Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Get Windows Live Sky Drive as a local drive.


In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.
Get Windows Live Sky Drive as a local drive.
What is it?
Read my post on Windows Live Sky Drive.
How Do I Get It As Local Drive?
Windows Live Sky Drive comes with 25gb of space so get the most out of it! by adding Gladinet to your computer. By downloading this you get access to the massive 25gb of free space on your computer. This program will make a drive called 'Z' which will allow you to have access to Sky Drive. Aswell as Sky Drive it allows you to have access to Google Docs, Picasa and Amazon Storage.
Hope you found this useful.
Thanks
Gary

Restore Missing Accessories Folder

In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.
Restore Missing Accessories Folder
What are they?
When you go to > Start >Programs > Accessories and there you will find a list of usefull applications. Including Notepad, Paint, Volume Control, Word Pad.
How to get them back
If you go to your > Start >Programs > Accessories and if there is nothing or some of the applications are missing then you can run this very useful program that will restore your accessories folder.
The program is called AccRestore - (Download)
Download and run and you will then have your accessories folder back.
Hope this helped.
Thanks
Gary

Cleaning Out Old Restore Points Windows XP

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In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.
Cleaning Out Old Restore Points Windows XP
What are they?
Windows XP allows the user to restore their computer to a previous date if you have made a change to your computer that you either don't like or isn't really working as well as you thought.
Clearing them out. -
Every so often your computer save the settings in order make a restore should a problem arise. So over time they gather up in a folder and after a while some of them will become useless because there will be a more up-to date system restore points. So I would suggest that you clear out the old system restore points and save some space!
How Do I Do It? -
To clear out old system restore point files does not require any additional programs or software, we will be using is Windows Disk Clean up.
To get to this we need to go to : >Start>Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Clean.
If you can't access it through this way then go to >Start > Run > and type in 'cleanmgr'.
Once you have opened the Disk Clean tool then you need to click on the 'More Options' tab and then scroll down to the 'System Restore Point' part and click clean up. - It will delete all of the system restore points on your computer apart from the most recent if case you need to restore your computer in the future.
Hope this helped you clear up some space
Thanks
Gary

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Adding A Signature To Outgoing Emails



In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.
Adding A Signature To Outgoing Emails
What are they?
Signature are text or links that are usually placed at the bottom of outgoing emails. They can be used to advertise websites or blogs that you want people to visit or you can just have your name there.
How do I get one?
Different email accounts have different ways of adding a signature to your email.
Yahoo.com - To add a signature to a Yahoo email then you need to follows theses steps.
First, click options (top right of your email inbox).
Second, scroll down and click on Signature.
Then, type what you want as your signature in the box.
Save it and you're done.Hope this helped.
Live.com - To add a signature to a Live (Hotmail) email then you need to follows theses steps.
First, click options (top right of your email inbox), then click more options.
Second, scroll down the ,list and click on 'Personal Email Signature'which is located underneath the Customise Email Options.
Then type in the signature you want in the box that will appear, this can be text or links.
Click Save and you're done
Google Mail - To add a signature to a Google Mail (Gmail) email then you need to follows theses steps.
First, click on settigns at the top of the page.
Second, scroll down to signature.
Then type in what you would like your signature to be.
Then click Save and you're done.
Hope you found this useful.
Thanks
Gary

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Office Live


In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.

Office Live

What is Office Live?

Office Live is a great tools that allows you to upload your word documents, powerpoints and other Microsoft office files to store them online. Then if you accidentally delete them then you can download them again. This service is very similar to Windows Live Sky Drive, but is mainly used for Microsoft Office work whereas Sky Drive is for videos, pictures and other things.

How Do I Get It?

To get this great service first you have to acquire a Windows Live ID (hotmail or msn will do)

Second thing to do is to go to www.workspace.office.live.com

Then sign up

You're all done all you have to do now is to back up your work.

This service is ideal for students who want to back up work for school or college, if fact this service is great for everybody who wants to back up their work.

For Businesses there is another great service from Windows Live that is Office Live Small Business. Office Live for small businesses
It is pretty much the same as above but does have some big differences.


Thanks For Reading
Hope you found this useful
Gary.

Saturday, 6 December 2008

Computer Keeps Shutting Down


In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.

Computer Keeps Shutting Down

Why does this happen?
This usually happens because there is a problem with your computer. I would suggest that you read this post before continuing, the post was called My Computer Is Running Slow.

What should you do?

If you have cleaned up your computer and it is still ahppening then I would suggest that you disable auto-restart.

>Start,
> Right Click on My Computer,
>Then go to properties,
>Click on the advanced tab,
>Go down to Start Up and Recovery, and click settings,
> Then go to where is says 'System Failiure',
>The untick the auto-restart box.

All done.

Hope this helped.
Thanks
Gary

Friday, 5 December 2008

How To Get A Internet Shortcut In Your Start Menu/Desktop


In this blog I aim to help people gain useful tips, whether it is a slow computer or writing an email I will try to help.

How To Get A Internet Shortcut In Your Start Menu/Desktop

What is a shortcut?
A shortcut is usually a link or icon that when it is clicked takes you to a certain location, quicker. Icons on your desktop are shortcuts, because they take you to a program more quickerly than going to the start menu.

In this post I will be talking about making desktop/start menu internet shortcuts. This is so you can make short cuts to your favourite websites/ blog, may be this blog.

How do I do it?

There are a few ways of doing this so pick which one you think is easier for you.

> Right click on your desktop, go to new, then click on shortcut. (as shown below)


Click it if it too small.








> You will then be given a dialog box, as shown below.



Again, click if it is too small.







> When you presented with the box above, type in the location of where you want to make a shortcut too. for this example I wiil use this blog. So type in a website like this : http://www.garysxptips.blogspot.com , remember to put the 'http://www.'.

> Next you have to give your shortcut a name. So for our example we will type in Gary's XP Tips. So there you have it a link to your favourite website/blog. This will be saved to your desktop, to add this to your start menu, just drag it over to the start menu.

You should then see an icon like this : (Note if you are using a different browser then the icon will look different)


There are other ways to this, but they depends on what internet browser you use.

If you are using Mozilla Firefox then just drag the icon next to the web url (address) that you want to make a shortcut to either the desktop.

If you are using Internet Explorer then right click on the website that you want to make a shortcut for. The go down and click on create shortcut. The icon will then appear on your desktop, if you want it in your start menu then drag it there.


Hope this helped.

Thanks
Gary