CNET Forums: Message List - A Few 'Tips' For Computer Newbies http://forums.cnet.com/ The latest posts in A Few 'Tips' For Computer Newbies. CNET Forums: Message List - A Few 'Tips' For Computer Newbies http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/cobd/cnet/cnet_88x31.gif http://forums.cnet.com/ 31 88 CNET.com CNET http://www.cnet.com Nice Job Excellent Step by Step ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5443072.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5443072.html 30 Mar 2013 09:54:21 PDT There is three main tips 1. Learn to Use Your Keyboard<br><br>2. Be Picky With Software<br><br>3. Find a Way To Get Organized ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5351527.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5351527.html 25 Aug 2012 00:07:52 PDT Yep, It's Normal To Have Both &quot;Pics&quot; Folders ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5350135.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5350135.html 21 Aug 2012 09:36:13 PDT Thanks, Have to live with it I guess. Kind of funny. <br>Like I said, I have a &quot;My pictures&quot; folder, and is a mirror of pictur ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5350024.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5350024.html 21 Aug 2012 03:47:42 PDT Looks Right ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349929.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349929.html 20 Aug 2012 21:26:34 PDT Far as I can tell It's correct?<br>I'm going to try to attach a capture, or a photo bucket direct link.<br><a href="http://i217.photobucke ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349934.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349934.html 20 Aug 2012 17:56:07 PDT Just One Last Thought... The last bit of script in the .reg file above shows this:<br><br>;Pictures library folder<br>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349911.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349911.html 20 Aug 2012 15:40:22 PDT It helped so far as to allow me to enter the .reg (with the entire text copied into it, <i><b>INCLUDING the:Windows Registry Editor Version ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349893.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349893.html 20 Aug 2012 14:53:11 PDT It Appears Like You Forgot To Copy Something... That particular error usually means you forgot to copy the very top line of the registry file.. Remember to copy ALL of ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349775.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349775.html 20 Aug 2012 10:35:17 PDT Took the reg file I downloaded made a copy of it, opened that copy in note pad, deleted everything, copied the contents from your notepad reg file abov ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349551.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349551.html 19 Aug 2012 19:21:42 PDT OK Found the one I downloaded and opened it with notepad. <br><br>This line just had a 0 on the end, I changed it to look like yours, like below, stil ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349550.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349550.html 19 Aug 2012 19:11:32 PDT OK Thanks, Will work on it later. Thanks, I will try that later, although when I right click on the file, I do not have merge or import either. <br>I'll l ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349541.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349541.html 19 Aug 2012 18:19:23 PDT A Couple Of Suggestions... First, because the .reg file is opening as text, you probably have your file associations incorrectly set.. See the lin ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349360.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349360.html 19 Aug 2012 09:18:59 PDT But NOTE! The script will fail unless you first set ........ What do you mean by &quot;Fail&quot;?<br>when I copy the script into a blank text document, then rename the file. Then ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349302.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5349302.html 19 Aug 2012 05:17:34 PDT Re:How To Shut Down Unnecessary Start Up Programs Thanks, it helps me a lot. I'm a newbie with this stuff ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5307263.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5307263.html 04 May 2012 08:29:11 PDT This Is &quot;Tips&quot; Thread For Known Tips, Not Discussions To correctly ask for solutions to problems, please click on the link below which will take you to the main &quot;Newbies ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249437.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249437.html 21 Dec 2011 20:20:24 PST I guess just a little confused Not to sure why you stated I was in the wrong discussion..All I did was replied to &quot;Update: Preparing Your Windows ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249407.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249407.html 21 Dec 2011 20:10:59 PST Wrong discussion but did you read this link? <a href="http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&amp;lc=en&amp;docname=c01457284" target="_blank" rel="nofollo ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249271.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249271.html 21 Dec 2011 11:40:03 PST HP Pavillion a1268c did not help!!!:( I did everything in this thread and my pc still crashed...I have a HP Pavillion a1268c desktop pc with AMD Anthlon 64 X ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249246.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5249246.html 21 Dec 2011 11:30:02 PST thanks! THANKS! ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5244564.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5244564.html 11 Dec 2011 19:00:54 PST Great thread! I am learning so much from all of you guys! Thanks for the great ideas. I hope to know more important tips! ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5149958.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5149958.html 17 Jun 2011 00:43:36 PDT I Guess MS Feels It's Easy Enough To... If you don't see the navigation pane on the left side of an open window, click <b>Organize</b>, point to <b>Layout</b>, ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5149297.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5149297.html 15 Jun 2011 17:11:54 PDT Navigation Pane button? Is there a similar technique that could be used to make a &quot;Navigation Pane&quot; button appear in all folders to qu ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5148970.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5148970.html 15 Jun 2011 09:06:33 PDT Re: A Few 'Tips' For Computer Newbies Thanks for such valuable tips. That was greatly appreciated. <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/emoticons/hap ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5145146.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5145146.html 08 Jun 2011 02:03:44 PDT Windows 7 : Enable The Hidden Administrator Account When Windows 7 is first setup, an admin user is set up and it's given a default name, unless you choose something differ ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5098941.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5098941.html 13 Mar 2011 15:07:37 PDT thanks Thanks for this nice info. This will be a great help. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5084455.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5084455.html 18 Feb 2011 14:34:18 PST Instructions For Creating and Using the Reset Disk Mentioned Personally, I find that creating a second admin user on all computers and using a password which is complex but is easil ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5063624.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5063624.html 13 Jan 2011 08:50:04 PST Tip to recover windows admin password I want to give a tip to the new computer users. Some times it happen that we lost or forget our windows admin password w ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5063456.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5063456.html 13 Jan 2011 03:08:30 PST Thanks I was looking for this, ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5061088.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5061088.html 08 Jan 2011 13:14:33 PST Windows 7 - Place A &quot;Delete&quot; Button On Folder Toolbar Although Windows 7 gives the user a number of ways to delete a file from a folder, it no longer includes the &quot;Delet ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5054954.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5054954.html 29 Dec 2010 10:43:13 PST Thank U~! Thanks, Grif! This is helpful and AWESOME. I really appreciate your taking the time to write this for us who are just ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5044450.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5044450.html 11 Dec 2010 15:14:29 PST Hi When disabling programs from starting with the PC,allways open the program first,too see if it has a 'start with pc' opt ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5018058.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5018058.html 01 Nov 2010 03:25:17 PDT basic starting tips Common problems that occur are when things such as the monitor or the comuptuer will either not power on, or not communi ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5016137.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5016137.html 28 Oct 2010 16:01:36 PDT Try this one... CTL+ALT+DEL=Task Manager then go to &quot;Processes&quot; then select the program you want to end and click on &quot;Ter ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5008733.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5008733.html 14 Oct 2010 20:01:00 PDT this makes my start up fast I have been thinking about doing this, I think this might make my start up a little bit faster because it's too slow. An ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5003967.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5003967.html 06 Oct 2010 21:28:07 PDT thanks This is really informative. I have learned a lot from this. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5003944.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5003944.html 06 Oct 2010 21:26:23 PDT Great Info All this information is incredibly helpful. It's great. ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5002768.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5002768.html 05 Oct 2010 06:22:04 PDT Re: hal.dll Please make this a new thread, in stead of burying it in the 'tips' thread. And please tell more, such as your current O ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5000728.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5000728.html 01 Oct 2010 02:12:45 PDT hal.dll whenever i try to install xp sp 2 and xp 3. i get d problem called hal.dll..why is it so ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5000760.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-5000760.html 01 Oct 2010 01:54:17 PDT System Restore Will Restore The Registry, Assuming....... ...the system isn't so corrupted that the System Restore works correctly. And because SR is restoring the registry of th ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3381190.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3381190.html 25 Sep 2010 18:34:52 PDT REGISTRY BACKUP VS SYSTEM RESTORE In your response you infer that, in current computers, System Restore will also restore the registry. Did I read that co ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3380997.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3380997.html 25 Sep 2010 11:44:44 PDT Mouse pointer madness If your mouse behaves impossibly in Internet Explorer (as mine started to do after some Mac users had been using my comp ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3364965.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3364965.html 28 Aug 2010 02:17:14 PDT Windows 7 - Increase/Decrease The Start Menu Programs List For many users with a lot of Start Menu programs on Windows 7, clicking on the Start button brings up a small display, a ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3351102.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3351102.html 03 Aug 2010 16:28:52 PDT 'Show All Files' & 'File Types' In Windows 7 The &quot;Folder Options&quot; selection area is no longer under a &quot;Tools&quot; menu as before.. In Win7, it now ap ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350735.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350735.html 03 Aug 2010 08:50:05 PDT We Can Add Windows 7 Tips In This Thread...Or... ....there is a Windows 7 forum for those who need to ask questions directly. Here's that link:<br><br><a href="http://fo ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350733.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350733.html 03 Aug 2010 08:35:44 PDT computer tips thanks it helps the newbies...... ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350515.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350515.html 02 Aug 2010 23:25:10 PDT Grif: how about tips for Windows7? Cnet forums, plus your tips, have saved me many times. Now, I have &quot;ADVANCED&quot; from XP to 7 and am having a dev ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350505.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3350505.html 02 Aug 2010 21:33:46 PDT THanks!!!!! Wow thanks so much for these great tips. They have really helped me out <img border="0" src="http://www.cnet.com/i/mb/em ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3324278.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3324278.html 18 Jun 2010 17:10:45 PDT No Mention Of Your Operating System But the &quot;Startup&quot; tab isn't in your system properties.. The original topic was written with Windows 98 in mind ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3286147.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3286147.html 13 Apr 2010 18:54:49 PDT A tip for noobs and techs alike This happened to me and kept me offline the whole weekend and a simple plan on my part would have saved my butt .I have ... http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3285822.html http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6121_102-3285822.html 13 Apr 2010 08:23:52 PDT