Computers 101

Q:
How can I tell how much hard drive space I have left?

A:
I get this one a lot. To see how much space you have left, open the My Computer icon on your desktop (or under the Start menu for XP users) and right-click the drive you are curious about (for most people, this would be their C: drive, but this trick works with any drive). Select Properties from the resulting menu.

You'll get a handy little pie chart showing you how much disk space is left.

See? Easy as pie, I mean, cake!

-- Steve

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Tip of the Day

Quicker Exploring

Here's the deal. You open up My Computer and start browsing for a particular file or folder. About five minutes into it, you realize you would have been better off doing this with Windows Explorer. What to do? Is it time to start over? Is all hope lost? Am I being too dramatic?

Anyhow, when faced with the situation above, most of us would close My Computer, open Explorer, and then hunt around for the file again.

Instead, right-click the file or folder you're working with in My Computer and select Explore. Windows Explorer opens up with focus on that area.

-- Steve

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

Webster's Dictionary Online

For those of you who can’t ever find your dictionary or thesaurus, like myself, this site will prove a marvelous asset to your life. Finally, an online dictionary and thesaurus that is free and only a mouse click away!

Use their handy search engine to look up the word you need defined. Then click "Look It Up" and you get not only the first definition, but other tenses of the word - just like a hard copy of a dictionary. Hope you enjoy this handy site!

http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

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