Real Name: Greg Cunningham Member Since: February 21, 2007 Last Signed In: March 31, 2008 Profile Views: 448 Blog Views: 1206 I'm running out of disk space. How can I free up some space? How can I download streaming video to my computer? How do I change the Power button in Windows Vista to shut down my PC instead of going to sleep? Someone told me about using to open the Start menu in Windows. Are there any other handy Windows keyboard short cuts? I just upgraded to Internet Explorer7. What happened to the menu bar? File, Edit, View, etc.? How can I stop Windows Messenger from asking me to sign in every time I start Windows? Someone told me to to ram my computer. What did they mean? I want to sell my old PC. How do I make sure there isn’t any personal information left on it? How do I protect my formulas in Excel? Am I backing up my PC correctly? February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 Bandwidth Speed Test - how fast are you? Virus and Malware Threats - the latest info Open Source Windows - free MS replacements 
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Windows has quite a few built-in shortcuts. These work on all versions of Windows, including Vista. <F2> - Rename selected file (in Windows) or edit selected cell (in Excel) <Shift><F3> - For any highlighted text, cycle among all-caps, lowercase, and title case. Click Format, Change Case for more options <F5> - Refresh your page in Explorer and Web browser windows <Ctrl><Esc> - Open the Start menu (useful if your mouse won't respond) <Ctrl><Space> - Reset the highlighted text to the default font (in Word) <Ctrl>mouse wheel - Zoom in and out on any page <Windows>L - Password-lock the computer (useful for locking your computer at work) <Windows>R - Open the Run dialog box <Windows>M - Minimize all windows <Windows>-D - Minimize all windows. <Ctrl>+(num keypad) - Resize a column to fit its comments (in Excel). <Windows>E - Launch Windows Explorer. In IE7 the menu bar is not enabled by default. Here's how IE7 looks when first installed.
It's easy to get the Menu bar to display again, right-click just to the right of your last Tab, highlight Menu Bar and left-click. Now your IE7 should look like this:
If you want the menu bar on top just under the blue title bar, here’s a registry hack to fix it. Copy the text below to a new text file on your desktop and save it as IE7_menu_fix.reg. The .reg extension is important. Double-click the .reg file, click Yes and click OK. Close IE7 and open it again. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarWebBrowser] “ITBar7Position”=dword:00000001 Now the menu bar is back up top as it has always been.
Click Tools in the Windows Messenger window. Click Options and then click the Preferences tab. Uncheck the Run Windows Messenger when Windows starts check box. Click OK. The next time you log on to your PC Windows Messenger won’t ask you to sign in. They meant you need to add RAM (Random Access Memory) to your computer. Why would would you need to that? Not that long ago PCs came with 128MB of RAM. Then it was 256MB and most recently 512MB. We're starting to see more and more PCs come with 1GB (1024MB) of RAM standard. Why so much RAM? Modern operating systems and applications use RAM to speed up the tasks you're doing. As features are added to both the operating system and the applications you use, your computer uses more and more RAM. Memory prices have dropped as the demand as increased so it's not the financial burden it once was to add RAM to your PC. All things being equal, adding more RAM will make your PC and your applications run faster. |
