Washington - Need a copy of the receipt for an order you placed online? Usually, you get a printable copy from the vendor, but if not, you can save a record for yourself. Just open the File menu of your web browser, click Save As, and put a copy of the file into a folder on your hard drive. Save it as HTML so that when you open it up again, it will look largely the same as it did when you were online. --------
Washington - Trying to find something on a web page? Don't spend time scrolling up and down. Instead, hold down the Ctrl key and tap the letter F to bring up the Find dialog box. Type what you are looking for and press Enter. If it's on the web page, your browser will move directly to the place.
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Washington - Adding memory to your computer is an oft-repeated solution for giving a slower computer more pep. But there are limits. Computer memory primarily allows your PC to run more program code in memory rather than swapping out code to the hard drive, which slows things down. If your PC already has enough memory to run most of what you do from memory, adding more won't help. For most, XP will generally run optimally with 2 gigabytes, while Vista can benefit from 4.
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Washington - Use a free e-mail account to help get spam under control. Even if you don't need another e-mail account, signing up for an extra with Gmail, Yahoo, or LiveMail will allow you to use the account to give to retailers or other online sources that might end up selling your e-mail address to spammers.
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Washington - Looking for free software online? Try Cnet's Download.com (http://download.cnet.com). There, you can get a report on each software program before you download it, and you can read user reviews as well. There are also handy categories showing you what's most popular, most frequently downloaded, and more.
