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 System
Tips 'n' Tricks ...
This page is guaranteed
to save you time and headaches! How, you may ask?
Spend 10 minutes optimising
your computer's "workspace" by following these simple
system tips, and you can be assured you will increase both the
proficiency and efficiency with which you spend time on your
computer - online and offline!
Use the menu below to
browse WhigWham's online "Tips 'n' Tricks" section:
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Timesaving, "Super" Menu On Your Toolbar. |
This tip has been around for a while, but it
is extremely handy nonetheless ...
Right-click somewhere in the middle of your
windows toolbar (the horizontal bar at the bottom
of your screen). The menu that appears will
look something like the larger image shown below
(marked "1"). Move to toolbars and
tick the "desktop" item by a single
left mouse-click. Your toolbar will now be updated
with a new area corresponding to your desktop
icons. Usually this appears all the way to the
left, making the whole thing look a little messy.
Now move your mouse over the small vertical
bar just before where the word "Desktop"
appears at the left of the toolbar. Your mouse
icon should change to a horizontal set of arrows.
Left-click and hold this small bar, and drag
the toolbar as far as it will go to the right.
It should look like the smaller image below
(marked "2").
What you want to see is just the word "Desktop"
and a small set of ">>" just
to the right of this (shown above at the tip
of arrow "2"). Click on the arrows,
and you will now see a cascading menu of your
desktop. If you have the "My Documents"
and "This Computer" icons on your
desktop, moving up the menu and hovering over
these will give you access to your entire system!
Your can add other shortcuts to your desktop
for any other special folders you wish to link
to on your network - they will work in the same
way. HINT:
an easy way to do this is to right-click over
the folder icon in your file browser, go to
the "Send To" selection in the menu
that appears, and then select "Send to
desktop (Create Shortcut)".
You now have a time-saving means of browsing
your system +/- network folders, without having
to close any windows or or use the Start Menu
to find your "Windows Explorer" link! |
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Customised "Send To" Menu. |
The "Send to" menu is one of the items
within the menu shown whenever you right-click
over any file or folder. By default the only
useful things in here are the "Create Shortcut"
and "Email it" options (the latter
only works if you have a properly configured
email program (Outlook Express will do).
You power-up this menu by putting a shortcut
to any of your favourite programs on your system
in this menu. One of the handiest additions
is a small text editor such as the default Microsoft
Notepad (we recommend Editpad,
however). Putting a link to this in the "Send
To" menu will give you a quick way to edit
any text-based file (such as *.bat, *.js, *.txt,
*.nfo, *.html and more). If you do install Editpad,
you can select multiple files then send them
all to Editpad
at once!
You do this by adding a shortcut to the program
in the "Send To" folder on your system.
In Windows 95/98/ME this can be found in the
"Windows" folder (usually on "C:"
drive). In Windows NT/2000 this folder is found
within your current user profile folder. Once
you have located the folder in your file browser,
the easiest way to add shortcuts here is to
find the shortcut to the program in your Start
Menu, then right-click and drag the item to
where you have the "Send To" folder
opened. Let go of the program link and select
"copy to here" from the few options
that appear (dragging with the right button
like this is a very handy technique too!). |
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 Ditch
"Internet Explorer"! |
Do you spend much time on the Internet? If you
do and use Microsoft's default Internet Explorer,
this is one tip you should not miss ...
And if you are one of the ever-growing population
with broadband access to the Internet you will
find this tip even more relevant!
We are not talking about completely avoiding
Internet Explorer (by the way, make sure you
have an updated version for your own protection
- see our Security
Tips page for more), as this is is certainly
good when you are browsing one page at a time
- indeed, we suggest leaving Internet Explorer
as your default web browser.
However if you browse the Internet by opening
up more than one web page at once, or if you
get annoyed by those ever-spawning, deceptive
advertising "pop-up" windows, WhigWham
recommends that you find an alternative browsing
program that enables multiple web pages to be
viewed in a "tabbed" style menu and
install it today! Many of these also have inbuilt
functions to kill those "pop-ups"
as well, and are always nearly easier to use.
One such program that WhigWham recommends is
MyIE2,
a small program that actually uses your current
Microsoft Internet Explorer in a multi-tabbed
environment - the way it should have been done
in the first place! This program has additional
feature that those with broadband access will
relish, including a handy pop-up killer. You
can find more about this handy program on our
Utilities
page, HERE.
Take back some control when you are
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Have a rest, but be sure
to return and check out the rest of WhigWham.com later!
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