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Development ". . .I discovered a program called Microsoft Document Scanning. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but since this is part of
PmWikiUsers Microsoft Office, I figured that I might as well use it. It provides a much better "front-end" to the scanner.
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When I scan documents with this program it saves them as TIF files. The program uses OCR to convert the text on the
Other scanned page and stores it in the TIF's header. This means that the files are perfect copies of the originals but are still
searchable using the Windows "Find" feature. . ."
- from http://www.davidco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=646
Excel Time/Date Data Format
From Converting HH:MM to Minutes in Excel:
Excel stores times and dates as a number of days; for example, when you enter 1:00, meaning one hour, it is stored as
the number 0.041666, or 1/24, since an hour is 1/24 of a day.
So to convert a time to a number of minutes, all you have to do is convert days to minutes by multiplying by 24*60, and
then set the format of the cell to numeric (rather than time, which it otherwise assumes you want).
For example, if I put 2:32 into cell A1, and put the formula
=A1*24*60
MP3 TOOLS
"DbPoweramp Powerpack. 30 day free trial. Works well, I've been using it for years now to transcode from one
compressed format to another. Nice feature is that it's got shell extensions, so you just right-click on an mp3 or any
other music file in explorer, and you have the option to 'convert to', which brings up a menu of choices, not just formats
but bitrates and destination dirs. Very handy. DbPoweramp has all the necessary codecs on their site. There's also a
music player - a good one - and a lot more. Highly reco'd."
&
"My first Jukebox was a Creative Jukebox 3 20 gig. It would handle WAV, WMA, MP3?. I use my jukebox for audio
books so I was looking for the smallest file size with the best sound. I ended up using 32 kps wma but found that most
CD player that would play both wma and mp3 wouldn't read a wma file smaller than 60 kps. Some of my audio books
were compressed to 32 kps. I use Cakewalk to record my cassette based audio books to CD. I had to convert from
WMA back to WAV and then comvert it to 32 kps mp3. In all of the articules I have read they warn not to try and convert
an mp3 to wma or wma to mp3. So what you need to do is convert your WMA files to WAV and then convert them to
MP3?. My Creative Jukebox died and I replaced with an Archos Studio. I hope this helps."
&
"Winamp down around vers 2.22 or thereabouts (before M$ made 'em quit) will convert directly from WMA (at least the
non-drm version) to any other format there is a plugin for. MP3? and WAV for sure."
- from email on Archos Yahoo group
Enabling ClearType
1. To turn on ClearType, go to Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects and turn on the checkbox for
"smooth edges of screen fonts," making sure that the popup menu reads "ClearType." [2]
2. Tune ClearType Settings
Automatically Log Off Inactive Terminal Server Users
1. Start - Programs - Admin Tools - Terminal Server Configuration

2. Double Click on RDP-Tcp in the right pain
3. Select the Sessions tab
4. In the first section, check the 'Override Users Settings' box
5. Then use the pulldown to set End a disconnected Session time
You might want to set this to like 5 or 10 minutes, that way if there was an accidental disconnect they will be able to
come right back and get their session, and if not they will be logged off.
Note, of course, that if you do this there's no way to gracefully exit programs. So if they leave Word open and
disconnect, they will lose the unsaved data in Word when it terminates the session.
- fom usenet posting
Vi/Vim Paragraph Justification

gq} to justify from cursor to end of paragraph
gqap to justify entire paragraph
Create PDFs for Free

The PDF (Portable Document Format) has been around for years. No doubt you have a few of them scattered about
your hard drive. The problem: creating a PDF could cost you hundreds of dollars. The answer: find a cheaper way of
doing it. Remember that 'Add Printer' wizard you have sitting inside your Printers folder? Yeah, well... run it. We need to
create a virtual output device that's capable of handling PostScript documents. You may need to install the printer
manually, making sure to set "FILE" as the port. When prompted for the printer manufacturer and model, you can
choose anything with the "PS" appendage. For the sake of argument, let's say we use the "HP Color LaserJet 5/5M PS"
device. Again, this is just a VIRTUAL printer; don't run out and buy it. Once the drivers have been installed, go ahead
and open up a Word document. Press CTRL+P to bring up the Print dialog, and select your newly created VIRTUAL
printer. Be sure to put a checkmark in the "Print to file" box. Go ahead and save it to your Desktop. Now, flail on over to
PS2PDF?.COM and convert that sucker for free.
Winamp Tweaks
By default, the media player loads every plugin in the Plugin folder (even though all of them are not needed). Each
(obviously) consumes system resources. "I created a sub-folder named 'Not in Use' and moved the plugins that I'm not
currently using into it. WARNING: you have to make sure you know which filenames go with which plugins. Luckily,
most of them install a text file with the same name. WinAmp may still load slowly, but at least I know I've done the most
I can do -- and saved some memory and resources in the process." Along those WinAmp tweaking lines, how many
skins do you have? Instead of keeping each in a separate sub-folder, ZIP them up to save disk space. Don't worry;
WinAmpwill unzip them automatically when you want to use them. But that's not all! Change the extension from ZIP to
WSZ and you'll be able to apply the skin automatically by double-clicking it!
Throttling Bandwidth In Windows 2000
Despite the hammering that my free time took this week, I found a couple of things of specific interest to Win2K users.
First up is a quick way to limit the bandwidth on a given machine or network adapter without funneling everything
through a proxy server or configuring each program separately. Many people ask how you can do something like this
without resorting to some kind of third-party or hardware-based solution. I know that a couple of NICs? have a firmware-
configurable way to throttle bandwidth (in fact, one of them is the punchline to a joke: Switch to full duplex on a half-
duplex line), but not everyone can resort to this sort of thing.
Mercifully, there is an OS-level solution for those of us running Windows 2000, although it requires the presence of the
Quality of Service Packet Scheduler driver in the network stack. This is installed by default, so chances are it's already
there if you haven't diddled too much with the network settings. If by some error you wound up removing it, you can re-
add it without too much difficulty. In the properties for the network adapter in question, click Install, select Service, and
then choose QoS Packet Scheduler. The QoS driver has no configuration options and should kick in immediately, but
you should reboot after doing this anyway. If it's in the stack but not enabled, enable it and reboot.

Once the driver is in, open up RegEdit and navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet?
\Services\Psched\Parameters\Adapt ers\[GUID], where [GUID] is the GUID number of the adapter you want to set limits
on. If you have more than one adapter and you just want to set the same limits for them all, then you can just edit each
GUID separately, but if you want to find out what adapter is assigned to a particular GUID, you can search the Registry
for that GUID string and see what hardware it matches up with by expanding the keys it appears in.
In that key you'll need to add a DWORD value: NonBestEffortLimit. This is a number from 1 to 100 that indicates how
much of the total percentage of bandwidth for that hardware device to use. The default is 20 percent. Once the value is
in place, reboot the computer.
Query Video Card
Open a command prompt. Enter the Debug command. At the - propmt type D (for display), then memory address
c000:0000. If that dosen't display the card info, select the next range of memory (C000:0080). To exit the debug
command, type quit. Example
C>\debug -dc000:0000 -dc000:0080 quit
Lock PC From A Shortcut
(from Win2kpowerusers newsletter) Another tip comes to me this week courtesy of Azeddine Jakib, who has a quick
way for you to create a shortcut that can be used to lock your Win2K or [=WinXP workstation.
1. Create a new shortcut.

2. Place the following in the Target line: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,
LockWorkStation
3. Use your favorite icon from shell32.dll (I use the lock icon, naturally) to modify the shortcut.
4. Place the shortcut anywhere.
The same command line can also be issued from within a batch file, with the same results. =]
Security Tips
1. Impress on all your users under the pain of death by torture that they only open up attachments THEY ASKED
FOR. If they get one from some one they know but was not asked for, send an email back to check what it is.
Violation is asking for a pink slip.
2. Religiously patch all your systems. Servers of course are much more important than workstations, but still.

Security is more important than the inevitable downtime that patching your systems generates.
3. Monitor your systems for normal performance. Establish a baseline, and program in alerts so that you get warned
if things start to peak suddenly. Good chance these machines are being hit by something, or worse, are already
infected and are now trying to penetrate other machines. A good tool to set this kind of thing up is ELM. For
instance, you can make ELM ping you if CPU is over, say, 75% for 3 minutes or of RAM utilization gets over
1Gig. Over at: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=100801-ELM
4. If you have people working from home or hotels, make sure that they use personal firewalls on their machines.
Especially if they have either a cable modem or DSL. Make sure that these firewalls are also stopping hackers to
get out of that machine into your corporate systems by using something like ZoneAlarm.
5. You should start looking at your own firewalls and make them block traffic that uses spoofed IP addresses. You
can do that with the so called egress and ingress filtering.
6. Enlighten your management that budgets should be made available with high priority for two flashpoint areas:
Security and High Availability.
Add Domain Users Via A Script
Add many domain users from a spredsheet or a comma delimited file?
====userlist.csv====
name;password;fullname
hdampf;secret;Dampf, Hans
jdoe;found;Doe, John
===run_this.cmd====
for /F "skip=1 tokens=1,2,3 delims=;" a in (userlist.csv) do net
user a b /add /Fullname:"c" /DOMAIN
Word Scrolling
If you use Microsoft Word 97, you may have noticed that when you peruse a document using the scroll bar, the visible
page doesn't "change" until you let go of the scroll bar button. Well, if you apply this registry tweak, you can click & hold
the scroll bar button and get "live updating" in the document window! WARNING: Registry hacking is NOT for novices
(proceed with caution). Open Regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Office > 8.0 >
Word > Options. Create a new String value and name it "LiveScrolling" (without the quotes or any spaces). Then,
modify it and enter "1" (without the quotes) as a value. The next time you use Word 97, it should work!
Netscape Command Line
Netscape is a lot more command line user friendly than Internet Explorer. What's that all about? It's about getting below-

the-surface information quickly from the browser. See what you get when you enter these on the 'Location' line:
about: (browser info)
about:cache (disk cache)
about:document (current page info)
about:global (global history entries)
about:image-cache = (memory cached images)
about:license (license agreement)
about:logo (Netscape logo)
about:memory-cache (memory cache)
about:mozilla (killer quote)
about:plugins (installed plug-ins)
about:XYZ (Substitute 'XYZ' with real URL).
You can try these in IE, but the results won't be the same.
Windows Terminal Services Client
On Windows OS CD: d:\i386\adminpak.msi
Create A Virtual Cd Drive
Windows programs sometimes require a particular CD-ROM to be in a specific CD drive. Reader Anthony Cimorelli
describes a workaround for this kind of behavior in Windows 2000.
Step 1. Create a hard disk folder with a name such as
C:\VirtualCD.
Step 2. Copy your CD (or the portion you need) into this folder.
Step 3. Right-click the folder, then click "Sharing." Share the folder using a name such as VirtualCD.
Step 4. In Windows Explorer, pull down the Tools menu, then click Map Network Drive. Select an unused drive letter,
such as V, then browse to the VirtualCD folder and select it.
Step 5. Install the program from drive V or change the software's references so they point to drive V.
Cimorelli says this method works well for programs with a lot of CDs?, such as Printmaster (http://www.printmaster.

com/).
As another example, one mapping program I've used has a huge database of streets on one CD, with bodies of water
on a second CD. To include both streets and rivers on the same map, Cimorelli's method allows you to assign one or
both CDs? to different drive letters, although they are merely different folders.
Remote Registry Service
The Remote Registry Service is described with these simple words in the Services panel: "Allows remote registry
manipulation." Meaning that if you run RegEdit on one machine, you can connect to another machine running Remote
Registry Service and make changes.
The implications of this should be fairly obvious. If you WANT to be able to remotely manipulate a machine's registry
(aside from doing it by connecting via Terminal Services and running RegEdit locally), then that's one thing. On the
other hand, the vast majority of system admins will consider this to be a security hole just begging to be exploited,
whether you're running Workstation or Server.
Unless you're running a machine that you have closely observed or behind a NAT scheme or firewall, I would
recommend against running RRS. Shut it down and disable it as well. When I set up a server, this is actually one of the
first things I turn off -- since, as I mentioned earlier, it makes more sense to make Registry changes using a utility I
launch locally in a Terminal Services session.
Speeding Up Slow Pages In Netscape
Netscape isn't my favorite browser on the 'Net, but it does have one rather nice feature that can be invoked with slow
loading pages to find out what's gumming up the works. Navigator has a habit of preventing the display of a page if
JUST ONE image is broken, sometimes hanging up for up to 2 (or more) minutes. By hitting Control + Alt + T, Netscape
will show you a list of pending items left to download and their full URL, giving you a good idea of what the problem may
be. Banner servers are notorious for breaking completely or failing to respond in a timely manner, thus you may see ad
links / images listed quite often. You'll also see your connection status, which tells you precisely how many connections
are required to finish the page as well as the concurrent connection limit that your browser is currently configured to
handle. If you're looking for a viable browsing alternative (without dropping any more money or putting up with internal
ad rotations), check out the Mozilla project at MOZILLA.ORG. Now that Netscape is no longer in the browser business
(which they publicly stated last week), you may be wise to grow attached to another product.
Anti-Pop Software

http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,45306,00.html These programs come in a host of assorted flavors with

names including AdsOff, Close Popup, Mr. KillAd, Advertising Killer, PopNot, AllGone, PopUp Hunter, Nagger,
AdDelete, AdPurger, AdStopper, Pop-Up Stopper, Pop-Up Killer and PopUp Eraser.
Share Mounting Syntax
net use * \\IP.ADDRESS\c$ /user:DOMAIN\USERNAME

net use * \\MACHINE.NAME\c$ /user:DOMAIN\USERNAME
Windows Key Hotkeys
Windows: Display start menu

Windows + D: Minimize or restore all Windows
Windows + E: Display Windows Explorer
Windows + Tab: Cycle through buttons on taskbar
Windows + F: Display find: all files
Windows + Ctrl + F: Display find: computer
Windows + F1: Display help
Windows + R: Display Run command
Windows+ break: Display system properties dialog box
Windows + M: minimize all windows
Windows + shift + M: Undo minimize all windows
Windows + U: Utility Manager (usability tools)
Wipe Drives
There's No Such Thing As a Good Worm Win32.All3gro.A is the name of a new worm that tries to help you in all the
wrong ways. The worm claims it will clean up the bad worms on your hard drive, but all it does is mess up your files. If
you see it or get a file attachment labeled "antivirus.exe" and a subject line stating "New Antivirus Tool", don't open it.
Of course, you should not be opening attachments from people you don't know, but in case you forget, just delete the
file. You will save yourself some time and effort. Remember, there are no good worms. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-
1003-200-6962764.html
Point Windows To CD Data
This should only be done if Windows frequently asks you to insert the system CD. To proceed, copy everything sitting in

the system CD's SETUP folder over to a new location (e.g., C:\Windows\Options\Cabs), fire up REGEDIT,
then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Setup. Edit the SourcePath string and enter the new file path (e.g., C:\Windows\Options\Cabs). The next time your OS
needs to access any of those files, it'll know where to find them first. This should work fine for all 9x/ME versions of
Windows.
Windows Clipboard
CTRL+X = cut
CTRL+C = copy
CTRL+V = paste.
TCP/IP Optimization
My friend Hubert pinged me with something amazing. A registry tweak that increases broadband download speed big
time. At the moment at home I'm running a few different machines. One of these is a Dell Dimension with a Pentium II,
256MB Ram, still on NT 4.0 SP6?. I'm hooked up to a roadrunner cable modem.
The registry tweak consists of adding a key in the TCP/IP section that makes the 'RECEIVE WINDOW' 32767 instead
of the default which is way too small. So, I ran a simple test. Went to a space-related site and downloaded a 13Mb file
called quasar.avi, impressive ani-mation BTW. It's over at: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/mpeg/
The download took 90 seconds. Next I created the new registry key, rebooted, went straight to the same site, and
downloaded again about 2 minutes later. It's relatively early in the morning so the cable segment I'm on is not busy yet.
Guess what happened to my pleasant surprise? Second download came in at 45 seconds instead of 90... WOW!
Linden DeCarmo wrote it, way to go Linden! Link at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/redir.cfm?
id=cblspeed102000
Thumbnails Of Word And Excel Documents
Thumbnails are awesome -- especially when you're in a hurry and "DSC01043?.JPG" isn't a terribly helpful file name.
GnomeHUGS to the person at Microsoft who built this functionality into the Windows Explorer. While W98 users must
pull up a folder's properties to turn on this feature, W2k/ME rugrats have the option built into the View menu (and
toolbar icon). When you encounter a folder containing countless images, thumbnails will help you sort through the
selection. Here's a secret: you can make thumbnails for Office documents, too. PowerPoint presentations will work
without intervention, but Excel spreadsheets and Word documents require a bit of tweaking. Open one up in its
respective application (Word or Excel), then select Properties from the File menu. At the bottom of the first sheet,
there's an option to "Save Preview Picture." Put a checkmark in that box. There ya go! It now has an associated
thumbnail.
Find Word Cursor Positions
I always seem to forget which one you're supposed to do first: point or click? Let's see... clicking gets me nowhere
unless I point to where I want to click. Okay. Problem solved. But wait, where was I? My cursor was somewhere else
about two seconds ago. Have I lost my place in Microsoft Word again? Will this madness ever end?! And just how
many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop? Well, only a real sucker would forget this
keyboard shortcut; when SHIFT+F5 is used, you can quickly recall the last five cursor positions in the current
document. Perfect for when you're editing your already-overdue term paper -- or when you need to get back... get
back... get back to where you once belonged. Of course, tapping F5 without the SHIFT key will pop up the "Go To"
dialog. Again, if you already know where you're going, you'll be golden. And wherever you are, there you'll be.
Reboot Windows 2000 Fast
Coming from Serdar Yegulalp's very awesome Windows 2000 e-mail newsletter (found at THEGLINE.COM), here's an
awesome tip for instant shutdown gratification in (duh) Windows 2000. "To shut Win2K down fast, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL,
and then hold down the CTRL key while clicking the Shut Down button. You'll get a warning dialog: 'If you continue your
machine will reboot and any unsaved data will be lost. Use this only as a last resort.' (They're not kidding) If you click
OK, the system will reboot IMMEDIATELY -- no shutdown screen, no 'It is now safe to turn off your computer' splash.
Upon rebooting, I found all was well, and the 'dirty' bit on my NTFS drives was not set, meaning that any pending writes
to those volumes had been flushed." This technique is not recommended unless you're caught between a rock and a
hard place. Still, for sticky situations, this click trick is quite slick.
Fast Access To Microsoft Knowledgebase
Help with numerous problems caused by Microsoft's operating systems and applications comes in the form of Microsoft
Knowledgebase (MS KB) articles. Once you have an article number in hand, you have to surf to the Knowledgebase
search page, then enter the article number. If you're using Internet Explorer 5.x, shave a few steps off of the process by
typing "MSKB Q286043" sans quotes. You'll instantly be whisked away to the exact missive you're after, and nary a
click has been rendered to get there.
Verify Disk Writes
Sneakernet is still in common use around many offices, which is a bit of a shame with all of the things technology can
do these days. Even if you aren't one to sneakerize your data between two PCs? sitting next to each other, there still
comes the need for a floppy diskette once in a while. Using Floppies will ultimately lead to bad data once in a while, but
with the help of the Verify command, you can add one more step to the floppy write process to help ensure the
readability before the diskette leaves the source machine. Simply launch a DOS box and type "verify" sans quotes to
see the current status of the verify flag, normally off. Type "verify on" to force data to be read back from the diskette
after writing, ensuring the integrity of the information. Note that this also affects hard disk writes, which can cause a bit
of a performance drag. Windows 9x will leave verify on even if you exit the DOS window so be sure to type "verify off"
when you're finished, though a reboot will reset the status to off as well. Windows NT/2K will both forget this setting
once you close the DOS window.
Windows Media Player Usability
Question: How do I make the player Better, More Usable?
Answer: For me, I did the following...

1. turned "Start Player in Media Guide" off
2. turned "When in compact mode, display anchor window" off
3. turned "Enable Personal Rights Management" off
4. increased Copy music quality to 128kbps
5. turned the graphic equalizer and visualizations off
6. turned CD Audio "Error Correction" on (I have a flaky CD-ROM drive)
7. Plus I wrote some skins, but that's because I have specific tastes. <grin>.
Windows Explorer Shortcuts
Open up your Windows Explorer and put the cursor's focus into the Folders pane. Don't have a Folders pane on the left
side? Turn it on by clicking View | Explorer Bar | Folders. Or, ya know... click the Folders icon in Explorer's toolbar.
Now, let's say you wanna see all the subfolders of your Windows folder. Select it in the left (Folders) pane first, then tap
the keypad asterisk. Just like pulling a rabbit out of a hat (albeit, with much less fur). And even though we covered it a
few months ago, you can use another key-combo to resize field widths when your Explorer view is set to Details. Hold
onto CTRL and tap the plus sign on your numeric keypad. Ah, each column is optimized for the longest data string
within it.
Making A Windows 2000 Boot Floppy
We covered this in detail in the Mastering NT Server 4.0 book, but it kind of slipped through the cracks in the 2000
book.

Many people are surprised to hear that it's possible to make a Win2K? boot floppy. After all, the OS is waaay too big a
system to fit on a floppy, right? Right. But you can use a floppy to help a wounded system START the boot process. For
example, take the case we're looking at here, a mirrored drive in a system of all EIDE drives. 99 percent of what you
need to boot 2000 can sit on any drive. But you need a few files to get things moving. The exact files that you need vary
depending on how your system accesses its boot disk -- what you'll soon come to know as the MULTI() versus SCSI()
issue. Let's first build a boot floppy that will work for EIDE-based systems, and take up SCSI in a bit
Format a blank floppy, using Windows 2000. (NT will do -- but it can't be Windows 9x or DOS. You need the boot sector
to want to load a file called NTLDR, and Win 9x/DOS don't do that.) Copy the files NTLDR, BOOT.INI, and NTDETECT.
COM to the floppy. That's it. What's that, you don't believe me? Try it with a working system; it'll work for any system
that boots from an EIDE drive, and in fact will work for most systems that boot from a SCSI drive. And by the way, those
three files are hidden on the root of the "system" drive, which is probably drive C: on most systems. And BOOT.INI is
usually read-only, but we'll want to edit it, so un-check the read-only attribute. If the GUI doesn't let you do it, type this
from a command line
attrib -s -h -r c:\boot.ini attrib -s -h c:\ntdetect.com attrib -s -h c:\ntldr
Format the floppy, copy the files, and boot from it. You'll see that you get the normal boot picker and the system boots.
But this boot floppy only knows how to make the drive 0 partition boot. To teach Windows 2000 how to boot from the
mirrored drive, you'll need to mess with ... ugh ... ARC definitions.
Alphabetize Your Start Menu
Keep things in order and sort your Start menu alphabetically. To do so, right-click any item in your Start menu and
select "Sort by Name" from the pop-up menu. This will place items alphabetically within your Start menu. However,
when new items are added, they won't necessarily appear in alphabetical order. To ensure that all folders appearing in
your Start menu will remain alphabetical, you must first access the Registry Editor by typing REGEDIT in the Start
menu's Run command. Once in the Registry Editor, access the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft Windows
\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder directory. Click the StartMenu\Menu subdirectory and delete the Order key that
appears in the right-hand pane of the Registry Editor. Restart Windows to effect the change.
Clear Word/Excel Document Formatting
If you see a spreadsheet that's too loud (visually), press CTRL+A to select all, then click Edit | Clear | Formats. This
also helps take care of those rogue formatted cells. You can do the same thing for Microsoft Word documents, although
you'll have to take a slightly different route. The easiest way (I've found) is to save a copy of the file as "MS-DOS text
with Layout" and then re-open it. From there, you can format the document to your liking without stumbling across any
previously used styles.

Control Panel Extensions
Control Panel extensions. If you've moved beyond Windows ninety-whatever, you may have noticed a few new file
types on your system. It's a Microsoft Common Console Document. And much like an EXE file, you can launch an MSC
simply by entering it on the Run command field in the Start Menu. COMPMGMT.MSC pulls up the Computer
Management console (which contains all of the other console documents). DISKMGMT.MSC gives you quick access to
disk properties (which you may configure). DEVMGMT.MSC is the Device Manager (which looks a lot like the one in
9x). DFRG.MSC launches the built-in disk defragmenter. EVENTVWR.MSC is your system Event Viewer (error records
and such). FSMGMT.MSC will help you manage your Shared Folders. LUSRMGR.MSC manages Local Users and
Groups (those LUSRs?). PERFMON.MSC is your Performance Monitor. SECPOL.MSC shows Local Security Settings.
SERVICES.MSC lists all the registered Services (be careful with this one).
Viewing Source & Opening Urls
In Internet Explorer's Address field, you can enter: "view- source:[URL]" (sans quotes). Replace the [URL] variable with
the full Web address of the page in question. Now, in newer versions of Windows, you can enter a Web address in the
Open File dialog of any program. Fire up Notepad, click File | Open and enter a full URL (including the obligatory "http
colon slash slash"). Presto! There's your source."
Task Manager Information
Windows 2000 and XP have a simple way users can summon the Task Manager. A right-click on the taskbar is all you
need to do. There's a list of running processes. But are any of them safe to close? Be careful! Some of those suckers
are critical; closing the wrong one could hose your OS. Click View | Select Columns | and put a checkmark in the PID
(Process Identifier) field. Now, let's go through them. Services.exe (208) handles: AppMgmt, Browser, Dhcp, dmserver,
Dnscache, Eventlog, lanmanserver, LanmanWorkstation, LmHosts, Messenger, PlugPlay, ProtectedStorage, seclogon,
TrkWks, W32Time?, and Wmi. That's a mouthful, eh? Well, each one of those components takes care of a different part
of the operating system (yet they're all under the same process). Need to know what else is going on inside? Click Start
| Run and enter: "CMD" (sans quotes). Now, if you're in Win2k, at the command prompt, enter: "TLIST -S" (sans
quotes). If you're running WinXP, at the command prompt, enter: "TASKLIST /SVC" (sans quotes). Remember, you can
use that vertical scroll bar to view bumped command screen data. You couldn't do that in 9x, ya know.
Excel Hotkeys
While ALT+EQUALS will invoke the AutoSum feature, the rest of his click quickies rely on pressing CTRL and SHIFT
simultaneously. With the '$' (dollar sign), the field's format is switched to Currency. The '%' (percent symbol) modifies
the cell's value to a Percentage. The '^' (caret) turns the selected location into an Exponential. The "!' (exclamation
mark) toggles the use of commas or decimals. The "@' (at sign) automatically inserts the current Time. The '#' (number
sign) adds today's Date. The '&' (ampersand) draws a border around the current selection. The '_' (underscore)
removes the border from the selection. The '*' (asterisk) selects the current region. Soon your mouse will be collecting
dust (and your co-workers will be eating it).
Office 2000 Speller Update
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/o2ksu.aspx "The Office 2000 Speller Update refreshes the dictionary of

words referenced by Microsoft Office 2000. This update includes approximately 13,000 additional words. Some of the
updated terminology comes from the following targeted improvement areas: Surnames, street names, and company
names; computer and communications technology terms; geographical place names and language names; and
improved quality of replacement suggestions. Once you have installed this update, use Office 2000 as you normally
would. There is no uninstall feature with this download."
Wireless Roaming
Hark, the herald router sings! When the Ricochet network died, I was left without a wireless Internet connection for my
Pocket PC. As soon as a low-power Wi-Fi (802.11b) option was available for my PDA, I snapped it up. As this new
technology saturates the market, it will change the way we access information. Imagine being able to do price
comparisons, get up-to-the-minute weather and traffic reports, and view public transportation schedules on-the-fly. So,
how do you know when there's a wireless Internet connection in the vicinity? Check out what Jason Dunn from Pocket
PC Thoughts forwarded to me: "I was taking to a developer / friend about the [sniffing] issue, and one of our ex-
coworkers found a answer when programming a driver for FreeBSD. Use 'ANY' (sans quotes, case sensitive) for the
ESSID; it's an 802.11b standard. It will find the nearest available access point. So far, my Symbol card seems to be
switching to the closest network. For me, it switches to the network's ESSID automatically." Much to my surprise, this
works! Of course, I'm not recommending that you hijack someone else's connection on a long-term basis. It's really
more for those of us who are always on the go (and want to stay in the know).
Saving Links
When I'm looking for cool new stuff to feature, I like lurking in the Lockergnome newsgroups and chat room. There's
great stuff in both places, ya know? Well, sometimes I'm faced with a plain link that I'd like to keep as an Internet
Shortcut. It's not easy to do if all you have is plain text. You can't right click and "Save Target As" an MP3? file; it should
start streaming in your default media player when you single click the link (that isn't a proper hyperlink on a Web page).
Have you ever needed to create a bare- bones HTML document with just that single link in it? Put down Notepad, folks.
Here's a spin on an earlier GnomeTIP, as suggested by TGC (The Gnome Collector). Either in Internet Explorer's
address bar or the Run command field in the Start Menu, enter: "about: <A CLASS=URL HREF="link"> name </
a>" (sans spaces and quotes). Obviously, you'll replace [link] with the full URL, including the "http" part. The [name]
variable can be just about anything, as it's what you'll be right-clicking on to "Save Target As" after the impromptu page
pops up. It's an ingenious workaround.
Install Real Codec
We've talked about we how really don't want Real on our systems. A few third-party players were developed to bypass
the RealBeast, but they still require the Real codecs to be installed. Never fear, Josh Waggoner says; you just need to
copy over a couple of files and Registry settings to be set. Find an old (or virtual) machine to install RealPlayer onto. In
the C:\ Program Files \ Common Files \ Real hierarchy, grab the contents of \Codecs, \Common, and \Plugins. In the C:\
Windows \ System (or System32) folder, grab pncrt.dll. Now, navigate to the machine's registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ Software \ RealNetworks \ Preferences. Be sure to export three of its subkeys: \DT_Plugins,
\DT_Codecs, and \DT_Common. In each case, they should point to the appropriate folder hierarchy (the ones you just
copied from the Program Files folder). Copy the three folders and the DLL file back to their original locations (on your
primary machine this time). Double- click the REG file to merge its contents into the Registry. Now any third-party
player that requires the RealStuff should play your RealMedia without a RealHeadache. RealCool!
Restart Windows Without Rebooting
Start button -> Shut down -> Restart Hold down the SHIFT key while you click the OK button
URL-Completion In MSIE
Try to type "ykwong" (of course without quotes) in the address bar, and then press Ctrl-Enter. You will be brought to
here immediately. This is auto-completion, in which Internet Explorer automatically adds "http://www/." and ".com" to
the word you just typed in.
Right Click On Right-Click-Disabled Webpages
There are many ways to work around websites where right clicking is disabled. Here is the simplest way. When the
popup window appears, don't close it at once. Right click on the webpage first and hold your right mouse button. Then
press the "Enter" key to close the popup window. When the popup window got killed, you will see the popup menu!
Google Search By File Types
Quite possibly the best "hidden" feature of Google is its ability to index and query against non-HTML pages: Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe PostScript (PS), Microsoft Office (XLS, PPT, DOC), etc. To narrow the
search to a specific type, enter: [terms] -filetype:EXT (with EXT being the appropriate file extension). When it finds a
non-HTML file, Google still gives you the option to view it as an HTML document!
Document Summary In Word
When someone sends me a Word document over 2 pages long, I often ask Word for a synopsis. Click Tools |
AutoSummarize. Then, select how you want it to parse your document: Highlight key points, Insert an executive
summary, Hide everything BUT the summary, or Create a new document with only the summary. Tweak the
percentage before running it through the wringer (I wouldn't recommend anything more than 25 percent). Granted,
Word won't rewrite the document for you, but it'll at least provide (what it believes to be) the key points from the original
structure. Use this feature to reverse engineer just about anything you've ever written. Forget to read that book chapter
for today's Classic American Literature quiz? If it's available in an electronic format somewhere, all hope may not be
lost.
Word Document Comparison
Word has a "comparison" feature hidden away within the deep recesses of its structure. Right-click on a toolbar, select
Customize, flip to the Commands tab, select the Tools category, then scroll through the right-most pane until you see
the "Compare Documents..." option. Drag and drop that bad boy somewhere (either in an existing toolbar or a menu).
Now, open your original document, press the newly-created icon, browse for the newer document, and guess what
Word will do? Automatically highlight the changes in red. Perfect for when you need to know what once was sitting
inside those paragraphs. If your teacher was looking for a rough draft, now you can show him or her in style.
Exchange Delivery Debugging
Then you can use Restest.exe to see if it worked. This utility can be found on the Microsoft Exchange Server compact
disc in the Support\Utils\I386 directory.
Paste Plain Text Into Word
You can set up Word 97 or 2000 to insert unformatted text with a keystroke. In Word, select some text and press <Ctrl>-
C to copy it.
Click ToolsMacroRecord New Macro (in Word 2000, you may have to extend the Tools menu to see the Macro
option). In the Macros dialogue box's name field, enter PlainPaste. Click the Keyboard button to get the Customise
Keyboard dialogue box. In the "Save changes in" drop-down menu, select Normal. Put the cursor in the "Press new
shortcut key" field, and press <Alt>-V. Click the Assign button, then Close.
There will now be a small, TV-shaped floating toolbar on Word's screen. Select EditPaste Special and double-click
Unformatted Text. Click the Stop Recording button (the solid square) on the toolbar. Henceforth, <Alt>-V will act as a
keyboard command to paste unformatted text.
Javascript Tricks
returns web page date: javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

resize window: javascript:resizeTo(800,600);
Clearing Registry Entries In Batch Files
Forever have I been plagued with not knowing how to remove Registry keys via REG files; merging them is not a
problem. Recently, folks have been trying to clear Microsoft's Windows Media Player History with ease. A quick
download of the free "Windows Media Bonus Pack" from WINDOWSMEDIA.COM will give you a tool to clear the MRU
list quickly, but here's a way to do it without any additional software. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \
Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Player \ RecentFileList - and export this "Selected branch" to a REG file. Now, edit that REG
file in your favorite text editor, insert a minus sign between the opening bracket and the "H" in "HKEY." This should
effectively remove the branch (and all subkeys) whenever the REG file is "merged." Create a shortcut to it, add the "/S"
switch to the Target field to "silence" the task, then place it in your Startup folder to clear "the list" every time you boot
into Windows. Another key which may hold an MRU: HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Software \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \
Player \ RecentFileList. NOTE: be very careful when employing this tactic. Messing with the Registry is NOT for the
faint of heart. You could hose your system in one quick click, slick.
Disable CD Auto-Play In Windows 2000
Change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Autorun from 1 to 0.
Installing Windows CD From Hard Drive
You've probably got your Windows installation CD sitting somewhere nearby; if not, check for the Windows > Options >
Cabs folder. Assuming you have enough disk space (or another hard drive), copy the files from the CD's \Win9x to
\Win9x on your hard drive. From there, you can run SETUP.EXE. This'll make your Windows installations fly! Once fully
installed, you can keep the \Win9x on your hard drive -- or you remove it and modify the registry key: HKLM \ Software \
Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Setup \ SourcePath="X:\WIN95\" (X represents your CD drive letter). This way, if
Windows needs the setup files in the future, it'll look for them first on the CD.
NT Command Line Help
Did you know that besides typing help from a command line to display the list of commands and typing command /? to
get specific command help, Windows NT has a command help file? \System32\NTcmds?.hlp provides a quick handy
reference in a small help window. Create a shortcut and place it on your Desktop and/or on the Start menu.
Disable Screen Saver During Defrag
It's smart to run the Disk Defragmenter every so often. Once it starts reorganizing your data, the last thing you want is
your screen saver to kick in. Tired of having to move the mouse every other minute (or forgetting to temporarily turn it
off)? Run REGEDIT.EXE, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Applets, and create a new key: "Defrag" (without quotes). Now, within this newly created key, create the key:
"Settings" (without quotes). In the Settings key, create a string value and label it: "DisableScreenSaver" (without
quotes). Next, edit the value "(Default)" and change it to: "YES" (without quotes). The next time DEFRAG is run, screen
savers will be disabled.
"Send To" Recipients
Question: How can I add a shortcut on my Send To menu so that I can right-click a file and send it as an email
attachment to a particular person?
Answer: As you probably know, Windows generates the Send To menu from a group of shortcuts in the user's SendTo
folder, which typically is in the user's Windows profile folder. To create a Send To shortcut that points to a particular
person, create a Windows shortcut in the SendTo folder that uses as the target the command
"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /c ipm.note /m somebody@somewhere.com
where the path to outlook.exe reflects that file's location on your system and somebody@somewhere.com is the name
or address of the person you want to send to. If the name or address contains spaces, enclose it with quotation marks.
You can then right-click any file, choose the recipient's name from the Send To menu, and send the file to that person.
Open Windows Explorer To A Specific Folder (Directory)
%windir%\explorer.exe /e,c:\temp\
DVD Playback In Windows 2000 / XP
I just finished reading your sample tip for Windows 2000 and I thought it was great, I also thought it was something that
most people could use. Getting proper DVD playback can be a tricky thing on some systems. I love my W2K? system
and have no plans of switching platforms anytime soon. This is not out of any romantic notions that I am a crusader
against the "evil" WPA; in fact, it is just that I am a broke university student and I have not yet run into a situation that
W2K? could not handle. I have found two other things that seriously hamper DVD playback to the point of wanting to
chuck this $2500 piece of metal across the room. The first one is fairly simple. Make sure that you do not have "Enable
digital CD audio for this device" enabled - I found it severely impacts playback. The way you can check to make sure
this is off is to jump into your handy-dandy Windows Explorer, right click on any drive, select properties, scroll down to
your DVD drive, click on it, select Properties, and under "Digital CD playback" you can check or uncheck that option.
The other tweak is a little more complicated; if it is not done, you could be seriously hampering your system
performance.
Do ya know what DMA is? Well, it stands for Direct Memory Access - and it allows for smoother sailing (in respect to
the drive's communication with the CPU). If your IDE controllers and drives are capable of this, you should definitely
have it enabled. What you do is head into you friendly-neighborhood Control Panel, select System, tap the hardware
tab, click on Device Manager, scroll down to IDE / ATA / ATAPI Controllers and select it. You should see two: a primary
and a secondary channel. Now, right- click on each, one at a time, and select Properties - hitting the Advanced Settings
tab, look at transfer mode. You will have a couple of options like "PIO only" and "DMA if available." As a side note,
"DMA if available" will also seek out Ultra DMA systems. So, make sure that you enable DMA if your system is capable
of it. This greatly increases the transfer speed between your DVD drive and your CPU - giving you smoother, less
choppy playback. Like Chris always responsibly points out, these are system tweaks - if you don't know what you are
doing, you might want to do some research first. It took me quite a while to narrow down these two individual problems,
so if I could save any of you good folks some time, that's great. I will definitely be buying at least the W2K? tips and
hopefully more. Thanx for all the great newsletters.
Keeping Tables Together In Word
Try forcing Word to keep the table rows together. Insert your cursor into a field, then in Word's menu bar, select Table |
Select | Table. Once the table is highlighted, go back to the menu and select Format | Paragraph. Flip to the Line and
Page Breaks tab, and put a checkmark in the "Keep with next" field. Don't you hate it when the table is split across two
pages? Yeah, me too. Again, select the table, then pull up the Table Properties (which can be found at the bottom of
the Table menu). Flip to the Row tab and deselect the "Allow row to break across pages" option. You could also try the
"Shrink to Fit" feature in your Print Preview window. This is best left for documents where the table (or paragraph) spills
over by a few lines. Word will automatically reformat the page(s) for you.

DNS Info From Ipconfig
When you send an instant message to a friend, pull up a Web page, or download your e-mail, you're establishing a
network connection with a remote computer. These connections are cached; the next time you reach out to touch
someone, the communication will be quicker. Sometimes, as Lockergnomie Brian Kowald points out, it's proper to flush
this cache. Windows 2000 / XP users are well aware of IPCONFIG, the command line network tool. It's time to switch
on the switches! Use "/flushdns" (sans quotes) to clear the stored connection data. Use this when your Internet
connection is working, but one or two locations aren't resolving. You also might consider doing this before you walk
away from the computer (to cover your tracks). So, how can someone see where you've been recently? IPCONFIG, in
conjunction with the "/displaydns" switch, will tell all. Now, do you miss the GUI- driven WINIPCFG? You'll want to get
WNTIPCFG, which can easily be found through Google.
Application Focus Tricks
You use the SHIFT key to open multiple items in your Start Menu without losing your position. Now, let's say you don't
want to lose your foreground app's focus. While double-clicking on a desktop shortcut icon to launch the associated
target, hold down the CTRL key. It'll load it behind all other open windows. Be it a document or be it a program, it
should hide behind everything else on the screen. Why would you want to do this? Well, if what you're currently working
on is super important, or if opening the second application is necessary (and it doesn't need your full attention), this will
help. If you want to keep programs from stealing foreground focus, consider using X-Setup (available from XTEQ.
COM). The plug-in is currently located in: Appearance \ Desktop \ Options \ Taskbar options. This may not work in your
OS. You might also use the latest version of Microsoft's TweakUI (if they ever release it again).
Word Table Formating
"I found a neat feature in Word 2000. Create a list of items with tabs separating the values. To quickly convert this to a
table, simply select the different lines and click the 'Insert Table' button in the toolbar. This is a shortcut to navigating to
the 'Convert Text to Table' menu item and going through that dialog box." Very cool! Now, let's talk about formatting
that thing, shall we? Hover your cursor over the table and you'll see a boxed cross appear in the upper left-hand corner.
Right-click it to auto-select the entire table. See how you can distribute the rows or columns evenly? Perfect for when
you're playing with FOUSes? (Fonts Of Unusual Sizes). Be sure to check out the Cell Alignment option, too. Left,
center, right, up, middle, or down - set your table evenly. If you want the text surrounding the table to flow differently,
pull up the table's properties (last option) and tweak the text wrapping.
Restore Show Desktop Icon
Copy the bold text here to a new text document ... save it to your desktop as Showdesktop.scf then drag it to the quich
launch bar.
[Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop
Drag And Drop Text In IE
Fire up Internet Explorer, navigate to a page which contains some kind of form, select a string of text, then drag and
drop that selection into a field.
Batch Start
"This tip is for those who load many programs at startup which are not always needed - but they're still loaded just so
that they do not have to launch the program when it IS required. For example, I used to have my IM Client, a program
that counts my time online, and DUMeter? (which shows instantaneous connection speeds) all run at startup - even
though I only needed them if I planned to go online. Now I double-click on a shortcut which loads these three programs
simultaneously and then dials my ISP. Here's how to do it: (1) Create a new text file. (2) Change the extension from
TXT to BAT. (3) Edit the file in a text editor and insert 'START [Path]' on separate lines for each program, sans quotes,
with [Path] being the full disk path of (and up to) the EXE file. (4) Create a shortcut to this batch file. (5) In the shortcut
properties dialog, select Run / Minimized, then tick the checkbox labeled 'Close on exit.' You could also change its icon
and place this shortcut on the desktop or Quick Launch toolbar." Very cool, very easy. Beats the heck out of having to
click on several sets of icons.
IE Full Screen Mode
Occasionally I like to view the web or Windows Explorer in Full Screen mode... to do this I just hit F11 on the keyboard
and there I am in Full Screen mode. Hit it again and I am back to regular mode.
Hotkeys
Atl-Esc cycles through open windows
Quicklaunch Bar
If you right-click on the taskbar (I did this in XP), disable the Quick Launch bar, and then re-enable it, the Quick Launch
icons will be alphabetized.
IE Home Page Hotkey
Want to jump quickly to your home page? Press Alt-Home to go there. Another handy use of the Home key: Press the
key to jump to the beginning of the document. It's not rocket science, but it can help you save a little time each day.
IE Forward & Back Hotkeys
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you know that you can click the back or forward arrows at the top of the window
to move to other pages. But, this is not the only way to move backward or forward. You can press Backspace to move
backward and Shift + Backspace to move forward. You'll also find that Alt + left arrow will work to move backward and
you can press Alt + right arrow to move forward.
IE Right-Clicking Via Keyboard
The right-mouse click is an invaluable way to speed your browsing in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Right-click a link, for
instance, and you'll see options to open the link in a new window or to add the link to the Favorites menu. If you prefer
to open this menu from the keyboard, select Shift-F10. Once the menu appears, select the underlined letter from any of
the menu items to launch that command. You may find using keyboard commands in this way helpful when your mouse
isn't working, when you want to avoid mousing, or when you're working on an unfamiliar laptop with a touchpad you find
difficult to use.
Intellimouse Font Change In IE
If you have a wheel moust and use Microsoft's IntelliMouse software, did you know you can customize your web
pages? You can hold down the Ctrl key and scroll your mouse button to change the size of the text. This is great if you
have to print something. Just make the text smaller, then increase it again.
Unmark Spamassassin Messages
If a message is accidentally tagged as spam and you would like to keep it, you can hit e to edit the message and in vim
type :%!spamassassin -d to remove all SpamAssassin markup from the message. Then, just quit out of vim and your
new message will have replaced the old one in the folder.

Winscp Keystroke Function
Spacebar Select or deselect the file at the cursor. +/- (number pad) Select/deselect files using a mask you specify. Ctrl
+/- Select/deselect all files. Alt +/- Select/deselect all files with the same extension.
Reverse selection.
Mutt Index Codes
Controls the character used to indicate mail addressed to you. The first character is the one used when the mail is NOT
addressed to your address (default: space). The second is used when you are the only recipient of the message
(default: +). The third is when your address appears in the TO header field, but you are not the only recipient of the
message (default: T). The fourth character is used when your address is specified in the CC header field, but you are
not the only recipient. The fifth character is used to indicate mail that was sent by you.
Floppy Disk Recovery
"Users come to me with their damaged floppies and I recover the good data from their corrupt floppies 90% of the time
without the Norton Disk Recovery program. All I do is insert the bad floppy into the floppy drive and right click on the
floppy icon in My Computer and choose the 'Copy Disk' option. The trick is to keep hitting "Retry" every time it fails.
Eventually it will work! I have clicked "Retry" 50-100 times to eventually read the entire disk. Then just put in a new
blank formatted floppy and Windows will create a duplicate of the original. This even works on floppies that a directory
listing fails. Also another neat trick I do is 'Copy *.* nul' from the command prompt (Make sure to type a: and press enter
to switch to the floppy drive). This will copy all the files into the 'bit bucket'. The advantage is that it will read all the files
and stop on the corrupt ones." Thanks for the tip Charles! Another trick that I do is run a Scandisk on the corrupted
floppy disk. Many a times this has gotten the disk to a readable state so that I can copy the disks to a desktop and then
to a new disk. From there it is up to you what you do with the corrupted floppy. I have found that most of these disks are
OK after a full format.
Continuing A Search In Microsoft Word
Here are some keyboard shortcuts for continuing a search in Microsoft Word after the Find dialog box has been closed.
The shortcuts even change the search's direction. Press Ctrl- Page Down to have Word search for the next occurrence
of your last search string, and press Ctrl- Page Up to make Word search for the previous occurrence. If you haven't
searched for anything since you loaded Word, these keystrokes move the cursor to the next or previous page.
Search-Menu Shortcuts
Use the FindX utility in Microsoft's free PowerToys package to add shortcuts to my Search menu, and to set Search to
open with the parameters I specified. Unfortunately, FindX isn't in the latest versions of PowerToys, though it still works
with every version of Windows.
Quick Launching
Keyboard launches: I assign a keyboard shortcut for the files and applications that I launch many times a day, such as
the volume control. Simply right-click an application shortcut in the Start menu or on the desktop and choose
Properties. Make sure the Shortcut tab is in front. Click in the 'Shortcut key' box and press your desired shortcut keys.
Windows requires that your shortcut use at least two modifier keys ( Ctrl, Shift, or Alt), unless you press a function key
or a key on the numeric keypad. Click OK, and your new keyboard shortcut is finished. If you change your mind later
on, just return to this dialog box, click in the 'Shortcut key' box, and press Backspace. Then click OK and restart
Windows.
Quick Launch openings: Second-priority items I access via the Quick Launch bar. (If you don't see it, right-click the
taskbar, choose Toolbars, and make sure Quick Launch is checked.) Drag any application, folder, or document icon to
the toolbar to create a tiny icon that launches that item. I prefer to limit the Quick Launch toolbar to between six and
eight icons to keep it from becoming cluttered and to make spotting individual icons easier. Keeping Quick Launch
small also allows more room on the taskbar for other items.
Custom menus: To handle third-priority items, I make custom submenus off the Start menu. Begin by creating
subfolders inside the Start Menu folder. Right-click Start, choose Open or Explore, and select File, New, Folder. Then
add a sensible number of shortcuts to each subfolder you create. Those shortcuts will appear on a menu when your
new Start menu subfolder is highlighted. If a menu gets longer than 20 or so icons, it may be time to break that folder
into two separate folders.
RSS Readers
Question: I keep seeing these little orange XML buttons on the Web, including on Lockergnome.com. What are they
for?
Answer: It indicates the site offers an RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed. Clicking on it reveals top-secret code. OK, not
really. The code is similar to HTML that uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Feed the feed (the URL you receive
after clicking on the orange button) into free aggregators like NewzCrawler [http://www.newzcrawler.com/],
AmphetaDesk [http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/], and FeedReader [http://www.feedreader.com/], and you'll
stay updated on any fresh news from that site. The nice thing is that you can keep track of updated sites all in one
place. Typically, the feed provides a brief summary. If the story sounds interesting, click on the link to get the rest of the
story. Boring? Move on to the next summary. There is a similar button that's blue with RSS that functions in the same
way. Large Web sites with news coming from different sources use these feeds to update their pages with the latest
news from the various sources. News Is Free [http://newsisfree.com/] is an ultimate news portal that has many XML
and RSS feeds for your use. There's a good introduction to RSS Feeds at Webreference.com [http://www.
webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/]. Time to go feed the need for news! [Meryl]
Illegal Operation
Question: What do I do when I get the message, "Illegal Operation?"
Answer: Well, this really depends on the situation. If the first and only time you got this error was while doing the
particular tasks you were performing right before the error, then I would say just shut down for a few seconds and boot
your machine back up. In most cases, this is just a case of an error in your memory, and by shutting down, the memory
is cleared. If you notice this happening a lot with a particular program or task then you may want to go to the program
manufacturer's Web site and see if they have a patch to repair this problem. If these errors are just happening at
random and frequent intervals, then you may want to back up your data and reinstall your operating system. If you are
still getting these errors after re-setting up your machine, and if you don't have any external devices like a scanner or
CD-RW drive, then you may want to look at your memory. Memory for your computer is cheap and all you need to do is
take the machine to a local computer store and they can help you find the right memory for your machine, or they may
have a memory chip tester for your current system memory. If the memory fails in the tester, then you just need to
replace it with new system memory. If they don't have a tester, then I would say buy a 128 MB stick of memory and
then take all the rest of your memory out of your system. See how it operates and if it is fine, try putting in the original
memory, one stick at a time. The second you run into trouble then you know it might be that particular stick of memory.
Just put that to the side, and move on to the next stick. If it all works fine in the end, then you know you just need to get
rid of that one bad stick of memory. [Brian]
Right Click Menu Registry
Question: How do I change the items that show up in the menu that appears when I right-click on the Start button?
Answer: Funny you ask that question, because I had all this Winamp garbage in this menu and wanted it out, and I
wanted to put a few frequently used programs into it instead. Right-clicking the Start button typically gives you Open,
Explore, Search, and Properties options. If you have other stuff there that you never use, or you want to add something,
go to the registry and get busy! (A quick reminder on how to get to the registry: Start | Run | Regedit.)
1. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and expand it.

2. Find the Directory folder and expand it.
3. Right-click on "shell", select New | Key, and give the key a name. In this example, I want to add a favorite
freeware program called NoteTab, so I'll call the key "NoteTab."
4. On the right pane, double-click on the "(Default)" value, and add a title with an ampersand (&) in front of the letter
as an accelerator key. In this case, it would be "&NoteTab." Click OK.

5. Right-click on &NoteTab (NOT Default), and select New | Key.
6. Call this key "COMMAND." Double-click on COMMAND and enter the full path and program you want to execute
into the Value box. In this example, I entered "C:\Program Files\NoteTab Light\notetab.exe".
7. Close the registry editor. Now, right-click on Start, and the new program is there waiting for your click! [Meryl]
Disk Capacity Comparisons
Question: How much data or information can the 1.44MB floppy disk hold in practical terms, such as a number of pages
in a book?
Answer: 3.5-inch floppy diskettes hold 1.44 megabytes of information, which is about 1.5 million text characters, or 700
pages of straight text. When using compression software, the floppy's storage can increase five-fold. Using
uncompressed files, one disk can hold six seconds of low-quality video.
A CD-ROM stores 650 megabytes, which is equal to 450 floppy diskettes, or roughly one hour of low-quality video. A
DVD-ROM holds 4.7 gigabytes of information, or 2 hours and 13 minutes of full-screen digital video.
Final tally: 1 DVD-ROM = 7 CD-ROMs? = 3,157 floppy diskettes
I don't think I've ever owned 1000 diskettes at one time, have I? I'm all for dumping floppies and the drives that hold
them. Instead, we can use USB or card readers to transfer data. [Meryl]
Easy Disposable E-Mail Addresses
Disposable E-Mail Addresses Every time you give your e-mail address to a Web site, you risk the chance that it will be
sold to a rabid spam monger. You can reduce this risk by using disposable e-mail addresses (DEAs?). Such addresses
are generally provided by a paid service company that forwards mail from a DEA to your actual address. In general, you
name the DEA so it can identify the recipient. If you start getting spam on a particular DEA, you know which recipient to
blame, and you can terminate that DEA and report the abuse. We reviewed five such services in "Slam the
Spam" (February 25).
Depending on the way your e-mail is handled, you may be able to create your own DEAs? without paying for the
service. Many e-mail servers ignore certain additional characters in e-mail addresses and deliver the messages
regardless. You can use this bit of information to your advantage.
The only way to find out whether this will work is to try it. Ask a friend to send you two e-mail messages using modified
versions of your e-mail address. For one, insert a plus sign (+) and a word (with no spaces) before the @ sign. For the
other, insert a word in parentheses. For example, if your address is nobody@nowhere.com, you could specify one
address as nobody+monkey@nowhere.com and the other as nobody(monkey)@nowhere.com.
Once the messages are sent, check your e-mail. If either message reaches your in-box, it means you can create
DEAs? using the format that succeeded. When you place an order with www.whatevercom, insert +whatever or
(whatever) in the e-mail address you submit. If you begin to get spam on that address, use your e-mail client's message
rules to delete messages with that address in the To: field.
Sure, a human could extract your real address from this poor man's DEA at a glance, but spam mongers don't spend
time looking at individual addresses. Of course, if you want a greater degree of separation from your DEAs?, you can
use one of the subscription services.
Make Control Panel Applets More Accessible
(from http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-013)
Select Settings in your Start Menu, and then select Taskbar & Start Menu.
In Windows Me and Windows 2000, choose the Advanced tab, and turn on the Expand Control Panel option. In
Windows XP, choose the Start Menu tab, choose Classic Start Menu, and click Customize.
Now, the Control Panel menu (in Settings) will display a list of its contents, rather than just opening a separate
window.
Favorites And Start Menu Sort Order
(from http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/favsort.htm)
1. Where it says Files, Edit, View, Favorites, in the IE (I'm using IE 6) main menu click Favorites.
2. Move the mouse past Add to Favorites... and Organize Favorites...
3. to the folders and shortcuts below those entries.
4. Right-click anywhere in that area.
5. Select Sort by Name from the resulting menu.
Keyboard Control Of Desktop
I've always had trouble getting keyboard control of the desktop without having to use the mouse. Here's how to access
icons on the desktop using the keyboard:
Press the Windows Logo key, which brings up the Start menu. Press ESC (this makes the Start menu disappear, but
keeps the taskbar active). Press SHIFT + TAB one time (this toggles between the taskbar and the desktop). Your
desktop will now be active, although you may not notice any visual indication of it. Press the Down cursor key and you
will see which desktop icon is active, and continue to use the cursor keys to move to the icon you want to use. Press
ENTER to run the icon, or press SHIFT + F10 to see the context menu for that icon.
Shortcut To MMC
Right click My Computer | Manage
X-Up Printing
Printfile (http://www.lerup.com/printfile/) does n-up printing of text files and any file if printed on a postscript printer.
The latter I use the workaround of first creating a pdf document (I use FreeDist, http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen),
and then printing the pdf document.
Ghostscript has abilities for printing n pages on one sheet as well.
Maximize IE Windows
There's a quick fix in the registry to make Internet Explorer always be maximized without having some program running.
Open REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main. In the
right- hand pane, you'll find the "fullscreen" value. Double-click it to change the "no" to a "yes" (or vice versa). From
what I can tell, everything else in this key can be changed within the regular Internet Options dialog. As is the case for
every other system tweak, I wouldn't suggest "optimizing" settings you don't understand.
Hotkeys To Home In Internet Explorer
Have you ever clicked the home icon in Internet Explorer's toolbar? It takes you... home. Pretend (for a moment) that
you've lost your ability to use the mouse's buttons. How on Earth are you gonna get home now?! First, tap F6 to shift
focus to the Address bar, then enter: ".." (sans quotes) and press ENTER. Success! You're always two periods away
from being home... much like Chemistry class in high school. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; trip
through the same trick in Windows Explorer and you'll find yourself in the folder for your Desktop. And what about two
dots in the Run command line? Ah, then you'll be launching an Explorer window showing your root folder. Who knew
that such a small character could do so much? Yeah, my parents were thinking the exact same thing. Although, I wish I
could have done better in Chemistry. Gretchen, of course, aced it. Here's another tip: never try to outsmart your wife.
Especially when she's wearing your pants.
Outlook File Sharing
Q. How can I give users an image-file-sharing option that doesn't entail sending 30MB attachments with email
messages?
A. You need a shared storage location in which users can put image files that they need to share (e.g., an image that a
supervisor needs to approve). The storage location could be an Exchange Server public folder or a folder on a network
volume. Which option works best for your organization might depend in part on the permissions granularity that you
require. Public folders support access control only at the folder level, so consider using a folder on an NTFS volume
when you need to set permissions on individual files.
If you use public folders, users can insert shortcuts to files or items after you set up the shared location (or locations, if
you need to segregate data for different users). To insert a file, users select Insert, File, then choose Shortcut from the
"Insert as" drop-down list on the Insert File dialog box. To insert a shortcut to an Outlook item, users choose Insert, Item
from the Outlook menu.
Users might encounter one problem: HTML and plaintext message formats don't support the addition of shortcuts
through menu commands. Don't let this problem stop you. Users can still type in hyperlink shortcuts such as these
<file://server/sharedfiles/myfiles/image1.tif>
<file:///S:/myfiles/image1.tif>
Recipients who use Outlook can click such hyperlinks to open files. Note that for a drive-letter shortcut to work, all
recipients must have the same drive-letter mapping. This rule also holds true for shortcuts that users insert with the
Insert, File command.
Sorting Messages In Outlook
You probably already know that in Outlook you can click on a field title to sort the items in a folder (ascending or
descending), but perhaps there are many emails from user@acme.com and you want to sort them by those which
came with an attachment. First, select the From field, then hold down the SHIFT key and click the Attachment field, to
help you do just that. Holding down the SHIFT key allows you to sort by multiple fields. In case you weren't aware,
clicking a field title a second time orders the contents in the reverse order.
Outlook Configuration
As opposed to Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook supports the use of several mail service types (which are typically
used in corporate environments). During initial configuration, if you chose to use Corporate / Workgroup features, then
you've got more functionality than you'll actually need or use (such as Exchange Server and/or Microsoft Mail support).
You may also be lacking features that you'll want (such as IMAP functionality). A switch to "Internet Only" mode is
probably best unless you require multiple profiles... in which case, the Corporate / Workgroup mode is your only option.
You can check the current mode you're using by clicking Help | About Microsoft Outlook. If you find you are indeed
using the Corporate / Workgroup mode, click Tools | Options | Mail Services tab | Reconfigure Mail Support button, then
choose the "Internet Only" option. Have your Office / Outlook CD handy, as you'll likely need it to complete the
conversion. I'd recommend "Internet Only" for 99% of y'all.
Ignore Receipt Requests In Outlook
Now, I don't use Outlook with Exchange, I just use it as an Internet mail client, so perhaps my copy (Outlook 2000) will
behave differently than yours, but to tell it to ignore read receipts, just do this
Click Tools, then Options On the resulting property page (which is simply called "Options"), choose the "Preferences"
tab. It'll probably be up front anyway. In the section "E-Mail," click the button labeled "E-mail Options..." In the resulting
dialog box ("E-mail Options"), click the button labeled "Tracking Options..." That will raise a dialog box labeled "Tracking
Options" with a section labeled "Use this option to decide how to respond to requests for read receipts;" click the radio
button next to "Never send a response."
Voting Buttons In Outlook
Voting buttons work in all versions of Microsoft Outlook to let you easily collect responses to questions (e.g., where to
have dinner or which image to put on a T-shirt). Simply open a new message, click Options, and select the "Use voting
buttons" check box. Although the adjacent drop-down list provides three choices for buttons--Approve, Reject; Yes, No;
and Yes, No, and Maybe--Outlook doesn't limit you to these selections. You can type in any combination of choices,
separating them with semicolons. For example, you can use Pepperoni; Cheese; Supreme; Anchovy if you're
canvassing a group about their pizza preferences for an upcoming working lunch.
When sending voting-button messages, prefixing the subject line with "VOTE:" is a good idea. Otherwise, users might
see the message in their Inboxes and click Reply, not realizing that they need to open the message and click a voting
button.
After you send a voting-button message, don't move it from your Sent Items folder. If you move the message to another
folder, Outlook won't be able to process the responses. If the original message remains in the Sent Items folder,
Outlook will automatically display responses on a Tracking tab in the original message. Automatic processing takes
place when Outlook is idle. If you're busy sending messages, Outlook might not get a chance to process the responses,
but it can catch up while you're away from your desk. When Outlook has processed the first response, the sent
message's icon will change to an envelope with a blue "i" to indicate that tracking information is available. To change
the automatic-processing settings, click Tools, Options, E-mail Options, Tracking Options.
At the top of the Tracking tab on the sent message, Outlook maintains a running total of responses (e.g., Pepperoni 8;
Cheese 0; Supreme 5; Anchovy 10). In the grid below that information, you'll see each person's response. Outlook
provides no obvious way to extract voting-button responses from a message, but you can easily paste the information
into an Excel spreadsheet. Open a new Excel spreadsheet, then open the voting-button message and click the
Tracking tab. Choose Edit, Select All, then click Edit, Copy. Switch to the Excel spreadsheet, and click Paste. The
responses paste into the spreadsheet in neat rows and columns, ready for further analysis or printing.
Voting-button messages have some limitations. You can't use the Options dialog box to create a voting-button message
in Outlook 2000 or Outlook 98 in Internet Mail Only (IMO) mode. However, you can write code in Visual Basic Scripting
Edition (VBScript?) to add voting buttons to an IMO message by setting the message's Voting Options property to a
semicolon-delimited string of button choices.
You can send voting-button messages over the Internet to other Outlook users who don't work in the same Exchange
organization. The key is to make sure that the recipient address is enabled for Rich-Text Format (RTF). For Outlook
2000 and Outlook 98 in IMO mode, check the Outlook contact and ensure that the "Send using plaintext" check box
isn't selected. In other versions, you can double-click the email address on the contact record to see whether the
recipient is set for "Send using Outlook Rich-Text Format." If you're sending from an Exchange mailbox, the Exchange
server must be set to respect the user's choice for mail format and not convert RTF messages to HTML or plaintext.
Organize Outlook Messages
How can I use Outlook to organize messages from particular people and companies?
If you want a solution that works with all versions of Outlook, you have two choices: You can either create a
separate folder for each person or company, or you can use one folder but organize the information in the folder
with categories. I use both techniques. For the handful of people with whom I communicate daily about important
projects, I keep a separate subfolder under my Inbox. I use the Outlook Rules Wizard to move new messages
from each person into the appropriate folder. A separate rule puts a copy of each item that I send to that person
into the folder.
You can also use the Outlook Rules Wizard to apply categories to incoming and outgoing messages, while retaining
them in the Inbox and Sent Items folders. Alternatively, you can manually assign a category to either an item or a group
of items in a folder. Right-click the item or items, then choose Categories. After you've assigned categories to
messages in a folder, you can use the By Category view to see items by category or create filtered views to show you
information related to just one category at a time.
In Outlook 2000, you have a third option: the built-in Activities page on each contact item. The Activities page lists items
related to the current contact. The page can search multiple folders, as long as the folders are all in your mailbox. To
designate which folders the Activities page will search, bring up the Contacts folder's Properties, then switch to the
Activities tab and either modify an existing folder group or create a new one.
Re-Enable Outlook Attachments
A few weeks ago, I upgraded Windows on Oogie Boogie (the big, bad, beige beast who now belongs to Gretchen). As
usual, I had to add all of my favorite shell extensions and shareware apps ASAP. Microsoft Office 2000 was the last in
line; my copy was the release version, so I had to head to the Web to get SP1? (the first service pack). I was careful not
to get SP2?, as it comes with the dreaded Outlook E-mail Security update that halts EVERY type of questionable
attachment. Oops. I inadvertently installed it (and there's no way to uninstall it). Time to do a little hacking! If this has
happened to you, here's what you need to do. Find OUTLLIB.DLL and open it in any hexadecimal editor (I prefer
UltraEdit). It's nothing but code, baby. Be sure to make a backup copy first! Now, do a Find for the first "URL" string.
You should see it surrounded by other familiar file extensions, like ZIP, VBS, and SHS. Guess what you're going to do?
That's right! Change "URL" to "LOL" - "ZIP" to "OMG" - "EXE" to "CJP" (or some other tri-lettered farcical aquatic
ceremony). Save your changes and full access to those files in Outlook 2000 should now be restored.
PST File Size
If you've been archiving to the same archive.pst file for a long time (e.g., since Outlook 97 came out), you might want to
search your computer for all .pst files and check their sizes. If a .pst file exceeds 2GB, Outlook can't open it. The pst2gb.
exe tool, which you can get from Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS--see the URL below), can help you recover
most of your data, but you probably won't get it all back. Try to keep any .pst files well under that 2GB limit. To maintain
reasonably sized .pst files, delete messages you don't need to keep, empty the Deleted Items folder regularly or
automatically, and occasionally compact the .pst file to remove the empty space that remains after you delete items. To
compact the .pst file, right-click your folder's top level (Outlook Today if it's your main data store), click Advanced, and
click Compact Now. Unfortunately, you can't schedule the compact function or launch it from a command line.
Must you import a .pst file to access your archived Outlook data? Importing is a spectacularly bad idea because you
must archive everything all over again to get the old data out of your main Outlook folders. Instead, click File, Open,
Personal Folders File (in Outlook 2002, Outlook Data File), then click View, Folder List to see the entire folder hierarchy
from the .pst archive.
"OL: Oversized PST and OST Crop Tool" http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;;q296088
Disable Adaptive Menus (Outlook)
To turn off the adaptive menus so that you always see all available commands the first time you pick a menu, choose

View, Toolbars, Customize. On the Options tab, select the "Always show full menus" check box.
Turn Off Automatic Image Downloading In Eudora
Tools | Options | Display | uncheck "automatically download HTML graphics"

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