Tech Tips

November 2002

Slow Windows Start Up

by Barbara J. Feldman November 26, 2002

Slow start ups are the bane of Windows users everywhere. To speed up your computer boot on Windows 98 or XP, select Start/Run/msconfig. Click on the Start Up tab, and uncheck any programs you do not recognize. If you find you’ve removed something essential, you can return to your original settings, by selecting the “Normal [...]

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Copy and Paste

by Barbara J. Feldman November 19, 2002

If you’ve ever copy-and-pasted a snippet of information from a Web page into a word processor, you’ve seen what a mess the formatting can cause. To get the text without the formatting, start by copying the desired phrase into your Windows clip board (Edit/Copy or Cntrl C.) In Microsoft Word, use Edit/Paste (or Cntrl-V), select [...]

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Learning HTML

by Barbara J. Feldman November 11, 2002

If you are learning how to create HTML web pages, viewing the source code of existing pages is a great tool. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer make this available under View. If you are an Internet Explorer user, and you find that View Source suddenly stops working, try clearing your cache of Internet temporary files [...]

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Online Museums

by Barbara J. Feldman November 5, 2002

Some of the best-designed educational Web sites are those created by museums. But where do you go to find them? Try starting with the Museum of Online Museums. From quirky (Museum of Etch-a-Sketch Baseball Art) to refined (Art Treasures from Kyoto), you’ll find it all at the MoOM.

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