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1. Change Icon Spacing
2. Change Title Bar Colors
3. Print Screen
4. MS Paint
5. Home in a Hurry
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1. How To... Compress & Uncompressing Files Using WinZip 
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Change Icon spacing
Are your desktop icons so close together you can't separate one from another? Or maybe too far away from each other. You can change the amount of space between icons.
1. Right-click an empty part of your desktop.
2. Choose Properties and open the Appearance tab.
3. Find Icon spacing (horizontal) and Icon spacing (vertical) in the Item pull-down menu.
4. Reset the size value to add more or less space between icons. Click Apply and OK.
5. Press F5 to refresh your desktop and see the new icon spacing.
 
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Change Title Bar Colors
A quick glance at a title bar will tell you which program, document, or website is open in any window. The active title bar tells you about the windows you're currently working in. Minimize this windows to see the inactive title bars at the top of the open open windows on your desktop. Follow these steps to change default color scheme.
1. Right-click on an empty area of your desktop.
2. Choose Properties.
3. Open the Appearance Tab.
4. Choose Active Title Bar or Inactive Title Bar from the Item drop-down menu.
5. Change Color 1 and Color 2. Press Apply when you're finished.
 
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Print Screen  To make Print Screen work, you must save an image of what's displayed on-screen to the clipboard and then paste it into a document where it can be printed.

To do this -- 

  1. Maximize the window you'd like to capture.

  2. To capture the current windows, hold down ALT key and Print Scrn key at the same time. To capture the entire screen, just press Print Scrn key.

  3. Open a new document in MS Paint, MS Word or MS Photo Editor.

  4. Paste the screen shot by holding down CTRL key and V key at the same time.

  5. Print the document when you're finished pasting screen shots. 

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MS Paint - A quick way to start MS Paint. Select the Start Button, Select Run, Type mspaint, hit the Enter Key.

 Start>Run>mspaint>Enter Key

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Home in a Hurry - If you are at the end of a Web page and hit the Home Key and that will take you to the Top of The Page. 

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