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Internet Temp File Management
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Internet Temp File Management
Internet temp files are not the villains some think they
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Long Folder Names in DOS
If you're familiar with DOS commands but not with the
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File Extension ".art"
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Folder Properties and Options
Quickly access a folder's properties and options from
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Setting global folder options
In Win98 (or in systems with the Windows Desktop Update installed),
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Searching for a file by keyword
File management can be an ominous task. You may have used
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Go Back With Backspace in Folders
Moving backwards couldn't be easier! When navigating
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Open a Sub-folder in Explorer
To open a subfolder in Explorer, right click the Start button,
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Instant Tool Bars for a Specific Folder
Sometimes, you need an instant tool bar for a specific
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Keep Your Folders Tidy
When using My Computer as your file manager, opening a new
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Expand your Windows Explorer Folders
When you move files from the right side of Explorer's dual
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Determining the Size of a Folder
To quickly determine the amount of space a folder and its contents
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Closing Programs and Folders
In Windows 98 and IE 4.0, you can quickly close multiple
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Using a Different Program to Open Registered Files
Many programs register the file extensions they use for
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Shortcut For Opening A Folder
To quickly open a folder that you use regularly, but that's buried
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Hidden Files
Before I begin - please make note of this fact: These files
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Long Folder Names in DOS
File Extension ".art"
Folder Properties and Options
Setting Global Folder Options
Searching for a file by Keyword
Go Back With Backspace in Folders
Open a Sub-folder in Explorer
Instant Tool Bars for a Specific Folder
Keep Your Folders Tidy
Expand your Windows Explorer Folders
Determining the Size of a Folder
Closing Programs and Folders
Using a Different Program to Open Registered Files
Shortcut For Opening A Folder
Hidden Files
are. They are actually kind of useful. Here's what they are for:
If you have a favorite web site you visit every day, or each time
you go on line, this site may have many graphics that can
take a while to load. Once you have visited this site, and the
images have downloaded into your temporary files, the next
time you visit that site, your browser will check the temp file.
If the graphics have not been changed, it will load them from
your hard drive which speeds things up quite a bit. There is a
down side, however. These files can eat up your disk space
A lot of your disk space. By default however, your browser
will use only a specific amount of disk space for these temp
files. In addition, you can control, to a degree, how much
space your computer is allowed for the temp files. Here's how:
1. Open Internet Explorer and hit the Tools menu, Internet Options...
2. Click the Settings button. A screen will materialize that let's you.
adjust exactly how much space you're willing to donate to your .
temp files. Also, note that on this screen you can click a "View
Files" button should you wish to peruse your temp files..
3. After you make your adjustments, click the OK button and you.
are all set. .
When you are on the settings screen, there are radio buttons
under a "Check for newer versions of stored pages" heading..
For most, the default setting is OK. Each time you open Internet
Explorer it will check when the page was last updated before it loads.
the info from the temp files. If you happen to go back to that page .
during the same session, you'll probably need to hit the Refresh button.
to see any updates..
If you tend to be on pages that change all the time, the first option.
("Every visit to a page") may be better. Even if you were just on a .
page and go back, Internet Explorer will check for any updates to the.
page before it loads it. Kind of like refreshing your pages as you surf. It.
does tend to slow things down just a bit though.
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abbreviated folder names that are displayed in the MS-DOS
window, then don't use them! You can type any long folder
name as long as you put it in quotes. For example, instead
of cd "\mydocu~1", you'd want to type cd "\my documents".
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The extension .art is a photo and graphics format used by AOL.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x can read it. Click on "file", "open",
and then browse to the file.
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Windows Explorer or My Computer by right-clicking in a
blank area of the pane. The context menu will contain
options to arrange the folder's files by different criteria,
change the view of the window, and display the folder's
properties.
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different folders can have different view options. To quickly set the
same options for all of your folders, open a folder window and select
your viewing preferences, then choose View, Folder Options from the
menu and click the View Tab. Click the Like Current Folder button, choose
Yes to confirm your selection, and click OK.
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a name convention that made sense six months ago, but its logic
now eludes you. You can't tell what's what! If you need to find a file
that you can't remember the name of but know a keyword or name
that is in the document, use Windows Advanced Find feature. This
allows you to search the complete contents of every file on your hard
drive, not just the filenames, to find a match for the keyword you
specify. Here is the procedure:
Click the Start button, point to Find, select Files or Folders. Next,
click the Advanced tab. Click into the Containing Text text box
and type the keyword(s) (e.g.,license agreement) or name. If you
remember which program originated the document, choose the file
type from the Of Type drop-down list, so the Find feature will search
only files of that particular type. This is a great time saver. Click Find
Now to start the search. Files that contain your keyword will appear
at the bottom of the box.
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through folders, you don't have to click the Up One Level
button to return to the previous directory. Flashback faster
by simply hitting your Backspace key. You will move up one
directory instantly.
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select Explorer. You'll notice a [+] next to some of the folders,
meaning these folders contain one or more subfolders. You can
then navigate through the subfolders to find what you want. If you
want to open ALL of the subfolders, left click on My Computer
once, then press the * on the numeric keypad and all folders will
open.
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folder that you already have on your desktop. If so, simply
grab the folder and drag it to the edge of the screen
either left, right, top, or to the current tool bar menu at
the bottom of the screen. An instant tool bar will appear
showing all the contents in that specific folder. You can
do the same thing from Explorer by dragging the folder to
that edge where you want the tool bar to appear.
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folder means opening a new window as well. To automatically
close the parent folder when opening a subfolder, hold down the
Ctrl key while you double-click the subfolder.
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pane view to a subfolder on the left, you can quickly
expand a contracted folder by dragging the file to the left
pane and hovering over the top level folder for a couple of
seconds. The contracted folder expands and you can continue
drilling down to the folder you want, using the hover
technique until you find the folder you need. Then drop the
file in place.
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occupies on your drive, open Windows Explorer (right-click the Start
button, choose Explorer), select the folder, and press Alt+Enter. The
Size: and Contains: items in the Properties dialog box's General tab
provide the details you're looking for.
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programs and folders at the same time with this trick: Hold
the Ctrl key while you click on each program's or folder's button
on the taskbar. Then right-click on one of the buttons and
choose Close from the context menu. The
programs and folders you selected will close at once.
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their files. Microsoft Word, for example, registers .DOC as
the default file extension for Word files. When you double-click
a file with a .DOC extension, the file automatically opens in Word.
Sometimes, however, you want to open the file in a program other
than the one it's registered to. You can do this quickly by selecting
the file in Windows Explorer, then pressing and holding the Shift key
while you right-click the file. Select Open With from the context menu
and choose the program you want.
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deep inside a tree, check out the Run command. Click the Start
button and choose Run. In the Open text box, type the exact name
of the folder (e.g., MyDocuments), and press Enter (or click OK).
(If the folder name has space, enclose the name in quotation marks.)
Your folder will open in My Computer.
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are hidden for a reason. Many of them you cannot even
open, but they do contain important information for your
computer. If you were to accidentally delete so much as
one of them, you could have big trouble on your hands such
as Windows not working or programs not running.
Therefore this is one you may wish to leave alone - and
I learned this the hard way! I crashed my whole computer
playing around with this - not knowing what I was doing.
Curiosity killed the computer that time. Literally - not trying
to be funny. (Bad attempt if I had been...) Moving on, hidden
files are set by default, not to show up. However, as in most
things on the computer, you can pick your own settings and
have it show you the hidden files if you wish. Click the Tools
menu in Explorer, then Folder Options. When the Folder Options
screen shows up, click the View tab and find the Hidden Files
item. You will see an option allowing you to view all files there.
Once you enable it, you should see all your hidden files showing.
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