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Vista Program Compatibility: An Update As you may remember, last week, I wrote an article about the Windows Vista Program Compatibility Wizard you can use if you're having trouble getting some of your programs to work on your Vista computer. (If you missed out on that tip, you can read it right here). After it appeared in the newsletter, I received several e-mails and even a few phone calls with questions about it. It seemed like a lot of you were having trouble finding the feature, so I thought I'd take some time today to clear all of that up. Here we go! After so many of you told me you couldn't find the Program Compatibility Wizard, I got to thinking that maybe it wasn't available with every edition of Vista. I tested the tip on a Vista Home Basic computer and it worked just fine, so I thought maybe it wouldn't work for everyone. I thought that was strange, but I know it has happened with other things, so it was possible. But then I started researching it a little more and luckily, that's not the case at all. Keep reading as we solve this mystery! In order to find the Program Compatibility Wizard, you have to be in a certain Control Panel view. In Vista, there is a Control Panel Home view and a Classic view and you must be in the Control Panel Home view to find the Wizard. If you happen to be in the Classic view, you won't be able to find it. So, to check on that, go to Start, Control Panel and look in the top left hand corner. You will see a dot next to whichever view you're in. If you're not in the right one, simply click on Control Panel Home and you'll be taken to the correct spot. You can then go to Programs and click on the option that says "Use an older program with this version of Windows." Then just follow along with the wizard and you'll be all set. I hope this clears up all of the confusion! ~ Erin Don't stop now! Keep reading to learn how you can get your desktop icons back if you happen to lose them, find out how you can get a quick click customization in various MS Office programs and learn how you can read your daily news right on your computer. Also, find out how to create your very own My Computer toolbar with today's video tip and as always, don't miss Amanda's Cool Site of the Day!
The BEST Video Games EVER - Back To Your TV!!! Video Game Offer Of The Century! We Went Retro - 80's Style!!! Get 40 Games For Less Than a New Release Playstation, Wii, or Xbox!!!!!!!!! Imagine sitting in your living room playing Space Wars or Asteroids on Atari."What??? Atari? But aren't the latest gaming systems Wii, Playstation, and Xbox?" Go ahead and pinch yourself to make sure you are not dreaming, it is still 2008 and you have not gone back in time to the late 1970's. Atari is once again the start of a new gaming revolution. Atari Flashback 2 looks vintage with wood paneling and two joysticks, BUT it is updated for the new millennium. This system is REALLY GROOVY and preloaded with 40 classic Atari Games; including:
Compared to other gaming systems where you are forking out nearly $50.00 for a single game, Atari Flashback 2 includes 40 games and there are NO NEW PURCHASES REQUIRED! And this fabulous system is so easy to set up! No complex procedures to follow here! You simply connect Atari Flashback 2 to your TV and play! It took me longer to get it out of the box than it did to plug it in and start playing!!!! WOW!!!! Oh, and don't worry you won't know or remember how to play the games - This includes an fantastic guide book that gives amazing instructions to each game!! The experience of new school meets old school video games will keep you, your friends, and your family entertained for hours. I took one home to my kids and their reaction was incredible! They haven't touched the Wii or Xbox since! All they want to play is Atari!
Your Cost? For just $42.97, AND FREE US Shipping, you can have the system, the controllers, all 40 classic games, PLUS a Bonus CD that includes 12 games that could be played on your computer ($19.99 retail value!)!! This Super Deal will fly by just as fast as the 80's! http://store.worldstart.com/product.php?productid=4366 PS: Thank about this - The average gaming system today will cost you nearly $400.00, and that is just for the system! Add in 40 games at $50.00 a piece and extra controllers and you cost will easily be $2500.00. At $42.97 the Atari Flashback 2 is a great DEAL. Hurry!! Accelerate to warp speed on this one! Seein' The Light! The 100 LED BLINDING Light That is! WOW! Check Out These 100 LED Flashlights! Oh man, did we just get a killer flashlight! We've had some good ones before, no doubt, but this one will blow (or blind) you away! This has a whopping 100 LEDs and is really, (really) bright! It's almost like having a spotlight right in the palm of your hand! OK, so we know it's bright, but how's it built? Well, it features a high quality anodized aluminum barrel and a really great rubber grip! This isn't your typical flimsy flashlight - this feels more like a solid piece of military equipment! Oh, and since it's an LED flashlight, battery life is fantastic - much better than a juice-sucking traditional flashlight! Oh, and get this - you'll probably never have to replace it! The LEDs in this will last for 100,000 HOURS before they burn out! WOW - You'd have to turn the light on and leave it on for a whopping 11 YEARS + before it would burn out! Now that's a tough flashlight! So, you gotta have one too? I don't blame ya! I love mine! Oh, and the deal is just fantastic too! Just $22.97 and US shipping is FREE! No, it's not the cheapest flashlight you'll ever own, but it'll probably be the last! Grab yours today! http://store.worldstart.com/product.php?productid=4101 PS - Please note that this is a VERY limited quantity deal. PLEASE get to the site early or you'll probably miss out on this one! It's the coolest flashlight I've ever seen and once you get yours, you'll agree - worth EVERY penny!
Q: A: Now, there are a couple of different ways you may have lost your icons. They could have disappeared when you installed a certain program or even when you upgraded to a new operating system. Either way, you need them, so let's find them again! To enable those icons and more, right click on your desktop and choose Properties. Click on the Desktop tab and hit the Customize Desktop button. Next, under the General tab, check off any of the icons you want to appear on your desktop. Once you do that, they will all be returned to your desktop in full view. You can choose from the icons of My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places and Internet Explorer. Now, on the other hand, you may want to take some of those icons off your desktop. If that's the case, just uncheck them and they will be out of your way. Easy enough, don't you think?! ~ Erin Have a question for the newsletter? Submit it at the link below:
Quick Click Customization As you may recall, the other day, we went over how to find the Page Setup window with just a quick double click. Well, that prompted me to start double clicking elsewhere to see what I could find! Happily, I found yet another stop on the express train! This time, we're looking at a fast and easy way into the Customize window. First, if you're an MS Office 2007 user, keep in mind that this tip only works in Outlook 2007. Unfortunately, the ribbons in the other programs cannot be customized. I'm sorry for the bad news, but it can't be helped. As for the rest of you, I was able to get this to work in MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Access and Excel. Basically, it works across the board! I don't know about you, but I like to see all of the buttons that are available to me. To do that, you have to sit them side-by-side, which doesn't work very well, because the program hides the buttons as it tries to make everything fit on a single line. Because of that, I tend to stack the toolbars that are visible in my MS Office program windows. The result of that is a lot of free space on the right side. So, there in the free space is where I double clicked and found today's tip! All you need to do is double click in the unused space next to a toolbar and the Customize window will instantly pop open. Now, that's what I call maximum effect with minimum memorization! ~ April
The Easy Way To Build Your Own Website! Create An Amazing Website In No Time! Finally - Create Your Own Personal Or Business Site! No Programming Required - If You Can Use A Word Processor, You Can Do This! WOW! We had an amazing response to this last Friday and over the weekend! Thank You to the hundreds and hundreds who ordered! You'll LOVE it too! If you've ever thought about a web site, this is one offer you don't want to miss! Check it out! Oh, this is just FANTASTIC!! I'm so excited - we've just found an amazing program that lets anyone and everyone create their own website! It's super easy to use and no web programming knowledge is necessary at all! If you can use a word processor, you can use our newest program - WebEasy 6! We've had version 4 and 5 and they were good, but this version 6 really takes it up to the next level! WOW! We're talking everything you need in order to create an amazing, professional-looking website! You'll be online with your own personal or business site in no time! First off, I want to stress you don't need ANY background in HTML, JAVA, or web programming - if you can use a word processor you can do this! It includes a whopping 120 pre-made, professional-looking templates! You're bound to find several that are just perfect for your needs, and if you don't they are easy enough to modify! It's amazing how well done this is!
As for the type of sites this can do, well - your imagination is really the limit! You can make a simple personal site to show off your family photos, you can build an information site about your favorite subject, you can create an online business complete with shopping cart, you can put together a "group" site complete with calendars, news, schedules, whatever! Pretty much anything you can think of, this can do - and probably already has a killer template ready to go! Oh, and using it is sooooo simple - all the tools are really easy to understand, so it's simple to add graphics, photos, text, flash animations, etc. Oh, get this - it includes an amazing 85,000 different photos, clipart, buttons, borders, animations, music, sound effect and more! Talk about having a custom site huh! WOW!!!
What if you don't want to use templates at all? What if you're a more of a "from scratch" kind of designer? Well, once you see how easy it is to create a site from scratch, you may decide to go it alone! The tools are so easy to use - most of it is a matter of drag and drop! So, start from scratch, or use a template - either way the site you create is going to blow people away! OK, all that's great, but what do you do after it's built? Well, you can host your website though the publisher (a 1 click operation - now that's handy), upload to any number of free sites available online, or go for a high-quality paid hosting service of your choice. Easy! Once you're up and running, how do you let everyone know you're there? HA! This has you covered there too! This includes tools to help you optimize your site for a high rank in the search engines - and it helps you to submit your site to all the major search engines! It does it all! Now, most web site software is really expensive - GoLive and Dreamweaver both retail for $400 and MS Frontpage / Expressions is still expensive at $100! Why pay that much when this does pretty much the same thing? Your cost? Get this - just $14.97 ($50 retail) and US shipping is FREE! Is that amazing or what? It's a fantastic deal on some of the easiest, most powerful web creation software on the market - give it a try - you'll love it too! http://store.worldstart.com/product.php?productid=4365 PS - Please note that this was a limited quantity deal, so once these are gone, we're not sure when or if we'll be able to get more! Stuff has been sellin' like crazy lately, so get to the site early to get in on this one!
ALL CAPS Have you ever received an e-mail that was in all CAPS? If so, how did you like it? Was it like the person who sent it was screaming at you? That's how I always feel when I get an e-mail like that and I don't care for it too much at all. So, is there anything you can do to change the text back to a normal size? Well, there certainly is! And if you check out the tip we have on our homepage today, you will learn all about it! Coloring Page Do you have a lot of kids in your life? Maybe they're your own or perhaps they're your grandchildren. Either way, you're really going to want to share the cool site we have featured on our homepage today with them. They are going to love it! It's called Coloring Page and it's filled with fun activities for young children. And who knows, maybe you'll find something there for yourself as well! Here's the link you need: http://www.worldstart.com/ Enjoy!
Online News Did you know you can read pretty much everything you read in a newspaper on the Internet? Well, now that you know, you can! There are several Web sites online that have daily news from around the world, from within your state and even within your city or town. Let's check it out! For starters, sites such as www.msn.com, www.yahoo.com and www.google.com have all kinds of news. They offer everything from world news to sports to entertainment. Some Web sites even have other news categories, such as business, health and technology. All you have to do when you go to one of those sites is look for the News link and click on it. That link will take you to the main news section on the site and you can then search through the stories to find something you'd like to read. Some of the Web sites even offer a place for you to enter in your zip code so that you can read your local news. Most of the sites usually have pictures as well! You can also go to your newspaper's Web site to read their news. If you happen to miss a newspaper one day or somehow misplace it, you can always log in to your newspaper's site to read that day's articles. (The Web address should be in the newspaper somewhere). Originally used pictures also accompany most of those stories as well. It's a really cool idea if you like reading things on your computer instead of in little black print on paper. You can grab your morning coffee, log on to your computer and catch up on the daily news! ~ Erin If you enjoy our tips, tell your friends. That's what keeps this newsletter growing.
My Computer Toolbar - Video Tip Here's another cool toolbar tip for you! If you've ever wanted to make a little personal toolbar for yourself, you can make one out of your My Computer icon. The process is very easy and before you know it, you'll have a very cool toolbar just for your computer! Just click on the link below if you're interested in learning how to do this. Just follow the steps and in minutes, you'll be done! http://imgsrv.worldstart.com/videotips/index.htm Or, if you would just like to read today's tip, you can do that as well, here: For stories, jokes, quotes and cartoons every day, sign up for our Just for Grins newsletter.
Whether you're building a Web site, taking photographs or trying to get the most out of Photoshop, a good tutorial is always welcome. And that's where this Web site comes into play! Plus, if you register for an account, you can even keep track of the tutorials you’ve looked at and the ones you still need to see. It’s very easy to register too. Just click on the Create Account tab, fill in the required fields and then click on the Submit button. The tutorials are broken down into 13 categories: CSS, Flash, HTML, Illustrator, Java, JavaScript, Maya, Photography, Photoshop, PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails and 3ds Max. On the main page, you’ll also find the 15 Newest Tutorials. When I visited, there was an excellent tutorial on learning the interface for Photoshop, which can be quite overwhelming if you've never used it before. You’ll also notice some links beneath the articles. They are: Rating, Clicks, Comments, Save, Share and Report. If you want to save an article, click on the Save link and it will display another link you can use to save the article. If you’ve registered, you’ll find the articles you save under the Account Name tab. The menu for that section includes the following areas: Profile, Submitted, Saved, Comments and Tutorial Comments. So, if you click on Saved, you can see how many articles you've kept. If you click on Comments, it will show you how many comments you have left. And so on. This is a very helpful tutorial Web site and I hope you’ll add it to your Favorites. I know I did! http://www.good-tutorials.com/ ~ Amanda Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share?
June Wallpaper Can you believe it's June already?! Well, you know what that means. Yep, new wallpaper is here! You can check it all out here: http://www.worldstart.com/wallpaper/ Enjoy!
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Computer Tips [ Vista Confusion Cleared-Up + Quick Click Customization + Find Lost Icons ] 06/02/08
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