Back in the 1980s McDonald’s decided to make ringing up products easier, minimize errors and save time by putting pictures (icons) of the food items on their cash registers. Following McDonald’s lead, both Apple and Microsoft decided that rather than just listing the names of applications on the computer’s desktop, they would provide little pictures […]
July 17th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | ContinuedWindows
Customizing Windows Vista Settings
One of the biggest features that Microsoft has been using to sell Vista besides its spectacular graphics capabilities is the ability to customize the operating system and truly personalize your PC. While you have always been able to customize windows, vista does allow you to customize the following items:
Colors
Desktop Background
Screen Saver
Sounds
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Outlook Express Errors
As we become more dependent on email as a primary method of communication in both our professional and business life, errors can be especially annoying and possibly serious when it affects out livelihood. The table below lists to common error codes and the various methods of fixing the errors after that. I recommend you start […]
June 18th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Program not responding errors
Every computer user has asked themselves the following questions:
Why is my program not responding?
What is taking so long…why is it running so slow?
Most of the time we think the program is actually doing something until we get frustrated enough to start clicking in the window and we get the Programming not Responding Error.
There are several […]
How To Fix Desktop Icons
Icons are the little pictures that are used to represent files, folders and applications on personal computers. In windows XP and Vista, the user can decide whether or not they want to display icons on the desktop, which is the main computer screen when no applications are open. My desktop which is shown below does […]
April 18th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
How to Backup Your Outlook Express Data
Most people tend to use their email clients as a filing cabinet of all the email messages they receive. Outlook Express is a free email client that is bundled with all versions of the windows operating system. This application allows you to send and receive email from your desktop instead of having to login to […]
April 11th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
How To Recover Lost Microsoft Word Documents
Nothing is more frustrating than working on a document for hours and then have something happen that causes the Microsoft word to freeze or crash. Then the document is gone and all that work is lost…total bummer.
There are several ways you can lose a word document such as documents can be lost if word quits […]
Getting Started With Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Web pages are coded in HTML which is a page description language that instructs a web browser where to place objects on a page and what the properties of those objects are such as color, size, length, width, height, etc. The language uses tags to identify specific objects. For example <p> indicates the start of […]
March 19th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Upgrading From Windows Millennium Edition (ME) To Windows XP
Released in 2000, Windows ME is the successor to Windows 98, and unlike Windows 98, was aimed specifically at the home market since Windows NT professional had taken over the business workstation market. Windows ME is a hybrid 16/32 bit DOS based operating system with a small UNIX kernel primarily used for scheduling the […]
March 10th, 2008 | admin | Comments Off | Continued
Starting Microsoft Excel in Safe Mode
Microsoft originally released what was to eventually become Microsoft Excel as a program called Multiplan, which was a very good spreadsheet but lost out to the extremely popular Lotus 123.
Microsoft then released Excel for the Macintosh in 1985 and a DOS based version was made available for the PC. The first PC windows version of […]