, in a | |
| spreadsheet program like Excel for example. One way to make Y2K problems less likely | |
| is to change the Windows Short Date format so it always displays the full year. To | |
| make the change;</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open the Control Panel and select Regional Settings | |
| option.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 2:</strong> Click the Date tab, and select the M/d/yyyy option | |
| in the Short Date section.</small><br> | |
| <small><strong>Step 3:</strong> Click OK to make the change permanent.</small></font></td> | |
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