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My Laptop Experiment

My aunt gave me her old laptop a a present. She told me that I can’t connect to the net with the wireless card she gave me until I wipe it clean, and redo Windows from the beginning. So yeterday, I sat down with the Dell Inpirion 8000 laptop he gave me, and set about installing first Windows ME, and then XP.

One problem I had to solve was getting in to the BIOS setup program to change the boot order of the DVD-ROM drive, so that I could boot into the Windows ME CD. I called Dell, they asked me the typical account stuff, then gave me some garbage about change of ownership, and then finally told me that there a no way Continue reading »

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Extremely valuable tip for Windows XP

In some PC World issue (forgot which), I found an invaluable tip for Windows Explorer (or any folder window), but it’s only in XP. The tip: Show in Groups. This groups together files by type, size, first letter of name (or what ever you sorted the files by), in a pretty nice way. To enable this, open a folder window (My Computer for example), Click View, go to Arrange Icons By, and click Show in Groups. To make this permanent, you may have to go to Tools -> Folder Options, click the View tab, and click Apply to All Folders. I can’t believe that I didn’t know of it earlier.

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