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WIN TIP OF THE DAY

These are the WinTips for the weeks of
May 17 through May 28, 1999!

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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 17, 1999 * *
Disable screen saver
Here's the fastest way to temporarily disable your screen saver (if you're defragmenting a drive or doing something similar). Click on the Start button and bring up the Start menu. When the menu is up, your screen saver won't launch.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 18, 1999 * *
Selecting a bunch of files
You can select a bunch of files by clicking near them and dragging the mouse pointer over them. If you do that with the right mouse button, however, you automatically get a context menu that offers the Open, Send To, Cut, Copy, Delete, Rename, Create Shortcut and Properties commands.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 19, 1999 * *
Toggle between Apps
The most recently "CoolSwitched" application is always the first choice. That means that by selecting via Alt+Tab item A, then item B, you can toggle between them regardless of how many applications or folders you have open by repeatedly pressing Alt+Tab and letting go.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 20, 1999 * *
Dumping TEMP Files
Win9x creates a lot of "temporary" files when it opens documents. It puts these files in the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder and intends to close them when the application is finished with them. But sometimes, temp files can become permanent and eat up a lot of hard-disk space. It's a good idea to periodically open the folder and delete these files. Make sure no applications are running when you do it.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 21, 1999 * *
Delete Shortcuts
The items on your Documents menu (Start/Documents) are really just shortcuts in your C:\WINDOWS\RECENT folder. You can selectively delete items there by opening the folder and deleting the shortcuts you don't want.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 24, 1999 **
Fast Access to documents
Here's a great way to get at your most important documents fast: Move them into your C:\WINDOWS\START MENU folder. If you have dozens or even hundreds of documents, keep them in separate subfolders to categorize them. Best of all, the menu changes as the folder's contents change.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 25, 1999 **
Cursor speed and control
You can determine how fast your keyboard repeats characters and moves the cursor in a document by launching the Keyboard item in Control Panel, then experimenting with the speed settings on the Speed tab.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 26, 1999 **
File Search
Sometimes simple tricks are the most useful. If you want to search for a file and you know roughly where it is, just right-click on the folder it's in and select Find from the Context menu. Find will search the folder and all the subfolders within, based on the search criteria you specify.
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 27, 1999 **
Desktop Icons
Are those icons that are cluttering your desktop getting you down? Bring them down to size and give yourself more room. Right-click on the Desktop and select Properties. Click on the Appearance tab, then the Item drop-down menu. Select Icon, then pick a size of 16 (the default is 32). Click on OK. (This works best if you make the words under the icons as short as possible)
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EXTRA TIP FROM ME!!: If you put "Shortcuts to..." on the desktop, rename the shortcut and remove the words "shortcut to" so it just reads the name of the program!
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* * T I P   O F   T H E   D A Y     May 28, 1999 **
Discovering Complete File Path
Here's a trick for finding out the path of a file: Launch the Run command dialog (Start/Run), clear the Open box by hitting the Backspace key, and then drag and drop the file of your choice into the Open box. Windows will type the full path of the file into the box. * *

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