Posts Tagged ‘button’

Windows XP mouse Snap To

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Enable the Microsoft Window XP mouse Snap To feature to automatically focus on dialog box buttons. Enabling this feature will automatically move your mouse cursor to the default button on any dialog box that appears on Windows. This is a great way to save a little time and not have to move you mouse cursor to the “Ok” button each time a dialog box appears. To enable this feature follow the below steps.

1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
2.  Double-click the Mouse icon
3. In the Mouse Properties window click the Pointer Options tab and check the “Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box” option.

Office 2007 Users

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Users who have Office 2007 on their computers can save each file in the earlier version. For example, when saving a document in Word:

1. Click on the Office button
2. Choose the Save As - Word 97-2003 Document

This will save the file in the recognized format for older versions (.doc).

A second option is to have Office 2007 users change the default setting for their files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to automatically save in a lower version. This is better than having to try and remember each time you save a file to change the file type. To change the default setting:

1. Open an Office application, for example Word
2. Click on the Office button
3. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the window
4. Click on Save to display the options
5. Click the down arrow next to the field for Save files in this format and choose  Word 97-2003 (*.doc)
6. Click OK to save the default

What do I do if my MAC freezes?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

If your Mac freezes, the first thing you do is hold the power button down. If that doesn’t turn the Mac off, pull the plug, plug it back in, hit the power button and it should restart.

What do I do if my PC freezes?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

If your PC freezes, you can restart it using Ctrl-Alt-Delete at the same time. Hold on the “Control “key, hold on the “Alt” key then hit the “Delete” button. If that doesn’t reboot your computer, hit the power button at the front of your computer. If that doesn’t work, pull the plug on the PC. Plug it back in, hit the power button and it will start back up

Use a Human Voice

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Charisma is a valuable quality, both online and off. Through a blog, it’s most often judged by the voice you present to your users. People like empathy, compassion, authority and honesty. Keep these in the forefront of your mind when writing and you’ll be in a good position to succeed. It’s also critical that you maintain a level of humility in your blogging and stick to your roots. When users start to feel that a blog is taking itself too seriously or losing the characteristics that made it unique, they start to seek new places for content. We’ve certainly made mistakes (even recently) that have cost us some fans - be cautious to control not only what you say, but how you say it. Lastly - if there’s a hot button issue that has you posting emotionally, temper it by letting the post sit in draft mode for an hour or two, re-reading it and considering any revisions. With the advent of feeds, once you publish, there’s no going back.

How to Clone a Hard Drive

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn’t know that all that you needed, was already set up on your current system? Well, it is… and if you follow this tut, you shouldn’t have much of a problem.

Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going to go to.

First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.

Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.

Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the “Full” button.

Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says “Autofix Errors”.

Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:

Click on the “Start” button, then click on the “Run…” button, then place the following into the Runbox:

“XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r” (minus the quotes, of course) then press the “Enter” button.

If you receive an error message, then remove the space from between XCOPY and C:\

Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box, just click “Y” for “Yes”. When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new Master out.

This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems except for Windows 2000, so you really shouldn’t have any problems. If, by any chance, you should come across a snag, message me and I’ll walk you through it.