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Jan 08

Missing file names under documents or photos in thumbnail view

Lately, more than a few people have had trouble with missing file names in the thumbnail view of some of their folders. It isn’t entirely apparent why this happens, but fortunately the cure is pretty simple. If you are one of the poor souls who happens to be missing their file names, follow these steps:

  1. Open the offending folder to see the thumbnails
  2. Click View from the menus (or the view button on the toolbar), and click Details
  3. Hold the SHIFT key down on your keyboard and Click View from the menus (or the view button on the toolbar), and click Thumbnails


You should now see thumbnails with file names under them.

Apparently this was added to Windows as a feature to allow the thumbnails to be displayed a little larger, so you can use this technique to toggle the file names on or off in thumbnail view.

 

 

 

Internet Tips / OnAir Solutions / Riding Shotgun with Rick — 3 Comments
1
Jan 08

Print just what you want…

I am resurrecting this great tip from my archives. This tip first appeared about four years ago on the show and then the web site. I wanted to share it again because of our new listeners and the extreme usefulness of the tip.

Printing information from the web can sometimes be frustrating. A long web page yields reams of paper when you only wanted a couple of pages. Read on to learn how to print only the pages you want!

Firefox/Internet Explorer/AOL

  1. Highlight the part of the page you want to print with your mouse

  2. Click on File —> Print

  3. In the print dialog box that pops up, choose "Selection" from the print range area

  4. click OK or Print

This same procedure can also be used in email and word processors to print just a portion of a document. Simply highlight (select) the text you want to print, then follow the steps above.

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29
Nov 07

zamzar online format conversion tool

Thanks to ‘deadman’ in the chat room who helped us out this week in discovering this great online conversion tool. Even though it is still in beta, we want to help get the word out so that folks support this project. Convert PDF to RTF and much more!

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1
Nov 07

McAfee Removal Tool

If you work on computers, or you have an old copy of McAfee on your computer, you will definitely want to download the McAfee Consumer Removal Tool and run it.

OnAir Solutions / Ubuntu Tips — No Comments
1
Nov 07

How to Create PDFs in Ubuntu

For those looking for a way to create PDFs in Ubuntu – this seems to be the most popular solution.

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14
Jul 07

Data Execution Prevention solution

Here is what Microsoft has to say about the Data Execution Prevention Error.

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7
Jul 07

Uninstall Client for Netware

Here’s how to uninstall Netware from you computer:

  1. Click Start
  2. Click Control Panel
  3. Double-click Network
  4. RIGHT Clic on the Local Area Connection icon
  5. Click Properties
  6. Click the Client services for Netware option in the list of services box
  7. Click the Uninstall Button
  8. Click Yes
  9. Click OK

That should do it.

OnAir Solutions — 11 Comments
23
Jun 07

How to get around Windows XP user password

A caller recently inherited a computer with a password enabled for getting into Windows. Here are two ways to disable or delete the required password.

1. Turn on the computer.

2. Immediately begin pressing the F8 key over and over in about half second intervals.

3. A menu will come up asking how you want to boot – choose SAFE MODE.

4. Windows will come up with two user accounts, click on the Administrator account.

5. Once Windows starts up (it will look ugly, but work the same) go to Start->Control Panel.

6. Double-click on User Accounts.

This is where you have two choices:

Create a new user account using the option in menu and delete the old user accound

OR

Click on the user account  then click REMOVE PASSWORD.

Turn the computer off and back on and things should be back to normal.

Unless you are doing something super secret, we don't recommend putting paswords on user accounts. 

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23
Jun 07

Missing Control Panel icons

Kathy has some missing icons in her Control Panel of Windows Me. I would suggest downloading Microsoft's Tweak UI and then under the Control Panel section, check the "Rebuild Icons" and Repair button. Here is the link for the Tweak UI program for Windows Me:

Download TweakUI

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23
Jun 07

Opening WordPerfect documents in OpenOffice

One of today's callers was having problems getting WordPerfect documents to open in the OpenOffice Writer word processor. The best thing to try is:

  1. Have the most current version of OpenOffice installed
  2. Start OpenOffice Writer
  3. Click File –> Open
  4. Change the file type to WordPerfect, then find and double-click the document

Here are some resources for more information on opening WordPerfect docs in OpenOffice.

 

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