* Originally in: WindowsA

Howdy! Jean,

The last message I saw you write lately was in the WINDOWS echo,
so I'm going to post this there and in WIN95.

I just wanted to thank You for mentioning that you put programs that
you use often in the Quicklaunch section of the Taskbar because you
only had to give the icon One Click instead of a Double-Click to begin
the program you wanted to use.

Me, being amoung the lazy critters on this Earth, tried it and LOVED
seeing that it started what "I" was wanting to do with the computer a
lot easier than doing a Double-Click on a Desktop icon.

When I used the C=64 to read messages about Microsoft DOS and WINDOWS
using a Dial-up BBS back before I had a 486DX33 built for me in FEB'94,
I'd share what little I learned from the messages that I read with some
other people who hadn't learned of ALL the FREE INFORMATION that anyone
could get knowledge of by calling a BBS.

As I was at a persons house helping him install a new copy of
WINDOWS 3.0 on his Gateway 2000 386SX?? PC, I noticed that he avoided
Double-Clicking Desktop icons.

He would Click the icon ONCE and the press the ENTER KEY.
He said he started doing that because he had so much trouble getting a
program to start up because usually when he Double-Clicked an icon he
would move the icon instead of seeing the program start.

I tried helping him adjust the mouse setting in Win3.0 but we never
could find a setting that pleased him.

Sometimes I will do that "Single-Click - Enter" method after I mess up
the looks of the Desktop and then have to do the "Right-Click - select
option" method to get all back in alignment, and then do another
"Right-Click - select option" procedure to turn off the
"Automatic"
setting I had to use to straighten out what I messed up, so I could
still be "in control" of my Desktop.    

Over in the Quicklaunch area sometimes I will accidently move the
arrangement of QL icons, and that bothers me because I have the Taskbar
option Set to "LOCK" things in place.    PC=1    ED=0

The icons on the Clock side of the Taskbar will stay in place as they
are suppose to, but the icons on the QL side will occasionally move
when I fumble pressing the mouse button when I want to use one of the
many programs I have QL icons for.

Maybe You or Someone Else reading about this will have a suggestion for
me to try, I hope so, because life would be so much more easier when I
am using the computer(s).

I have bought books to read Tips and Tricks in the Care and Feeding of
these 'Beasts', but the majority of what I Know, Use and Share with
others is what I've read in BBS messages.

Ever since Mark Lewis let me know I could press one of the CTRL keys
and use the Mouse Wheel to change the size of the Text I'm seeing on
the screen when I'm reading something on the internet, I have mentioned
that procedure to MANY MANY folks who use a computer at work, when I'm
doing business with them.
They try it and like it as I do.

I have learned I can use the CTRL+Wheel to adjust what I see in other
programs too.
I use it in Irfanview all the time.  THANKS MARK!!

Jean, don't keep all of the other Tricks and Tips and Shortcuts that
You have learned inside of your head, share them with us, PLEASE!!

I know that you love experiments of all kind, what have you been up
to lately?

You've been missed.
73

... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!
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