When you re-install Windows and
therefore Office 2000, one of the problems you face is keeping your list of
"Contacts", containing all your E-mail addresses, telephone numbers, etc for the
people you want to keep in touch with. Here's how to do it.
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Choose a suitable file name and
location, such as C:/My
Documents/contacts.pst then Finish
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Choose a meaningful name
in the resulting window and your contacts have now been saved and can be
transferred to another hard drive or floppy disc for safe keeping
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To restore your contacts
click on File ->
Import and Export from the menu bar to invoke the Import and Export Wizard
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Click on Import
from aother program or file then Next
Saving/Restoring your old
E-mail
As well as saving your Contacts as
described above,
you can also save and restore your current E-mail. If you need to refresh
what the menus look like, refer to the pictures above.
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Click on File
-> Import and Export from the menu bar to invoke the Import and Export Wizard
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Click on Export to a file then Next
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Click on Personal Folder File (.pst) then Next
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Click on Inbox
and ensure the "Include subfolders" box has a
tick in it then Next
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Choose a suitable file name and
location, such as C:/My Documents/inbox.pst
then Finish
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Choose a meaningful name
in the resulting window and your contacts have now been saved and can be
transferred to another hard drive or floppy disc for safe keeping
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To restore your contacts
click on File ->
Import and Export from the menu bar to invoke the Import and Export Wizard
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Click on Import
from aother program or file then Next
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Scroll down to and click on Personal Folder File (.pst) then Next
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Choose the location and filename of your
contacts file such as C:/My
Documents/inbox.pst then click on Next
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Click on Contact then Finish and your contacts should
now have been restored
Outlook Express Save your address book as a *.WAB file
When you re-install Windows, one of the problems you face is keeping your Address Book, containing all your E-mail addresses, telephone numbers, etc for the
people you want to keep in touch with. Here's how to do it.
1: Open up Outlook Express
2: Go up to TOOLS > ADDRESS BOOK
3: From here go up to FILE > EXPORT > ADDRESS BOOK (WAB) ….
4: Save *.Wab file where you’ll be able to find it easily at a later date, “Tip” also give it a name that will described whose address book it belongs to.
Adding & Organizing
Favourites
While browsing the internet you may
come across a lot if different sites you may wish to visit at a later date. The
easiest way to do this is add a site as a Favourite .
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Open Internet Explorer and visit a
site you want to add as a Favourite to visit again
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Select "Favourite - Add to
Favourites..."
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Click on the "Create in >>"
button
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Click on the "New Folder" button and
choose a name you want to group it under, ie, Sports, Music, etc
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If you decide you want to re-organize
your favourites at a later date you can choose "Favourites - Organise
Favourites" and be presented with the following screen :-
Save As
One of the most useful features of
Internet Explorer 5.x onwards is the ability to save a web-page currently being
viewed to hard disk. This way you can save a whole series of pages while on-line
for viewing at a later date when off-line, for example, allowing you to grab
graphics you may want to use elsewhere.
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Open Internet Explorer and visit a
site you want to save to your hard disk
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Click on "File - Save As"
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Choose a name or use the default and
a location you want to save it to on your hard disk
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An "*.htm" file and directory of the
same name are saved, the directory includes all the graphics
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Once saved it can be displayed later
by opening in Internet Explorer directly, or via My Computer or Windows
Explorer
Internet Use
Virus Scanners
With low cost internet access freely
available now the potential for your PC contracting a malicious virus or worse
than ever. Thousands of viruses are created every year, some of them harmful
where the creater wants to show their prowess and other very harmful with the
ability to wipe files of your hard disk or send information such as passwords to
another server.
Therefore I highly recommend purchasing
a modern virus scanner and keeping the virus definitions (some times known as
DAT files) up to date on a weekly basis. One of the best of those available is
Norton Anti-Virus 2002 from Symantec. The main console for this is displayed below, along
with a simple description of the details (Note: this version is from the Norton
SystemWorks bundle):
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Auto-Protect works in the
backgroud to protect you in several ways
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Detecting viruses that may already
exist and removing them
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Preventing viruses from infecting your
computer
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Monitoring for activity that may
indicate an unknown virus
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Email Scanning
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Scan Incoming Email automatically
scans email you receive for viruses - it does this using a proxy system
where the E-mail is scanned and suspect files can be deleted or quarantined
before reaching your E-mail program
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Scan Outgoing Email automatically
scans email you send for viruses
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Script Blocking monitors Visual
Basic and Java-based scripts for virus-like behavior and alerts you if it
finds anything suspicious
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Full System Scan informs you the
last date a scan of all the files on your PC was carried out. I recommend you
do this on a monthly or bi-monthly basis
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Virus Definitions details the
version of the DAT files currently being used
Clicking on the "Scan for Viruses" text
brings up the on-demand scanner, allowing you to cans drives, folders and
individual files as and when you want to. This is also available by
right-clicking on a file or folder via My Computer or Windows Explorer and
selecting "Scan with Norton AntiVirus":
Clicking on Options -> Norton AntiVirus
allows you access to the settings for Norton Anti-Virus:
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