New Users' SIG
Each month, the Madison PC-Users' Group
New Users Special Interests Group meets before the General Meeting.
Topics vary widely, but are designed to help PC Users of all levels
learn more about what PC Hardware and Software can do to make
your lives better. At most of these meetings, TIPS Sheets are
passed out with lots of good tidbits of information showing how
to get things done as quickly or as efficiently as possible. Often
PC Users will know one or two ways to get a given job done on
their computers. More often than not, there are many more ways
that a job can be done. The following archive of these Tips and
Tricks handouts links will serve as a reference that will become
invaluable as internal memory banks experience shifts, overloads,
lapses, blanks, and short-circuits! They might show some of what
you've been missing!
Tips and Tricks Pages
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May 2001
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- HIDDEN FILE ATTRIBUTE
(Me)
Accessibility Options
DOS
Weirdness
DosKey
Does It
Expanding
Taskbar
Floppy
Disk Quick Format
MINIMIZING
THE IE3 TOOLBAR
More
TaskBar Space
Opening
Documents
Picking
Passwords
Save
a Click
How
Much Space
Spacing
Objects on Slides
USB
2.0 Set To Arrive
Using
the Windows Key
Virus
Alert
Windows'
Windows Key
April 2001
- ADDING A FRAME TO A WEB PAGE
ADJUST
KEYBOARD REPEAT DELAY
ATTACH
POINTER TRAILS TO YOUR MOUSE
BUILDING
CHARACTER
CHANGING DEFAULT FILE TYPES
CREATE
NEW DOCUMENT FROM DESKTOP
CREATING
AN EMERGENCY SYSTEM BOOT DISK
FREE
PC TIPS
HEY,
GETCHER FREE PHOTOS HERE
MAKING
A STARTUP DISK
MUSIC
WITHOUT THE BEEPS, TOOTS, AND URPS
PRINT
FROM THE DESKTOP
RIGHT-MOUSE
KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT
SHORTCUT
TO PROPERTIES
SPEED
UP BROWSING
THERE'S
MORE THAN ONE WAY TO CLOSE A WINDOW
USING
STICKYKEYS ACCESSIBILITY OPTION
WHAT'S
ON THE CLIPBOARD
November 2000
- AUTO-OPEN PROGRAMS WITH TASK SCHEDULER
DECREASING
DISK FRAGMENTATION
HELP
FOR SLUGGISH WINDOWS
HOW
DO I CHANGE NETSCAPE SOUNDS
RESIZE
SINGLE DETAILS COLUMN
RUNNING
SYSTEM FILE CHECKER
SCREEN
TO CLIPBOARD
SELECTING
A LABEL MANUFACTURER
SOUND
SCHEMES
SYSTEM
PROPERTIES SHORTCUT
WHERE
TO FIND WIN95 GAMES
June 2000
- KEYBOARD
CHEATS: WORD97, EXCEL97, IE 4/5, WIN98
May 2000
- PRINT
IN THE ORDER YOU LIKE
- FLOPPY DISK QUICK FORMAT
- MORE TASKBAR SPACE
- USB 2.0 SET TO ARRIVE
April 2000
- ADJUST
KEYBOARD REPEAT DELAY
CHANGE SIZE OF EXPLORER
PANES
CLEAN THE REGISTRY
DISABLE USER PROFILES
DISPLAY VIDEO
CLIPS AT FULL SCREEN
FINDING A MISSING FILE
FREE PC TIPS 4
INCREASE SCROLLBAR SIZE
LAUNCH STARTUP APPLICATION
MINIMIZED
MAKING QUICK FLOPPY COPIES
PASS WORD PROTECT
YOUR SCREEN SAVER
SEND TO FLOPPY
STARTUP LOG HELPS
TROUBLESHOOT
USE ALT-TAB TO SWITCH
AMONG APPS
USE
DESKTOP SHORTCUT TO CONTROL PANEL
March 2000
- DESKTOP
TIPS
- MONITOR
BUYING TIPS
- NETSCAPE
NAVIGATOR BUG
- USER
PROFILES
- HIGH
CONTRAST COLOR
- GLOBAL
FOLDERS VIEW
- DRAG
and DROP MENU ITEMS
- ENGLISH
to METRIC
- FILE NAMING
CONVENTIONS
- BACKSPACE
UP A LEVEL
- INTRO TO
USER PROFILES
- DISABLE
USER PROFILES
- RENAMING
A BRIEFCASE FILE
- SEND
WEB PAGES VIA EMAIL
- ORDER
YOUR PRINTING
- ADJUST
ICON SPACING
- DISPLAY
STARTUP MENU AT STARTUP
- CHANGE
DESKTOP RESOLUTION
- CHECK
SPELLING IN OUTGOING MESSAGES
- QUICKLY
ADD A WEB SHORTCUT
- SAVE
YOUR ISP SETTINGS
- SEND
TO WHOMEVER YOU LIKE
- USE F2
TO RENAME
July 1999
- WINDOWS98
BUG PREVENTS BOOT
- GET RID
OF WINDOWS STARTUP LOGO
- ALT-ERNATE
SHUTDOWNS
- SWITCH
WINDOWS USING ALT-TAB
- CLEAR
OFF YOUR CLIPBOARD
- EVEN EASIER
SETTINGS
- USING
CONTROL-KEYS TO CUT-PASTE WEB ADDRESSES
- FILE
RECOVERY
- EXTEND
YOUR FILE DISPLAY
- ICON
LINE-UP
- TAKE
YOUR KEYBOARD INTERNATIONAL
- ICON
BACKGROUND COLORS
- KEYBOARD
SHORTCUTS FOR WINDOWS (This is HOT!)
- WORRIED ABOUT
MACRO VIRUSES? USE RTF
- MODEM
NOISES OFF
- TAKE
A PAINTBRUSH TO YOUR WALLPAPER
- GOT
PLUS!? GET STRETCHED
- WAVE
GOOD-BYE TO THE TEMPS
- HOW TO
TEST OUT THOSE Y2K ASSURANCES
-
June 1999
- THE
CONTROL PANEL CONTROL
- DESKTOP
CLUTTER GOOD
- DISPOSE
APPS PROPERLY
- LOW END
PC'S
- WORK ON
WHILE WORKING
- GET YOUR
FILES BACK
- RENDER YOUR RECYCLE
BIN USELESS
- START SMALL
- WHO WANTS TO KNOW?
- FONT REMOVAL
- WORKING AT HOME
-
- THE CABLE
MODEM OPTION
- WHAT'S
GOIN' ON? (a printed summary!)
- LET'S
MAKE A SHORTCUT
- THE SEVEN
SMARTEST PC UPGRADES FOR UNDER $200
- RUN, FOLDER,
RUN
- THE GANG'S
ALL HERE- (OutLook)
- MAJOR PANE
- YOU DON'T
HAVE A WINDOWS KEY? (Sniff!)
- FONT-SY THIS
- THE BRASS
RING
- CHOOSING
THE WALLPAPER
- A CLEAN PC
IS A HAPPY PC
- FILE DELETION
TIPS
- FIND OUT
HOW FAST YOU'RE CONNECTED
- OLD PARTS
IN A NEW COMPUTER?
- WINDOWS
SHORTCUT KEY COMBOS
- BIGGER
BUTTONS, PLEASE
- YOUR
EYES WILL THANK YOU
- HOME NETWORKING
TIPS
- RENAMING
A FILE OR SHORTCUT
- USB RESET
- IN SEARCH
OF FILES
- UNPAINT
- SCROLL
QUICKER
- TOP TEN
DRAWING PROGRAMS
- URL TERMS
- OPTICAL
STORAGE
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PC Users Group Online, 2001