Beginner Computer Help http://www.homecomputergeek.com Beginner Computer Help and Tips Sun, 17 May 2009 17:27:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 homecomputergeekhttp://feedburner.google.com Computer Mouse Problem - Used Keyboard As Mouse http://www.homecomputergeek.com/computer-mouse-problem-used-keyboard-as-mouse/ http://www.homecomputergeek.com/computer-mouse-problem-used-keyboard-as-mouse/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 19:11:12 +0000 Admin http://www.homecomputergeek.com/?p=253 Sometimes your computer peripheral suddenly not working without any warning. Similar problem can occur on your computer mouse when it suddenly not working. Do you know Windows has provide alternative when your computer mouse had problem? It call MouseKeys, with this option you can used your keyboard as mouse.

To activated Mousekeys, go to ‘my computer’ and then go to control panel >> Accessibility Options >>Mouse (Tab) and then enable the check box “Use MouseKeys”


mousekeys menu

Click on mousekeys menu setting. As you can see, you can activate mousekeys shortcut by clicking on the box. So next time your mouse got problem, you can used the shortcut to activated mousekeys.

I recommend activate mousekeys when numlock is off (for dekstop) and for laptop you better activate mousekeys when numlock is on.

mousekeys menu setting

When you activate mousekeys you can see mousekeys icon on taskbar, you can disable mousekeys taskbar icon by untick on the “show mousekey status on screen”. Click ok and ok again. Finish setting up your mousekeys. Now you can used your keyboard as mouse

mousekeys icon on taskbar

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1. Right-click the desktop and select New > shortcut
2. Paste this code: %windir%\System32\SHUTDOWN.exe -r -t 01 into “Type the location of the item” and click next then type the name of the shortcut, example: restart then click finish.
3. If you want to create shutdown shortcut, just replaced -r with -s.

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After Installing the software, scroll down to “toolbars greyed out or missing” and  double click it. Save the reg file to your desktop and right click the file and choose merge. Now restart the computer and see if that resolves your problem.

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Using Windows registry is a bit risky if you don’t have knowledge about it. So the safe method is by using Tweak UI, from picture above you can choose which menu you want to hiding using Tweak UI. Make sure you create your own shortcut before hiding the contol panel icons.

Tweak UI control panel option

Tweak UI control panel option


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1. Share high-speed internet: by sharing internet more than 1 people can online in one time.

2. Share files: you won’t have to use flash driver or cd burner to get file from another computer. Instead you can view and access all files of all computer from each computer in home network.

3. Share printers: by using network you can used 1 printer on more than 1 computers.

4. Play multiplayer game: why playing with Bots or AI when you can play with real people?

5. Share Multimedia: suitable if you used wireless networking, you can transfer and share photos with your Wi-Fi enabled digital camera. But make sure no other people can access your wireless networking.

Their is many more others benefit by connecting your computers together at home, above is only some common benefit.

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1. Can’t have both versions of Outlook installed at the same time, you need to choose one.
2. Having file issues with the different file types, unless you choose to save everything in “Office 97-2003″ file format.

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These problems may caused by a bad context menu handler. A context menu handler is a shell extension handler that adds commands to an existing context menu (Example: cut, copy, paste, print, etc).

Most shell extensions are automatically installed in computer by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example if you install WinZip on your computer, you’ll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.

Pic.1 ShellExView

The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.

Pic.2 Disable shell extension using ShellExView


Pic.3 right-click menu before using ShellExView

context menu handler

Pic.4  right-click menu after using ShellExView

ShellExView (by Nir Sofer) is an excellent tool to view and manage all installed shell extensions. If available, it displays the description, as well as version details, company information, location, file name and more. You can optionally disable or enable context menu.

Using ShellExView to determine the Context-menu causing the problem

1. Download ShellExView and run it. Once the scan is over and the list is displayed, you need to spot the context menu handlers.

2. Sort the results using “Type”, so that the context menu handlers are displayed together (pic.1).

3. The rule is to disable non-Microsoft context menu handlers one-by-one and verify if the problem is solved. If disabling one does not solve the problem, undo the disabled item and disable the next non-Microsoft handler. You have to reboot between tries to get accurate testing of the results of your disabling. Do the same until the problem is solved.

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To turn on the option that will allow you to save Microsoft Excel/Word file (I’m using Microsoft Office 2002) automatically as read-only follow this step:

1. Open Microsoft Excel/Word.
2. Go to menu tools and then click on option.
3. Click on security tab
4. Tick on Read-Only recommended.

After you finish doing your job and save the file, Microsoft Excel/Word will automatically save the file as read-only.

When the next time you want to edit the file, open the file and you will see the message as picture below, click on No to make sure you can edit the file and save using the same file name. If you click on Yes you can edit the file but cannot save the file using same name.

If you want to turn off read only option, open the file and make sure you click on No after that do the step above, but this time you need to untick on Read-Only recommended and then save the file. Next time you open the file the pop-up message above will not out.

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