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Monday, June 14, 2010

How to 'Zip' Files

Say you have many files that all need to be e-mailed, but A: You don't want to add them one at a time, and B: You don't think all of them will be within the recipient's e-mail size limits.

What do you do?

Why zip 'em up, of course!
Sure, we've all heard the term, but here is how to do it.

If you're running an operating system newer than Windows 98 (and you should be!), browse to the folder where the files you want to zip are at. (If the files are in different places, you should copy and paste each one into a new folder. You're going to need them all together to do this.)

Now highlight the files by either drawing a box around them or by holding the Ctrl key and selecting each of them. Once you have all of the ones you want to zip up highlighted, Right-Click one of them, go down to “Send to” and choose “Compressed (zipped) folder”.

Like magic, your highlighted files will appear in one convenient package. If you don't like the name Windows gives your zipped folder, just highlight it and press F2 to rename it!

All zipped up!

Task Bar Options

The taskbar is the menu bar at the bottom of your screen - (although you may have moved it to the side or the top) The taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a desktop that is used to launch and monitor running application.

Here is a list of things you can do with your Windows taskbar.

To start, right-click a blank area of your taskbar and select Properties. Make sure the “Taskbar” tab, at the top of the window is selected.

Under Taskbar appearance you'll see:

1. Lock the taskbar – Obviously named. If this is selected, you cannot re-size or move your taskbar. This is perfect for folks who find their taskbar on top of their screen one day and can't remember why.

2. Auto-hide the taskbar – Great for the neat-preson who wants a perfectly blank desktop. Select Auto-hide and your taskbar with peek-a-boo when you mouse-over the bottom portion of the screen.

3. Use small icons – If you think the icons on your taskbar are too big, then select this option.

Depending on which version of Windows you have, there may also be an option to relocate your taskbar on the screen (you can also click, hold and drag your taskbar to a different place, too!) as well as a drop-down box to set whether or not open taskbar buttons combine when more than one instance of the program is open.