Creating Hyperlinks

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programm...piness_formula/

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Creating hyperlinks from phrases or words is very easy to do. There are a couple reasons why you might want to do this. It's not only handy when you make a Web page but helpful when you have an extremely long URL you want to use in an email.

The basics are:

a. The URL

b. The Text You Want To Link To The URL

Let's say we want to create a text link to Microsoft's Security Center. That's a good place to go, isn't it? We could all use a little security center in our lives! Now we could just link to it by pasting the URL which is: http://www.microsoft.com/security/guidance/default.mspx or we could just say "click here". They both go to the same place

Here's the code to do that: http://www.microsoft.com/security/guidance/default.mspx">"click here". If you want to do that in Outlook Express here's how:

Believe it or not, once you learn how to do this you'll find all sorts of things you can do with it. You can even create links from images much the same way. To learn more about creating Text Links see our simple inter-active tutorial. Click Here

If you ever hear your hard drive making unusual noises, like clicking or metallic sounds, it could be that your hard drive is going bad. The next time you restart Windows XP, press the F12 key (repeatedly) to bring up the Windows XP diagnostic screen. One of the options on that screen is to test your hard drive. If your hard drive is failing you're better off catching it early than waiting until it fails completely. If it fails completely, you're going to lose everything, including your Windows installation. So use the Windows XP diagnostic tools to check your hard drive anytime you notice your hard drive making unusual sounds.

Icon Invaders
Windows 98/NT/ME/NT2000 and Windows XP (all editions)

(1) After installing many programs you may find your desktop is littered with icons so you can have quick access to the various programs. It is safe to delete these from your desktop; it will not delete the program. These same programs will be listed in your Start Menu / All Programs menu too.

(2) When installing a new program, many will give you the option to make a desktop icon. If you are not going to need to open the program several times a day you probably don't need a desktop icon, so slow down and read the install/setup as the program is installing and uncheck "create desktop icon" when available.

(3) Quick launch is for those programs you use often; you can right mouse click a desktop icon for running a program and drop it into Quick Launch. Choose the "move" option and it will move it from your desktop to Quick Launch. Remember to choose "Move" not copy or else you'll end up with your desktop cluttered and your Quick Launch full of duplicate shortcuts. Slow down - don't hurry. Be happy!

(4) If you right click on your desktop and choose "align to grid" it will keep all your desktop icons from crowding into each other. It may even reveal a few hidden icons (icons that are underneath each other) and solve the "where the heck did my shortcut to Mabel's kitchen go?" problem

Sensitive Keyboard?
Windows XP Home, Media and Professional Editions

Windows lets you control how long you must hold down a key before it repeats, as well as the speed it repeats. To set the sensitivity, open Control Panel and click Keyboard (Win 98/XP Classic view) or in XP Category View click "Printers and Other Hardware" then click "Keyboard". Now click the speed tab and adjust the sliders for Repeat Delay and Repeat Rate and test for your touch. There is a test area right on this screen so you can try different settings. Repeat Delay determines how long you have to hold a key down before it starts repeating. Repeat Rate is how quickly repeated characters appear. There is even a Cursor Blink Rate setting in this window. Click here to view!
Be sure to click Apply when done!

Outlook Express Running A Little Slow? Use These Tips To Speed It Up!
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP - Outlook Express 5 and 6

There are several things you can do to speed up Outlook Express without completely removing everything. First, check your "Sent" folder. By default all email you send is saved in your "Sent" folder. If you send a lot of email or you've never cleared the "Sent" folder, now is a good time to do that. Assuming there's nothing in there that you need to save, you can simply delete the contents of the "Sent" folder. Open your "Sent" folder. Highlight one of the messages and then hit the Ctrl + A keys (to select all messages) then hold down the "Shift" key while depressing the "Delete" key. Holding down the "Shift" key while deleting the messages in the "Sent" folder prevents Outlook Express from moving all the messages you deleted to the "Deleted Items" folder.

If you have a lot of email in your Inbox or other folders you want to save, you can move these to another folder. Create a folder on your Desktop and call it whatever you like - something like "Saved Email". Open your Inbox, select one message and then hit the Ctrl + A keys (to select all messages) and drag the highlighted messages from your Inbox to the folder you just created on your Desktop. Whether you choose "Copy" or "Move" when dragging and dropping the messages into the folder on your Desktop, the messages will still be in your Inbox. After you've verified that all your email is safely stored in the folder on your desktop, select all messages in your Inbox (Highlight one message, hit the Ctrl + A keys) hold down the Shift key and then hit the Delete key.

Now that your Inbox and "Sent" folder are empty, clear your Deleted Items folder (if any messages are in it) by right-clicking on the Deleted Items folder and choosing "Empty Deleted Items Folder". Once your Deleted Items folder is empty, close Outlook Express and reopen it. It should run much faster for you now.

Also, you should set Outlook Express to empty your Deleted Items folder each time you close Outlook Express. To do this - click Tools/Options and click the "Maintenance" tab at the top. Check the box that says"Empty messages from the deleted items folder on exit". Click Apply then OK

Talk About Large Icons!
By default Windows Vista uses large (I mean HUGE) icons on the Start menu. Unless you're having great difficulty with your eyes, you're probably going to want to make them smaller. You can change this. Here's how:

-Right-click on your start menu
-Click "Properties"
-Click "Customize"
-Scroll all the way to down to the bottom and uncheck "Use large icons".

Did you know you can customize your Windows XP and Windows Vista icons easily? Yes, you can! With FolderMagic 2.0 you can change Windows Vista's and Windows XP's folder icons in seconds and replace them with really great looking professional icons. There is a 15 day trial after that it cost 12.95.

QuickSend

You can mail the snippet to yourself for safekeeping or to a friend to share it. And here's the best part! It not only copies the text snippet but the Web page URL (link) it came from. So you can easily go back and find the page it came from as can those you send it to by simply clicking the URL included automatically with the snippet. Our freeware pick of the week this week is "QuickSend" - and if it sounds like something you could us - it is! Visit this page to learn more about and/or download QuickSend.