Georges PC Tools

Tips & Tricks For Beginners
Updated 2/12/05
Printer Ink Refills
Here's a Refilled ink cartridge thats cheap & I have had no problems with for over 2 years (about 20 cartridges) You can buy them outright or Buy a jetpack mailer to mail your cartridge into them. (I refill my own black cartridge because that is simple, but I can never get the color ones right.) The mailers are $14.95 for color $12.50 for Black this includes shipping both ways. Check them out for all your ink supplies.
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Text Enlarger
Can't read that small text on a web page. Heres a little tip that will help. Go to top of screen & click on view, click on text size, click on largest. That should help, Before you go to Text Magnifier try this.

Screen Size
Set your screen resolution to 800 x 600. Go to Start, Control Panel, Click on display, when the screen comes up click on settings. Go down to screen resolutions, there is a bar there move it all the way to the left for less, this should set your screen to 800 x 600 if it is already there then go to next step!!


Enlarge Desktop Icon Text Size
If you can't read the text under your icons on your desktop, heres how you can enlarge you text to any size that is legible for you.

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Text Magnifier
Windows has a built in text magnifier. Where you can set your text size, icon size, Mouse pointer size. You can also magnify an area around your mouse pointer. To set this up is really easy, I have made a page you can print out to walk yourself thru it.
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Customizing Windows XP
Here is a pretty good page on how to set up & use XP. I have learned quite a few things things from this page. It is well worth your time to read it & get to know how to use your basic & advanced tools.
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Windows XP
Troubleshooting & Repair
Here is a fabulous site for Windows XP. 846 Troubleshooting, tweaks & Repairs. This page will give you about every repair there is for XP. If you can't find it here it probably don't exist. A little tip when using this page is to go to bottom & open List of all links on this page.
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Spell Checker
Here is a free spelling checker for Outlook, Outlook Express, Wordpad, NotePad or whatever you need a checker for.
IE Spell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application. font>
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E-Mail Backgrounds
Outlook Express
& Outlook FREE!!
Here is a large selection of e-mail backgrounds for Microsoft Outlook & Outlook Express. Easy to use & will really spruce up your mail. Very easy Installation.FREE!!!
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Font Page
Don't know what fonts are installed on your PC. FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system. (Text Styles) You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and also 3D. In addition, you can also compare two selected fonts and preview fonts that are not yet installed on your system. FontPage can also print a sample page for selected fonts or print a list of all installed fonts. Download & Put on your desktop or pin to your start menu
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Free Fonts
Font Page contains over 750 free fonts to download. Remember you have to have the font installed on your PC in order to view them on the web.
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High Fonts Page contains over 3000 free fonts to download.
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Installing Fonts
Here is the easiest way to install fonts. Download & open zip file. When it is open you should have a Blueish white box with TT inside it, right click, then click on cut. Go to start menu, click on control panel, click on fonts, right click on any blank space on page & click paste, your done, you can go back & delete the download file to save your hard drive space. If you want to print it out to walk yourself thru it
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Free E-Mail
Here are a few email accounts Free if you need them
Ionmail 5mb Storage
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FastMail 10mb Storage
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Planet-Save 5mb Storage
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Yahoo 100mb Storage
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Free CD Label Backgrounds
Need a background for the label for Your Home Made CD Or DVD
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Free Web Hosting
Looking to build a website. Here is a list of FREE website hosts
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Free Webster Dictionary
Online
Free service just type in word it will give you correct spelling
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Free Acronyms & Abbreviations
Finder
Ever wonder what LOL or ASAP really meant? Type it in and find out! Also works with some HTML acronyms,
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Ask Jeeves
Got a question? Need an answer! Well Ask Jeeves.
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