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Do you have on your system? A great number of people are having video problems with SP3 and PC AnyWhere .

Paranoia aside, it is incredibly easy to “auto-logon” in Win2k. Go to the control panel ->open up Users and Passwords -> click on your profile -> then uncheck the box above that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer” Click apply and OK and a box will come up to type in the exact user name and password of the profile you wish Windows to boot to directly. Click all the appropriate applys and OKs and you are done. Now when you start up Windows will blast right through prompting you for a user name and password. My recommendation is to go back to a normal logon when you go on the road. For those of you wanting to put a little fear in the heart of your annoying young nephew visiting with your sister trying to find out what games you may have on your computer a pre-logon warning can be added as follows:
To alter the welcome dialog box, go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon subkey and change the LegalNoticeText value to a string such as This is the corporate ACME server. To set the dialog box’s title bar, change the LegalNoticeCaption value to a string such as Unauthorized access prohibited.

You can reduce the time that the Start menu takes to display its submenus. Go to the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop subkey and set the MenuShowDelay value to something less than the default 400. You can set it to zero if you like.

Some random freezes in XP are due to the Welcome Screen. If you disable this feature and go back to the alternate Win2K style logon dialog box many report positive results. Also, during a freeze with the Welcome Screen enabled Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not function. Hopefully this and many other problems will be fixed when SP1 arrives later in the year.

It is the default setting for this printer driver to print a job so when it is finished page 1 is on top and the last page is on the bottom all nicely collated. If you want to reverse the order to have it print with the last page on top and the first page on the bottom go to your Printer folder, right click on the printer and select properties, then click the Printing Defaults button in the lower left corner, put a dot in the circle “Back to Front” under “Page Order”. Click all the appropriate OK buttons and your done.

Thank you all. It was a lack of defining styles properly as StuartR pointed out. I am very happy to have such a quick solution. It is unfortunate I have to display my ignorance of the inner workings of Word. As to the macro for alphabetizing, I will say thanks for the offer but I am organizing by general subject and using different doc’s for different versions of Windows and different specific subjects like the 20 pages on Win XP’s Services, etc. Thanks again to all.

Thanks for the help. I will try it out and advise you of the result. The whole document is a copy-paste-rearrange from newsletters and web pages filtered through the notes folder in Outlook. It is for my own use and I was just trying to be organized with the info as all these tidbits were stacking up.

As an option to Star Office you might want to buy Corel WordPerfect Office 2002 Pro 10.0 OEM for $55.00US at http://www.buycheapsoftware.com/details.asp?productID=63%5B/url%5D

Windows XP’s balloon tips can be annoying. Their behavior is erratic, and often they pop up and get in the way. You can easily turn off balloon tips by following these steps:

1. Launch regedit.
2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced.
3. Create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips.
4. Give the entry a value of 0 to disable the tips and a value of 1 to turn them back on.

Thank You!

I am happy that this was an easy one.

Have you got the latest tablet driver? I believe it is dated 11/12/01. I use the Graphire2 (USB) with Win2K SP2 on 2 Dell laptops without any problems, yet. Maybe you can find a converter cable to go from serial to USB or convert some of your other devices to USB to take the burden off of the serial port. Good Luck.

If you buy a Nokia 3360 (maybe other models as well) Nokia provides a free download called PC41Suite which will back up all your numbers in the phone to a laptop or PDA via infrared or to a PC via cable or infrared. It will also alow you to create custom ringtones as well as let you create a phone list from Outlook then transfer it to a blank phone or update the list in the phone. It can also do a few other things. I use it and it works.

Thanks for your suggestion. In the end I decided to go with the CEILING function and have everything round up to the next multiple of 5.

I have limited knowledge about both programs but I was told that without some additional commands Ghost will change the destination partition to the size of the partition of the original whereas Drive Image has a different default method that ignores any empty sectors in the original and doesn’t change the destination partitions size. I have been playing with a copy of Ghost 5.1 and after reading the review of both I am probably going to buy Drive image as it fits my needs a bit better.

Either Norton Ghost or PowerQuest’s Drive Image 5.0 will do exactly what you want to do. Both can create an exact image of your drive(s) and store them on a separate partion, hard disk or make a bootable set of CDs. There is a small comparative review of both on page 54 of the print version of PC Magazine (Dec.11,2001). There may be an online copy of the review on their website. They both have their pros and cons. It just depends on your personal needs to make the best choice. Happy cloning.