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Raw Bytes Computer News KPBX FM 91.1 Radio National Public Radio Network Frank Delaney Producer Broadcast on Thursday Morning 7:35 AM During Morning Edition Support Public Radio ! The Theater Of the Mind |
In computer news this week 3/29/2006 |
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Lead: Who shut my web surfing window, or How do I open up my new window full
size again? Probably
the most common Internet surfing tip that can really speed up your browsing
– if you use Internet Explorer - is using your mouse to right click on
a hyperlink you see on a page, and then selecting Open in New Window from the
popup menu you see. This is
particularly helpful when you feel you might want to return to the page you
have just clicked from, as when there are several things to click on a page
you just found, and you feel you might want to return to this page again, and
perhaps bookmark it. When you
are on a web page and click on a link using your right mouse button,
and then select open in new window, you go to that new page, while the
original page you clicked on stays open also, and you can see the icons for
both pages at the bottom of your screen. Then if you do this again on the
next page you are on, you will open up a 3rd window. Now you can instantly
switch between all 3 windows just by clicking on the icon at the bottom of
the screen for each window. You can of course keep opening up new windows in
this manner also. The
advantage to doing this is that the pages don't have to slowly load again. If
you want to return to the page you started from, you can just close both of
the new windows you opened. Instead of the original page having to completely
reload, which can slow you down, the page is already there - you never closed
it. Once you
get into the habit of doing this, you can significantly increase
the speed of your Internet Explorer
web surfing and of your information retrieval, and you will be very happy. Until one
day you run into one of the things that go bump in the night and daytime too
on the internet. It can be anything, a website, maybe an email from a friend
directing you to a website that they think is cool, and there may be a lot of
popup windows , and you may have to close Explorer
and open it up again. But as
soon as you do, when you get to a page that you want to right click on something and
open it in a new window - you find that when you do this - it opens up in a
small window - not the nice full
size one you are used to - and you have to click on it to make it fullsize. And
you have to do this every time on each new window, and you have lost your
nice fullscreen new window size, and you wish you
knew how to restore it again. Internet
Explorer is subject to many vulnerabilities on the
internet, due to its software design. Here's
the simple way to fix this problem. 1. Open IE . 2. Open a
new window by right clicking on a link. 3. Use
your mouse to stretch this window to full screen size by grabbing the top, bottom,
left and right borders and pulling them so that the windows fills the screen
like your regular Explorer window. 4. Switch
back into your first window and close it by clicking on the X at the top
right corner of
the screen. 5. You
will now be switched into the new window that you just stretched to fullsize. Hold down the shift key and close this
window by clicking on the X at the top right corner of the screen. The next
time you open explorer, and right click to open a new window, you should now have
your nice full size new window again. Remember this trick for the next time
some spammer or website spoils your surfing fun again. But is
there a better way to surf the internet and avoid all these problems, yes
there is, and its called the Firefox
Browser, which you can download and use for free, and it’s a much
better, faster, and more secure browser overall. For Raw Bytes This is Frank Delaney (C) 2005 MTA Micro
Technology Associates http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html PO Box 31522 Spokane, Wa 99223-1522 (509)624-7230 |
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