I already need help - on my inbox page, there was a list of contacts on the left, well I clicked the little X and it dissappeared, how do I get it back on my inbox-outlook express page so I can view it without hunting an address, I guess I mean restore it to its original position - thanks for this help dlilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Laura Schmidt" <DigMyPast@msn.com> To: <ALMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:00 PM Subject: [ALMacon] [GAGEN] PC Tips - Lesson 1 > Microsoft engineers in all their wisdom, or perhaps Bill Gates, have made > some assumptions about the users of computers and have thus created their > own set of standards as to what the original settings or default settings > of a particular piece of software would have. In the past, they were > extremely conservative and made some statements and decisions that have > come to haunt them and plague us. In the here and now - starting with > Windows 95 - and perhaps in Windows 3.0 or 3.11 - they went the other > direction and have become very liberal with settings which can be tweaked > by the end user, which will give their computer better performance with > little downside effects. Several of these are rather simple and hopefully > I can explain it so that you can understand how to do this. > > Such an item is one's Recycle Bin - the little trash can sitting on the > desktop - screen one sees when Windows opens. The default setting for the > size of the Recycle Bin is 10% of your hard drive. That means that if you > have a hard drive that has a capacity of 1 Gigabyte - 100 megs is set > aside, just for trash - that you 'may' toss there. By decreasing the size > of the Recycle Bin to say 1% - 10 megs on a 1 Gigabyte hard drive, one > frees up 9% of one's hard drive or 90 megs which are then available for you > to either use to put other files on, or leave empty. Either way you win. > > If your hard drive is even larger and basic systems now come with 40 Gigs, > then the Recycle Bin becomes huge (4 Gigs) and the wasted space enormous > (3.6 Gigs)! > > To modify the size of your Recycle Bin, click on the Recycle Bin, right > click and select properties from the selection menu. > You may show more than one drive listed there - but you want to use the > Global setting - ie a 1% setting for all drives - so make sure the > selection you are moving the bar on, says 'Global', if you have more than > one hard drive. > > You should see a bar graph in the middle of the part that opens - with a > slide mechanism pointing to 10%. Grab the mechanism with your mouse and > move it to the left until it reads 1%. Then select OK, and you are done. > > Feedback on the clarity or lack thereof appreciated. > > Tim > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve > the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching > their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals > with just this type of research. Please refer them to: > http://www.adoption.org > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >