1. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Own Your Computer Demonstrated on Windows XP and Office 2003 Presented to Personal Computer Club of Charlotte June 14, 2007 Presented by: Bill Barnes

2. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Topics  Create profiles  Customize your desktop  Change Windows Explorer defaults  Configure your browser  Customize Microsoft Office  Map network drives This presentation is archived at: http://pc3.org/news/expanded/

3. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Create user profiles  Demonstrated at the May meeting  Detailed instructions are in the June Bytes&Bits or available at: http://pc3.org/news/expanded/ http://pc3.org/news/expanded/

4. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Change Your Desktop  Right-click on a blank area of the desktop and choose Properties.  Customize your Desktop color and background. Screen Saver and Power settings. Change resolution and font size on Settings tab.

5. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Change Windows Explorer defaults  Open My Computer or Win Explorer Windows key–E opens immediately  Configure view to your preferences  Click Tools > Folder Options  Click View tab  Choose more options  Click Apply, then Apply to All Folders

6. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Configure your browser CHANGE YOUR HOME PAGE  Browse to your desired home page  Click Tools > Options  On the main page, select Use Current as home page CHANGE YOUR CACHE USAGE

7. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Configure your browser CHANGE COOKIE SETTINGS  Click Tools > Options  On the Privacy page change cookie settings CHANGE PASSWORD HANDLING CHANGE POP-UP BLOCKER

8. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Customize Microsoft Office  The instructions are too detailed for this presentation. File > Properties to set your user name. Tools > Options for many options. Tools > Customize to modify toolbars. In Word, modify your Normal.dot template to change default formatting.

9. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Map your network drives  Open Windows Explorer (My Computer)  Browse to the network share you want to assign a drive letter  Right click and choose “Map …” - or –  Tools > Map…  Enter path or browse to target folder

10. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Clean up unnecessary programs  Open Control Panel  Click Add or Remove Programs  Delete programs you know you don’t want Redundant antivirus, firewall, antispy Browser “assistants” such as search tools, including Yahoo or Google toolbar Ad engines such as Weatherbug Resource hogs such as AOL dialer

11. June 14, 2007 © 2007 Bill Barnes Own Your Computer Presented for the PCCC Own Your Computer Demonstrated on Windows XP Questions after final presentation Presented by: Bill Barnes