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Back to the Forum Archives The Jelly Finger Caper: Here is how I learned this. My granddaughter, who I love dearly, was visiting Grandma. They were in Grandma's office playing Granddaughter's CD games on the computer. Then Grandma came and told me her CD player was ruined. The strong implication was that I would quickly fix it. I quickly learned that the player was not ruined by inserting a good CD and running it. I knew it would not do to quit and tell them that. What they really wanted was to have Granddaughter's game work again. That is when I got desperate and washed the silly disk. For sure, it began to work again. Then I looked at Granddaughter‘s hands and frowned. Jelly Finger was the culprit. She said very contritely, "I guess that's why Mama don't let my put the CDs in the player at home." End of tale. Here are a few more how-to tricks I have picked up along the way. Some of these may be useful to others. I use three different versions of Windows. I do not know if all of these tricks will work in any other kind of system. Copying Text From the Internet: Here is Poor's ridiculously simple solution which works in Microsoft word and WordPerfect. Instead of using Paste to place the text, use Paste Special. Then select unformatted text and click on OK. The text will be pasted into the document in the default font with none of the internet trash. It will be clean. This has saved me so much work that I sent a thank you note to Alfred. Moving The Cursor: Uplink: Defrag: Another Defrag problem is caused by resident programs loaded by the operating system at startup. Many of these run in the backgound and diddle the hard drive. To prevent that, it is necessary to stop those programs. In Windows 95 you can do that by pressing Ctrl, Alt, and Delete simultaneously. This will give you a dialog box which shows the running tasks. Do not stop Explorer or Systray. For the rest, you can select them one by one and click on End Task. After you run Defrag you can reboot to restore these programs. In Windows 98, Me and Xp, you do the same thing by running the Configuration Utility. First click on Start, Run and type in "msconfig" without quotes and click OK. In the Configuration Utility click on Selective Startup. In 98 and Me deselect everything except Process system.ini. In Xp deselect everything except Process system.ini and use BOOT.INI. Click Apply and OK. When the system restarts you can run Defrag or Scandisk. Then you can run the configuration utility again and select Normal Startup. One other thing that could cause trouble is your screen saver program if it is running. To disable that right click anywhere on the background screen and select Properties from the Menu. In the properties dialog click on the Screen Saver tab. In the selection menu select None. Click on Apply and OK. You can restore your screen saver after running Defrag. Bifocals:
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