When you have three or more files opened in the same application, WIndows saves space by combining them in a single Taskbar button. To prevent this from happening, right-click the Start button and select Properties. Click the Taskbar tab and deselect the option ‘Group similar taskbar buttons’.
If you can’t remember the exact wording of a phrase, you can replace any missing words with an asterisk symbol. For example, “An apple a say keeps the * away”.
If pushing the button does nothing, try right-cliking the DVD/CD Drive icon in My Computer and selecting Eject/ If that doesn’t work, shut down your PC down, check the cables are correctly attached and nothing has come loose, then restart it and try again. If it still won’t open, try re-installing the drivers. You can also force the drawer to open (to retrieve a trapped disc) by straightening a paperclip and pushing it into the tiny hole on the front of the drive. If none of these options works it could be time to buy a new drive.
When you plug a USB flahs memory drive into a PC, Windows scans it and presents you with a menu, prompting you to choose whether to transfer photos, view pictures, open a folder to view the files and so on. I find it a bit irratating if I don’t actually want to do any of these tasks straightaway and I have to click the Cancel button to dismiss the window. You can stop this from happening by holding down the Shift key as you insert the USB flash memory drive. It’s made ready for use, but you don’t get the annoying pop-up dialogue box.
Googel has a test search site www.searchmash.com. This displays search results from the web along with matching images, blogs, videos and Wikipedia entries all on the same page.
If you hold down the Ctrl key while viewing a web page, you can zoom in and out using the scroll wheel on the mouse in Internet Explorer. You can zoom from 10 to 100 per cent.
