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*   Web Sites Being Blocked
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*   Password Attack on Wired and Wireless Routers
There’s some nasty malware circulating that is searching for home routers that are vulnerable to attack.

If you need to identify which program opens a particular file type, you can do that, and a lot more, using the Folder Options functions in Windows Explorer.

To find Folder Options, open Windows Explorer (right-click on Start, select Explore). Then, on its menu bar, select Tools and then Folder Options…

At this point, we need to select the File Types tab.

Continue reading HOWTO: Identifying and Changing Default File Type / Program Associations

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*   Help! I Can’t Connect to the Internet
Sometimes updates from Microsoft break computer communications. This reader asked for help in solving that problem recently…

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*   After 4 Months, My Verdict on the iPhone
You’ve read the hype about the iPhone. Now, I’m writing about my real world experiences with it and what I think…

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*   A Look at Acronis True Image Home 11
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*   Using Unlocker Safely
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If there’s ever been a program feature that made no sense whatsoever to me, it is the impact that the scroll lock key has on navigation in Microsoft Excel.

Hummmm… Did I say that strongly enough? Probably not, but I’m not going to write those words…

We all know about the Num Lock key and how it locks the keyboard’s keypad into number mode. If you have a keyboard with an attached numeric keypad, the keys default to scroll mode (arrow up, left, down, right, Home, End, etc.). If you press the NumLock key, the keypad locks into numeric mode.

The Scroll Lock key (Scroll Lk) works differently. According to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), the Scroll Lock key is left over from the DOS days. It’s functionality is set by the program your using — and most programs don’t even acknowledge the existance of the Scroll Lock key.

Excel, unfortunately, is one of the few that do.

Continue reading Microsoft Excel - Navigating with Scroll Lock