From:	ZDLISTS.COM on behalf of PC Computing


{ "***" = Karl's Comments }

Subject:	Undocumented Tips of the Day  {revised 5/6/00}

EDITOR'S PICKS

 View Hidden Files in Windows =    ** NOT!!! **
			** Novice/Intermediate = DO my version! **  

 Quick Fix: Mysterious Word Lapse     *** WAS!, My Biggest PC Headache!!! ***


TIP OF THE DAY

PROBLEM: Windows Explorer doesn't show all the files on your hard drives, 
which makes for some confusion when you go looking for, say, 
a specific DLL file in the \Windows folder and can't find it.

SOLUTION: Windows 95, 98, and NT Explorer hide some files because 
Microsoft {** AND Karl **} wants to prevent you from deleting files you SHOULDN'T delete *!*
To make Windows *NOT* show you every file on your drives, 
bring up Windows Explorer (right-click on My Computer and pick Explore). 
Click on View, then on Options or Folder Options (depending on which version you use). 
Click on the View tab and on the *HIDE* Files of these Types button. 
If you have the choice, click on the Like Current Folder button.
*** Also click on Hide MS-DOS registered File Extensions***
*** (This Hides .txt, .doc, .wav and etc.) IF you Rename a file = ***
*** it put the Correct "Last Known Extension Automatically for You EVERYTIME!*** [Without this = put a wrong Extension = Corruption to the file!]  *** 

		*** {While you still here, = Do next Solution !} ***

PROBLEM: You can't tell which folder you're looking at in Windows Explorer.
*** (Example = Top Most Title will JUST show "Funny Stuff",
instead of "C:\My Documents\Junk\Funny Stuff": *** 
SOLUTION: You can view the full path of the currently displayed folder in the
title bar. Here's how: In View, check the box labeled 
"Display the full path in the title bar."
 
Then, click on OK, all the way back out.

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QUICK FIX  *** DO This!!! if You HAVE Word 95/97/2000 *** Karl ***

PROBLEM: You're typing along in Word, minding your own business, 
when all of a sudden your PC gets amnesia. The disk light goes on, 
the drive whirs, but the stuff you type doesn't appear onscreen. What's wrong?
SOLUTION: Chances are you've fallen victim to Microsoft Office's Find Fast 
feature one of the LEAST useful and MOST dubious components in 
Office 95 and 97. 
To "TURN IT OFF", click on Start, Settings, Control Panel in Windows. 
Double-click on Find Fast.  Click on each drive, in turn, 
then click on Index, Delete Index.  Find Fast asks if you want to delete 
the index. Just say OK, and Find Fast will no longer darken your Office door.