F.A.Q.

Novell Window not showing up
If you start your computer and notice your Novell window doesnt come up there is a simple soultion for that. Click on Start, then Run Type in Nalwin32 This should automatically load your Novell window for you without having to restart your computer.

How To Capture a Printer
Click on Start, then Settings On Printers and Faxes, right-click with your mouse and click on Open Double-click on Add Printer Click Next Select Network Printer, then click Next Click Browse for a Printer, then click Next Double-click on NDPS Printers Double-click on NDPS Controlled Access Printers Double-click on CYFAIRISD Double-click on CFISD Double-click on ELE (for elementary schools) Double-click on the school ID heading for the school at which you are adding the printer (ex: BNG ID=125, you would click on 120) Double-click on the school ID (ex: BNG125= Bang) Under BNG125, look for the printer by NDPS print queue name (ex: Bang-354549), then double-click on the queue name Click YES The print driver will now take a minute to install Select the printer default status you want (YES=default, NO=not default), then click Next Click Finish There can be subtle variations on these instructions.

Keyboard Shortcuts
If you're tired of clicking everywhere with your mouse, keyboard shortcuts are a great way to give your hands a break, and they are huge time savers. Check out the list of shortcuts. Here are some commonly used keyboard shortcuts for everyday use. For each one of these that has Ctrl and then + and then a letter, you need to hold down the Ctrl key while pressing what comes after the plus sign. You won't need to press the + sign key, and if you do, it won't work.

Ctrl+A = Select All Ctrl+C = Copy Ctrl+P = Print Ctrl+X = Cut Ctrl+V = Paste Ctrl+F = Find

F5 = Refresh a webpage

Do you know of a keyboard shortcut that you'd like to share? Post it here on this page by clicking on the **"Edit This Page"** button.

Close an Unresponsive Program
Every now and then, your computer just doesn't run as smoothly as it should, and up pops a box saying that your program that you were working in is now unresponsive. Or, your program stops suddenly, and when you try clicking on the X to close the program, nothing happens... it just sits there. What do you do?

Well thankfully, Microsoft has enabled a way for users to **force** the program to close even when it doesn't seem to want to. It's very easy to do.

Press **Ctrl+Alt+Delete** and the **Windows Task Manager** box will pop up. You will see some tabs at the top. Make sure the **Applications** tab is selected. Then look at the list of programs that it shows are currently running on your computer. Next to the program, under the Status column, you should see the words **"Not Responding"**. Select that program by clicking once on it, and click on **End Task**. The unresponsive program will then close.

Rename Multiple Files
There is a little trick to renaming a few, or hundreds, or even thousands of files all at once. Why would you want to know how to do this? Well, let's say you've just taken a couple hundred pictures on your camera, and now they are on your computer with some weird filename, like **DSC000678.jpg**. Boy, that really tells me what the pictures are all about! If the filename stayed like that for all my pics, I'd have to open up each one just to figure out who or what is in that picture. So, let's say these pics are from a science project. Well, here's what you can do to rename lots of files...

1. Select all of the files whose filenames you want to change, and press **F2** on your keyboard.

2. Type in the name that you want. In our example, it would be **science-project.jpg**.

3. Press the **Enter** key and watch all of the image filenames change to **science-project(#).jpg**. This will also work for other files on your computer as well.

Enable Quicklaunch Toolbar
If you are wondering what the quicklaunch toolbar is, then this a handy, time-saving tutorial. The quicklaunch toolbar looks like this...



How is this useful? Well, let's say you have a couple of things open on your computer, like Internet Explorer, GroupWise, Microsoft Word, Photostory, etc. What happens when you need to open up another program? Well, if you didn't have the quicklaunch toolbar, you'd have to minimize EVERY window, and then find the program on your desktop, or by searching in your program list. Instead of having to do all of that, why not have your most commonly used programs always sitting at the bottom of your screen so that you can access them without having to minmize everything. This is why the Quicklaunch toolbar is so great. It saves you so much time!

So, if you don't see any icons next to the Start button, it's probably because you don't have the Quicklaunch toolbar enabled. Here's how you do it...

1. Right-click on the **Taskbar** at the bottom of your screen. It's the bar that the Start button is within.

2. Mouse over **Toolbars >** and click on **Quick Launch Toolbar**.

3. And you're done.

You should now see some icons sitting next to the Start button. So the next question is...

How do I get the programs that I use most often in the Quicklaunch toolbar?

You simply find the program that you would normally double-click on at your desktop. To bring it down to the Quicklaunch toolbar, click ONCE and hold the mouse button down while dragging it down somewhere in between where the icons sit.

Show Desktop
The Show Desktop icon located in the Quicklaunch toolbar is a quick way to view your desktop without having to minimize every window you have open. No matter how many windows you have open, clicking on the Show Desktop icon will automatically minimize all open windows. It looks like this...



For easy access, find the icon in the Quicklaunch toolbar, click on it and hold the mouse button while you drag it next to the Start button.

Change the Text Size in Internet Explorer
Sometimes it may not be the size of your screen resolution that is causing problems with how webpages are viewed. It may be that the size of your text is way too big. Here's how to change that...

Go up to the top menu in Internet Explorer and click on **View**. Mouse over **Text Size** and select **Medium**. That text setting should make websites render correctly in your browser.

Cropping a Picture with Microsoft Office Picture Manager
This step-by-step tutorial will demonstrate how to crop a picture using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. If you don't have this program on your computer, you can download it for free on Microsoft's website.

Convert Doc/Image to PDF File
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Take a Picture of Your Screen
If you need to show someone a website, just take a picture of it...no, not with a camera, but with your keyboard. You can do that? Yep. Kudos to Kirk Elementary's tech liaison Dorie Glynn for sharing this lil' tech tidbit. Here's how...

Simply press and hold **Shift + Print Scr**, or if you are on a district laptop, press and hold **Fn + Print Scr**. Nothing will pop-up telling you that you just took a picture of your screen, but you did. To see the picture of your screen, open up Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, and then press the keyboard shortcut for Paste, which is **Ctrl + V**. And now you know how to take a picture of your screen!

Create a Shortcut
Have you ever wished you could just access the S drive, or your own H drive right from the desktop, instead of having to go through My Computer? Well, here's how you create a shortcut to place something on your desktop. This tutorial will show you how to create a shortcut for the S drive, but you can really apply this to any folder on your computer.

1. Double-click on My Computer.

2. Right-click on the S drive, and click on **Create Shortcut**.

3. A message will pop up saying, **"Windows cannot create a shortcut here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?"** Click on **Yes**.

4. You should now see the S drive on your desktop.

5. To take off the long piece of text underneath the S drive icon now on your desktop, **click once** on the S drive icon, and **press F2** on your keyboard. Then just type in **S Drive**, and **press Enter** on your keyboard.

Quickly Change Computer Users
Need to log in but don’t want to go through the entire log off process? This is a quick way to log in a computer without going through the entire log off procedure. It’s fast & easy. Great for when you have students who are sharing a computer and you don’t want to spend all that time logging on and off. Follow the directions below:

1. Click on Start 2. Select Programs 3. Select Novell (common) 4. Select Novell login 5. A Novell window will pop up. 6. Enter your user name and password 7. You are now logged in 8. If you check the Novell–delivered applications window you should see your login ID.