How to Disable the Screen Tips in IE.

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A couple of days back I showed you how to disable the Screen Tips in MS Outlook and this article was in regard to a reader question from David. His email had two questions in it because he also wondered if this was possible in Internet Explorer. It is possible but it requires a bit more work than in Outlook.

This is How to Disable the Screen Tips in IE.

Go to Start
And type in gpedit.msc in XP you first need to open Run.
And press enter

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Now go to

User Configuration
Administrative Templates
Start Menu

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How to Disable the Screen Tips in MS Outlook.

Today I have a Quick Tip for MS Outlook for you. It was a reader question from David. Thanks David for contacting us, I hope it helps. He read the article how to disable the screen tips in MS Word and wondered if there was a quick trick like this for MS Outlook too. I hope I’ve understood it and there is indeed a quick trick.

How to Disable the Screen Tips in MS Outlook.

Go to the Tools menu
Select Customize
Go to the Options tab
And uncheck the box for Show ScreenTips on toolbars

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How Can I Surf on the Web Anonymously?

How can I surf on the web anonymously?? This is a question that I get asked at least once a week especially now that pc security is such a booming topic.

When you surf the web it is possible to get information about you even when you don’t want to advertise who you are. This is true even if your system contains no virus or malware software.

Specially information like your IP address, your country (and your region/city based on your IP address), what computer system you are on, what browser you use, your browser history, and other information. It gets worse. People can get your computer’s name and even find out your name if your system supports programs like finger or identd. Also, cookies can track your habits as you move from machine to machine.

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The World of Office Computer Support Forums are Live!!

You might have seen the forum link in the header of this blog but I can tell you now that after a lot of tweaking and getting things ready the forums are now live and accessible.

We worked a lot of hours to get things ready but now that it’s live, we and I especially are incredibly proud of what we’ve done. I think it looks really really awesome.

We created this forum for several reasons. As I wrote in the introduction post we want this to be the "mecca" for all your computer support questions of all sorts… a place to learn, to share, and to grow.

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How to Lose the Curly Quotes.

Okay, we have another reader’s question. I received an e-mail from Claudia with the following question.

“I am also a blogger and for almost every text job that I do on my blog, I use Word first. The problem is that I always get errors with the curly quotes. Isn’t there a handy fix that I can use for this?”

Yes there is and a pretty simple one too.

If you and want to lose the curly quote’s you’ll need to do this:

Click on the Office buttons.
Select Word options.

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Go to the proofing section.
And now open the AutoCorrect options.

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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.8 How to Organize your Distribution Lists.

I explained in the Outlook Tutorial of last week how to create a distribution list in MS Outlook 2007. I received several e-mails about this from people asking how I manage those lists and how I look at the contacts in it.

I do have to say that I hardly look into those lists. I have my contacts pretty well organized in several contact folders and each folder contains multiple distribution lists.

Here’s an example:

My regular/primary contact folder “Contacts” contains the details of my family and my friends.

I have several lists in here:

Family-L1 (my parents, my two brothers and my sister-in-law)

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Disable the Screen Tips in MS Word.

I received an e-mail yesterday from Danielle asking if I could help out with a problem that she has with MS Word. It’s not really a problem but more a small annoyance.

Danielle asked if I know a solution to disable the annoying screen tips which appear when you rest your mouse pointer over a button/command.

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