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1) A MISSING SEND TO COMMAND 7
2) A NOTE ON HIDDEN FOLDERS 7
3) A QUICK WAY TO DISPLAY PROPERTIES 8
4) ACCESS MY DOCUMENTS FROM START MENU 8
5) ADDING A BACKGROUND TO A FOLDER 8
6) ADDING A PASSWORD TO A SCREEN SAVER 8
7) ADDING A SCRAP TO THE DESKTOP 9
8) ADDING ITEMS TO THE SEND TO FOLDER 9
9) ADDING SHORTCUTS TO QUICK LAUNCH TOOLBAR 9
10) ADDRESS TOOLBAR NOT WORKING 10
11) ADJUST SYSTEM CLOCK 10
12) ADJUSTING ICON SPACING 10
13) AN EASTER EGG IN NOVEMBER? 10
14) ANOTHER WAY TO OPEN THE START MENU FROM THE KEYBOARD 11
15) AUTO ARRANGE OPTION 11
16) AUTO HIDE MENUS IN FULL-SCREEN VIEW 11
17) AVOID CONNECT TO BOX DURING DUN CONNECTION 12
18) BROWSE YOUR HARD DRIVE FROM INTERNET EXPLORER 12
19) CALCULATOR HELP 12
20) CALCULATOR'S MEMORY FUNCTIONS 12
21) CANCEL PRINT JOB 13
22) CAPTURING A SCREEN SHOT OF A SINGLE WINDOW 13
23) CASE-SENSITIVE SEARCHES 13
24) CHANGE BACKGROUND OF FOLDER WINDOW 14
25) CHANGE COLOR AROUND ICON LABELS 14
26) CHANGE DEFAULT AUDIO CD PLAYER 15
27) CHANGE EXPLORER'S FOCUS 15
28) CHANGE ICON LABELS IN FOLDER 15
29) CHANGE QUICK LAUNCH PALETTE INTO TOOLBAR 16
30) CHANGE QUICK LAUNCH TOOLBAR INTO PALETTE 16
31) CHANGING DESKTOP ICONS 17
32) CHANGING DESKTOP ICONS 17
33) CHANGING FOLDER ICONS 17
34) CHANGING SHORTCUT ICONS 18
35) CHANGING THE DRIVE FOR VIRTUAL MEMORY 18
36) CHANGING THE STARTUP SOUND 18
37) CHANGING YOUR WINDOWS PASSWORD 19
38) CHECKING WHICH PROGRAMS LOAD AT STARTUP 19
39) CLEAR FIND LIST USING REGISTRY 19
40) CLEAR FIND LIST USING TWEAK UI 20
41) CLEARING THE WAY FOR DEFRAG 20
42) CLOSING INDIVIDUAL WINDOWS FROM THE KEYBOARD 21
43) COMBINE SETTINGS FROM WEB STYLE AND CLASSIC STYLE DESKTOPS 21
44) CONFIGURING YOUR COMPUTER'S SPEAKER ARRANGEMENT 21
45) CONTROL WINDOWS FROM THE KEYBOARD 21
46) CONTROLLING THE CURSOR WITH YOUR KEYBOARD 22
47) CONVERT DRIVE FROM FAT16 TO FAT32 22
48) CREATE A CUSTOM COLOR SCHEME 23
49) CREATE A POP-OUT CONTROL PANEL FOLDER IN THE START MENU 23
50) CREATE MORE POP-OUT FOLDERS IN THE START MENU 23
51) CREATE WORDPAD TEMPLATE 24
52) CREATING A CASCADING MENU OF YOUR COMPUTER 25
53) CREATING A NEW TOOLBAR 25
54) CREATING A PRINTER SHORTCUT 25
55) CREATING A STARTUP FLOPPY DISK 25
56) CUT-AND-PASTE INSTEAD OF DRAG-AND-DROP 26
57) DEFRAGMENT MULTIPLE DRIVES 26
58) DEFRAGMENTING YOUR HARD DRIVE AUTOMATICALLY 26
59) DELETE ALL ENTRIES FROM ADDRESS TOOLBAR 27
60) DELETE DOWNLOADED DESKTOP ELEMENTS YOU WON'T USE 27
61) DELETE INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES FROM ADDRESS TOOLBAR 28
62) DELETE MSN DESKTOP ICON 28
63) DELETING DOCUMENTS IN A SINGLE STEP 28
64) DELETING ICON FROM QUICK LAUNCH TOOLBAR 29
65) DELETING UNWANTED DESKTOP THEMES 29
66) DISABLE TASK SCHEDULER ENTIRELY 29
67) DISPLAY AND EXPAND STATUS BAR 30
68) DISPLAY FULL PATH IN TITLE BAR 30
69) DISPLAYING SPECIFIC FILE EXTENSIONS 30
70) DITCH WELCOME TO WINDOWS DIALOG BOX 31
71) DOS COMMAND TO SEND DIRECTORY LISTING TO *.TXT FILE 31
72) DOS COMMAND TO SEND DIRECTORY LISTING TO PRINTER 32
73) DOWNLOAD TWEAK UI FOR WINDOWS 98 32
74) DRAGGING FILES TO THE START MENU 32
75) DRESS UP FOR HALLOWEEN 33
76) ELIMINATING THE PROMPT FOR DIAL-UP INFORMATION 33
77) ELIMINATING THE RECYCLE BIN CONFIRMATION 33
78) ENABLING CURSOR TRAILS 33
79) ENABLING TOGGLE KEYS 33
80) ENCRYPTING BACKUP FILES WITH A PASSWORD 34
81) EXPLORER WINDOWS OFFER BACK AND FORWARD BUTTONS 34
82) FAT32 CONVERSION UTILITY 34
83) FLOPPY SHORTCUTS FOR EVERYONE 35
84) FOR MAXIMUM PROGRAM PERFORMANCE, DEFRAGMENT 35
85) FRONT PAGE:ADDING HYPERLINKS TO HTML PAGE 35
86) FRONTPAGE: ADDING PUBLISHED IMAGE TO HTML PAGE 36
87) FRONTPAGE: ADDING UNPUBLISHED IMAGE TO HTML PAGE 37
88) FRONTPAGE: CHANGING BACKGROUND OF HTML PAGE 37
89) FULL-SCREEN EXPLORER WINDOW 38
90) GET YOUR DESKTOP IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT 38
91) GRAYED-OUT COMMANDS IN START CONTEXT MENU 39
92) HIDE INDIVIDUAL DESKTOP ICONS WITH TWEAK UI 39
93) HOT KEY ACCESS TO APPLICATION 40
94) HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM SOUND SCHEME 40
95) HOW TO OPEN THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UTILITY 40
96) ICONS ACTING FUNNY? 41
97) INSTALL 3D PINBALL (FROM PLUS! FOR WINDOWS 95) 41
98) INSTALL 3D PINBALL ON WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION 42
99) INSTALL WINDOWS 98 RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER 42
100) INSTALLING 3D PINBALL 43
101) INSTALLING 3D PINBALL FROM DRIVE OTHER THAN D 43
102) INSTALLING A PRINTER TWICE FOR SPECIAL PRINT SETTINGS 44
103) INSTALLING AND USING DESKTOP THEMES 44
104) INSTALLING DOWNLOADED DESKTOP THEMES 45
105) INSTALLING MICROSOFT FAX IN WIN 98 45
106) INSTALLING SOUND SCHEMES 45
107) INTRO TO MICROSOFT BACKUP 46
108) INTRO TO QUICK VIEW 47
109) INTRODUCTION TO FRONTPAGE EXPRESS 47
110) INTRODUCTION TO TASK SCHEDULER 48
111) KEEP MODEM SPEAKER QUIET 48
112) KEYBOARD ACCESS TO CONTROL PANEL 48
113) LASSO ICONS WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON 48
114) LINE UP YOUR ICONS 49
115) LOAD DR. WATSON AT STARTUP 49
116) MAKE CAPTION BUTTONS BIGGER 49
117) MAKE DUN CONNECT AUTOMATICALLY 50
118) MAKE EXPLORER SHORTCUT FOCUS ON MY COMPUTER 50
119) MAKING SURE YOUR COMPUTER ADJUSTS FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS 50
120) MAKING TWO-PANED VIEW THE FOLDER DEFAULT 51
121) MAPPING A DRIVE 51
122) MEET DR. WATSON 51
123) MICROSOFT BACKUP: INVOKING WIZARDS 52
124) MICROSOFT BACKUP: PASSWORD PROTECTION 52
125) MICROSOFT BACKUP: RESTORING FILES 53
126) MICROSOFT BACKUP: RUNNING TOTAL OF BACKUP JOB 53
127) MICROSOFT BACKUP: UPDATING BACKUP JOB 53
128) MICROSOFT MAGNIFIER OPTIONS 54
129) MICROSOFT'S LIST OF KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 54
130) MINIMIZE WINDOW USING KEYBOARD 55
131) MISSING PROPERTIES DIALOG BOX 55
132) MORE NOTES ON CLIPBOARD VIEWER 55
133) MORE ON CALCULATOR'S MEMORY FUNCTIONS 56
134) MULTICOLOR TITLE BARS 56
135) MULTI-MONITOR WORKS ONLY WITH COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS CARDS 56
136) NEW HARD DRIVE ICON 56
137) NOTIFICATION FOR MISSED SCHEDULED TASKS 57
138) OPEN ALL FOLDERS IN TWO-PANED EXPLORER VIEW 57
139) OPENING A FOLDER IN EXPLORER VIEW 58
140) OPENING DOWNLOADED FILES AUTOMATICALLY 58
141) OPENING THE START MENU FROM THE KEYBOARD 58
142) PERMANENTLY DISABLE AUTOPLAY 58
143) PICK A COLOR SCHEME 59
144) PLUS! 98: COMPRESSED FOLDERS OVERVIEW 59
145) PLUS! 98: DELUXE CD PLAYER 60
146) PLUS! 98: DELUXE CD PLAYER OPTIONS 60
147) PLUS! 98: DESKTOP THEMES 61
148) PLUS! 98: NEW AND IMPROVED DISK CLEANUP 61
149) PLUS! 98: NEW AND IMPROVED MAINTENANCE WIZARD 62
150) PLUS! 98: ORGANIC ART SCREEN SAVER 62
151) PLUS! 98: ROTATE THROUGH DESKTOP THEMES 63
152) PLUS! 98: THREE NEW GAMES 63
153) PLUS! 98: UPDATING MCAFEE VIRUSSCAN 64
154) PLUS! 98: USE PICTURE IT! EXPRESS TO MAKE A COLLAGE 64
155) PLUS! 98: USE PICTURE IT! EXPRESS TO MAKE WALLPAPER 65
156) PRESS F3 TO ACCESS FIND WINDOW 66
157) PRINT DIRECTORY LISTING USING SHAREWARE 66
158) PRINT LIST OF CALCULATOR SHORTCUTS 66
159) PRINTING A SEPARATOR PAGE BETWEEN PRINT JOBS 67
160) PRINTING FONT SAMPLES 67
161) PUBLISHING FRONTPAGE HTML PAGE TO WEB 67
162) RAM AND YOUR CLIPBOARD 68
163) REGISTRY TWEAK TO KEEP YOUR ICONS FROM ACTING FUNNY 68
164) REMOVE DIAL-UP ICON 69
165) REMOVE FOLDER CUSTOMIZATION 69
166) REMOVE LOG OFF... COMMAND FROM START MENU 69
167) REMOVE SHOW FILES WARNING FROM WINDOWS FOLDER 70
168) REMOVE UNWANTED COMMAND FROM CONTEXT MENU 70
169) REMOVE YELLOW SPEAKER FROM TASKBAR 70
170) REMOVING ONLINE SERVICES FROM YOUR COMPUTER 71
171) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: CLIPTRAY LIST MANAGEMENT 71
172) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: CLIPTRAY PREVIEW MODE 72
173) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: INTRO TO CLIPTRAY 72
174) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: LINK CHECK WIZARD 73
175) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: SETTING UP QUICK TRAY 74
176) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: USE TEXTVIEWER TO VIEW TEXT FILES 74
177) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: USING QUICK TRAY 75
178) RESOURCE KIT SAMPLER: WINDOWS 98 RESOURCE KIT BOOK ONLINE 76
179) RESTART WITH ONE CLICK 76
180) RESTARTING WINDOWS WITHOUT REBOOTING 77
181) RESTORE PREVIEW MODE TO WINDOWS EXPLORER 77
182) RESTORING GRAYED-OUT TOOLBAR COMMANDS 78
183) REVERTING TO SINGLE-PANED EXPLORER VIEW 78
184) RIGHT-CLICK TO FIND 79
185) RIGHT-CLICK TO MINIMIZE WINDOW 79
186) RIGHT-MOUSE WINDOW COMMANDS 79
187) RUNNING THE MODEM TROUBLESHOOTER 80
188) SAVING A FILE SEARCH 80
189) SEARCHING IN A FOLDER BY RIGHT-CLICKING 80
190) SELECTING DESKTOP THEME COMPONENTS 80
191) SET PROPERTIES FOR QUICK LAUNCH ICONS 81
192) SETTING YOUR MODEM FOR TEN-DIGIT DIALING 81
193) SHOW FILE ATTRIBUTES IN DETAIL VIEW 82
194) SHOW WINDOW CONTENTS WHILE DRAGGING 82
195) SHRINK THE START MENU 82
196) SHUT THAT SYSTEM DOWN WITH ONE CLICK 82
197) SOME INTERNET EXPLORER TIPS 83
198) SORT CONTENTS OF START MENU FOLDER (FOR IE 5.X USERS) 83
199) SPEEDING UP MODEM DIALING 83
200) SPEEDING UP YOUR STARTUP 83
201) SPLITTING A BRIEFCASE DOCUMENT FROM AN ORIGINAL 84
202) START YOUR OWN Y2K COUNTDOWN 84
203) STARTING YOUR COMPUTER IN SAFE MODE 84
204) STOP STARTUP PROGRAMS 85
205) SWITCHES FOR PRINTING DIRECTORY LISTINGS FROM DOS 85
206) SWITCHING BETWEEN SINGLE-CLICK AND DOUBLE-CLICK ICONS 86
207) SWITCHING FOLDER VIEW FROM ONE PANE TO TWO
208) TASK SCHEDULER: ADDING AND DELETING TASKS 86
209) TASK SCHEDULER: CHANGING TASKS 87
210) TASK SCHEDULER: DISABLING TASKS 87
211) TASKBAR'S AUTO-HIDE OPTION 88
212) TEMPORARILY DISABLE AUTOPLAY 88
213) THE SHOW FILES WARNING MESSAGE 88
214) TRANSFERRING DIAL-UP INFORMATION 89
215) TROUBLE WITH A SHARED FILE 89
216) TURN DUN'S REDIAL OPTION ON 90
217) TURN OFF MENU AND WINDOW ANIMATION 90
218) TURN OFF SCHEDULED TASKS 90
219) TURNING OFF AUTO INSERT NOTIFICATION 90
220) TURNING OFF MENU AND WINDOW ANIMATION 91
221) TURNING OFF PART OF A SOUND SCHEME 91
222) TURNING OFF YOUR CD-ROM'S AUTORUN 91
223) TWEAK UI: REMOVE ITEMS FROM INSTALL/UNINSTALL LIST 92
224) TWEAK UI: RESTRICT CONTROL PANEL ACCESS 92
225) TWEAK UI: SET CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE AS DEFAULT FOR IE 93
226) TWEAK UI: SET DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE FOR IE 94
227) TWEAK UI: XMOUSE 94
228) TWEAK UI REBUILDS ICONS 95
229) UNINSTALLING DESKTOP THEMES 95
230) USE BROWSER WINDOW IMAGE AS WALLPAPER 95
231) USE F11 TO SWITCH BETWEEN FULL-SCREEN AND WINDOWED EXPLORER VIEW 96
232) USE FIND TO LOCATE ALL EXECUTABLE FILES 96
233) USE STARTUP DISK TO REINSTALL WINDOWS 98 FROM CD 96
234) USE WEB PUBLISHING WIZARD TO PUBLISH PHOTOS ON WEB--PART 1 OF 2 97
235) USE WEB PUBLISHING WIZARD TO PUBLISH PHOTOS ON WEB--PART 2 OF 2 97
236) USING A MODEM WITH ODD DIAL TONES 98
237) USING DESKTOP THEME'S SOUND SCHEME 98
238) USING MICROSOFT MAGNIFIER 99
239) USING PHONE DIALER 99
240) USING THE CHARACTER MAP 100
241) USING THE CHARACTER MAP 100
242) USING THE DVORAK KEYBOARD 100
243) USING THUMBNAIL VIEW 101
244) USING WILDCARDS TO SEARCH FOR FILES 101
245) VIEWING THE CLIPBOARD 102
246) VIEWING THE TASK SCHEDULER LOG 102
247) WHAT TO DO WITH DOWNLOADED STARTUP SCREENS AND DESKTOP THEMES 102
248) WHAT TO DO WITH DOWNLOADED WALLPAPER AND SCREEN SAVERS 103
249) WHY IS THE DUN FOLDER I MADE ON THE START MENU EMPTY? 103
250) WHY THE STARTUP DISK CHANGES YOUR CD-ROM DRIVE LETTER 104
251) WINDOWS 98 STARTUP DISK HAS REAL-MODE CD-ROM DRIVERS 104
252) WINDOWS 98 WEB HELP 105
253) WINDOWS KEY SHORTCUTS 105
254) WINDOWS UPDATE 105
255) WINDOWS UPDATE 106
256) ADDING A SHORTCUT KEY TO A FOLDER 106
257) ADDING A SHORTCUT KEY TO YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION 107
258) ADDING AN APPLICATION TO SEND TO 107
259) ADDING INTERNET PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES AUTOMATICALLY 108
260) ANOTHER MAILTO TRICK 108
261) ANOTHER WAY TO QUIET YOUR MODEM 108
262) CHANGING A COMPUTER'S OWNER INFORMATION 109
263) CHANGING A FILE ASSOCIATION WHEN OPENING 109
264) CHANGING FILE DESCRIPTIONS 110
265) CHANGING THE TIME FORMAT 110
266) DRAGGING AND DROPPING PROGRAM FILES IN THE START MENU 110
267) GRADIENT ADDS SPICE TO TITLE BAR 110
268) OPENING MY COMPUTER IN DUAL-PANE MODE 111
269) RENAMING A FILE OR FOLDER WITH A KEYSTROKE
270) RIGHT-CLICKING FROM THE KEYBOARD 111
271) SAVING COLOR SCHEMES 111
272) TURNING OFF WINDOW ANIMATIONS 112
273) VIEWING FILE DESCRIPTIONS IN CONTROL PANEL 112
274) VIEWING THE DATE IN THE SYSTEM TRAY 113
275) UPGRADE TO Windows 98 SE 113
276) A FASTER WAY TO SEE WHICH PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING 114
277) A QUICKER WAY TO GET TO THE DEVICE MANAGER
278) A RENAMING SHORTCUT 115
279) ADDING A DEVICE MANAGER SHORTCUT TO YOUR START MENU 115
280) ADDING A SCREEN SAVER TO THE DESKTOP 115
281) BROWSING YOUR COMPUTER VIA THE ADDRESS TOOLBAR 116
282) CHANGING FILE EXTENSIONS 116
283) CHANGING THE DEFAULT CD PLAYER 116
284) CHANGING THE ICON SPACING 117
285) CHECKING YOUR INTERNET PROPERTIES 117
286) CLEANING UP THE START MENU 117
287) CREATING A MAILTO SHORTCUT 117
288) CREATING A SHUTDOWN ICON 118
289) DISABLING THE WINDOWS FOLDER WARNING 118
290) DOWNLOADING WINDOWS UPDATE FILES 119
291) DRAG AND DROP WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON 119
292) DRAGGING ITEMS TO TASKBAR WINDOWS 119
293) DRAGGING ITEMS TO TASKBAR WINDOWS 119
294) ENABLING QUICK VIEW FOR SPECIFIC FILE TYPES 120
295) ENABLING THE MODEM SOUND 120
296) GETTING A LOOK AT YOUR TCP/IP CONFIGURATION
297) INCREASING THE FONT SIZE FOR WINDOWS 120
298) LOOKING FOR FILE ASSOCIATIONS 121
299) MOVING THROUGH FOLDERS QUICKLY 121
300) PUTTING A RESTART SHORTCUT ON THE DESKTOP 121
301) PUTTING A WEB PAGE ON YOUR TASKBAR 122
302) QUICKER ACCESS TO THE CONTROL PANEL 122
303) REMOVING ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS ENTRIES 122
304) REMOVING ITEMS FROM THE QUICKLAUNCH TOOLBAR 123
305) REMOVING LOG OFF USER FROM THE START MENU
306) REMOVING THE MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER FROM THE DESKTOP 123
307) REMOVING THE VOLUME CONTROL FROM THE SYSTEM TRAY 124
308) SEARCHING FOR FILES BY DATE 124
309) THE SIZE OF THE SWAP FILE 124
310) TURNING OFF THE CLOSE CONNECTION CONFIRMATION 125
311) TURNING OFF THE MODEM SOUND 125
312) USING CASE-SENSITIVE SEARCH STRINGS 125
313) USING SOUND ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS 125
314) USING THE OPEN WITH COMMAND 126
315) WINDOWS 98 SE SHUTDOWN PROBLEMS 126
316) A MORE VERSATILE WINDOWS CLOCK 126
317) GETTING SCIENTIFIC WITH THE CALCULATOR 127
318) RAM AS A WAY TO SPEED YOUR COMPUTER 127
319) RESTART ICON REPRISE 127
320) SHUTDOWN ICON REPRISE 128
321) USING THE ESCAPE KEY TO STOP A DRAG AND DROP
322) Understanding and troubleshooting network browsing in Windows
323) TUNNING UP WINDOWS 98: NINE OFTEN OVERLOOKED TIPS 132
324) The dual-booting mystery unraveled 136
325) The Dual Booting mystry unraveled: 136
326) Backing Up Configuration Files 138
327) Clean-installing Windows 143
328) Dual-booting Windows 9x and Windows 2000 148
329) File Systems Unraveled 152
330) Get Rid of the Logon at Startup 161
331) Managing Windows Resources 162
332) Multi-booting Windows 165
333) Repairing Windows System Files 192
334) When and how to choose a personal firewall product 201
335) WHY TWEAK WINDOWS? 203
336) Windows AutoRun 210 |