Fixing Windows XP Annoyances by David A. Karp

By David A. Karp

Microsoft home windows XP could be the most up-to-date in a well-liked relatives of working structures, yet that does not suggest it truly is excellent. besides the fact that, the designers of home windows XP have equipped sufficient flexibility into their product and supplied clients with a sufficiently huge toolkit to beat such a lot shortcomings. In home windows XP Annoyances David Karp unearths his rules approximately tips to use home windows XP so much successfully, for max enjoyable and productiveness and as little aggravation as attainable. in case you are cozy operating with home windows XP (or any of its fresh predecessors) yet locate convinced features of it, good, demanding, you can find this ebook in your liking. Karp publications his readers via possibly dicy methods, comparable to modifying the Registry and adjusting gadget drivers, with ability and precision.

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Close the Registry Editor when you're done. 4. Jump to a Subfolder THE ANNOYANCE: I'm trying to get to a folder about seven layers deep, and it's a hassle to have to wait for Windows to update the display as I expand each folder. Isn't there a way to jump to a subfolder without wading through all of its parent folders? THE FIX: There are a few ways to do this. The easiest is to highlight the top-level folder in the tree and press the asterisk (*) key. This will expand the selected folder, all of its subfolders, all of their subfolders, and so on.

Now, the printing of documents is the responsibility of individual applications, so if you don't see a Print option for a particular file type, it means there's no application configured for this task. To add a Print option to a file type that doesn't have it, go to View Folder Options in Explorer, and choose the File Types tab. Select the type in the list, and click the Advanced button. Click New, type Print in the Action field, and then click Browse. doc files), and then click Open. After the path and filename in the "Application used to perform action" field, add a space and then type /p %1.

Open the User Accounts control panel, choose your account from the list, click "Create a password," and then type the password you'd like to use. ) Next, go to Start Run, type control userpasswords2, and click OK. In this different User Accounts window, shown in Figure 1-20, uncheck the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" box. When prompted, type your username and password (twice), and click OK. Thereafter, you won't have to log in manually again, and the Welcome screen will be banished.

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