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The Computer Tutor: Tutor Tips - Helpful Hints to Enlighten and Inform
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Activation Keys
ActiveX

Ad-Aware 2007
Ad-Aware Personal Edition
Add or Change a User's Picture in Windows XP
Add Program To Start Menu
Adding a Scrap to the Desktop
Adding a Screen Saver to the Desktop
Address Book Backup

Ads Masquerading as Security Warnings
Alt-Tab to Jump to Previous Window
Alt-Tab to Switch Among Windows
Avoid Accidentally Replying To Spammers
Avoiding Spyware
Avoiding Virus Attacks

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Back Up and Recover Outlook Express Data
Backup!
Backup and Save Your Sanity
Backup How To
Backup Your Favorites (Bookmarks)
Backup Your Most Recent Files
Bandwidth
Battery Recycling
Bcc: to Everyone
Bits and Bytes
Block Pop-up Windows with Internet Explorer
Block Unwanted Outlook Express Messages
Blue Filenames
Boot into Safe Mode
Browser Refresh
Burning Data CDs with Nero Burning ROM
Burning Data CDs with Nero Express
Burning Data DVDs with Nero Express
Burning Music CDs with Nero Burning ROM
Burning Music CDs with Nero Express

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Cancel the Drag
Change Icon Associated with File Type
Change Size of Explorer Panes
Change the Background of Your Desktop
Changing the Screen Saver Settings
Change Your View in Folders
Check for Disk Errors in Windows
Clean the Screen
Clean up e-mail Mess
Clear Your Passwords
Clearing the Print Queue in Windows
Clearing the Way for Drag and Drop
Common Spammer Tricks and Tips to Avoid Them
Compact and Backup e-mail Folders
Computer Cool
Computer Dating: Give it a Try
Computer Recycling
Computer Security
Computer Security Checklist
Computer To-Do List
Connections
Control a Window with the Mouse or Keyboard
Cookie Monster!
Cookies: How to Avoid Them in the First Place
Counting Words in Word and WordPerfect
Copy and Move
Copy (or Move) a File or Folder
Create and Customize User Accounts
Cure Internet Explorer's Window-Size Amnesia
Customize Windows Taskbar
Cute but Deadly - Spyware and Adware in Every Day Life
Cyber Monday: Are You Prepared?

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Data Organization: Copy and Move
Deleted e-mail ... Where Does it Go?
Deletion Rule Of Thumb
Depersonalize Office and Windows
Digital Camera Purchase
Digital Camera Tips
Disable Error Reporting in Windows XP
Disabling the Windows Folder Warning
Display Properties
Display Windows Boot Menu
Displaying Specific File Extensions
Does creating an "!0000" or other "trick" address book entry prevent the spread of viruses?
DON’T YELL ... It’s Only e-Mail
Double-Click Problems
Do You Defragment?
Drag and Drop With Ease
Drag and Drop with the Right Mouse Button

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e-mail Addresses
e-mail Attachments
e-mail Attachments and How to Tell Outlook Express to Mind its Own Business
e-mail: Clearly State Your Subject
e-mail Composition: Choosing a Font
e-mail Connections
e-mail Courtesy Revisited
e-mail – Download versus Online
e-mail: How Private is it?
e-mail Identity
e-mail Read Receipts
e-mail Security
e-mail Terms You Should Know
e-mail: Where Could that Message be?
Embedding and Linking
Enable/Disable Automatic Updates in Windows XP and 2000
Emoticons

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F3 to Search
File Associations
File Compression
Find Files Without Really Trying
Find the Missing Window
Finding Cookies in Internet Explorer
Firewalls - Securing Your Computer
Firewalls and Firestorms
Firewalls: Are Your Shields Up?
Flash Drives
Flight Simulator in Google Earth
Force File to Open in Desired Program
Forged e-Mail Messages
Format a Floppy Disk
Forwarding an e-mail Attachment
Free System Resources

  G

Get Keyboard Control of the Desktop
Get Rid of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
Getting Rid of the Windows 9x Password
Getting to London the Google Way
Getting to the Windows Folder with the Run Command

  H

Hard Drive Cleanup
Highlighting in Word Processors and Just About Anything Else
How Web Pages Work

  I

Icon Spacing
Image Transfer
Increasing the Font Size for Windows
Instant Tool Bar
Internet Explorer 6 Shortcuts
Internet Explorer 7 – To Have and Have Not
Internet Speed Test - How Fast is Your Connection?
Internet Terminology
IP Address
Is Your Internet Connection Secure?
It Was 20 Years Ago ... A Look Back at Windows

  J

jdbgmgr.exe Virus Hoax

  K

Keyboard Quickies
Keyboard Shortcut Keys

  L

LCD Panels - Care and Cleaning
Lock Icon Displays Browser Security

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Mailing Lists in Outlook Express
Manage Your Computer's Security Settings in One Place with Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Backup
Midsummer Cleanout
Mirror, Mirror on the Web ...
Move the Windows Taskbar
Multicolor Title Bars
Multiple File Selection

  N

Netscape 7 Shortcuts
Netiquette
Newcomers Tips for Windows XP
New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep
Norton AntiVirus
Norton AntiVirus: How to Properly Scan for Viruses

  O

Office Shortcuts
Office with a View
Online Backup Services
On-Screen Keyboard
Opening a Registered File with a Different Program
Opening My Computer in Dual-Pane Mode
Organize Your Start Menu
Out, Damned Passport! Out, I Say!

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Password Reset Disk
Password Selection
Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts
Paste Special
Personal Screen Saver
Phishing
Play a MIDI File at Startup
Prevent Windows Messenger from Running on a Windows XP-Based Computer
Print a Folder Directory Listing
Print from the Desktop
Print Multiple Photo Layouts from Windows XP
Print Screen
Printing a Separator Page between Print Jobs

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Quick Copy/Paste on Non-Edit Fields
Quick Launch Toolbar
Quieting a Loud Modem

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RAM: How Much is Enough?
Read an e-mail without Opening it
Reboot Without Launching Programs In The Startup Folder
Re-Create Show Desktop Shortcut
Re-Create Show Desktop Shortcut from Scratch
Recycle: It’s Good for the Planet
Registered Files
Registered Files: the Flip Side
The Registry
Remove Unused Programs
Resize the Taskbar Buttons
Resolution
Rundll32 and Other Errors

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Safe Mode
Safe Mode Revisited
Save Passwords
Save Your Eyes: Buy A Good Monitor
Scanner Basics: Choosing a Scanner
Scanner Basics: Getting Started Scanning
Scanner Basics: OCR Software Solutions
Scanner Basics: Printing Digital Photos & Scans
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - DPI
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - Introduction
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - LPI
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - Pick Your Scanning Resolution
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - PPI
Scanner Basics: Resolution Inch by Inch - SPI
Scanner Basics: Saving Your Scans
Scanner Basics: The DPI Dilemma
Search Engine How To
Secure Sites and Security Certificates
Securing Internet Explorer
Select the Text in You Browser's Address Bar
Send To Command
Sending Pictures by e-mail
Shift Key Turns Off Caps Lock in Windows XP
Shortcut Keys to Launch Your Applications
Shortcut to Properties
Shortcuts in Word Processor and Just About Anything Else
Show Desktop Icon - Lost and Found
Show Your Extensions
Shutdown Button
Shut Down Woes
Size Columns to Fit Widest Entry
Skip the Recycle Bin Confirmation Message
A Slow Burn
Slow Hard Drive
Sorting in a Windows Folder
Sounds Good
Spam and Other Unsolicited e-mail
SpamCop – Doing Something About Spammers
Spam Reduction
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam ...
Spybot Search and Destroy - How to Use It
Spyware: Protect Yourself
Spyware: They Know Who You Are and What You're Doing
Start Without the Mouse
Sticky Keys
Stop Hiding Inactive Icons
Stuttering Videos
sulfnbk.exe Virus Hoax
System Information
System Resources
System Restore

  T

Tell Internet Explorer to Forget a Single Login and Password
Ten Steps to Inbox Sanity
The Trojans are coming!
Think Green
‘Tis the Season to Recycle 2007
To DSL or Not to DSL
Too Many Folders!
Top 5 Ways to Improve Windows Performance
Top 10 Steps to Trouble-Free Computing
Top Tips for Microsoft Word
Turn Off AutoComplete
Trojans are coming!
Turning Off Window Animations

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Up, Up, and Away with the Quick Launch Toolbar
Updating Windows
Updating Windows – The Right to Choose
Using Disk Cleanup
Using the Escape Key to Stop a Drag and Drop

  V

Virus Alerts
Virus Hoaxes – A Hoax is a Hoax
Virus Myths, Hoaxes, and Urban Legends
Virus Programs: Are Two Better than One?

  W

Warning: Your Computer is Broadcasting Its Internet Address
Webmail Basics
Web Links - Sending Them
What’s Inside Your PC?
Windows 98 Updates
Windows Vista
Windows XP Service Pack 2 – Are You Ready for It?
Windows XP the Old Fashioned Way
Windows XP: Lose the "New Program" Pop-Ups
Winter Ahead
Wireless Woes: The Luddite Solution
Working With Images in Microsoft Word

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ZoneAlarm: Changing a Program’s Access to the Net

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