Back up your address book
The first thing to do, to make it simpler for you, is to create a folder on your hard drive (in My Documents, or Desktop) called Address Book Backups (or whatever you like). This will make it easier to save the backup and then copy it to your external media in the final step below.
1. On the Outlook Express toolbar, click Export, and then click Address Book.
2. Click Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click Export.
3. Click Browse.
4. Find the folder you created for your Address Book backups
5. In the File Name box, type address book backup, and then click Save.
6. Click Next.
7. Click to select the check boxes for the fields that you want to export, and then click Finish.
8. Click OK and then click Close.
After you've saved the Address Book Backup, put a writable CD or DVD into your DVD/CD drive, right-click on the folder containing your backup, choose "Copy to" from the menu and choose your CD/DVD drive. You can, if you choose (although there is no reason to do so) use your CD-ROM/DVD burning software.
Simple to use and it works like a charm. While there oodles of theses kinds of program available (some not free) we're partial to Asterisk Key. You can get it free by visiting this site
To put favorite email addresses or favorites at the top and the rest alphabetically in the address book or favorites, type 0 space in front of name or site and they will be placed at top of list. i find this very handy..
Three Quickie Trickies - Browse Better
Windows All Versions - Internet Explorer or Firefox
Quickie Tricky One
Digiknow when you're searching the Internet that you can search for all forms of a word by typing two asterisks after the word. For instance, typing " ? cloudeight** " (without the quotes) into the address bar will return different topics associated with that word. As of today there's over 103,000 references to "Cloudeight". If we're so famous, why ain't we rich?
Quickie Tricky Two
Did you know simply pressing the spacebar will scroll down a page and pressing Shift and the spacebar will scroll up a page? Here's another tip: To open the favorites bar in Internet Explorer or Firefox, press Ctrl key and press I. Try it the next time you're surfing the Web!
Quickie Tricky Three
To find certain information on a web page, hold down the Ctrl key and press F, enter the text that you want to search for and press enter. Internet Explorer will search through the document, find the relevant text for you (if it exists of course!).
It's good idea to check your hard disk for errors about once a month (or more frequently if you're a heavy-duty computer user). The best time to do a disk check for errors it at startup before all your programs load.
To check your hard drive for errors automatically the next time you start Windows, do this:
1. Click Start then Run and type in CHKDSK /F (notice the space between K and the slash).
2. When the command window appears hit the Y key.
The next time you boot Windows, your hard drive will be automatically checked for errors. You should do this at least once a month. Checking the disk before all those programs start gumming up the works takes less time and provides smoother disk checking. So hey, check it out!
Quick Change
Want to change the name of a desktop icon, folder, file etc? Click whatever you want to rename, then click the F2 key and make your change!
Quick View
To view properties menu of a file, folder, etc., highlight it and click Alt + Enter. Highlight My Computer and click Alt + Enter to view System Properties.
Quick Print
Click Control + P to open the Print Dialog.
Quick Favorites
Click Control + D to quick save a web page to your Favorites menu.
Quick Windows Explorer
Click the Windows Key + E to open Windows Explorer in a flash!
(This tip only works if you have more than one user account on your computer and your account uses a password)
Click the Windows Key + L to lock your computer. You'll need to type your password to log back into your user account.
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