How to share One Printer without lots of cables

Use a wireless printer. Many inkjet and laser printers today come as a wireless version. So it means that the printer can be shared from anywhere within the building without cables getting in the say. You can even get machines that combine printer, scanning, photocopying and faxing in either inkjet or laser.

 

Our new logo – Happy Computers, Happy People

More and more we  help and support people and businesses that have a network of computers. Our new logo reflects this, the happy, faces on the computers represent happy people and happy computers, and yes the Green, White and Orange represents the Irish flag. We are an Irish company. In the Irish flag the Green represents the 26 southern counties, the Orange represents the 6 northern counties and White represents peace between them. Our logo represents who we are and what we do. We completely changed our website too, to make it easier to find what you want. Let us know what you think, visit www.a1computers.ie

 

Over 20,000 products for sale online at a1computers.ie

Finally and at long last our online shop is open for business. Everything you need for office, home, school, art, club, organisation…Next day delivery in Ireland. Start saving, start shopping at www.a1computers.ie

 

FIND Quickly Pictures, Videos, Contacts, Music, Emails, Files, Folders, PDFs, Documents in your computer

I use Copernic, it is a program you can download FREE from www.copernic.com Once you install it and let it index your disk it really is quick to find anything with a name

 

SEE YOUR DESKTOP QUICKLY when you have lots of Windows Open

Simply press the Window Key (that is a key which has a picture of a window symbol on it) and D together, and Presto there is your Desktop…all the open Windows are lined up at the

 

Quickly open documents and folders you use a lot.

You can do this by putting a shortcut to them on the desktop. This means that on your desktop you will see the icon for (ie) Holidays Folder. And when you double click on that it brings you straight into your holiday folder. So how do you set this up? First Remember it is good practise to keep your documents, pictures, etc stored in sub folders in your My Documents Folder. To set up the shortcut, find the folder or document you want (ie) Holidays, then rightclick the folder, and from the drop down menu, select Send To, this opens another list, and here select ‘Desktop’ send shortcut. Now on your desktop will be an icon representing that item. By clicking on that icon you will open the item.

 

Saving Time by using the Format Painter in Word and Excel

 

How to quickly open documents and folders you use a lot?

You can do this by putting a shortcut to them on the desktop. This means that on your desktop you will see the icon for (ie) Holidays Folder. And when you double click on that it brings you straight into your holiday folder. So how do you set this up? First Remember it is good practise to keep your documents, pictures, etc stored in sub folders in your My Documents Folder. To set up the shortcut, find the folder or document you want (ie) Holidays, then rightclick the folder, and from the drop down menu, select Send To, this opens another list, and here select ‘Desktop’ send shortcut. Now on your desktop will be an icon representing that item. By clicking on that icon you will open the item.

 

How to copy the format of your text to another part of your Word document.

You can do this by using the Format Painter. This is the Paintbrush icon you will find on one of the bars at the top of your document. Select the area that has the format you wish to copy. Position your cursor at the start, click the left button of your mouse. Hold it down till you have selected the area you require, then release the button. Then on the top of the screen click on the Format Painter (ie) the paintbrush. Then select the area you want to copy it to. Position your cursor at the start, click the left button of your mouse hold it down till you have covered the area you want to format, then release the button and Hey Presto, this part of your Word or Excel document is formatted the way you want! The format painter is the handiest tool ever.

 

Do You Want to Find Stuff easily on the Web?

 A good way to start is simply to type in a short phrase describing what you want into the place where the website name is usually displayed..(ie) Type in ….cheap car rental in Tenerife… and press enter. Try different phrases till you find what you want.