Active your MouseKeys

Sometimes it may happen that you have no mouse. But you have to keep going your work on computer.

Work on a computer without mouse is not impossible but it is difficult as you need to know almost all the function of every key and shortcuts. Windows operating system provides you a facility named MouseKeys which lets you control the mouse pointer by using the numeric keypad on your keyboard.
Pressing the left ALT, left SHIFT and NUM LOCK keys will open a window named MouseKeys. From where if you select the ok button, it will turn on MouseKeys. Then you can use numeric keypad of your keyboard (1-9) to move mouse pointer every where in the monitor screen.
You can customize the MouseKeys options by clicking Settings button which will open a window named Accessibility Options. Selecting the Settings button will open a window name Settings for MouseKeys. From that window select the options according to your choice and press the ok button.
It’s as simple as this

Shut down your computer by pressing only a key in the keyboard

You can shut down your computer properly by pressing the Power key in the keyboard. But to make the Power key active you need to do the following steps.

After clicking the right button of the mouse, select the properties button. Then you will have the Display Properties window from where select the Screen Saver button and then select the Power button which will open a new window named Power Options Properties. From it select the Advanced button and then select Shut Down option from the power buttons and then press the apply button. After doing this the Power key will be active.

We can save our time by pressing the power key in the keyboard to turn off our computer properly.

How to enable or disable cookies

How to enable or disable cookies

When you are browsing your internet, the web server placed some text files on your computer as cookies. The main purpose of cookies to save your preferences that you specify for future reference. You can enable or disable your computer web browser cookies, but it is important for you if you disable your browser cookies, may be some website will not work properly.

If you are using Internet Explorer 6.x and later then follow the given steps to enable or disable cookies. Open Internet Explorer, click on the Tools then Internet Options. Click on Privacy tab from the left top of dialog box and click on advanced button. To enable the cookies, select the Accept option and for disable check the option override automatic cookies handling then click on block.

Now restart the browser to execute changes. It’s as easy as this.
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Microsoft Office

Protect you word document from unauthorized access

You can protect your document by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document. You can apply two types of passwords:
Password to open the document: If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to open the document, otherwise you cannot open the document.
Password to modify the document: If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to modify the document, otherwise your document is opened but you cannot modify the document. It means that your document becomes read-only.
To apply a password to document open Save As dialog box by selecting "Save As" command from File menu. Then click "Tools" button of Save As dialog box and choose "Security Options" from drop down menu. Enter first password in "Password to open" text box and second password in "Password to modify" text box (if required) and click "Ok" button of dialog box. Microsoft Word will open "Confirm Password" dialog box for the confirmation of passwords. The maximum length of password is 15 characters.
Re-enter the password to open and password to modify and click "Ok" button of Confirm Password dialog boxes one by one.
Click "Save" button of Save As dialog box. It’s as simple as this.
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Windows XP Tips

                                                                       Windows XP

Some very useful Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

* Windows Logo: Start menu
* Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
* Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
* SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
* Windows Logo+F1: Help
* Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
* Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
* Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
* CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
* CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray
(use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the
system tray)
* Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
* Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
* Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item
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Accelerate your download with IDM

Accelerate your download with IDM

Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages.
The program features a full-fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with filters, for example, all pictures from a Web site, different parts of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing.
To get the software go to http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com and press the download button at the top of the page and then download the software free.
The installation process is very easy. You just need to double click the downloaded software, go ahead by clicking next, give your password and follow the next few steps. After finishing all the steps you need to restart your computer to work with this software.
When you click on a download link in a browser, IDM will take over the download and accelerate it or you may simply drag and drop links to IDM, and drag and drop downloaded files out of Internet Download Manager. Automatic Antivirus checking is a special feature of IDM which makes your downloads free from viruses and Trojans.
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Working with Files

Tricky file operations

To rename several files at once:
Select all of them in any folder view, or in the Windows Explorer, rename the FIRST one in the list, and the rest will follow.

To turn off filenames:
Hold down the Shift-key when you click to open a folder in Windows Explorer or when you switch into thumbnail view. This will turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails. Doing it again turns them back on.

Try grouping your files:
Right click in the window then, select View>Arrange icons by>Type, and then View>Arrange icons by>Show in groups.
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