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| Friday, 12-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Window Tip---Creating a List From Folders
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Think I mentioned before that I am a packrat when it comes to software, music or graphic files. I've often wished to discover software that would create lists of folder contents. Never did I know that software has been on my computer this whole time!
Window tip of the day:
Creating a List From Folders
This article describes how to create or print a list of files in a folder at a command prompt or in Microsoft Outlook. This procedure may be useful when you view or print a list of the contents in a folder.
To create a text file that contains a list of the contents in a folder, use one of the following methods.
How to Create a File List at a Command Prompt
Click Start, point to Programs, and then click MS-DOS Prompt (or Command Prompt in Windows NT).
At a command prompt, locate the drive that contains the folder whose contents you want to list. For example, if you want to create a text file that contains a list of the contents of a folder on drive C, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
c:
At a command prompt, locate the folder whose contents you want to list. For example, if you want to create a text file that contains a list of the contents in the Windows folder on drive C, type the following commands at a command prompt, and press ENTER after you type each command:
cd\"
cd windows
Type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER, where filename is the name of the text file that you are creating:
dir > filename.txt
For example, if you want to create a file named Windowsfolderlist.txt, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER:
dir > windowsfolderlist.txt
NOTE: The text file that you create is located in the folder that you are in when you follow these steps. In the earlier example, the Windowsfolderlist.txt file is located in the Windows folder.
Use a text editor, such as Notepad, to view or print this file.
NOTE: You cannot export or print a list of the files that are contained in a folder in Windows Explorer.
How to Print a File List in Outlook
Outlook contains file-management abilities, as well as e-mail message, calendar, and contact management. Microsoft Outlook 97 and Microsoft Outlook 98 contain this ability by default; Microsoft Outlook 2000 2002 users may have to install the Integrated File Management option to turn on file-management abilities. To install the Integrated File Management option in Outlook 2000:
In Microsoft Outlook, click Other Shortcuts on the shortcut bar.
Click My Computer.
Double-click the folder that you want to open.
On the File menu, click Print, click Table Syle.
Outlook prints a list of every file that is in that folder and includes the file size, date, and other attributes.
If Print is not an available option on the File menu, you can use the Print icon button or follow these steps:
On the File menu, click Setup.
Click Table Styles, click Print Preview, and then click Print.
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Microsoft Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 97
Microsoft Outlook 98
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Now if you use the tip I gave yesterday about saving .mht files you'll be able to save these instructions. Saving .mht files also works on message board pages...
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| Wednesday, 10-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Great Windows Tip!--Saving Pages
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How to save in .mht
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I wish I had known this tip a long time ago but I only ran across it yesterday. A very easy way to save a page for offline viewing is:
u]Windows Tip of the day:[/u
Saving Pages
1. At the top of your Windows bar select "File."
2. Then "Save As."
3. The Save Web Page menu opens...down where it says Save as type...
select.... "Web Archive, single file (*.mht)."
4. You can then save it to where ever you chose.
The .mht files do not need special viewers so this is a great way to share pages by emailing to friends. The links are also active in the saved format. And it's perfect for off line viewing. It's a must for tutorials or projects for school or work that you have to research. I haven't tried this yet where pages with right clicking is disabled but I will and pass on the results.  If you do not have this option of saving with your browser you can purchase software which will allow you to do so.
The site for that is: http://www.spidersoft.com/winmht/default.asp
Site of the week:
Backflip Com
This site enables you to view all your favorite links and to share them. You can select which ones are shared. It's nice to have in case of a melt down. I plan to do this with all of my links and post access to it through my fotopage.
Here is the link:
http://www.backflip.com/
They have a button which can be added to the top of your Windows bar but I did not use it because often anything added in that manner is spyware. Instead I made a shortcut on my desktop and drug and dropped it to the Windows top bar in my "Links" section. This allows me to have the same quick access to add webpages but by passing their spyware.
Quote of the day:
Never look down on someone, unless you are helping them up.
...author unknown.
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| Tuesday, 9-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Need for Speed?
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Does your computer take forever to boot up or is it running really slow? One of the problems could be that you have too many programs running at startup or in the background. There are numerous progams which allow you to moniter your startup but they take resources to run. A simple way my brother taught me is ...
1. Go to your start button
2. Select "Run"
3. Type in msconfig (exactly as you see it)....then select "OK".
4. Then at the top of the System Configuration Utility on the far right...select..."Startup."
5. Uncheck any programs you are certain you do not need running. If you are uncertain what something is then it's best to leave it alone.
I took a pic of what I need basically in mine for Windows to run properly. That way if anything unfamiliar is added I can uncheck it with confidence. This is a very handy tip if you encounter those dang browser hijackers!
When I install progams, (except for my anitvirus), I always deselect the option of having it run automatically at bootup.
Quote of the day
"Love is giving someone the power to break your heart but trusting them enough that they won't."
....author unknown.
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| Monday, 8-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Making Your Own Icons
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Be creative: Give the shortcuts on your desktop more personality by designing your own icons.
Window Tip of the day:
Want to create your own icons?
On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Paint.
On the Image menu, click Attributes.
Enter 32 pixels in Height and Width.
Create an icon using the paintbrush or pencil tools.
Name and save your icon.
To replace an existing icon on your desktop with your new one:Right-click the shortcut on your desktop and then click Properties.
Click Change Icon.
Click Browse.
Locate the folder containing the icon you created.
The icon you created will now replace the original on the desktop.
Quote of the Day:
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are
about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press
on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone
a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you
have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry
and too noble for anger.
...author unknown
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| Sunday, 7-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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The Gathering
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The Gathering
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Angel and I contemplated the differences of these two bees. Both are clearly gathers but why would the one sport orange and not the other? Is it male and female? If there are any biologist out there please inform me...
Window Tip of the Day:
If you forget your Win9x password, just press Escape at the password box, bring up the MS-DOS Prompt and enter dir *.PWL at the WINDOWS folder to find your .PWL files. Delete the one with your name in front of it. Restart your system and enter a new password when prompted.
Quote of the Day:
"Perseverance is not a long race;
it is many short races one after another."
...author unknown.
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| Saturday, 6-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Graphic Play
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This time I'll post a before and after foto. Which one do you like best?
Windows tip of the day
Windows retains some internal performance settings carried over from the days when RAM was expensive. Today they're obsolete and even counterproductive. Right click My Computer/Properties/Performance/File System, the Typical role is usually Desktop Computer. But if your PC has more than 32MB of RAM, it'll operate slightly faster if you select Network Server even if it isn't really a server. (The Network Server setting uses a little more RAM for various disk buffers and caches to speed disk operations.) For most systems with abundant RAM it makes sense to use the server setting.
Quote of the day
Happiness is not getting what you want. It's wanting what you got.
...author unknown.
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| Thursday, 4-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Illumination...part 2
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The original of this photo was overly dark and lack detail. My first impression of viewing it was to just trash it. So in Paint Shop Pro I adjusted the gramma, brightness and color, burnt the dark corner even darker, added the points of illumination and then selectively softened everything but the cats and then sharpened the details of the cats. Because Levi, (the white cat), is so much larger than Harley, I placed more sharpening and lighting on Harley to try to balance out a poorly composed foto. Illumination has some very surprizing effects and can save fotos when all else fails.
Burning and illuminating can add exciting contrast to what was previously a very boring photo. This photo is nothing to write home about but I had fun experimenting with the two processes of alteration and ended up with a better finished product. I discovered this by going to numerous photo sites and reading what other winning photographers were doing. It's reached the point now that I want to attempt to approve all my photos graphically if possible.
I have a cheap camera... a Kodak DX6490...and it frusrates me to no end that I can't achieve the results that my daugther's Rebel does, so I have to resort to graphic fixes to make the best out of my pics. I would never recommend this camera to anyone who does a lot of full landscape pictures. The landscapes are all over exposed and lack detail and it's impossible to correct them. That's why you never see landscape pics on my pages.  Think in the future I'll bite the bullet and pay the processing fees and go back to using my film 35m camera again for landscape photos.
Window tip for the day
Clear the Prefetch in Win Xp: If you're using Windows XP, add C:\""""Windows\""""Prefetch to the list of directories to empty periodically. This folder is probably full of prefetch directions for applications you no longer use. You can safely remove these files. Any files that are needed will be created again automatically.
Quote for the day
"Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility. "
...author unknown
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| Wednesday, 3-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Little Slugger...
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Wanted to experiment in Paint Shop Pro with adding illumination to the background of a foto. Found out that it works quicker if I followed these steps...
1. Make a copy of the orginal, set it aside.
2. On the original do a motion blur
3. Then add color
4. Texturize it
5. Apply the illumination
6. Soften the background
7. Create another layer
8. Clone the copy of the original, (that was set aside), on to the second layer, (top layer), of the background....
(Don't worry if you over run the background because you can erase any overflow).
9. Merge the layers
10. Soften the edges of the subject
11. Sharpen the facial features or what ever area you want to be the center of focus. By selectively softening and sharpening you direct the viewers eye.
12. Finally merge the layers together.
This whole process took me 15 minutes to do. It would go much quicker if I would make backgrounds in advance for such projects. I ran across a camera company which sold such backgrounds and thought heck why not try making them myself? I wish I would have saved the original to post to show the improvement but I was having a blonde day...
Windows tip for the day...
Quick Restart For Windows: To just restart Windows go to the restart option as normal but when it asks to confirm depress your shift key and then click yes. This will simply restart windows and will load much faster then rebooting your computer.
Today Quote:
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we
used when we created them."...Albert Einstein
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| Friday, 29-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Computers...Wishing I Knew More...
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After my experience with my driver problem and then helping Brandie, (my oldest daugther), get rid of a browser hijacker I have been spending all my free time trying to educate myself on security issues and over all computer maintenance.
I have literally 1000s of great links and I am currently in the process of finding a method to make them accessible to anyone who stumbles across my fotopage. I have located software that will verify that each link is currently functional. There's nothing I hate more than encountering a problem and having to spend hrs searching the net for a solution. So that is something to look forward to.
I will also be posting Window Tips that I encounter from time to time. I hope this tips will be of service to someone.
I ran across Newts Freeware Book #23 by accident. You'll discover numerous software treasures within these pages. And yes...laffin'....I am a software freak. 
http://freewarearena.org/PHPNuke/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=18
Registery Tips:
Where is the Registry found?
The physical files that make up the registry are stored differently depending on your version of Windows; under Windows 95 & 98 it is contained in two hidden files in your Windows directory, called USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT, while under Windows NT the files are contained seperately in the "Windows / System32 / Config" directory.
How can you edit the Registry?
The Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) is included with most version of Windows (although you won't find it on the Start Menu) it enables you to view, search and edit the data within of the Registry. There are several methods for starting the Registry Editor, the simplest is to click on the START button, then select RUN, and it the OPEN: box type "regedit", and if the Registry Editor is installed it should now open.
Create a Shortcut to Regedit
This can be done by simply right-clicking on a blank area of your desktop, selecting New, then Shortcut, then in the Command line box enter "regedit.exe" and click Next, enter a friendly name (e.g. 'Registry Editor') then click Finish and Presto!
Compacting the Registery
If you write frequent changes to your Registry, run SCANREG with the /FIX switch. Restart in MSDOS mode and at the prompt type SCANREG /FIX. This switch compacts the wasted space in the Registry and removes lines that aren't being used. This keeps the Registry clean which means you're less likely to encounter corruption issues and Windows may boot sligthly faster.
Windows 98 keeps the last five backups Registry Checker creates. To save even more backups, open\""""WINDOWS\""""SCANREG.INI with Notepad and change the MaxBackupCopies=value from 5 to a higher number.
Backup the Windows Registry:
Sometime in our computing lives we venture into the Windows Registry. Maybe just to see what it is or maybe you saw a great Windows tip that requires editing the Registry. Regardless of the reason, you should save a copy of the Registry first. To do this go to Start/Run and type in "regedit" without the quotes. On the next screen, click Registry and then Export. Pick a location to export the file to and select a name for the file and click Save. If you make a mistake editing the Registry, repeat the process but click on Import and browse to the location of your previously saved file and click Save. Your tampered Registry will be replaced with one you backed up earlier.
Quote for the day:
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
....Albert Einstein
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| Thursday, 21-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Tiff to CD?
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tiger lily
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Every time you open a jpg it loses some of the clarity. So I have converted all of my graphics to tifs. But I have not found software than will burn in the tif format. Does anyone know such a product?
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