Quarterdeck’s Extra Strength Real Help

Computer Info – 09/30/1999

Accessing Your Printer’s Setup

In order to take advantage of your printer’s capabilities, check your printers properties before you print. You will usually find these from the PRINT screen of any Windows program. In the properties you can choose to print your color document in black & white to view the layout before you print the final copy – you can select different quality levels (draft, photographs, various resolutions, etc) – you can select different paper types (normal, glossy, transparency). All printer properties (drivers) are not the same. These properties represent your printer. In fact, if you have a fax program installed – then your fax program becomes a printer and you will see this fax program listed in your choice of printers when you go to the print screen of any of your programs.

Quarterdeck’s Extra Strength Real Help

Pitched as a cure-all for PC computers, this software solves annoying, everyday PC ailments such as system crashes, chronic software freeze-ups, etc. ---- But it should not be loaded on systems already using Norton virus-protection software.

Is there a way to check out more than one website at a time?

Yes. If you are connecting to a website that’s taking a particularly long time to load or downloading a file that taking a while, open a new window and continue surfing elsewhere. In Netscape, go to the heading File – New - Web Browser. In Internet Explorer, choose File – Open - New Window.

How to search within a web page

On the edit menu, choose Find In.

Windows 95 & 98 are 32-bit operating systems.

But there are places where those old 16-bit limitations continue to rear their ugly heads. The latest is the Registry . No registry key can be larger than 64KB, which is a 16-bit number. That’s usually an ample amount, but if you install a lot of applications that use shared DLLs, the SharedDLL registry entry can grow to flirt with the 64KB limit. This is also true if you install too many fonts (more than 800).

SIMMS – DIMM – RIMM

    SIMM stands for single in-line memory module. DIMM stands for dual in-line memory module.
    RAM chips are typically packaged in 8MB, 16MB, 32MB or 64MB modules that plug into a PC’s motherboard. These modules are small, standard-size circuit boards that hold the actual RAM chips. Memory used to come in 30-pin SIMMS but now you’ll find these SIMMS only on older PCs. Pentium-based PC’s have the newer 72-pin SIMMS – which hold more memory and can access it better – or the newest DIMMS. DIMMS can hold even more memory and typically have 84 pins active on both sides for 168 connections.
    While unbuffered DIMMS are limited to 64 MB, newly designed registered DIMMS can hold 128MB or 526MB. These registered DIMMS are found in servers and high-end workstations.
    RIMMS, or Rambus memory modules, will be used with Intel’s next-generation Rambus memory interface, which will support high-speed buses and provide much greater band-width than current memory.

DeFrag

It is recommended that you defrag your hard drive before installing a new application or transferring a large number of files; that way, you can be sure that your new files are stored efficiently. You should also run the defrag utility after deleting a large number of old files.

Facts to be Aware of if Converting to FAT32 – Windows 98

    Any Windows user with 512 MB or more of hard disk space should convert that disk to the FAT32 file system if possible. The benefits are profound and the risk is negligible.
    The most obvious benefit is increased storage capacity. On a 2GB hard drive that’s half full, you can easily recover 200 MB of previously wasted disk space. There’s also a noticeable performance boost, even over the Windows 95 version of FAT32, because Windows 98’s disk cache and its defrag utility are tuned for FAT32’s 4K clusters.
    Here are some facts to be aware of when considering a switch.

    1. Don’t convert if you are using DriveSpace compression. FAT32 is incompatible with older Windows and DOS compression utilities.
    2. Don’t switch if you are extremely low on disk space, because the conversion requires several hundred meg of free space to hold temporary files.
    3. The conversion program won’t run on a disk with damaged sectors. If Scandisk reports a problem with your hard drive, you’ll need to repair or replace the drive before you can continue. This means to run the Scandisk and do the surface test (which will take a little while to complete).
    4. If you are considering uninstalling Windows 98, don’t convert to FAT32. Windows (* can NOT be uninstalled if you run the FAT32 conversion program.

Unit Conversions on the Internet

Here’s a web site that calculates weights or performs measurement conversions. You can also determine the heat index, wind chill, finance interest, metric prefixes and monthly payments. This site is called MegaConverter.
http://www.megaconverter.com

Terms

TWAIN – Twain stands for technology without an important [interesting] name

CACHE -- A cache is a small, higher speed memory system which stores the most recently used instructions or data from a larger but slower memory system

FAQ -- FAQ is an abbreviation for Frequently Asked Questions.