When your computer is inactive for a period of time, your display shuts off to save electricity. You can set the length of time before this happens. For a laptop running on battery, you may want to set the interval to only a few minutes to slow its depletion. For a desktop, you may want a longer period of inactivity before the display shuts off. In an office and working on confidential material, you may want the display to turn off sooner than at home. You can even set it to never turn off. Here is how, first in Windows XP and then in Vista:
In Windows XP:
1. Right-click in any blank area of the desktop and click on Properties in the context menu that appears.2. In the Display Properties box, click on the Screen Saver tab. On that tab page, in the Monitor Power area, click on Power.
3. In the Power Options dialog box, select the Power Schemes tab. On that page click the down arrow at Turn Off Monitor and click on one of the options on the drop down list. These options range from 1 minute to 5 hours, or Never.
4. Click OK, then OK again.
In Windows Vista:
1. Click on the Start orb and choose Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel double-click on Power Options.
3. In the left side panel of Control Panel's Power Options window, click on "Choose when to turn off the display."
4. Click the down arrow at the "Turn off the display" settings box and select the time interval you wish in the drop down list. The options range from 1 minute to 5 hours and Never.
5. Click the "Save Changes" button.
Also, you can choose when to put the computer to sleep and the display brightness at this location.
Have you noticed that sometimes when replying to an email you are able to select the font you wish, with attributes such as bold, underline, color, etc. and at other times you do not have those choices? Or, perhaps those choices are available but you would prefer the email to be sent in plain text. This is easy to correct.
If you are using Microsoft's Windows Mail, open the program and on the Tools menu select "Options." In the Options window select the "Send" tab. On that tab do the following:
1. Make sure the checkbox by "Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent" is not checked. Otherwise your replies will be in the same format as the messages you receive. This is fine if that is your preference.
2. If you want all of the messages you send to be in plain text (no formatting options such as bold, italics, underline or various sizes of text and no clickable URLs), select the Mail Sending option of "Plain Text." If you wish to have the formatting options, select "HTML."
3. Click the OK button.
If you have Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) and open it in the Folders view, with the folders in the left pane and the subfolders and files in the right pane, you can use the Arrow keys on the keyboard to manipulate the folders. If your Windows Explorer does not open in the Folders view, in XP you can go to the View menu, hover over Explorer Bar, then click on "Folders." In Vista, click on the down arrow by the Organize menu bar and then click on "Layout" and then "Navigation Pane." Now, place the focus in the left pane (click in it) and select a folder. If the folder is compressed, you can press the Right Arrow key to expand it. To compress an expanded folder, use the Left Arrow key. If you use the Left Arrow key on a compressed folder, it will take you to that folder's parent folder. Sometimes these keyboard shortcuts are quicker than mouse clicks.
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This is a neat shortcut but it is indicated to work only in Office 2003-2007 applications. However, I have found it also works in some versions of Microsoft Works. Hold down the Alt key and click on any word. When you let the Alt key up, a small window will appear with information about the word. In some cases it will even provide information about the word's origin and its progression of meanings.
If you are working in a long document, perhaps with Section Breaks, Bookmarks (ex.: chapter headings), it is nice to be able to immediatly go to a particular page or identified location. Just use the Ctrl-G keyboard shortcut. The Find an Replace dialog box will open at the Go To tab. There you can enter the page number, bookmark name or other item, click the Go To button and you are there!
In Windows Explorer (highlight a file), on Desktop icons and in many Dialog Boxes, you can use the Alt-Enter keyboard shortcut (Hold down the Alt key and press Enter) to open the associated Properties Box.
If you have not used your mouse or keyboard for a given period of time, and the screen saver is turned on, the screen saver will start. If this happens too often you will need to adjust the inactive time interval.
 Here is how to adjust the inactive time period before the screen saver appears -- or turn it off:
In Windows XP:
1. Right-click in any blank area of the desktop and click on Properties in the context menu that appears.
2. In the Display Properties dialog box, click on the Screen Saver tab. On that tab page click the up arrow by the Wait box to increase the minutes or the down arrow to decrease the inactive time interval before the screen saver appears. To turn off the screen saver, click on the down arrow at the Screen Saver box and select "None" in the drop down list.
3. Click OK.
In Windows Vista:
1. Click on the Start orb and choose Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel double-click on "Personalization."
3. Click on "Screen Saver" on the list in the Personalization window.
4. In the Screen Saver Settings window, click on the up arrow of the "Wait" space to increase the inactive time interval before the screen saver starts, or the down arrow to decrease the time. To change or turn off the screen saver, click the down arrow at the Screen Saver options field and select a screen saver you like or select "None" to turn it off.
4. Click OK.
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