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Diplaying Just a Picture From a Web Page
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Diplaying Just a Picture From a Web Page
Surely you have been on a web page where you see a picture
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Hardware Fun
Would you like to know what type of hardware you have
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Reboot Windows without Restart
Quickly restart Windows without going through the entire
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Right-Clicking Using Your Keyboard
If your mouse is a single-button mouse or if you simply
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Add Time/Date to Notepad
This is neat - you can add the time and date to Notepad with
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Make Use of Your Central Scroll Wheel
If you aren't using your IntelliPoint Mouse's central scroll button,
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Get Your Start Menu Organized
Are you one of those who likes thing organized -even on your
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Preview Your Image Files
You can preview your image files from My Computer or Windows
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Refresh the Desktop Without Restarting Windows
Refresh the desktop without restarting Windows? All you
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Add a New Toolbar
This tip will give you an alternative to navigating the Start menu
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Make Your Favorite Website Your Wallpaper
Gain easy access to your favorite site by setting a Web
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Trouble Shooting Start-Up Errors
This is a slick little trick (rhyme not intended). If you are
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Stop Interruptions While Playing Your Music CD's
If you enjoy playing CDs in your computer, but hate it when
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Make Your Computer Talk to You!
If your computer system has a sound card, speakers and a
Disclaimer: These tips are intended to help you work with your computer and learn a few tricks with it. Should anything go wrong while you are trying a tip, this site and it's owner holds no responsibilty! These tips, if followed properly, are harmless and fun. Not a one of them can hurt your computer in any manner. If you are doubtful or unsure, do not try one.
Hardware Fun
Reboot Windows without Restart
Right-Clicking Using Your Keyboard
Add Time/Date to Notepad
Make Use of Your Central Scroll Wheel
Get Your Start Menu Organized
Preview Your Image Files
Refresh the Desktop Without Restarting Windows
Add a New Toolbar
Make Your Favorite Website Your Wallpaper
Trouble Shooting Start-Up Errors
Stop Interruptions While Playing Your Music CD's
Make Your Computer Talk to You!
you really like, but it is sourrounded by clutter...right? No?
Well, okay, this is one of those tips that is rarely useful, but
fun. And it can come in handy if you see a picture you would
like to print, but it has so much "stuff" around it that you do not
want, you move on and forget about it. With this trick, you can
bring up just the picture on your screen so that is all you would
print. Try this, drag the picture to Internet Explorer's address bar.
(And yes, I am aware we can save them on our computer - but
why bother if you can do something fun like this and you really do
not want to save the picture on your computer...)
If the picture is not linked to anything, a page will display with
just the picture showing. If the picture is linked to something,
you will then be brought to that page. If this occurs, try this:
Just right-click the picture and select Properties from the resulting
menu. When the properties screen comes up, copy the address
next to the Address (URL) section (yes, you can actually highlight
it for copying purpose). Paste that line into your address bar, hit
Enter, and you should have your picture!
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installed on your computer? Here are a couple web sites
you may want to take a look at. They can use your web
browser to determine your computer's hardware info.
Everything from free drive space to processor speed. These
items are very easy to use and can come in very handy:
Belarc Advisor
PC Pit Stop
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reboot process! Choose Shut Down from the Start Menu as
you would normally do but hold down on the SHIFT key while
clicking on "OK" in the Shut Down box.
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prefer using keyboard commands, you can access shortcut
menus without right-clicking your mouse. In Windows 98,
hit your SHIFT key and F-10 key to simulate the right-click
action on your computer.
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a simple keystroke. Position your cursor wherever you want the
date to appear and press F5. The current date and time will
instantly display!
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you can see if there isn't another use you may want to use it for.
In your Start menu, choose Setting/Control Panel/Mouse. Select
the Wheel tab. Check the Turn on the wheel button check box
and select a function of choice for the wheel from the Button
Assignment drop-down list. Click OK. Now your central mouse
button will do what you wish it to do.
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computer? (I can relate if you are!) Here is what you can do:
Press Start, select Programs, then right-click on the menu and
choose "Sort By Name". This will first sort your folders, then
your shortcuts - alphabetically, by name. If you like, you can
use those process on all your submenus also. If you would like
to move an item within the current menu, OR to a new submenu,
click and drag the item to where you wish it to be. While you are
dragging, you will see a separator bar which indicates the spot
where the item will appear if you drop it there. Please note,
some systems cannot be moved with this method. For example,
you cannot move the "Find" or "Programs" files with this method.
Once you have completed organizing your Start Menu, you may
now see many unwanted items in your submenus. These may
be old program shortcuts, read me files etc. These you can
quickly delete by right-clicking and choosing "Delete" from the
context menu. Keep in mind however, this cannot be done in
the "Program" or "Find" menu.
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Explorer when you use Web view in either program. To preview
an image, open the folder where it resides and choose View, As
Web Page from the menu. When you select an image file, a
thumbnail appears in the left margin, providing a sneak peek
of the file before you open it.
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have to do is click once with the left mouse button on any
open area of your Desktop. Then, press F5 to refresh the
desktop.
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by creating a new toolbar on your desktop. It will consist of an
element of the Start menu that you frequently use; for example
the Programs Menu. To add your new toolbar, right-click on the
taskbar (bottom bar), point to "Toolbars" and select "New
Toolbar" Open the folder c:\windows\start menu (where
c:\windows is the drive and folder where Windows is installed),
select Programs and click OK. The top-level menu items in the
Programs menu are now one-click items on the toolbar. If your
taskbar is already crowded, you can drag the new toolbar to your
desktop and position and resize it to your liking.
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page as your desktop wallpaper. Visit the site you wish to
use and save it to the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper directory
using your browser's Save feature. Next, from the Control
Panel, select the Display icon. From the Display Properties
pop-up window, click the Background tab. In the pull-down
menu labeled "Select an HTML document or picture," select
the page you want to set as wallpaper. Click OK to save
changes. Once the wallpaper is set, you can simply click
links for easy access to the site's features. Keep in mind
that Active Desktop must be enabled in order to set your
page as wallpaper. If you have not enabled Active Desktop,
simply click Yes when Windows prompts you to enable it.
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having difficulties with start-up, you can see what is going
on behind the the Windows logo while Windows is loading.
By doing so, you just may be able to track what is wrong.
Press the "Esc" key when Windows starts to load. You
will be able to view the goings-on behind the pictures. This
is fun to do if you're just one of those curious computer users
as well and just want to see what goes on "back there".!
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you are listening to your CD and the computer starts "beeping"
in on top of it if you get an error or what-have-you, here is a
way to fix this annoying problem:
Right-click the little yellow speaker in your system tray
(opposite your start button). Select Open Volume Controls.
A screen with many volume controls will pop up. Find the one
for "Wave"; check the "Mute" box. That should take care of
those annoying interruptions while you are listening to your CD.
You will most likely want to turn them back on after you are
done with your CD. You could also just turn your Wave sounds
dow a bit. Follw the instructions above, but slide the volume
control for Wave files down, instead of checking the "Mute" box.
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microphone, let's have some real fun! You can actually make
your computer say anything you want it to when it starts up
and shuts down, when you click on an item etc., etc. All you
need to do is record your own voice - or whatever it is you want
talking to you! We will walk through the recording process first:
Please note, the following process is what you do in Windows
however, if you have a different sound recorder, you may use it.
Let's do it:
Open the Sound Recorder: Go to "Start, Programs, Accessories,
Entertainment. When your microphone is all set, click the red
round dot on the far right side - the record button. Say a few
words, stop the recorder by clicking on the square "Stop"
button. It should be right next to the Record button.
Save the file by clicking on File, Save As. (Be sure name it).
Save it in your Documents folder, under My Recordings.
If you do not have a "My Recordings" folder, create one, or
just save the file in "My Documents for now and worry about
it later. It is not necessary to have a "My Recordings" Folder
for this to work. After you see how easy and fun this is, you
can play around recording anything you want - add music, an
answering machine message - or whatever it is that trips your
trigger. :) And remember, just because we call so many files
"documents", that does not mean they have to be text, or a
Word document. They can be pictures, sounds - just about
anything. All right, get busy and make your recording!
Note: The sound recorder has a 60 second limit. That's way
more than you'll need for simple voice work. And by the way,
60 seconds of sound during my test took up 1.2 megabytes
of disk space. You can record a LOT of sound and still have
room to spare. Have fun with this! You can always delete
the files later if you find you aren't using them.
Okay, now are you all set with your sound files? Great. Now,
we attach them to events in the "Sounds Properties" window.
Click Start, Settings, Control Panel and find the icon named
"Sounds". Highlight the line item named "Close program" by
clicking on it once. The "Name:" field comes alive. You can
select from pre-existing sounds there, but we're going to
browse for our new sound. Click the 'Browse...' button.
Now,navigate to your "My Documents" folder; select your
new sound. The speaker will appear in the Preview box if
you previously had no sounds selected. If you wish, you can
preview your sound by clicking the right arrow button in the
Preview are. Make your selection, click on "Apply". Select
another Event, if you wish, attach your new sound, click
"Apply"...continue this until you've changed/added all the
sounds you want. Click "OK" to close the dialog box. The
"Details" button will give you more details on your sound
file you selected. In the Schemes field, you can choose
from existing sound schemes, well - you can if they do, in
fact, exist on your system. *smile*
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