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What Are Cookies?

"Cookies" are data that web sites send to your computer while running a web browser that can record things such as where you've visited in a site, how often you've visited the site, ..etc. While cookies normally do not associate your actual name with the places you visit, if the web site happens to pick up your name and cross-references the two pieces of information, that web site can find out a lot of things about you personally that you may not wish the web site's administrators to know.

Cookies are useful in situations where you wish a web site to remember configuration options regarding the website.

Newer web browsers have options to warn you before accepting a "cookie" from an Internet site, and there are shareware/freeware programs available to completely remove cookies from a system.

It has been suggested, if you use Netscape, to simply write-protect your "cookies.txt" file if you do not wish to receive cookies.

FREE LEARNING SECTION

Introduction into Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a powerful tool to create professional looking documents. This tutorial will help you get started with Microsoft Word and may solve some of your problems.

Starting Microsoft Word

Two Ways :

Double click on the Microsoft Word icon on the desktop.

Click on Start --> Programs --> Microsoft Word


Viewing the toolbars

The toolbars in Microsoft Word provide easy access and functionality to the user. There are many shortcuts that can be taken by using the toolbar. First, make sure that the proper toolbars are visible on the screen.

Click View
Select Toolbars
Select Standard, Formatting, and Drawing
Other toolbars can be selected if you wish

Name Icon Description

New Blank Document Creates a new, blank file based on the default template.
Open (File menu) Opens or finds a file.
Save (File menu) Saves the active file with its current file name, location, and file format.

Mail Recipient

Sends the contents of the document as the body of the e-mail message.
Print (File menu) Prints the active file or selected items. To select print options, on the File menu, click Print.
Print Preview (File menu) Shows how a file will look when you print it.

Spelling and Grammar

(Tools menu) Checks the active document for possible spelling, grammar, and writing style errors, and displays suggestions for correcting them. To set spelling and grammar checking options, click Options on the Tools menu, and then click the Spelling and Grammar tab.
Cut (Edit menu) Removes the selection from the active document and places it on the Clipboard.

Copy (Edit menu) Copies the selection to the Clipboard.

Paste (Edit menu) Inserts the contents of the Clipboard at the insertion point, and replaces any selection. This command is available only if you have cut or copied an object, text, or contents of a cell.

Format Painter (Standard toolbar) Copies the format from a selected object or text and applies it to the object or text you click. To copy the formatting to more than one item, double-click , and then click each item you want to format. When you are finished, press ESC or click again to turn off the Format Painter.

Undo (Edit menu) Reverses the last command or deletes the last entry you typed.

Redo (Edit menu) Reverses the action of the Undo command.

Hyperlink Inserts a new hyperlink or edits the selected hyperlink.

Tables and Borders Displays the Tables and Borders toolbar, which contains tools for creating, editing, and sorting a table and for adding or changing borders to selected text, paragraphs, cells, or objects.

Zoom Enter a magnification between 10 and 400 percent to reduce or enlarge the display of the active document.
Office Assistant The Office Assistant provides Help topics and tips to help you accomplish your tasks.


Creating A New Document

Click on File
Select New
To create a blank document, simply select Blank Document. To create a document based on one of the templates provided in Microsoft Word, select which one you would like to create and select OK

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How to Clean Up Temporary Files In Windows

Every time you visit a web page, your internet browser creates a temporary copy of the page’s text and graphics. When you open the page again, your internet browser checks the web page server for changes to the page. If the page has changed, your web browser will retrieve a new version of it. If the page hasn’t changed, your browser uses the temporary files stored on your computer to display the page. However, when you view lots of web pages, over time, this temporary storage area will continue to fill up and cause problems. Therefore, this technical brief will show you how to Clean Up all Your Temporary Files.

For Windows XP

For best results reboot your computer before performing this procedure.

Begin by first clicking on your Start Button.

Then click on Search, then click on All Files and Folders.

In the Search Companion window on the left, click on the All Files and Folders option.

Ensure that the Look in: box is pointing to you C: Drive and not just a single directory.

In the All or part of the file name: box, type in *.TMP

That’s the Star symbol - with a Period - followed by the TMP extension.

Then click on the Search button located in the lower left corner of the screen.

Your computer will do a search for all files that end with the .TMP file extension.

They will be listed in the right side area of the screen with their name and Folder location.

Then click on the word Edit, which is contained, in your top tool bar area.

This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Select All.

All these .TMP files on you hard drive will become highlighted.

Now simply press the delete key on your keyboard to wipe out these temporary files.

All the files formally contained in the right side area of the screen will become empty.

And Windows will state that the Search is complete. There are no results to display.

Then close the Search Results window to return back to your Windows session.

For Windows 98 And Windows Millennium

For best results reboot your computer before performing this procedure.

Begin by first clicking on your Start Button.

Then click on Search, (or Find for Windows 98) then For Files or Folders.

Ensure that the Look in: box is pointing to your C: Drive and not just a single directory.

In the Search for files or folders named: box, type in *.TMP

That’s the Star symbol - with a Period - followed by the TMP extension.

Then click on the button entitled Search Now or (or Find Now for Windows 98).

Your computer will do a search for all files that end with the .TMP file extension.

They will be listed in the right side area of the screen with their Name and Folder location.

Then click on the word Edit, which is contained in your top tool bar area.

This will pull down a menu for you to now click on Select All.

All these .TMP files on you hard drive will become highlighted.

Now simply press the delete key on your keyboard to wipe out these temporary files.

All the files formally contained in the right side area of the screen will become empty.

And Windows will state that the Search is complete. There are no results to display.

Then close the Search Results (or Find Files) window to return back to your Windows session.

The "GID" Files

Software companies now place their manuals onto the CD-Rom of their purchased software. The last version of Microsoft Office that physically contained manuals was Microsoft Office Version 4.3. If one purchases a later version of Office, they will not receive any hard copy manuals. Instead, Microsoft places the help files onto the CD Rom so that when you install the program, the main help files are also installed.

Therefore, we now refer to these help files to get our questions answered. This is fine, as your questions do get answered, but believe it or not your hard drive becomes accumulated with files that end with the extension .GID. The more you access the help files, the more accumulations your hard drive receives.

You can check this out for yourself by opening up Windows Explorer and double clicking on any help file in the C:\Windows\Help\ directory. Help files are those that end with the extension .HLP. If you double click on the file Windows.hlp, it will open up the basic Windows Help File. Now, when you close this help file, Windows will create an additional file entitled Windows.gid that will appear at the bottom of your directory.

Therefore we treat these files that end with the .GID extension the same way we treat the files that end with the .TMP extension. We enter *.GID in the steps outlined above and proceed onward.

You Can Also Automatically Clean Temporary Files By Reading: How To Clean Temporary File Folders