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Technical Information

Most of the information that is here is not likely to be available elsewhere, including books and magazines - it is the result of extensive research coupled with my experience and knowledge -

There are some mundane items that are included for convenience and educational purposes - windows is supposed to be easy for anyone to use and to a point it succeeds - but many times windows 'hides' things from users, allegedly to simplify usage and users can get into trouble because of it-

Windows Tips & Tricks

• Quick Access to Commonly Used Folders
• Speed Up the Windows 2000 Professional Workstation User Interface
• Turn off the Clipboard Toolbar in Office 2000 and Office XP
• Controlling the Window's 2000 Professional Common Dialog Box
• Add a right-click menu item to all files
• Cannot delete file, sharing violation, source or destination file in use
• How To Restore Sulfnbk.html
• Paste Unformatted Text
• Programmatically Cut, Copy and Paste
• What the Heck Are QMgr and LoadQM?
• Enable and Disable QuickEdit Mode for MS-DOS Programs in Windows 2000
• WinXP Internet Connection Firewall Settings for iSpQ
  
  Networks
• Configuring callVantage with Fixed IP, multiple devices
• Beaming Palm Address Book Entries to the Roadmate 700
  
  Microsoft Office Tips & Tricks
• Opening an InkWriter/NoteTaker PWI file
• Creating and Using a General-Purpose Macro Personal Workbook
• How to remove security from MS Access
  
  Scripting Examples
  
  If these scripts won't run properly, please see Running Scripts from this Site
• JavaScript - read an HTML table and populate Excel or write a CSV file
• JavaScript - read a spanned HTML table and populate Excel or write a CSV file
• VBScript - Document Object Model - collecting values from an HTML table
• VBScript - Create an HTML Table from an array - Client Side Scripting to populate Excel or write a CSV File
  
  Excel Macros
  
  Right click any of the following links, click "Save Target As ..." and then click the Save button
• Excel - Macro to compare Excel worksheets
• Excel - Macro to retrieve a list of files from a directory
• Excel - Macro to find the last row, column or cell in a worksheet
• Excel - Macro to retrieve a list of available fonts
• Excel - Macro to either highlight or delete duplicate rows in w worksheet
• Excel - Macro to transpose rows to columns and columns to rows in a worksheet - it will also move links
• Excel - Macro to collect sent and/or received text only messages and/or remove the files from the Dwyco chat client - it will also optionally remove sent video files
  
  MIDI solutions
• Accessing the Yamaha PSR-520 Panel Voices through MIDI
  
  MISC
• Jensen JiMS-225 Owner's Manual
• GE 50953 Digital Multimeter (GE2524) Owner's Manual
• HughesNet Horizon 2 Satellite Decommission
  
  Can you help me?
• JavaScript - doesn't work - fill an array and assign it to range to populate Excel in one fell swoop
  
  Software
• Free Software - just what it says, some of the best

I think a minimum skill set and knowledge would greatly benefit most people and even make it easier for them to get help -

If a user knows:

• Common keyboard short cuts like select all, select/unselect, cut, copy and paste
• How to navigate through files and folders with explorer
• How to adjust explorer to display file details and the folders view
• What file associations are, what the common file types are and how they are used
• How to perform basic file operations such as move, copy and search
• How to perform adjustments with the control panel
• How to perform basic windows procedures, such as add/remove programs, add/remove windows components, find files in windows CAB files, install INF files
• How to use the 'Run' dialog
• How to search the web and retrieve files and a basic understanding of how to search Microsoft.com (the most massive amount of information about Window's operating system available anywhere)

Then it is much easier to provide help - if someone says they can't find a picture - you tell them to start explorer and do a search for *.jpg files - when they say "What's Window's Explorer, you know you are in for a long night -

If I can be of any more help, please feel free to ask -
Larry
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