Archive for the ‘Basic’ Category
Internet and Email Safety
With the use of computers and the internet comes certain threats. If you are going to be active on the internet or in email or even if you will be only somewhat active when accessing email and the internet you should take steps to protect yourself. Two of the biggest threats right now are Virus’s and Identity/Account Theft. Below are a few simple steps you can take to protect yourself.
Exposed – Purpose of a Recycle Bin
Recycle Bin = Trash can
Let’s say you have a banana peel and you take your banana peel and walk it over to your garbage can and drop it in. In 15 days are you going to walk back over to the garbage can and pick up your banana peel? I’m guessing the answer is NO. Okay, so I’m truly HOPING the answer is no, because that would be really disturbing. Many, many, many, computer users do those same steps with their recycle bin. Granted not with banana peels but you get the point.
[MINI HOW-TO] Beginner: Change Icon Views to Extra Large in Windows 7 Explorer
In Windows 7 Explorer, changing the view of your thumbnails and other files is easy by clicking the Change Your View button in Explorer. What you may not have noticed is there’s an Extra Large view setting as well.
Computer Basics – Office 2007 Quick Access Toolbar
Microsoft Office 2007 products have a new feature called a Quick Access Toolbar. It is located at the top, left, corner of each program, whether it be Excel or Word. When they created 2007, they moved a lot of things around making it interesting for the users to find the functions they used on a regular basis. The Quick Access Toolbar gives you a shortcut at finding some of the options you had before. It automatically comes with the save, redo and undo functions, but you can customize it to add other functions you use a lot. I personally use the Print option the most and now with the new layout of Office 2007 it would be a lot easier if I had it on my Quick Access Toolbar.
Setting up your Signature for Emails:
Need help setting up your signature for your emails? If you send a lot of emails, this simple step can save a lot of typing.
In Outlook Express, click Tools and then Options. In this window you will want to select the Signatures Tab. Click the New Button on the right hand side. And then in the lower section under Edit Signature you can free type your signature anyway you would like it to appear. Once you have finished typing the text, click apply. At the top of the window check the option to include the signature on all outgoing messages and click OK.
