Hi Evie
I also subscribe to AOL and I agree with you - it’s awful! The software tries to take over your whole computer. The ISP market is in a state of flux on this side of the pond so I’m loathe to change at present. Most companies are tying new customers into long-term contracts as broadband (ADSL) connections become cheaper. Indeed, some phone companies are even throwing in broadband connections for free with their phone subscriptions!
To lower the pixels on each photograph through my camera, I switch it on and press the
“menu” button. This then brings up a screen which enables me to select the size of each photo in terms of the memory it will take up. It gives me the options of taking pictures with a range of pixels, from 1 million to 3 million. If I choose the 1m(illion) option I can take 23 photographs, if I choose the 3m(illion) option I can take 14 photographs. However, once I’ve taken a photograph I can’t adjust its resolution on the camera; I have to transfer it to computer and adjust it there.
If you’re having problems starting a certain program on your computer, it’s a good idea to make sure it’s actually available to you! Go to
Start – Search and type in the name of the prgogram you want. Hopefully the search engine will find it for you. It might find several entries for the one program, in which case you’ll need to choose the one with the
“.exe” suffix. Instead of opening the program immediately, right-click on it and choose
Send to – desktop. That’ll create a shortcut to the program on your desktop and will make it easier to open in future.
Pop-ups can be so irritating! What browser do you use? MS Explorer is often targetted by advertisers so changing to a browser such as Firefox or Opera would almost certainly improve things. Both browsers have pop-up blockers built into them too. However, they also have ‘tabbed’ browsing which means that you don’t open a new window every time you click on a link, and that’s a great feature. There are other ways to disable pop-ups, but that would mean using
msconfig and I’m not sure you’d be happy to do so.
Screen savers can be inspected and adjusted by right-clicking on your desktop and choosing
“Properties”. This will bring up the
Display Properties and there’s a tab marked
“Screen Saver” which will show you the settings for your current screen saver. You should be able to adjust the screen saver settings there without too much difficulty, but if you have any problems just holler.
Hope this helps.
Gill
PS - Nice choo-choo
