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Newbies,Nerds & Nitwits. June 2002.
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NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS
Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net
June, 2002 Vol.2 Issue 6
Sheldene Chant, Editor
_____________________________________
By subscription only. Welcome to the 23rd
offering from
Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits
You are receiving this newsletter because you
requested a subscription. Our subscriber list is
confidential. Unsubscribe instructions are at the
end of this ezine
____________________________________
IN THIS ISSUE
o Time for a Break...
o Start Thinking About the Registry
o My Home Page was Hijacked by a
Hoochie Mama
o Applets - can you eat them?
o How's Your e-Shorthand?
o Free Download - ZipGenius
o Hot Tip - moving files
________________________________________
TIME FOR A BREAK...
_________________________________________
FIRST of all let me get shot of my moan for the month
- remember I told you my printer had gone on the blink
before I sent out the last issue? Well it's still being
'repaired' - and I'm trying to work up the courage (because
I just know I'm going to be extremely aggravated) to go and
fetch it for the third time!
If you live in a country where fixers are efficient and reliable
this should make you feel good - and if you don't then I'm sure
that learning you are not alone will make you feel better.
And talking about courage I am working myself up to delve into
the depths of my computer (Start Thinking About the Registry)
- and if you think you will never want to do that Pam Allen's
article, My Home Page Was Hijacked by a Hoochie Mama,
might change that. All sorts of PC problems seem to call for
a look at the registry so if you are not familiar with this operation
perhaps you too should start preparing yourself - now.
The NewbiesAndNitwits website will be moving to its new home
within the next 10 days and I'm looking forward to getting to know
you all better through the NewbiesAndNitwits forum/message
board which we will have on the new site. As soon as this
exciting happening takes place I will, of course, let you know.
___________________________________
FREE TUTORIALS BY AUTORESPONDER
If you need to know more about backing up 'stuff' on your
computer click mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com
and you should get the first tutorial within seconds.
If you are thinking about making your own web page, or
merely want to exercise your brain slightly, then send for
the web page tutorials by clicking
mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com
Want to find files fast ?- then mailto:fin-@fastresponder.com
Organising your computer - mailto:org-@fastresponder.com
_______________________________________________
START THINKING ABOUT THE REGISTRY
_______________________________________________
YOU must have noticed that most instructions on how to resolve
a PC problem involve going into your computer's registry. I am
sure you have also noticed that these instructions almost
always include dire warnings about what can happen when
computer novices mess with registry files because ' if you do
not back up before making registry changes you may risk
Windows becoming inoperable if you change/edit the wrong thing
by mistake.'
Which is enough to make any sensible newbie steer clear of the
whole operation. Recently, however, I have come to the
conclusion I can't do this indefinitely as some of my little PC
problems are extremely irritating - and if a sally into the registry
can fix them then sooner or later I'm going to be brave and do
just that. But very cautiously.
I use Windows 98 and by clicking Start-->Run-->and typing in
'regedit' I bring up the Windows Registry Editor. If I type in
'scanreg' and click on OK I am told the system has been
scanned and no errors found. I am also told that my system 'has
been backed up once today' - which is encouraging.
From the Help menu in this Registry Editor I learn that by clicking
on Start-->Shut Down-->Restart in MS Dos Mode -->Yes - and
typing in 'scanreg/restore' - this will, when I restart my computer,
restore the registry to its state when I last successfully restarted
my computer. Which also sounds encouraging - and fairly
simple - but I still felt I needed to know more.
By visiting http://www.aumha.org/elist.htm one can find
suggestions for backing up registries for all Windows - from
Windows 95 to Windows XP - and if you move on to
http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm you can download a patch
(EditReg Registry Patch) which, once installed, changes the
default for when you right click on a Registry (.REG) file so that,
instead of being automatically merged into your Registry, it is
opened in Notepad for editing - which should prevent a lot of
accidents.
After you have edited the file, you need to right click on the file
and select Merge, in order to merge the .REG file into your
Registry.
So far I've installed the patch, without any problems, but I haven't
got around to interfering with a .REG file - yet.
I've also found another free program, Registry Explorer 1.4,
which I've installed and am now investigating. I have an icon,
labelled Registry, on my Desktop and when I click on that it
displays the main HKEY folders in my registry.
A right click on one of the folder offers quite a wide choice of
actions, including 'Create Backup' and 'Restore Backup' which
appears to be done in a civilised way without me having to do
anything weird, such as starting up in MS Dos mode.
Perhaps I'm not quite ready to embark on any major changes to
my Registry but I'm beginning to feel I'm getting there.. Registry
Explorer appears to be very user-friendly and you can download
a copy at http://www.regxplor.com/download.html.
Copyright 2002 Sheldene Chant
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MY HOME PAGE WAS HIJACKED BY A HOOCHIE MAMA!
by Pam Allen
_______________________________________________
The home page, or start page, is the site that loads every
time you open your browser. Occasionally, an underhanded site
will 'hijack' your designated page and change it, leaving you with
a less than desirable site loading up. Here's how to get rid of it..
I'D never heard of this happening, until a friend of mine frantically
emailed me, begging for information on how to get rid of the
dancing porn star page that loaded every time she opened her
browser.
I did some research, and discovered this isn't as uncommon
as one might think. Generally, you'll receive an email with a link
to click, though sometimes it can be a link on an actual web
page that you visit. When you click the link, you get taken to a
website (usually porn). You sigh, write it off as yet another
spam, and forget about it.
Until you come back the next day, and your browser
automatically loads the porn site up first thing.'No problem!' you
think, 'I'll just go into my browser settings and change it back'.
Dream on, my little lambchop. You quickly discover that your
own browser has turned on you, and is refusing to give you
access to that function! You are unable to remove the hoochie
mama website from your browser settings. However will you
explain this to Grandma when she comes over to get her Ebay
fix?
Fear not, dear unfortunate one. There is a solution! It involves
(gack!) editing the registry.
By the way, this is for Windows 98 users, it will probably work
with Windows 95, too, but I claim no expertise with Windows
2000 or ME.
Click on 'Start' then 'Run'. Type in 'regedit' (without the quotation
marks) and click 'OK'. The registry editor will open. Click 'edit'
in the menu at the top, and choose 'find'. Type in
NoBrowserOptions and select 'find next'.
If it returns a result that has a 1 in parenthesis, then delete that
line. This will allow you to regain control of your browser settings
and replace that hoochie mama site with your regular start page
(which I hope is NewbiesandNitwits).
Sometimes this doesn't work, and that entry isn't even in the
registry. If that's the case, do the same thing but in the 'find' box,
type in the url that's loading. When it's located and highlighted,
simply replace it with the url you prefer.
Happy browsing!
(c) Copyright 2001 Pam Allen
_________________________
Pam Allen is a major contributor and co-webmistress at
http://www.newbiesandnitwits.com. She also has a
website called http://www.quickdecor.com which features
speedy and inexpensive decorating ideas.
__________________________________
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Just look at all those keys! I'll guarantee you've often wondered
why there are so many - F1, Insert, Tab,Ctrl, Pr Scr, End,
Home, Alt, Pause, PgUp, Shift, Sys Rq, and the rest. Why?
And what about all those keys with the funny looking characters
like ~ # > ¬ \ ^ ? Surely someone put them there for a reason!
And yet you never use them.
'Keyboard MAGIC!' by The Newbie Club, outsold all their other
products in the first 5 days of release. Find out why, and brace
yourself or an eye-opener at:
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APPLETS: CAN YOU EAT THEM?
asks Tom Glander
_____________________________________
IF your memory serves you as well as mine, you can recall
that the way to find lost files or folders is with the *Find* applet
included with Windows.
What's an applet?
It's a little program. It's the little engine that could.
And there are oodles of these little programs in Windows!
I don't know where the 'Applet' name came from. But I'll
bet Atomica knows. You can download Atomica here:
http://www.atomica.com and look up anything. It's the ultimate
database of information at your fingertips.
Now, here's an improved method to find files using the
standard Start > Find> Files or Folders... routine.
Let's say you downloaded an MP3 named 'Home on the Range.'
How would you find it? What do you do with the spaces?
Just stick a question mark wherever there's a space.
If you leave out the question mark, and search for 'home
on the range' you'll get every last instance of home,
on, the, and range. As well as additional words that
include the letters 'on' such as 'question.'
Type it like this:
'home?on?the?range' (without the quotes).
And you've got your file! No messing about searching the
undergrowth or the bush country for the missing sounds.
No, you can't eat an Applet. But I hear organgelets are good!
© 2001 All RIghts Reserved Roglan International
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HOW'S YOUR E-SHORTHAND?
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*g* - grin
G&Bit - grin & bear it
G2G - gotta go
GA - go ahead
GAS - greetings and salutations
*gbh* = great big hug
GF = girlfriend
GFN - gone for now
GG - good game
GGU2 - good game you two
GIWIST - gee, I wish I'd said that
GL - good luck
GM - good move/match.
GMTA - great minds think alike
GMBO - giggling my butt off
*gbh&k* - great big hug & kiss
GTSY - glad to see you
*gr&d* - grinning, running, & ducking
(More email acronyms in the
next issue)
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<b> NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS<br><br>
</b>Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net<br><br>
June,
2002
Vol.2 Issue 6<br><br>
Sheldene Chant, Editor<br>
<b>_____________________________________<br><br>
</b> By subscription only. Welcome to the 23rd<br>
offering from<br><br>
Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits<br><br>
You are receiving this newsletter because you<br>
requested a subscription. Our subscriber list is<br>
confidential. Unsubscribe instructions are at the<br>
end of this ezine<br>
____________________________________<br><br>
<b>IN THIS ISSUE<br><br>
</b> o Time for a
Break...<br><br>
o Start Thinking
About the Registry<br><br>
o My Home Page was
Hijacked by a<br>
Hoochie Mama<br><br>
o Applets - can
you eat them?<br><br>
o How's Your
e-Shorthand?<br><br>
o Free Download -
ZipGenius<br><br>
o Hot Tip - moving
files<br>
________________________________________<br><br>
<b>TIME FOR A BREAK...<br>
</b>_________________________________________<br><br>
FIRST of all let me get shot of my moan for the month<br>
- remember I told you my printer had gone on the blink<br>
before I sent out the last issue? Well it's still being<br>
'repaired' - and I'm trying to work up the courage (because<br>
I just know I'm going to be extremely aggravated) to go and<br>
fetch it for the third time!<br><br>
If you live in a country where fixers are efficient and reliable<br>
this should make you feel good - and if you don't then I'm sure<br>
that learning you are not alone will make you feel better.<br><br>
And talking about courage I am working myself up to delve into<br>
the depths of my computer (Start Thinking About the Registry)<br>
- and if you think you will never want to do that Pam Allen's<br>
article, My Home Page Was Hijacked by a Hoochie Mama,<br>
might change that. All sorts of PC problems seem to call for<br>
a look at the registry so if you are not familiar with this
operation<br>
perhaps you too should start preparing yourself - now.<br><br>
The NewbiesAndNitwits website will be moving to its new home<br>
within the next 10 days and I'm looking forward to getting to know<br>
you all better through the NewbiesAndNitwits forum/message<br>
board which we will have on the new site. As soon as this<br>
exciting happening takes place I will, of course, let you know.<br>
___________________________________<br><br>
FREE TUTORIALS BY AUTORESPONDER<br><br>
If you need to know more about backing up 'stuff' on your<br>
computer click
<a href="mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com</a><br>
and you should get the first tutorial within seconds.<br><br>
If you are thinking about making your own web page, or<br>
merely want to exercise your brain slightly, then send for<br>
the web page tutorials by clicking<br>
<a href="mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com</a><br><br>
Want to find files fast ?- then
<a href="mailto:fin-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:fin-@fastresponder.com</a><br><br>
Organising your computer -
<a href="mailto:org-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:org-@fastresponder.com</a><br>
_______________________________________________<br><br>
<b>START THINKING ABOUT THE REGISTRY<br>
</b>_______________________________________________<br><br>
YOU must have noticed that most instructions on how to
resolve<br>
a PC problem involve going into your computer's registry. I
am<br>
sure you have also noticed that these instructions almost<br>
always include dire warnings about what can happen when<br>
computer novices mess with registry files because ' if you
do<br>
not back up before making registry changes you may risk<br>
Windows becoming inoperable if you change/edit the wrong thing<br>
by mistake.'<br><br>
Which is enough to make any sensible newbie steer clear of the<br>
whole operation. Recently, however, I have come to the<br>
conclusion I can't do this indefinitely as some of my little
PC<br>
problems are extremely irritating - and if a sally into the
registry<br>
can fix them then sooner or later I'm going to be brave and do<br>
just that. But very cautiously.<br><br>
I use Windows 98 and by clicking Start-->Run-->and typing in<br>
'regedit' I bring up the Windows Registry Editor. If I type
in<br>
'scanreg' and click on OK I am told the system has been<br>
scanned and no errors found. I am also told that my system
'has<br>
been backed up once today' - which is encouraging.<br><br>
From the Help menu in this Registry Editor I learn that by
clicking<br>
on Start-->Shut Down-->Restart in MS Dos Mode -->Yes - and<br>
typing in 'scanreg/restore' - this will, when I restart my
computer,<br>
restore the registry to its state when I last successfully
restarted<br>
my computer. Which also sounds encouraging - and fairly<br>
simple - but I still felt I needed to know more.<br><br>
By visiting
<a href="http://www.aumha.org/elist.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.aumha.org/elist.htm</a>
one can find<br>
suggestions for backing up registries for all Windows - from<br>
Windows 95 to Windows XP - and if you move on to<br>
<a href="http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm</a> you can download a patch<br>
(EditReg Registry Patch) which, once installed, changes the<br>
default for when you right click on a Registry (.REG) file so that,<br>
instead of being automatically merged into your Registry, it is<br>
opened in Notepad for editing - which should prevent a lot of<br>
accidents.<br><br>
After you have edited the file, you need to right click on the file<br>
and select Merge, in order to merge the .REG file into your<br>
Registry.<br><br>
So far I've installed the patch, without any problems, but I haven't<br>
got around to interfering with a .REG file - yet.<br><br>
I've also found another free program, Registry Explorer 1.4,<br>
which I've installed and am now investigating. I have an icon,<br>
labelled Registry, on my Desktop and when I click on that it<br>
displays the main HKEY folders in my registry.<br><br>
A right click on one of the folder offers quite a wide choice of<br>
actions, including 'Create Backup' and 'Restore Backup' which<br>
appears to be done in a civilised way without me having to do<br>
anything weird, such as starting up in MS Dos mode.<br><br>
Perhaps I'm not quite ready to embark on any major changes to<br>
my Registry but I'm beginning to feel I'm getting there.. Registry<br>
Explorer appears to be very user-friendly and you can download<br>
a copy at <a href="http://www.regxplor.com/download.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.regxplor.com/download.html</a>.<br><br>
<b>Copyright 2002 Sheldene Chant<br>
</b>____________________________________<br><br>
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<b>MY HOME PAGE WAS HIJACKED BY A HOOCHIE MAMA!<br>
</b>by Pam Allen<br>
_______________________________________________<br><br>
<i>The home page, or start page, is the site that loads every<br>
time you open your browser. Occasionally, an underhanded site<br>
will 'hijack' your designated page and change it, leaving you with<br>
a less than desirable site loading up. Here's how to get rid of it..<br><br>
</i>I'D never heard of this happening, until a friend of mine frantically<br>
emailed me, begging for information on how to get rid of the<br>
dancing porn star page that loaded every time she opened her<br>
browser.<br><br>
I did some research, and discovered this isn't as uncommon<br>
as one might think. Generally, you'll receive an email with a link<br>
to click, though sometimes it can be a link on an actual web<br>
page that you visit. When you click the link, you get taken to a<br>
website (usually porn). You sigh, write it off as yet another<br>
spam, and forget about it.<br><br>
Until you come back the next day, and your browser<br>
automatically loads the porn site up first thing.'No problem!' you<br>
think, 'I'll just go into my browser settings and change it back'.<br><br>
Dream on, my little lambchop. You quickly discover that your<br>
own browser has turned on you, and is refusing to give you<br>
access to that function! You are unable to remove the hoochie<br>
mama website from your browser settings. However will you<br>
explain this to Grandma when she comes over to get her Ebay<br>
fix?<br><br>
Fear not, dear unfortunate one. There is a solution! It involves<br>
(gack!) editing the registry.<br><br>
By the way, this is for Windows 98 users, it will probably work<br>
with Windows 95, too, but I claim no expertise with Windows<br>
2000 or ME.<br><br>
Click on 'Start' then 'Run'. Type in 'regedit' (without the quotation<br>
marks) and click 'OK'. The registry editor will open. Click 'edit'<br>
in the menu at the top, and choose 'find'. Type in<br>
NoBrowserOptions and select 'find next'.<br><br>
If it returns a result that has a 1 in parenthesis, then delete that<br>
line. This will allow you to regain control of your browser settings<br>
and replace that hoochie mama site with your regular start page<br>
(which I hope is NewbiesandNitwits).<br><br>
Sometimes this doesn't work, and that entry isn't even in the<br>
registry. If that's the case, do the same thing but in the 'find' box,<br>
type in the url that's loading. When it's located and highlighted,<br>
simply replace it with the url you prefer.<br><br>
Happy browsing!<br><br>
<b>(c) Copyright 2001 Pam Allen<br>
</b>_________________________<br>
<i>Pam Allen is a major contributor and co-webmistress at<br>
<a href="http://www.newbiesandnitwits.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.newbiesandnitwits.com</a>. She also has a<br>
website called <a href="http://www.quickdecor.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.quickdecor.com</a> which features<br>
speedy and inexpensive decorating ideas.<br><br>
</i>__________________________________<br><br>
'Take a Look at Your Keyboard Now!'<br><br>
Just look at all those keys! I'll guarantee you've often wondered<br>
why there are so many - F1, Insert, Tab,Ctrl, Pr Scr, End,<br>
Home, Alt, Pause, PgUp, Shift, Sys Rq, and the rest. Why?<br>
And what about all those keys with the funny looking characters<br>
like ~ # > ¬ \ ^ ? Surely someone put them there for a reason!<br>
And yet you never use them.<br>
'Keyboard MAGIC!' by The Newbie Club, outsold all their other<br>
products in the first 5 days of release. Find out why, and brace<br>
yourself or an eye-opener at:<br>
<a href="http://newbieclub.com/keyboard/?pearlsandpigs" eudora="autourl">http://newbieclub.com/keyboard/?pearlsandpigs</a><br><br>
____________________________________<br><br>
<b>APPLETS: CAN YOU EAT THEM?<br>
</b>asks Tom Glander<br>
_____________________________________<br><br>
IF your memory serves you as well as mine, you can recall<br>
that the way to find lost files or folders is with the *Find* applet<br>
included with Windows.<br><br>
What's an applet?<br><br>
It's a little program. It's the little engine that could.<br>
And there are oodles of these little programs in Windows!<br>
I don't know where the 'Applet' name came from. But I'll<br>
bet Atomica knows. You can download Atomica here:<br>
<a href="http://www.atomica.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.atomica.com</a> and look up anything. It's the ultimate<br>
database of information at your fingertips.<br><br>
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Let's say you downloaded an MP3 named 'Home on the Range.'<br>
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Just stick a question mark wherever there's a space.<br><br>
If you leave out the question mark, and search for 'home<br>
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on, the, and range. As well as additional words that<br>
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Type it like this:<br><br>
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*g* - grin<br>
G&Bit - grin & bear it<br>
G2G - gotta go<br>
GA - go ahead<br>
GAS - greetings and salutations<br>
*gbh* = great big hug<br>
GF = girlfriend<br>
GFN - gone for now<br>
GG - good game<br>
GGU2 - good game you two<br>
GIWIST - gee, I wish I'd said that<br>
GL - good luck<br>
GM - good move/match.<br>
GMTA - great minds think alike<br>
GMBO - giggling my butt off<br>
*gbh&k* - great big hug & kiss<br>
GTSY - glad to see you<br>
*gr&d* - grinning, running, & ducking<br><br>
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