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| AUTOMATIC TERMINATION If your Windows 95 telnet connection is being terminated after ten minutes (or some other constant interval) without use, or without any notification from the host computer, check your advanced power management settings. They may be kicking in and terminating the TCP/IP connection. | Tips about E-Mail |
| QUICK SELECTION If you want to select all the elements (text and graphics) that you can on a Web page in one fell swoop, press CTRL-A from anywhere in the page. Anything that's selectable highlights immediately. | QUICK BOOKMARK ACCESS When you want to quickly access your bookmarks for editing, simply press CTRL-B from anywhere in Netscape Navigator. The Bookmarks window opens right up. |
| DETAILS, DETAILS
When you view a window's contents in Details mode (select Details under
the View menu), you can adjust the width of any column. Just hold the
cursor over the line between two column titles, and when it changes to
a double-pointed arrow, click and drag in either direction. Changes
affect the column to the left of the pointer.
You can also adjust a column's width to fit its widest entry. Hold the cursor over the line to the left of the column you'd like to size, and when it changes to a double-pointed arrow, double-click. |
PUT YOUR TWO CENTS IN
Windows 95 Help menus are helpful, but they don't always speak your
language. You can put in your own two cents by annotating any topic.
It's like pasting a sticky note right on it.
Right-mouse click the window of an open topic and choose Annotate. Speak (type) your mind in the box that pops up and click Save. From now on, you'll see a little paper clip any time you open that topic. Click the paper clip to read your notes. To get rid of the note, open it and click the Delete button. |
| REST YOUR MOUSE When reading a long Web page, save your wrists and use keyboard shortcuts to navigate: Page Up and Page Down take you up and down one screenful at a time. Ctrl+Home takes you to the very top of the page, and Ctrl+End takes you to the bottom. | QUICK CYCLING Like most Netscape Navigator users, you probably have several Web pages open at the same time. To quickly cycle through all these pages, press CTRL-TAB. |
| TAKE ALL THE EXTENSIONS YOU NEED Most of the time, icons are all you need to recognize a file's type; but sometimes you want to see that extension in plain black and white. That's why Windows 95 allows you to view files with and without their extensions. With any Windows 95 window open, choose Options in the View menu. Click the View tab and, asssuming you want to display extensions, deselect the option, "Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that are registered." Click Apply or OK. | OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW If you're viewing the contents of a floppy disk, and then insert another disk into your floppy drive, how do you view the new disk's contents? We hope not by opening My Computer and double-clicking the Floppy Drive icon. There's a much faster way. Simply hit F5 to refresh the open floppy disk window's contents. The contents of the old disk will disappear from the window, replaced by those of the new one. |
| WINDOWS 95 SHORTCUTS You can create a Windows 95 Shortcut for any Web page that you access in Netscape Navigator. To do this, simply right-click on the page and select Internet Shortcut. When the Create Internet Shortcut dialog box appears, enter a description then click "OK." An icon representing that Web page appears on your desktop. You can also do this by dragging the page link directly onto your desktop, or dragging a page icon from your Bookmark list. | HAVE SOME CTRL OVER YOUR WINDOWS
Windows 95 lets you choose to see either one or many non-application
windows open on screen at once. From any Windows 95 window, select
Options under View, click the Folder tab, and switch your browsing option. For the no-dialog box method, think Ctrl. It toggles you between one window or many. Just hold down Ctrl when you open a window and Windows 95 does exactly the opposite of what it's been told on the Folder tab of the Options dialog box. |
| ABOUT:LAST NIGHT Netscape Navigator is chock full of shortcuts and hidden tricks. Some of these are useful, and some are completely superfluous and are usually called "Easter eggs." Some of the more useful stuff comes in the form of "about:" documents, which you can access by entering the command "about" and a specifier word in the Location box. For example, if you enter about:cache, you get a page that contains a wealth of (potentially) very useful inside dope about your disks' cache. | GET FONT-SY Want to see what every number and letter looks like in a particular font, in different sizes? The Control Panel offers a sneak preview. Open the Control Panel, double-click Fonts, then open any font by double- clicking it. To see how that font will look on your printer, click the Print button. |
| WHAT'S THIS? If you don't understand a button or an option in a Windows 95 dialog box, get some help--and we don't mean by choosing Help in the Start menu and weeding through the index. Right-mouse click the button or option, and in most cases, you'll see a What's This? button. Click it for the inside scoop. | URL LOADING UPDATE To get a quick update on the status of the URL currently loading, press Ctrl+Alt+T. A dialog box pops up giving you the URL lowdown. |
| REVVED-UP RELOAD You know, of course, that pressing the Reload button updates your current Web page with the absolutely latest data. But sometimes -- and we know this may be hard to believe -- you don't get a very quick response. If this is the case, rev up your reload by holding down the Shift key as you click Reload. This should accelerate things. | QUICK SWITCHES When you have a number of applications open at once, chances are a quick way to switch from one to the next always would be handy. Sure, you can use the Taskbar, but then you have to get the mouse involved. Try this instead: press Alt+Tab to bring up a box of icons representing every open application. Without letting go of the Alt button, continue to press Tab to highlight each icon in sequence. When you get to the one you want, let go, and you're there. |
| A FEW QUICK POINTERS How does that arrow pointer grab you? Boring? That's what we thought. Why not change it to something a little more interesting? (Note: You'll need to install the Windows 95 pointers first. Open the Control Panel (Start|Settings|Control Panel), select Add/Remove Programs, and on the Windows Setup tab, double-click Accessories. Select Mouse Pointers, click OK twice, and insert the Windows 95 installation CD if it asks.) Open the Control Panel, double-click Mouse, and select the Pointers tab. Select the pointer you'd like to change, click the Browse button and pick a pointer. Click Open, then back at the Pointers list, click Apply or OK to make it stick. | QUICK EXIT Need to exit Netscape Navigator quickly? Press CTRL-W from anywhere in Netscape Navigator and- zip - you're outa there! |
| BEAUTIFY YOUR DESKTOP Find an attractive picture and turn it into wallpaper. Convert it into a .bmp file and save it in c:\windows. Click the desktop, select Properties, click the Background tab, and make your selection. | BUY YOURSELF MORE REAL ESTATE Looking to increase your desktop real estate? You can change your screen resolution, or the number of dots displayed per inch without restarting your system. The higher the resolution, the more you can fit on screen. Right-mouse click the desktop, choose Properties, and click the Settings tab. Slide the lever under Desktop area towards Less or More to see the resolution settings available for your system. As you do, you'll see a preview of each. When you find one you like, click OK twice to see the change in real life. Then choose Yes or No to confirm or cancel the change. |
| CONNECTION, JUST CAN'T MAKE NO CONNECTION Using Netscape Navigator (or any other Web browser) invariably leads to occasional connection trouble. You know the problem: You try to access a Web site and all you get is a long wait and a cryptic error message. As we'll see in the next few tips, there are ways to troubleshoot the problems and understand the error messages. But take a few simple steps before going into full troubleshooter mode. First, try accessing the URL a few more times. Often the problem is due to a temporary network glitch that corrects itself. Second, always make sure your own workstation or network connection is not to blame. To make sure that they are working properly, try to access another site immediately after getting the error. If either connection fails, try to troubleshoot as best you can. We'll go over some of the more common errors in the next few tips. | SPACED-OUT ICONS When you use the Auto Arrange or Line Up Icons option on the desktop or in an open window, you'll notice that Windows 95 lines up all the icons in neat little rows, the same distance from one another. If you'd rather they line up closer together, or further apart, change your icon spacing. Right-mouse click the desktop, select Properties, and click the Appearance tab. Under Item, select Icon Spacing (Horizontal) or Icon Spacing (Vertical) and type a new number next to Size. (The default for horizontal is 60, for vertical 43.) Click Apply or OK to make your new settings stick. |
| BRANCHING OUT Need to expand every branch of a folder in an Explorer view? Don't waste time clicking all those plus signs (+). Highlight the folder, then press the asterisk key (*) on your numeric keypad. The contents of every folder within will unfold before your eyes. | NO URL HERE If you're anything like us, you've seen the message "404 Not Found" a bunch of times. This usually indicates that a URL does not exist--meaning that either it really doesn't exist or you typed it wrong in the location box. Another explanation, however, is that you may have your memory and disk caches set too low. To raise the disk cache limit, select Options|Preferences, then click the Cache tab. Raise the cache gradually in increments of 1000 to find out which setting works best. |
| THE BIG COLLAPSE In our last tip, we showed you how to fully expand a folder's contents in an Explorer window: Press the asterisk key (*) on your numeric keypad. Ready to collapse it again? Don't bother with all those minus signs (-). Simply click the plus sign next to the top of the branch, then press F5. | MAKE YOUR WINDOWS BEHAVE Don't like the arrangement of your open windows? Windows 95 can fix that. Right-mouse click the Taskbar on any blank area and choose from three window arranging options -- Tile Horizontally, Tile Vertically or Cascade. If you aren't happy with the arrangement you've selected, right-mouse click the Taskbar and choose Undo Tile (or Undo Cascade, as the case may be). You'll be right back where you started. |
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