The 'Arrange Icons By' Options

Hi People

Did you try the tip on the last post?

If you did you would have seen much more than what we dealt with.

I mean look at the picture below,  the Arrange Icons By
(Note here that you left click to set an option - a tick will appear when an option is set - see below)

The Right Click Options  From The Desktop - The 'Arrange Icons By ' section

As you can see there are a lot more options, so let's go through them.

The Sort By Section
The top four items are the sort order, which allow you to sort your desktop items by Name, Size, Type, or Modified.




The first three are probably quite self explanatory (type is the type of file it is for example a program file, a shortcut for a picture, or drive).

The 'modified' option is the one which may cause some scratching of heads.
It refers to how recently the files have been used.  This might need a bit of explanation. OK, so when a file (or folder) is created, the date and time is kept as TWO values (the 'creation' date/time and the 'modified' date/time - exactly the same at the start).  Now every time the file is used the 'modified' values for date/time are changed to the exact date/time it was opened..

Next up the Arrangement Section


The 'Show in Groups' is greyed out and not available on the diagram.
The 'Auto Arrange' option will move all the icons ( in the order set in the Sort By Section), as far left and then down the desktop.  Any icon moved will pop back to the group on being dropped.

The 'Align to Grid' will place each icon at a set distance from its neighbours.  The 'Grid' is invisible and inactive unless this option is ticked.

The Other Options Section


You may be surprised to learn that you can actually have all your icons removed (visibly) from the desktop.  To do this just left click on the 'Show Desktop Icons' (this will remove the tick next to 'Show Desktop Icons')

The 'Lock Web Items on Desktop' option is only if you have used the 'Web' tab on the 'Customise' button from the 'Properties' menu (more on this on a later post).

Finally you can 'Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard' which will remove the little used icons from the desktop for you.

So there you have it so far

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Want More At Your Finger Tips?

Hi People

Frequently, I find that people are amazed at the simplest things, that I do on their computers.

How did you do that? Or can you show me how to do that? Or can you wait until I get a pen and paper.

It happens frequently, so over the next few entries we will go over some useful BASIC bits and bobs

Let's start with

How to create a folder


Folders are exactly the same a physical folders, in that they contain files or other folders and files.

To create a folder on the Desktop:

• Simply RIGHT click on an area of the desktop (not on an icon or the taskbar)
• LEFT click on 'New'
• LEFT click on 'Folder'
• Now type the name you want for the folder (by default it is called 'New Folder'
• Once you  have finished press the 'Enter'  key or simply click anywhere outside the newly created folder.
• To open it quickly, you need to DOUBLE LEFT click.  If it does not open you have not been quick enough with the double clicking.

Next time we willl go through the other Right Click Options for the Desktop.


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Organise Your Desktop

Hi Again

Another quickie blog item for you

Has your desktop got crowded with icons, try this

Fences

This is a nifty little program and helps control the bulging desktop icons.

Or you could create a number of folders on the desktop such as video / documents / spreadsheet / etc links in appropriately named folders. Sorted.

Have fun

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Assorted Windows Tips

Hi again

No Video this time, but some very interesting and useful tips to help in the day to day use of your computer.

For ALL Windows Versions (XP to Windows 7)

1 - OK first one up is the fullscreen option. And yes I mean fullscreen, not just maximised window.

It is a simple toggle keypress, press once to show fullscreen and press again to return to normal mode. The key to press is the F11 key. Try it now on this window.

2 - Next up for Vista and XP Users, view 2 or more open windows side by side (or one over the other).

To achieve this make sure the windows you wish to view are open and are present on the taskbar.
Hold down the 'Ctrl' and left click on the two window buttons in the taskbar, that you want to view.
Now right click on one of the selected buttons and click on 'Tile horizontally'(for one above the other) or Tile vertically' (for side by side).
Click on the maximise button or minimise button to either maximise the window or return the window to the taskbar. Simples!

3 - What ever you are doing, it pays to right click on items, to discover a host of useful items than can be used, for the situation in front of you. For instance, in Windows XP, right click the time at the bottom righthand side of the screen (under usual circumstances). Some of the things you can do here are,
Open the Task Manager - View running programs, shutdown / restart /log off windows etc

Show the desktop - if your view of the desktop is covered by open windows, two clicks and the desktop is revealed

Adjust the date and time

Tile all current open windows (not really helpful if there are more than two, depending on your screen size!)

Happy tinkering and Thank You for reading


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