Windows tips

Great tip Hippy I'll add onto your tip by saying: You can also drag and drop a font file right on top of the font folder without opening the folder itself to also install (at least in XP).

(I keep a shortcut to my windows font file right on top of my desktop for convenience).

AND WOW! 2050 FONTS? WOW!

/me keeps a whole backup of her win font folder for safe keeping and then installs and uninstalls fonts to her heart's content keep her font file from getting too big (since she's a dingbat addict).

I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me the correct way to backup your saved emails folder in Outlook Express... thanks..

Jam, the folloing is form the help (correct as MS dictates) inside OE for compacting and backing up your email....

"
To compact and back up mail folders
Select a mail folder, click the File menu, point to Folder, and then click Compact.

To back up the folder, find the folder file, and then copy it to a backup folder, floppy disk, or network drive. Outlook Express mail folders have a .dbx extension (for example, "Sent Items.dbx").
Notes
Some message files might be too large to back up onto a floppy disk.

If you are using a program other than Outlook Express to send e-mail messages to newsgroups, check your e-mail program's documentation for information about compacting and deleting mail folders.
"

the way I explained it, did the whole thing for instan recovery of everything, if you only want to save certain emails, delete the ones you don't need or want and follw the help file way, or zip after deleting and compacting like I mentioned before...

That or you can buy a number of utilities to do it for you that range from 25.00 - $$$

sorry, thats about all the options there are...

Blame it on Bill!!

ah GATES!

oh and make sure you do back up your address book perodically... thats the main thing for most people really...

just in case, to add people who sent you email that you want in it..

click on their email and down on the bar abvoe the viewing paine right click on their from address and then click add to address book, it will open the addy book, then click save and close and they are now there...

Hippy that is an excellent tip for sure, I bet most of use were bit by the font flu bug and foudn out just hooooooooooow sloooooooooooow windows can really really be

wish you could do that with plugins and filters in Photoshop

Another mail save tip:

http://email.about.com/library/daily/et/02/10/bl_et102502.htm

IP...I think you can make a send to command to any folder on your puter I think...I think...I think

/me must now test her own theory to see if it's not gonna gel

Thanks for the tips good peoples... IPlural, that zip way you told me earlier didn't work. That's why I asked again. Thanks for all the help.......

Send to tips http://www.theeldergeek.com/send_to_menu_command.htm

Hope ya get it worked out, JM

you can not have OE open when you zip and you also have to turn on view hidden and system files and folders in your windows explorer of file manager to see the stuff or for winzip to see it.

I use DirectoryOpus for a file manager, good app...

sorry it didn't work, though it is basically the same thing as what is in the help file in OE, just not doing it from inside OE...

My theory worked.

I was thinking if you make a 'send to' shortcut to your Photoshop plugins folder and dropped the shortcut into your send to folder...you can send a copy to your plugins folder and yep...it can work...but this would only be successful for plugins that don't need an installer (such as the freebie ones and such).

I have too much time on my hands this morning...

I was under the impression that a large number of fonts in the Windows Font Folder, would slow the whole system down. Is this not true?
I keep most of my additional fonts in a seperate folder on my second HD, and open it with Font Lister when I need them.

Yeah...it does, Koasati. That's why I trade off fonts a lot rather than keeping them all in the font dir. otherwise...it's slows to a snail's pace...even on my 500 mb ddr ram drive puter.

true Fontlister is sweet
yep to many fonts knocks windows to it's knees

also, directory, file structure, and huge 120 - 340 gig trees/partitions do also slow it down...

It still has to address MBR and there is a DAT it has to scan each command if it doesn't ind what your looking for in the registry...

DAT = ( Directory Allocation Table )....

Starts at the root and then just kind of graindes along

I guess that is why this new files system in Longhorn is supposed to be so much better?

Hmmm. Fontlister...a new toy for me to look into.

/me wonders when Longhorn will be released...

Good tips

Thanx for helping me with PSP Shmoopy. I think I finally got some of it down

Jen, I had a hard time with text on a path too...but at least you have the Manual...much easier to point to a page

Yeah. I'm gonna practice some more.

Maybe I'll submit something soon

Good! Can't wait to see what you come up with

Here's a tip I use quite a bit...

Windows key + pause key, brings up the System properties window.

Simple, but handy

as long as we are on the windows key :

wk+d = show desktop
wk+e = windows explorer
wk+r = run command
wk+f = find files

Thanks for the link S*, my friend found it very helpful indeed.....

/me is thinking of some more tips...think...think...think

AHA! By jove, I've got it!

I know that if you are running Desktop X this tip is fairly moot but since I don't...I figure this tip might be helpful... SOOOOO Here goes...

I make a folder on my desktop titled 'shortcuts' for all of my more 'clutter-causing' programs and their respective icons that I don't frequently use but like the convenience of having them only a click away on ye olde desktop... That way I have more desktop art to look at and less clutter.

Also, with Outlook Express...you can click create new and just save the blank. Now swim along into your 'draft' where the blank now resides...open up said blank...click save as on and save it on your desktop as a shortcut. Now you have an 'always fresh' blank draft email to click on should the mood strike you. (I also used to use that as a quick spellcheck cheat rather than firing up MS WORD every time).

Oh...and I also keep a shortcut on my desktop for instant access to my Windows clipboard viewer...on XP do a search for clipbrd.exe and once you find it right click to create a shortcut to it and windows will ask you if you want it on your desktop...click yes and vIolA...er I meant voila Having access to this is handy because if you accidentally leave something HUGE on your clipboard it can slow your puter down HORRIBLY. (Not only that but for security I clear the clipboard if I copy-paste something like my credit card number etc. just to be on the safe side).

That's all I got for now...think I blew a fuse.

Ever get a file that just won't let you delete it? Try this. (not for the faint of heart):

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the undeletable file is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.

Works every time for me. Tread carefully...make sure you type in the file name correctly.

motion...that's the sort of thing we manic shell swappers do all the time when updating shell installs...