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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 – Permalink –

Folder Tree

DOS is back

"To find out how many folders there are on your hard disk, you can open a Command Prompt and use the Tree command. You'll get a very nice looking graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk.

The only problem is that the display will scroll by your screen so fast and exceed the buffer size, so you'll never be able to see it."

Import Tree command into Word

(Open Command Prompt as Administrator. Rather than "Insert>File", open the file with Word and choose the MS-DOS format))

Tree command

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Labels: Files, General, Reference, Shortcuts, Tips, Tutorials

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 – Permalink –

BIOS Bias

A bootstrap script

Way down deep in the innards of a PC there lives a tiny control freak named the Basic Input/Output System.

And that's just the beginning.

"The BIOS software has a number of different roles, but its most important role is to load the operating system. When you turn on your computer and the microprocessor tries to execute its first instruction, it has to get that instruction from somewhere.
It cannot get it from the operating system because the operating system is located on a hard disk, and the microprocessor cannot get to it without some instructions that tell it how."

Here are a couple of links for more information:

How BIOS Works

Wikipedia-BIOS

What is BIOS

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Saturday, August 19, 2017 – Permalink –

Slashed Zero

Oh!
ø

There is a discussion of the slashed zero at:
How to Insert a Slashed Zero (0 Overlaid with a /)

You can also download the Monaco font that has a slashed ø
(Monaco is an embeddable font)

Andale.ttf (Mono) has a dotted 0

Seagullscientific.com has a font called Crystal

Windows has a free font editor. Type eudcedit on the Start>Run line.
Vic Laurie has a description of the Private Character Editor- Eudcedit

You could also use the EQ field to create a strike through and assign it to an AutoCorrect entry.

{EQ \o (0,/)}

The easiest is, probably Alt+0216 or Alt+0248 It's a Latin "oh" with stroke, but it looks close.

The HTML character code is ø ø

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Labels: Customize, Fonts, General, Reference, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 – Permalink –

DNS Cache

Down the drain

Internet connection problems can, sometimes, be traced to a corrupted DNS cache.

Flushing this cache is an easy fix to many of these problems.

Here is how to fix that corrupted DNS cache.

Click the Microsoft Start logo in the bottom left corner of the screen

Click All Programs

Click Accessories

Right-click on Command Prompt

Select Run As Administrator

To view the DNS cache, type ipconfig /displaydns at a command prompt.

In the command window type the following and then hit enter: ipconfig /flushdns

You will see the following confirmation:

Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache
.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2017 – Permalink –

Icon Tile Opacity

See through

To make the background of desktop icons transparent, go to:

Control Panel > System > Advanced

Click Settings in the Performance section.

On the Visual Effects tab, check "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop".

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Labels: Customize, Desktop, General, Reference, Tips, Tutorials

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