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How-To Arrange Desktop Icons

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Today we are going to learn How-To arrange Icons on your computer desktop . Just so we are clear on the instructions here is a picture of a desktop.  The computer desktop itself is the picture of the hills and clouds!  The Icons on the desktop in the picture are named:  My documents, My Computer, Recycle Bin , and Internet Explorer. I’m normally asked a couple of questions about arranging desktop icons or organizing the icons on the desktop.  So lets go quickly over a couple of different options! First I will go over some more traditional ways to organize your icons, and they show you a way you can organize they WAY you want THEM! Topics covered today will be: How-To Find Arrange Desktop Icons Menu What is ‘auto arrange’, and how to turn that option off and on. Sort Icons by options, and What do the different options Mean? How To Arrange the Desktop Icons where I want them, and how to organize them by using the Grid.  How to Arrange the Desktop Icons how I want...

What is a Cloud?

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What is the Cloud? Today we are going to write about the term ‘The Cloud”. No doubt you have heard the term before either in print, or in the media. What is the Cloud?  Its basically a fancy word for online storage space. Storing something in the cloud is basically storing something on what they call a computer server at a different location.    If you look at the picture those TALL machines (on the right and left) are examples of computer servers. Confused yet?  Let me give you a more basic example! Where is the Cloud? Let’s say you have an email account at home with Yahoo, and you sign into your Yahoo account to see if you have any emails (the above picture).  The server at Yahoo SENDS those emails to your account so you can read them (From your web browser or internet browser).  Those emails were basically being stored on the server, and that technically is in the ‘cloud’ .  Yahoo’s servers ARE the storage space.  They ...