Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Tips #5



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*1.   THERE TO STAY         
 
We recently ran a tip on how to add the Address Bar to the
 Windows 95/98 taskbar. To do this, you simply right-click a
 blank spot on the taskbar and choose Toolbars, Address. Reader
 Mike A. (and several other readers) asked the following
 questions about this tip. 

"How do you extend this tip to: 

Have the Address Bar come back on the taskbar after a reboot? Get
 it working on a machine that isn't using Active Desktop?" 

Since several readers asked basically the same questions about
 adding the Address Bar to the taskbar, we decided to
 double-check. What we found is that the Address Bar remains in
 the taskbar until you remove it, and you don't have to have
 Active Desktop activated to add items to the taskbar. 

If this doesn't work on your system, please let us know. And
 provide some detailed information about your system. For
 example, are you running Windows 95 or Windows 98? Are you
 using Active Desktop? Which version of Microsoft Internet
 Explorer 4 are you running? 
         

*2.   MINIMIZE IT FROM THE TASKBAR         
 
Subscriber Tom F. asks us to point out yet another way to
 minimize a window when you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.
 You can do it from the taskbar. 

To see how this works, open a program. Now, locate its icon in
 the taskbar and click it. The window will minimize. To view the
 window again, just click the taskbar icon and the window
 will reappear. 
         

*3.   SMOOTH VIEWING         
 
Reader Barry W. sends this Internet Explorer 4 full screen tip. 

"When you switch to full screen view, the History, Favorites,
 Search, and Channels Bars neatly slide off the screen to the
 left, letting you view your Web site with your whole screen. To
 get the bar back, simply move the pointer to the left side of
 the screen." 

To see what Barry is talking about, run Microsoft Internet
 Explorer 4 and click the Full Screen button in the toolbar. Now,
 click History and the History folder will appear at the left
 side of the screen as usual. Next, click any blank spot in the
 current Web page and you'll see the History folder slowly slide
 off the screen to the left. To view History again, move the
 mouse pointer to the left side of the screen and the History
 folder will pop back onto the screen. 


*4.   SEE THE PARADE         
 
If you'd like to see the St. Patrick's day parade live from
 Dublin on March 17, go to 

http://www.paddyfest.ie 

This site has information on the history of St. Patrick's day and
 on how the Dublin parade has grown into a three-day festival. 

Want to send an Irish friend an Internet postcard? Try 

http://www.wizardry-design.com/postcards/stpatricksday.shtml 

Or, still in the spirit of St. Patrick's day, would you like to
 see a live view of O'Connell Bridge in Dublin City? You'll
 find it at 

http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/live/index.htm 
         

*5.   SEND IT TO ALL         
 
Reader Barry K. asks us to point out that it's no problem to send
 e-mail to multiple recipients using Outlook Express without any
 of the recipients being aware of the others. All you have to do
 is address the message to yourself (in the To text box) and then
 blind cc all the recipients (put their addresses, separated by
 commas, in the Bcc text box). Everyone will receive the e-mail,
 but no one will see who else was on the list. 
         

*6.   UNNECESSARY FILES         
 
Here's an Outlook Express question from Charles K. 

"How do I get rid of my deleted files from Outlook Express? My
 files are now over 130 MB in size, and I do not know how to
 delete them without losing the file in which they are
 stored--Deleted Items.mbx." 

What you do is delete the files named Deleted Items.mbx and
 Deleted Items.idx. The next time you run Outlook Express, the
 program will generate new files. The new files when empty will
 be approximately 80 bytes in size. 
         

*7.   MY COMPUTER EXPLORER STYLE         
 
This question is from subscriber Larry C. 

"When I launch Windows Explorer, it always opens to the C: drive
 with all the directories expanded. Then I have to use the scroll
 bar to move back up to the A: drive or down to one of my other
 drives. I would rather have it open to the My Computer icon,
 with all the other drives collapsed. Can you help?" 

We get mail each month from people who want to open Windows
 Explorer without expanding any of the drives. You can accomplish
 this if you open My Computer in Explorer view as
 suggested by Larry. 

Try this: Place an Explorer shortcut on your desktop. Right-click
 the shortcut and choose Properties. When Properties opens, click
 the Shortcut tab. Now, click in the Target entry box and enter 

c:\windows\Explorer.exe 
/e,/root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} 

Click OK to close the dialog box and save your addition. 

Now, double-click the shortcut and you'll get an Explorer view of
 My Computer--with none of the folders expanded. 
         

*8.   VIEW IN IE 4         
 
Reader Bertrand L. asks this question. 

"I just installed some new graphics software. The software
 automatically became the default viewer for all types of
 graphics files. The only problem is that this program is pretty
 big and takes a long time to load. Before I installed the new
 program, I viewed graphics with Internet Explorer. This was much
 quicker. How can I change the default graphics viewer back to
 Internet Explorer?" 

This tends to be a problem for all of us. Usually, the last
 program of any type that you install will register itself and
 take over all files of the type it loads. 

To view your graphics files in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4
 again, try this: Run Windows Explorer and locate a graphics
 file. Single-click its icon and then press and hold down Shift.
 Now, right-click the icon and choose Open With from the menu.
 When the Open With dialog box appears, make sure the check box
 labeled Always Use This Program To Open This Type Of File is
 selected. Scroll down through the list and locate 'iexplore'
 (with the e-thing icon). Click the icon to select it and then
 click OK. Your file should now open in Microsoft
 Internet Explorer 4. 
         

*9.   SAVE THAT PAGE         
 
Here's a tip from reader Maria J. 

"I was trying to find a way to save a Web page in e-mail format.
 I didn't find any way to do the job directly, but I did run
 across a method that I thought other people might like to use." 

If you navigate to a Web page that you'd like to save as e-mail,
 choose File, Send, Page by Email. When Outlook Express opens,
 enter any e-mail address (you aren't going to actually send it
 anyway, so you could use something such as nothing@dummy.com).
 Next choose Tools, Send Pictures With Message, and then choose
 File, Send Later. 

At this point, the file is in your Outbox. So, go to the Outbox
 and double-click the file you just created. Finally, choose
 File, Save As, and enter a name for the file. Locate a folder to
 store the file in and click Save. This will save the new file as
 a mail file. 

You can now delete the file from the Outbox,
 since you no longer need it. 
         

*10.   THE SOURCE OF THE MESSAGE         
 
Reader Gladys P. asks if there's any way to view HTML source code
 for Outlook Express messages sent using the HTML format. 

If you'd like to take a look at the HTML source code of some of
 your mail messages, just press Ctrl-F2. Notepad will open
 displaying the source code for the current message. 
