Remove viruses
There is a good article on how to remove viruses that you might want to study.
Of course, not getting them in the first place would be a better option!
Change which program opens particular types of file
If you want to change the program that runs a certain type of file (make mp3 files open in Window Media Player, for example):
- Right click on a file of that type
- Go to the “Open with” menu, and select “Choose program”
- If the program you want to use is in the list, click it. If it isn’t, click “Browse” and navigate to the program
- Click the “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file” check box
- Click “OK”
That should change the program used for the specified file type to the one that you want.
Getting programs to run in networks
A new user was trying to run Lotus Notes at work today. An error message referring to “notes.ini” being missing kept on displaying when they started Notes, and then it would close down again. Even when running the Notes directly from the directory it was installed in, it would not run. I searched the hard drive for a “notes.ini”, and couldn’t find it.
I went to my computer, and compared what happened when I opened Notes to what was happening on the other PC. I use a shortcut that was already set up when I started using notes. I looked at the properties of the shortcut, and found that the “Start in:” box had a directory on the network supplied. In that directory, there was a “notes.ini” file.
I copied the address down and had the user enter it into the same place on their new shortcut. Notes then ran.
A few lessons:
- Networks can make programs more complicated to support
- If a program is running on one computer, but not another, see what the differences are between them.
- Even if your actual job isn’t IT support, if you know anything about IT, you’ll be asked to help in times of need.
Thanks for reading.
Quickly enter today’s date in Excel
To quickly add today’s date to a cell in Excel, click Control and semi-colon:
ctrl + ;
Useful Windows shortcut keys
Someone who I consider to have some technical knowledge at work didn’t know at least one of these, I found out today, so maybe you’ll want to know these too:
Windows key + “e”, will open My Computer/Explorer
Windows key + “d”, will minimise all windows, to show the desktop
Windows key + “r”, will open the “Run” box.
