101 - Excellent Tips

A quick tip to minimize and maximize all your active windows programs. Generally most of the PC users do all these by using their mouse, but if you want to do this with your keyboard then simply press Windows key+M to minimize all active programs and later to maximize it press Windows key+Shift+M.

If you want to minimize the all active windows programs one by one then use the shortcut  by pressing  Alt+Space+N keys and to maximize the active windows programs one by one then use the shortcut by pressing  Alt+Space+X keys.

When you are writing about any specific topic in Microsoft Word some of the important points or list of items you want to show are presented in the documents in a way by applying default bullets and numbering. But by default, MS- Word provides only few built-in bullets and numbers to show your important points. But if you want to use your name or any other word as a bullet then you can do that by modifying the default bullets lists.

Below are the steps to modify the default bullets with your favorite name:

First click on Start button, go to All Programs –> MS Office then click on Microsoft Word to run the word page.

Now go to File menu and click on Open option to open any word file then go to Format menu and click on Bullets and Numbering option.

Now you will see a small dialog will appear with the title “Bullets and Numbering“, now click on one of the number formats that you are not using in the document and click on Customize button.

In the number format box, type your favorite text and click OK.

(In this case, we are using Imp, Yahoo and Nick as bullets, you can set a different font of your choice if you like ). You can enter 30 characters in the box which should be sufficient for most of the uses to which this is likely to be put. So use this tip and put your favorite text as bullet.

You can create some fun for others by applying this below trick in windows XP. By using this trick you can display your name or any other favorite word in windows taskbar just beside the digital time area and you can create some fun and surprise your friends to show them your name in windows taskbar. For this trick you need some knowledge to edit the windows control panel settings, if you know this then you can do it very easily and next time you can reverse these changes same as you done.

Follow the below steps to display the name in windows task bar:

First log into your computer with administrative rights, than click on windows Start button and than click on Control Panel option.Now here double click on “Regional and Language Options” to edit the Regional default settings.

Now click on Customize button under the “Standard and formats” area, here a new window will open with “Customize Regional Options”. Select “Time” tab on the “Customize Regional Options” dialog box.

Now go to “AM symbol” & “PM symbol” and type the name that you want to display in windows task bar and click on Apply button to affect these settings.

Now click on Ok button to finish the process and have fun with your name in windows taskbar.

If you are having a problem in reading when you visit a website or when you reading an e-mail due to small font size or due to color of page than don’t worry you can change the font size and color and fix the problem.

• To increase or decrease your font size and color of web page in internet explorer, first click on the Tools option from the top menu of your internet explorer and go to the Internet options.

• Now go the General option and then click on Accessibility button on right lower of the dialog box and now change the status of check box marked “Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages” and also change the status of check box marked “Ignore Colors specified on Web pages” and click on OK button.

• Now to change the font size click on View option from the top menu of your internet explorer and then go to Text Size option to change it

Well as a computer savvy you might know what is a Windows Task Manager. If you don’t know i will tell you what is a task manager. Task manager is used to view the status of windows running applications, active processes, networking activities, system performance and active user history. Task manager can be managed by a system administrator, he can manage all the features of windows task manager for example as a system administrator you can stop any running applications or set the priority of any running process according to its importance. Windows Task Manager status is enabled by default, but as a user you can disable or enable it manually.

Now comes to the hacking problem sometimes a windows registry hack applies and your Windows Task Manager will be hacked and disable it and when you try to manage your Windows Task manager your system gives you a message “Task manager has been disabled by your administrator”. Now you can manage this registry hack with editing the system registry keys or using Group Policy Editor. So before proceeding further, first scan your system with your up-to-date anti virus software and than follow the given steps below to enable the task manager using Group Policy Editor.

So now to enable this feature first login to your computer as a system administrator and click start button now click on Run option and type Gpedit.msc and press OK button.

In the Group Policy Editor, under the User Configuration option expand the Administrative Templates >> System than click on Ctrl+Alt+Del Options. Now double click on “Remove Task Manager” option under Ctrl+Alt+Del Options folder, now you can see a windows dialog box will appear with title “Remove Task Manager Properties“.

Now select the “Enable” option to enable the task manager and “Disable” if you want to disable the task manager

When you start your computer some optional windows applications like yahoo messenger, msn, windows media player, and many other auto startup programs run automatically. By using this tip you can disable some optional windows applications that starts automatically when your computer starts and make the startup time of windows XP and Vista less.

To disable the windows auto run applications follow the given steps below :

• First login to your computer as a computer administrator than click start button and than click on Run option and type msconfig and click OK.

• Now a system Configuration Utility box will appear on your computer with options like General, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, BOOT.INI, Services, Startup, Tools.

• Now click on Startup tab and uncheck the applications that you don’t want to run automatically when your computer starts.

• After unchecking the applications click on Apply button to apply the changes and then OK button to end the configuration process. After this process restart your computer to get into effect.

Quick tip on how to move your favorites list, as you know there is no any option to copy it. But using a method below you can create a printable HTML document.

To create this HTML list, first open Internet Explorer. Now go to File option there you will find Import and Export option click on that, now a window will open name Import/Export wizard Click Next.

Here you can select what to import and export, Select Export Favorites option and click Next button. Now you will get option which folder you want to export. You can select the top folder Favorites or just a specific folder.

Select “Export to a File or Address” option and give it a name and location. Click Next and Finish it. Now your html file is ready and you can move it any where you want.

Below are some of the important shortcut keys that are used for Microsoft Windows:

To Change the font press CTRL+SHIFT+F

To Increase the Font Size press CTRL+SHIFT+>

To Decrease the font size press CTRL+SHIFT+<

To Increase the font size by 1-point press CTRL+]

To Change the size of font press CTRL+SHIFT+P

To Decrease the font size by 1-point press CTRL+[

To Change the case of letters press SHIFT+F3

To Close the active item press ALT+F4

To Format letters as all capitals press CTRL+SHIFT+A

To Apply or remove bold formatting press CTRL+B

To Apply or remove underline press CTRL+U

To Minimize all windows press Windows logo key+M

To Underline single word press CTRL+SHIFT+W

To Double underline text press CTRL+SHIFT+D

To Apply or remove hidden text press CTRL+SHIFT+H

To Find Files or Folders press WINDOWS+F

To Apply italic formatting press CTRL+I

To Format letters as small capitals press CTRL+SHIFT+K

To Apply automatic spacing press CTRL+=

To Remote formatting in plain text press CTRL+SHIFT+Z

To Cancel the current task press ESC

To Change the selection to symbol font press CTRL+SHIFT+Q

To Display nonprinting characters press CTRL+SHIFT+*

To password-protect your Windows XP PC you have to follow the below steps:

• First click on Start/Control Panel/User Accounts. Now click on the name of the account you want to protect by password. Now click on Create a password. Make sure that you assign a password to the Asministration account, which controls all the critical settings of your computer.

  

• Always enter a secure password, make sure that your password have uppercase and lowercase letters, numericals and symbols and use at least 8 characters. In the below type password hint, such as ” What is your date of birth?”, this will help you to recover it when you forget your password.

  

• Now if you want your PC prompt you for password when computer resumes from standby than open Power Options in Control Panel and Click on the Advanced tab and check the box next to ‘prompt for password when computer resumes from standby’.

  

• Now to password-protect your screen saver, open Display in Control Panel and click on the Screen Saver tab and check the box next to ‘On resume, password protect’ and click OK.

• If you like to make your folder private, right click on it and select Sharing and Security, now under the Sharing tab, click on the radio button next to Do not share this folder or Make this folder private and click OK.

• Windows XP Professional users can encrypt files and folders for added security. Now to encrypt a folder, right click on it and select Properties and click Advanced and check the box next to ‘Encrypt contents to secure data’.

When you type a document in MS Word, MS Excel, Notepad, etc the physical characteristics of the letters typed in that document represents Font. Windows XP has different types of fonts for example:

• Arial ( True Type )
• Arial Black ( True Type )
• Times New Roman ( True Type )
• Verdana ( True Type )
• Alor Normal ( True Type )
• Whimsy TT ( True Type )
• Symath ( True Type )

How to install new fonts in your PC ?
Now first thing you have to make sure before adding new fonts to your PC is to see that it is designed for Windows.

Now follow the instructions as given in below:

First login to your computer with administrative rights and than click on start button and click on Run option and type %windir%\fonts and press OK button.

Now go to File menu and click on Install New Font option, in the drives box select the drives that contains new fonts ( hard drive, CD-drive or Floppy drive ). If you want to install from the network location, than there is a button called Network click on that.

Now select the new fonts and check the option ‘Copy fonts to Fonts folder‘ and press OK button.

For removing fonts in your PC follow the following instructions:

First login to your computer with administrative rights and than click on start button and click on Run option and type %windir%\fonts and press OK button.

Now select the font that you want to remove and press Ctrl key on the keyboard to select more than one font. Now go to File menu and click on Delete option. You will see aprompt ‘Are you sure you want to delete these fonts?‘, press OK button for the process to finish.