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petehardy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 318 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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BgInfo from Microsoft Sysinternals.
----------------------------------------How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version? If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.  "Patience is a virtue", I can't wait to learn it! |
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Former Member
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Interesting for those who code or post to forums / boards that use standard html tag code instead of the BBcode of our forums:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp If I'd like to know how they code something to make it look a certain way, I select the area of interest in Firefox, right click and pick "View source of selection", and up it pops. You can do this on our forums too. --//-- |
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Former Member
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Are you tired of trying to read that fine print on your computer screen?
In the past, if you wanted to adjust the view (zoom in or out) in a document or a web browser, you would have to navigate through several menus and submenus. Today, Microsoft and OpenOffice have simplified this process with sliders found in the lower right corner of documents, but if you’re looking for an even simpler way, I can help you out. We previously published an article about using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in Power Point, but this trick can also be used in other Microsoft Office applications and OpenOffice documents. Furthermore, it works on most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. It probably also works in lots of other places I haven’t tried. In Vista and Windows 7, you can zoom by holding the Ctrl key and rolling the scroll wheel on your mouse. When the Ctrl key is held and the scroll wheel is rolled forward (away from you), the view size, including text and images is increased. With the Ctrl key pressed, roll the wheel backward (towards you) and the view size is decreased. |
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Former Member
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help for you iPhone users: the Zagat information I mentioned yesterday, is included in Google's Local app on iOS.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google+-local/id406513617?mt=8 |
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Former Member
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Updated to read more / newer versions of I7 Ivy and AMD http://www.cpuid.com/news.html
----------------------------------------And the must have read out of your hardware, discovering stuff in my edit: CPU ID [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Apr 29, 2013 6:47:21 PM] |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Are you tired of trying to read that fine print on your computer screen? In the past, if you wanted to adjust the view (zoom in or out) in a document or a web browser, you would have to navigate through several menus and submenus. Today, Microsoft and OpenOffice have simplified this process with sliders found in the lower right corner of documents, but if you’re looking for an even simpler way, I can help you out. We previously published an article about using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in Power Point, but this trick can also be used in other Microsoft Office applications and OpenOffice documents. Furthermore, it works on most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. It probably also works in lots of other places I haven’t tried. In Vista and Windows 7, you can zoom by holding the Ctrl key and rolling the scroll wheel on your mouse. When the Ctrl key is held and the scroll wheel is rolled forward (away from you), the view size, including text and images is increased. With the Ctrl key pressed, roll the wheel backward (towards you) and the view size is decreased. Hi, Jean Pierre: Thanks for that really useful tip!! JCM  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time)  |
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8979 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Are you tired of trying to read that fine print on your computer screen? In the past, if you wanted to adjust the view (zoom in or out) in a document or a web browser, you would have to navigate through several menus and submenus. Today, Microsoft and OpenOffice have simplified this process with sliders found in the lower right corner of documents, but if you’re looking for an even simpler way, I can help you out. We previously published an article about using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in Power Point, but this trick can also be used in other Microsoft Office applications and OpenOffice documents. Furthermore, it works on most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. It probably also works in lots of other places I haven’t tried. In Vista and Windows 7, you can zoom by holding the Ctrl key and rolling the scroll wheel on your mouse. When the Ctrl key is held and the scroll wheel is rolled forward (away from you), the view size, including text and images is increased. With the Ctrl key pressed, roll the wheel backward (towards you) and the view size is decreased. Hi, Jean Pierre: Thanks for that really useful tip!! JCM A great tip! Thank you both for bringing it to my attention.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by yoro42 at Apr 26, 2013 9:10:43 PM] |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Are you tired of trying to read that fine print on your computer screen? In the past, if you wanted to adjust the view (zoom in or out) in a document or a web browser, you would have to navigate through several menus and submenus. Today, Microsoft and OpenOffice have simplified this process with sliders found in the lower right corner of documents, but if you’re looking for an even simpler way, I can help you out. We previously published an article about using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in Power Point, but this trick can also be used in other Microsoft Office applications and OpenOffice documents. Furthermore, it works on most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. It probably also works in lots of other places I haven’t tried. In Vista and Windows 7, you can zoom by holding the Ctrl key and rolling the scroll wheel on your mouse. When the Ctrl key is held and the scroll wheel is rolled forward (away from you), the view size, including text and images is increased. With the Ctrl key pressed, roll the wheel backward (towards you) and the view size is decreased. Hi, Jean Pierre: Thanks for that really useful tip!! JCM A great tip! Thank you both for bringing it to my attention. Cool  |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for fixing a problem! I've been in that zoom mode and didn't know what was causing it!!!
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8979 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Updated to read more / newer versions of I7 Ivy and AMD http://www.cpuid.com/news.html And the must have read out of your hardware, discovering stuff in my I7-2760QM lappie I had not known before, to include an aged BIOS, now F1C since a few hours: Speccy: http://speccy.softonic.it/download#downloading (You don't need to speak Italian to understand "Download", and you can choose the interface language at that ;P ) Rob, You were right about "download" in any language. Speccy is a great tool for documentation and trouble shooting. I've installed it on desktops and laptops. Thanks for the tip. |
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