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Tuesday, May 9 |
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USING THE CONTROL PANEL
by John Anthony
The Control Panel is utility that lets you configure just about everything in your PC. To open the Control Panel: - Go to 'Start', then 'Settings'.
- Select 'Control Panel' and the Control Panel Window appears on the desktop with many icons inside it.
ADD AND REMOVE INSTALLED PROGRAMS (Windows 98)
Double click the Add/Remove programs icon in the control panel and the 'Add/Remove Programs' window appears.
The top portion of the window allows you to install programs. When you install programs from a CD or floppy, the installation doesn't open the 'Add/Remove Programs' window and proceeds without it.
Removing Programs:
The bottom portion of the window shows all user installed programs loaded on the PC and allows you to remove them.
To remove a program, select it and then click the 'Add/Remove' button. You will be asked again if you want to proceed. Clicking 'yes' removes all the components of the selected program.
SET POWER USAGE OPTIONS
Double click the Power Options icon in the control panel and a window appears with a number of tabs across the top labeled:
Power Schemes, Alarms, Power Meter, Advanced and Hibernate. There may be variances in these options depending on which Windows operating system you have.
Power schemes is very useful, especially if you leave your PC on all the time. Double click on it to open it.
Two of the selections allow you to automatically turn off your monitor and hard drive(s) a selectable amount of time since the last keystroke or mouse movement. This saves your hard drive life by not having it continuously spin when it is not in use. You also save power by not having your display on when it is not in use.
To set the amount of time the hard drive runs before shutting down, select the time you want from the drop down menu next to 'Turn off hard disks'. The monitor shutdown time is set similarly in the 'Turn off monitor' drop down box.
The hard drive and monitor wake up when you initiate any activity that requires them.
SET YOUR MODEM'S MAX SPEED
- Double click the Modem icon in the control panel. The 'Modem Options' window appears. Two tabs should appear, 'General' and 'Diagnostics'.
- Select the 'General' tab, then select 'Properties'. which opens and has a 'Maximum Speed' box about half way down.
- Open the box and select 115,200, then 'OK'.
If you have a 56kb/s modem this setting won't hurt it, but a setting of 9600 could slow it down.
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posted by ^%&^
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