Tips & Hints - Table of Contents

Here are some of the questions and answers from our "Not So Stupid Questions" box. If you have a question, but may be apprehensive about asking it, write it down and drop it into our box at the next meeting. We'll research the question and provide an answer at the meeting, in the newsletter, or on this web site.

• How do you turn off the HTML when using Outlook Express?
• What causes my screen to freeze up?

Windows Tips in HTML Format (you can view these in your browser):

• How to Share in Windows 95/98 - sharing files and printers between networked computers.
• How to Share CD-ROM Drives - if your CD-ROM drive doesn't work, you can use another computer's drive that's on the same network.
• Windows 95/98 Printing Tips - This was a topic at one of our meetings. I finally got around to posting the handout on our website.
• Windows 95 Tips - From the file "Tips.txt" located in your Windows directory.
• Browser Tips - Graphics, tables, frames, font size, and viewing web pages.
• Beginner's Q&A - from meeting on 10/22/98 - Printing the screen in Windows 95, printing the contents of a directory, useful MS-DOS commands, editing the Start Menu, the "Start Up" folder, Context Menus.
• Beginner's Q&A - from meeting on 3/25/99 - Basic Windows terms, task bar, moving & resizing windows, creating desktop folders.

Windows Tips in PDF Format (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these):

• How to Share in Windows 95/98 - sharing files and printers between networked computers.
• How to Share CD-ROM Drives - if your CD-ROM drive doesn't work, you can use another computer's drive that's on the same network.
• Handy Windows 95 Desktop Icons Using Explorer
• Windows 95 - Special Start Menu Folders
• Printing the Screen in Windows 95
• Windows 95 Printing Tips
• PC Maintenance - How to run Scandisk, Defrag, and deleting temporary files.
• Windows 95 Help - How to get help in Windows 95.
• How to Download Files - The topic of our meeting on May 25, 2000.
• Windows File Extensions - Another topic of our meeting on May 25, 2000

Adobe Acrobat Reader - Link to Adobe's web site. If you don't already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you'll need to download this file, install the program, and restart your browser.

The PDF documents were created first in Microsoft Word 97, and then converted to PDF format with:

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