Computer Tutorial

PROTECT YOUR PC WITH A SURGE PROTECTOR:-

                                                                                     This is an area that is critical to the continued operation of your PC. Power surges and lightning strikes can sometimes get coupled onto your PC through the power or phone line. These surges can damage your PC.

Surge protected power strips have snubber circuits that filter out these potentially dangerous power line transients.

PROTECT YOUR PC WITH A SURGE PROTECTOR:-

                                                                                     This is an area that is critical to the continued operation of your PC. Power surges and lightning strikes can sometimes get coupled onto your PC through the power or phone line. These surges can damage your PC.

Surge protected power strips have snubber circuits that filter out these potentially dangerous power line transients.

Boot Quicker:-

                        After displaying "Starting Windows…" on your monitor screen, by default, Windows pauses 2 seconds to allow you time to push F8 if you want to go to the Boot Menu Screen. You can change it so it doesn't pause at this point. Simply open MSDOS.SYS and change the BootDelay line to BootDelay=0. The number you put in the BootDelay= line is the number of seconds Windows will pause. This means that you're going to have to be pretty fast at hitting F8 if you want to boot to the StartUp menu in Win95. In Windows 98, you just have to hold down the CTRL key as the computer boots.

Remove the Flying Windows Logo:-

If you don't want to see the Flying Windows Logo every time you start Windows, you can turn it off in MSDOS.SYS. In the [options] section, change the line Logo=1 to Logo=0.

Boot To DOS:-

                                   Sometimes you may want a computer to boot to a DOS prompt instead of into Windows, especially when trying to troubleshoot a boot problem. This can be done by making a simple change to the MSDOS.SYS file in the root directory of your hard drive. Remove the 'hidden' and 'read-only attributes on MSDOS.SYS. Open it in NotePad and change the line BootGUI=1, to read BootGUI=0. Change the attributes back. Now your computer will boot to the DOS Prompt. Maybe you want to do this from the DOS Prompt: Make sure you're in the root directory of your C drive. Type : attrib -h -r msdos.sys at the DOS Prompt, then press ENTER. Now type: edit msdos.sys and press ENTER again. In the Editor, change BootGUI=1, to read BootGUI=0. Save and exit. Change the file's attributes back (attrib +h +r msdos.sys), and reboot.

Removing the Attributes on MSDOS.SYS:-

                                                                                                    Warning: If DOS is your computer's Operating System, Do Not remove the attributes or change the contents of the MSDOS.SYS file.
Although MSDOS.SYS is a required start-up file in Windows 9x, it is no longer a binary file as it was in DOS. It's actually a simple text file that contains start-up information for the Operating System. It tells the computer where to find the Registry, and defines the location of the boot drive, different start-up files, and the location of the Windows directory. But, it also has an [Options] section that allows you to manipulate some of the start-up processes. Windows 9x sets the System, Hidden and Read-only attributes on MSDOS.SYS. Because it is a system file, it's important to back it up before you fool with it.

Webpage Won't Download or Seems to Take Forever :-


                                                                                                          When you click on a page or link, that information is sent to you over several different electronic pathways. There are many, many pathways that the info could travel down and the ones it is using may be congested. If the page just seems to hang there, or takes a long time to load, click 'Stop' on the Tool Bar, and then 'Refresh'. This may cause the page to be sent along a different pathway that is not so congested, and get it to your computer before the search times out.

You Don't Have to Type in the WWW., or .COM, or HTTP:// :-\

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and with version 3.0 and later of Internet Explorer, you don't have to enter the http://. IE automatically will insert it for you.

Organize Your Favorites Folder:-

If you do a fair amount of surfing and save a lot of sites in your Favorites folder for future access, your Favorites can quickly become cluttered and disorganized. By creating and naming new folders, and dragging and dropping your files into the related folders, you can organize your favorites so that pages are easier and quicker to find.

Search for a Word on the WebPage :-

                                                                      So, you've waded through the thousands of results you got when you typed a word into a searchbox on AltaVista or Excite. You've clicked on a link and arrived at a particular webpage, but now the webpage seems to be about ten feet long. Do you have to read the whole thing to find the information pertinent to the word you typed in? Not necessarily, click 'Edit' on the menu bar and choose 'Find (on this page)'. Now you can type in your search word again and Internet Explorer will search that particular page for any instance of your word.