‘OUT OF SPACE?‘
A Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 user was having problems with disk space. IE 4 wasn’t the cause of the entire problem, but it was making enough difference to be worth changing. To check your disk usage, choose View, Internet Options and click the General tab. Click Settings and see how much disk space is allotted to temporary files—in this case, we found that she had set hers to 20 percent. This is much too high, so we set it back to 1 percent.
If you find you need to make a change in your allotted disk space, slide the pointer to the percentage you think you need. The more space, the more temporary files get saved. If you don’t need a lot of temporary files, move the pointer all the way to the left. When finished, click OK, and then back in Internet Options, click OK again.
‘DRAG AND DROP‘
Let’s look at what happens when you use drag and drop to copy a picture to your desktop.
If you use the mouse to drag an ordinary link to your desktop, IE 3 (with help from Windows 95) creates a shortcut on your desktop. You can click the shortcut to navigate to the link. However, when you drop a linked picture on your desktop, you get just the picture—no shortcut to the link. The easiest way to get a link associated with a picture onto your desktop is to right-click the picture and choose Copy Shortcut. Now move to the desktop and right-click in a blank spot. Choose Paste Shortcut to place the link on your desktop.
‘OLD IS GOOD, TOO‘
When you’re surfing the Web in search of software to do a specific job, don’t feel as if you must confine yourself solely to software written for Windows 95. If you come across a program that you’d like to use, give it a try, even if it’s a few years old and was written for Windows 3.x. Quite a bit of the older software will run well under Windows 95.
In fact, you probably have some commercial software in your collection that was written for Windows 3.x. Some of the software written shortly after Windows 95 was introduced was written for Windows 3.x and checked for operation in Windows 95. If you look closely, you may see that the box is labeled Windows 95-compatible.
As long as it does what you need it to do and doesn’t crash Windows 95, go ahead and use it.
‘SINGLE FILE"
There’s a way to separate all their incoming e-mail tips into a folder for each topic using Outlook Express. You can do this with the Inbox Assistant. Run Outlook Express (you don’t need to be connected) and choose File, Folder, New Folder. When the dialog box opens, choose where you want your new folder to appear. If you intend to save more than one or two sets of tips, it might be more
convenient to first create a folder called Tips under Outlook Express. To do this, click the
Outlook Express folder to select it. Now click in the text entry box and type in
Tips
to create your new folder. Click OK to save your change and to close the dialog box. After you create the Tips folder, choose File, Folder, New Folder again. This time, select the Tips folder, click in the text entry box and type
Internet Explorer 4
Click OK to save your new folder and close the dialog box.
Now let’s look at how to get the Internet Explorer 4 tips to go into the new folder. Choose Tools,
Inbox Assistant. When the Inbox Assistant dialog box opens, click Add. This opens the Properties dialog box. Click in the Subject text entry box and type
"Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 Tip of the Day"
As shown here, quotation marks and all. Now select the Move To check box and then click Folder. Choose your new Internet Explorer 4 folder and click OK. When you get back to the Properties dialog box, click OK. Finally, you’ll get back to the Inbox Assistant dialog box. Click OK again to save your new entry and close the dialog box.
Repeat the procedure for each set of tips that you want to redirect to a folder.
SEND IT ALONG
When you want to forward an e-mail message to someone else, you can click Forward Message
and then select a recipient. Alternatively, you can forward the message as an attachment. Select the message and choose Compose, Forward as Attachment. This retains the message’s original format and attaches it to a new message.
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