LAPTOP AND NOTEBOOK TIPS FOR THE PORTABLE COMPUTER USER

THE PORTABLE COMPUTER HAS THE INHERENT FEATURE OF PORTABILITY, BUT TO GET THE MOST OUT OF IT, BOTH OFFLINE AND ONLINE, THERE ARE A LOT OF SHORTCUTS, RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE ADDONS AND TWEAKS THE USER CAN EMPLOY.

WHETHER YOU HAVE THE LATEST SYSTEM OR AN OLDER VARIETY, THE FOLLOWING LAPTOP TIPS ARE AIMED AT GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR HARDWARE, OPERATING SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE.

FOR A COMPLETE LISTING OF LAPTOP TIPS CLICK HERE OR SELECT AN ITEM BELOW:
  • 01. Hardware,Drives,32-Bit
  • 02. Software:Zip-Graphics
  • 03. Which Drive?
  • 04. Security
  • 05. Shortcuts
  • 06. Send To Portable Disk
  • 07. Disk Garbage Bin
  • 08. Program Installation
  • 09. Holding Folder
  • 10. Save Downloads
  • 11. Squash the Pixs
  • 12. Clean Up
  • 13. Time Adjustments
  • 14. Freeze Up
  • 15. Pause the Printer
  • 16. Re-Print
  • 17. Reminders
  • 18. Cool It
  • 19. Re-Start
  • 20. Get a Pillow
  • 21. Sticky Trackball
  • 22. Screen Savers
  • 23. Display
  • 24. Disaster
  • 25. E-Mail
  • 26. AOL Users
  • 27. Modem Problems
  • 28. Cables in General
  • 29. Power Up
  • 30. Organize
  • 31. Multi-Associate
  • 32. DOS
  • 33. Save that Serial #
  • 34. Trip Tips
  • 35. Easy DOS It
  • 36. Work the Cache
  • 37. Get It Faster
  • 38. Back-up Blues
  • 39. IE4-Big Browser
  • 40. Web Author
  • 41. Tech Help
  • 42. Program Overload
  • 43. Juice up Start Menu
  • 44. Adopt a File
  • 45. Compress the Clutter
  • 46. E-Mail Erasures
  • 47. More Mail
  • 48. Window Wiggles
  • 49. Plus the Right Arrow
  • 50. $oftware Upgrades
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  • 51. HTML Mail
  • 52. Can you Scan?
  • 53. Organized Scan
  • 54. Super Scan
  • 55. Cord Wrap
  • 56. Cord Doctor
  • 57. Can't Do Spreadsheets?
  • 58. Scandisk Files
  • 59. Take a Peek
  • 60. Bigger is Better
  • 61. Golden Oldies
  • 62. Get an Arm
  • 63. Tape It Up
  • 64. Fix a Form
  • 65. Scan for Sam
  • 66. Shake, Rattle and Roll
  • 67. Dead Links Revived
  • 68. Fix Your Print
  • 69. Force a Font
  • 70. Sign It
  • 71. The Name Game
  • 72. Clipboard Times More
  • 73. Install Target
  • 74. Download Speed
  • 75. Get the Free Stuff
  • 76. Open a Blank
  • 77. Scan Not
  • 78. Make a Receipt
  • 79. Eazy Checking
  • 80. Disaster Proof
  • 81. Mash Your Cash
  • 82. 97 Clean Up
  • 83. Corrupt Data Sets
  • 84. Compress Entries
  • 85. Exit on Cancel
  • 86. Re-Target Shortcut
  • 87. Idle Web Space?
  • 88. E-Mail Cookies
  • 89. Strip the Pix
  • 90. Arise from the Dead
  • 91. Web-site Wallflower?
  • 92. Lost Dlls
  • 93. Page After Page
  • 94. 12 Volt
  • 95. Year 2000 Ready
  • 96. Get Your Hands Dirty
  • 97. Hidden Web Sites
  • 98. Take a Memo
  • 99. It's in the Wash
  • 100 Bad Disks
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  • 101 Squeezed for Space?
  • 102 Build a Library
  • 103 Creaky Cursor
  • 104 Rename Readme
  • 105 Drive by Content
  • 106 Export Report
  • 107 Frozen Browser
  • 108 Software Junkie
  • 109 Find A File
  • 110 Get Published
  • 111 FTP Access
  • 112 Take it Offline
  • 113 Forms for Sale
  • 114 Mail a Font
  • 115 Hold the Phone
  • 116 Drag it Out
  • 117 Lost Files
  • 118 Mini-Multitask
  • 119 Tiling
  • 120 Help Files
  • 121 Browser Mail Program
  • 122 Click of Death
  • 123 E-Mail Attachment
  • 124 Hard-Drive Hogs
  • 125 Anti-Virus Programs
  • 126 Uninstallers
  • 127 Get Tracker
  • 128 Make a Mirror
  • 129 Fix Zip Files
  • 130 Homepage Multiplied
  • 131 Printing Pixs
  • 132 Web-Page Froze
  • 133 Floppy on Board
  • 134 E-Mail Links
  • 135 Defragment-Do It More
  • 136 Portable Drive Selection
  • 137 No Touch Tone
  • 138 Back-Up Programs
  • 139 Illegal Operations
  • 140 Get It Together
  • 141 Stuck in Cache
  • 142 Vanishing E-Mail
  • 143 Lazy Button
  • 144 Framed by AOL
  • 145 Offline Gaming
  • 146 AWOL Homepage?
  • 147 Show Your File
  • 148 AOL "Art" Files
  • 149 Artwork of Your Own
  • 150 Popup Slayer
  • 151 Laptop Humour Page
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