Window XP Tips - How to Manage Groups in the Address Book in Windows XP Professional?

How to Manage Groups in the Address Book in Windows XP Professional?

 

You can manage groups in the address book in Windows XP Professional by creating groups of your contacts. It becomes very easy to find your contacts when they are organized well. A simple way to organize them is by creating groups and then placing the contacts in the appropriate groups or categories like family, friends, coworkers etc. The feature to manage groups in the address book in Windows XP Professional makes it very easy to look for all your stored information. If all the stored information is organized well, you can easily retrieve it from the different programs in your operating system. These include the Microsoft Phone System,  NetMeeting, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook. This is how we create as well as manage groups in the address book in Windows XP Professional:

How to Open the Address Book:

• Choose Programs and then Accessories.
• Click on Address Book.

• If you want to reach the Address Book in Outlook Express, click on Address Book in the Tools menu.
  
  
  
  

  You can create a single group and give it a name e.g. top friends or co-workers. This will make it very convenient to send a single message to numerous contacts together in an instant. When sending the message you just have to add that group name in the box.
  Follow these steps to create a group in order to manage groups in the address book in Windows XP Professional:

  • Go to the Address Book.
  • Click on New in the toolbar, and next click on New Group.

  

  The dialog box named Properties will appear. Type in the name of the group in the Group Name box.

  

  How to Move a Group or a Contact:

  • Select the name of the group or contact that you want to move in the Address Book contact list.
  • Drag the selected contact or group from the list on the right to the desired group or folder on the left.

  

  You can make as many groups as you want and can also keep a single contact in multiple groups at the same time. As you follow these tips, you can well manage the contacts in the address book in Windows XP Professional.

   

   

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Window XP Tips - View previously open Folders after Shutdown or Logoff

View previously open Folders after Shutdown or Logoff

If you need to access lot of folders on your home computer or on the network regularly then you can set them re-open automatically, when you will login, shutdown or restart your computer next time. There is no need to open regularly used folders manually, just configure the simple sitting, your computer will automatically reload all the previously opened windows.

By default windows XP disables this option to reload automatically all the previously opened windows, when you login on, shutdown or restart your computer.

Follow the given steps to configure your computer to reload previously opened folders automatically after shutdown. 

• To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
• First click on Start button then go to Control Panel. 
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• Open the “Appearance and Themes” option in control panel then click on Folder Options. 
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• A small windows dialog box will appear with the title “Folder options”, click on View tab.
• Under the Advanced setting section, scroll down to bottom and click the “Restore previous folder windows at logon” option and then click Ok button to save sitting.
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• Now when you log off, restart or shutdown, your computer will automatically open the previously opened folders from the same location as before.
  

 

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Window XP Tips - How to add new destinations to "Send To" menu in windows XP?

In windows environment, the Send To command is used to transfer files from one location to different locations. By using this command, a user can quickly send his file between default destinations (default lists in Send To menu, for example Desktop, CD/DVD Drive, My Documents, Mail Recipient and Floppy Drive). These are the default Send To menu lists in windows XP. To increase the data transfer speed between different locations, you can add more new destination in Send To lists. 

Follow the given steps to add new destinations to Send To lists:

First click on Start button and type sendto in Run option then press Ok button.

 

A window will appear with default Send To lists (Compressed (zipped) Folder, Desktop (create shortcut), Mail Recipient, My Documents). 

 

Now using drag-and-drop technique (or using copy and paste method), you can move any program, folders and drives shortcuts to this folder.

 

Now you can verify, your new shortcut is created in Send To menu.

 

But next times, if you want to delete any destination, then open the Sent To folder and remove the destination shortcut.

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Window XP Tips - How to enable/disable the compressed (zipped) folder feature in XP?

Today tip will help you to enable/disable the built-in feature of compression or de-compression in windows XP. Windows display the several default frequently used shortcuts in "Send To" menu, for example Compressed (zipped) Folder and others. But if you want to use any third-party application in windows XP for compression or de-compression then you can disable this windows built-in compressed folder feature. 

Follow the given steps to disable the windows built-in compressed folder feature:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

Click Start button and then click on Run option to open run dialog box. 

Now type the following command in Run box and press Ok button.

  regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

 

A small message will appear with title "RegSvr32" and the message is "DllUnregisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll succeeded."  Click on Ok button.

Now right click on any file or folder to verify the change.

 

Follow the given steps to enable the windows built-in compressed folder feature: 

Now again click Start button and click on Run option to open run dialog box. 

Now type the following command in Run box and press Ok button.

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

 

A small message will appear with title "RegSvr32" and the message is "DllUnregisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll succeeded."  Click on Ok button.



Now right click on any file or folder to verify the change.






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Window XP Tips - How to enjoy Windows Media Player using shortcuts keys?

In Windows Media Player, you can use the combination of different keyboard keys to accomplish routine task. By using these keys, you can increase the working speed in media player, otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. Basically keyboard shortcuts keys help you to save time and you can perform any tasks without leaving the keyboard keys.

Shortcut keys                        Action

ALT+1                      Adjust zoom to 50 percent

ALT+2                      Adjust zoom to 100 percent

ALT+3                      Adjust zoom to 200 percent

ALT+ENTER               Display the video in full mode

ALT+F                      Go to media player File Menu

ALT+T                      Go to media player Tools Menu

ALT+V                      Go to media player View Menu

ALT+P                      Go to media player Play Menu

ALT+F4                     Use to close media player

CTRL+1                     Display media player in full mode

CTRL+2                     Display media player in skin mode

CTRL+B                     Use to play the previous item in media player

CTRL+F                     Use to play the next item in media player

CTRL+E                     Use to Eject CD or DVD from CD or DVD drive

CTRL+P                     Use to Play or Pause the item in media player

CTRL+T                     Use to Repeat the items in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+B           Use to Rewind a file in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+F           Use to Fast Forward a file in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+S           Use to play items slower than a normal speed

CTRL+SHIFT+ G          Use to play items faster than a normal speed

CTRL+SHIFT+ N          Use to play items at normal speed in media player

F8                            Use to mute the volume in media player

F9                            Use to decrease the volume in media player

F10                          Use to increase the volume in media player

ENTER or SPACEBAR    Use to play an item

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Window XP Tips - How to set specified folder view to all Folder Views in windows XP and Vista?

Today tip will help you to manage the specified view of all folders in windows XP and Vista. By default, you have options to choose the view of folders contents as thumbnails, titles, icons, list or display with details. But this change will apply on the folders that you are currently working in. On the other hand, with the just few more clicks, you can change the view of all the folders on your computer.

Follow the given steps to accomplish this task through the Folder Options dialog box.

First of all open any folder, click "View" and choose the view you would most like to use.

Now from the Tools menu, click on Folder Options" to open the Folder Options dialog box.

 

 

Here on Folder Options dialog box, select the View tab.

At the top of the dialog box, click Apply to all folders button.

 

Now a new confirmation message will appear as "Set all the folders on your computer to match the current folders view settings (except for toolbars and folder task)? Change will occur the next time you open them."

 

Click OK in the Folder Options window to save the changes.

Now all the folders on your computer should display contents in your chosen view. As before, you can still change the view in individual folders via the "View" button.

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Window XP Tips - How you can Automate the DIR Command

If your are using same switches frequently in Command prompt then open your system command prompt using open Run option

Click Start and open Run option then type cmd to open command prompt, here type

set dircmd=/w/o/p

then press Enter, now every time thereafter that you type

dir

the /w/o/p switches will be automatically applied and now need to type every time. If your are interested to use single switch like /w you can use it

set dircmd=/w

and press Enter.

and same if you wants to undo these switches then you can very easily by typing

dir /-switch

For example, if you wanted to do a directory with only the /w switch, you could enter

dir /-p/-o

When you exit the Command prompt window, however, the Dircmd setting returns to its default settings.

 

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