HDD head from between the HDD platters. Toshiba
also put a spill resistant keyboard to help protect
against accidental spills of liquids.
All new Toshiba notebooks are RoHS-compatible2,
effectively reducing the environmental impact by
restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other
hazardous substances. They also offer a computer
trade-in and recycling program. All Toshiba computers
qualify for free recycling, while non-Toshiba
computers and other consumer electronic products can
be recycled for a small fee. For more information visit:
www.reuse.toshiba.com.
Tweak Your PC to Keep It Running
Fast, Feeling Good and Looking
Young!
By Lou Torraca, President MOAA Computer User
Group, HI
www.the-tug.org
Af06hi(at)gmail.com
Obtained from APCUG with the author’s permission
for publication by APCUG member groups.
Last week, I was explaining to a friend that I am a
quick launch toolbar afcionado {:-)
What the heck is that he asked. I said I was just
referring to the fact I use it instead of the desktop
to keep all my shortcuts, actually, lots of shortcuts,
at least on my main PC. As we continued to talk
about this I found myself explaining a lot of stuff I
have done with my PCs and notebook in the past 6
or 8 years! An obvious question came up: “where
do you come up with these things?” At that point I
explained I call these “things…tweaks” and they come
from dozens and dozens of places including many
newsletters, also some regular blogs, newspapers,
radio shows, other PC users I talk with and of course,
the real biggie, MICROSOFT! Yup, their knowledge
base contains millions of tips, solutions and you
guessed it…TWEAKS! Our conversation ended with
a suggestion that I put some “tweaks” in my column,
so what follows are some that I like. But rst, a
reminder, whenever you decide to play, experiment,
alter, or as I say, “tweak” an otherwise functioning
computer, either do a backup rst, or at least, set a
restore point you can return to if what you do doesn’t
work out for you. If you don’t know how to do that,
click on start and then help and support and then
choose index and type in system restore.
At the end of this list, I have a couple speed tweaks
which I advise should only be used by advanced users,
and you will also see I advise again to backup or set a
restore point. With that in mind, here is my list.
The area that sits between the start button and the
tray (with the clock), on the bottom of your screen, is
called the Taskbar.
I think one of the best additions you can make to your
Taskbar is the Quick Launch Toolbar. Quick Launch
gives you fast access to Internet Explorer and Outlook
Express, and it includes a Show Desktop icon. It’s
really easy to open your Quick Launch Toolbar.
Right-click the Taskbar, click on Toolbars, and
choose Quick Launch. The Quick Launch Toolbar
now appears on your Taskbar right next to your Start
button. You’ll nd the Quick Launch Toolbar very
useful and to move all the icons you have on your
desktop, just drag and drop them on the QL taskbar.
You can play around with it and also expand it if
need be. After you drag an icon there, you can delete
it off your desktop so you have a neat looking space
where I put different pictures every week or so. To be
really neat, I hide the whole thing so it automatically
disappears until I Point at it with my mouse. Right
click on start, properties, taskbar and check auto hide.
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