Will Office 95 run on Windows 98 ?

yes!

I have a HP Pavilion 266Mhz operating Win 95vB with a HP keyboard. There are 3 keys in line with the F-keys that do not seem to operate. Can anyone tell me any thing about them. They are labeled: 1.Print Screen/SysRq,2.Scroll Lock, and 3. Pause/Break with the slash in this question representing a straight line between the words. I have only tried to use the Screen Print. Just pressing Screen Print - nothing, tried Ctrl-Screen Print - nothing, tried Shift-Screen Print - nothing. I want to be able to ave something on my screen and print only what I see (which we could do in Dos). So far I have been unsuccessful in my attempts. Any help is appreciated.

hi rose! those keys are somewhat antiquated. they were used fairly heavily in the old DOS days, but don't do too much anymore in this day of GUIs and mouses. however, the Screen Print key does do something pretty cool: it allows you to capture "screen shots" or snapshots of your screen. to do this, just hit the Screen Print key (nothing will happen). then, open up the Paint program (most likely under Start -> Programs -> Accessories. in the Paint program, pull down the Edit menu, then select "Paste." Voila! you will have an image of your screen captured in your Paint program. you can then save this as a new file or print it out. this feature is very useful when you are writing instructions on how to do something in Windows, or when you want to show someone some weire error dialog box. have fun!

Ray, thanks a million. I tried it (printed your directions for future reference) and it worked great. Now I can print things without a zillion pieces of wasted paper. Well, not quite wasted, it all goes back to the Express-News! Now another question (which I should have read about). What are all those F keys doing these days. I know F8 well and I have discovered F5 when I am in safe mode. What do the others do (we used to program all of them). Really appreciate all the help, hope some others discover this site soon.

no prob, rose. the F keys are pretty much wide open. in Windows 98, they serve a lot of different functions, most of which are documented in the online help with Win98 and all of the other programs you might use. i am not much of an F key person, but perhaps someone else will be along here that can tell us how they like to use the F keys!

Well, I hope someone else has questions soon - hate to feel like the only one. Have HP 266MHZ, operating Win95B, just 1 yr. old. Needed to replace virus detection software and chose McAfee since it was the OEM choice. Got McAfee Office as it seemed like the best buy for my money. Installed according to their suggested order: a)Virusscan; b)UnInstaller; c)First Aid 98 and d) Nuts & bolts 98. Re-booted after every installation. Everything seemed to work fine except everything slowed down to a snail's pace and I lost all my games (only FreeCell and Solitaire are important to me). Tried to uninstall Nuts and Bolts and crashed. Most of it is gone but the crash occurred before all was removed and the rest won't remove now, but my speed is back. Other than going back to my HP recovery disk and starting from scratch again, is there any way I can recover FreeCell and Solitaire?

wow! what a mess! the loss of your games may just be due to having the shortcuts to those games messed up. check your C:\WINDOWS directory for two files, FREECELL.EXE and SOL.EXE. the best way to find these two files is to use the find function. Go the Start button, then go to Find, then go to Files or Folders. Enter FREECELL to search for the FREECELL.EXE program. if it turns up on the search results, move your mouse pointer on top of the icon fro FREECELL.EXE in the search results window. Hold down your right mouse button and drag the icon out to your desktop. let go of the right mouse button. a little menu will appear. left click on "Create shortcut(s) here" VIOLA! you will have created a shortcut on your desktop to the Freecell program!! do the same for SOL.EXE if you do a search and neither FREECELL.EXE or SOL.EXE are on your system, then you will have to restore your system from with WIn95 CD good luck!

Ray, you are just great! Not only do you know this 'stuff' so well but you make others feel so comfortable asking dumb questions. I sure do appreciate it; especially with you having a new job assignment. THANKS Lots.

thanks, rose. its nice to get some positive feedback!

Well, Ray, it looks like I am still the only one asking questions. Of course, this like my other questions is a real mountain. I received a lot of pictures via e-mail of great neices/nephews. Don't want these on my hard drive but do want to save them. I can save on diskette (ultimately will put them on LS120) but then can not open the pictures on my computer. They were all sent as .jpg but Picture It won't open them. What can I do to put them on a disk so that I can then open them? RLS

hi rose! that is odd that you cannot open the pix on diskette. are the pix *definitely* on the diskette? you might want to use Windows Explorer to view the contents of the diskette to make sure that the files are there.

Good News! With Joe Gentry's guidance and with a photo program, I have, that came with Sierra Print Artist, I was able to open the pictures in IPhoto Express. Just got started with IPhoto and haven't figured it out, so am not yet able to do much manipulation, but can make copies. I tried Picture It, Imaging, and Paint and none of those programs would cooperate. The icon attached to the pictureslooks like a word icon but without the 'W'. Instead it has a large red 'A' in the lower right corner of the icon (a sheet of paper with the upper right corner turned over). I can not find that icon on anything in my PC. I suspect my neice scanned the pictures into a document program and than saved and sent them from that program but I don't know what. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP. Rose Lynn

I am learning. The document that my neice used was Wordpad. I also have purchased MGI Photosuite and that will open some of these pictures, also.RLS

Hi to All - We need some action on this site to let students see it in operation I have a HP 712C Deskjet that is sick. I had a paper jam while doing envelopes. Since then it has been out of alignment especially in The Print Shop Deluxe Version 6. My cards do not come out lined up properly. They are not centered. I have played with the Print Properties in the Program, and I have run through the cleaning and aligning of the printer in the print menu. It has been cleaned etc. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do next? I thought of uninstalling the memory and reinstalling it from the CD, but I do not know what I would gain with that. I would appreciate all the assistance I can get. Thanks, Jane

Sent an e-mail directly to you, so will repeat my possible solutions. I have the hp 722C. 1) See if you have a toolbox; if so, go to Printer Services and go through the services one at a time. It might be of value to go over the other tabs in the toolbox dialog window, too. 2)What about your manual? Mine is really complete and answers a lot of questions. The company, Computer Express, is an authorized hp service center and I have found them to be very helpful. 3)hp has a web site just for their pri ters, have you checked the FAQ's on their site? 4)I don't think that 'uninstall and reinstalling' your printer can do any harm and it just might do the trick. Good Luck, Rose Lynn

Hi again - I have a mouse problem now. It will click but it will not double-click. I can click on an item once and then hit Enter and get there. In mouse properties, the test square will not function. Does anyone have any suggestions. I would appreciate some help. Even, go but a new mouse is acceptable. I just want some assurance that I need one. Also, I am reading the Printer manual and I know alot and understand very little. The Printer still is not working. Computers are a humbling experience. Thanks to you all, Jane

Indeed they are humbling. They are as humbling as the people who made them, who are incidently as humbling as the people we meet every day. My assumption: PCs were created by zen-crazed daoists to teach us all our place. And improve the grace with which we accept defeat. Two things Western civilization seriously needs, if somebody were to ask me, but fortunately, nobody does. Dear Jane, to deal with the more immediate problem, have you tried changing the setting for double-click speeds? Or tried to double-click really fast... Do the right mouseclicks still work? While you're at it, you may want to switch the box off and turn the mouse over, open the belly-clap and clean its tummy. Not that it will have immediate impact on the current problem, but there'll be a lot of stuff sticking against the cylinders noticing mouse-movements. This ought to improve handling your digi-rodent. Also check if the plug is sitting tight in the appropriate socket. With finest regards, Alexander Resident Bigot, The Spring.

Yes, Alexander - You were right, of course. I got cocky and set the mouse speed to max and no great grandmother can double click that fast. However i did buy a new mouse in the process. It is a Logitech First Mouse+, and it is the best thing since sliced bread. It has a roller wheel that scrolls pages and it a real pleasure to use. It is for left or right handed people. I am left handed but use a right handed mouse and double click with my middle finger. It fits all my needs. Thanks for caring, Jane

No sweat. Anytime. Just one question: Since when is sliced bread something good? Wondering, Alexander Resident ***Perhaps I Could Sleep Better If I Had A Dictionary***, The Spring

This is my first attempt If I have a question is this the only way I can ask it? Do I have to go to All in seniorcomp, then 20 questions from students, then go through all the responses, and then enter my question in the box at the end? I think this is a wonderful forum but I'm confused about how to ask my question. Audrey

Dear Audrey, whenever you come here again (e.g. this time you read this), you should only see the new responses posted since you last looked in here. If you want to see the older things, use the "Back-up and redisplay from response number: "-function by entering a number (less than last response, equal or greater than 0). I often have something like the last five or ten responses redisplayed, to remember what preludes the current postings and what the others reply to. This is how it's for me, using Netscape's Navigator. If you do this via telnet, it is different, and I do not know how. But Wer would know... Have you ever tried any of the other flavors here at the Spring? Collecting, Music, Books, Movies, all kinds of fun places! And nice people, too...

Can anyone out there explain to me (in easy terms)what "Microsoft Fast Find" is for? How does it work? Is it necessary to have in the StartUp? Does the Index die away at BootUp? I couldn't find anything on it in the Help. Would appreciate it. Joe

hi joe! MS Fast Find is a utility for searching your hard drive for files, images, documents, folders, anything. when you first run it, you have to let it build a database of information regarding the contents of your hard drive. once that database is made, you can run fast find to help you locate stuff. it is not necessary to have it in Startup, unless you plan on using it much. you might want to take a look at this web page for more info... http://www.altavista.software.digital.com/search/11/index.asp

Thank You Ray for your response. It was already in the StartUp, I didn't put it there. So I was just wondering how much resources it uses. The only Index that is listed is the C drive. I use the Find Files and Folders very seldom, so it might be beneficial for me to remove it from startup. If that is the only thing that it does. Thank You Joe

I have a question. Does anyone know what the purpose is for all the Files with Extensions .LGC that are located in the hidden Windows/applog folder? Joe

hey joe. those files are used in various housekeeping functions by windows. windows stores information about particular programs in those files, each of which is named for the program it represents. the info includes stuff about the positions of the files when defrag is run, info about speeding up the functions of the programs, etc.

Thank You Ray, I appreciate the rapid response and explanation. Joe

Ray I copied all the files to my B Zip just in case and deleted only the LGC files. There was about seven other files left LGA,LGD and etc. So far it hasn't exploded so maybe I'll survive. I have opened several programs but nothing has been added to the folder yet. When would this occur I wonder. Thanks again for your help. Joe

I have 220 files and 20 folders in my Windows Temp folder. Not all of these have a TMP extension. I am puzzled about where all these files came from and wheather it is safe to delete them. Thanks, Sarah

hey sarah. delete those suckers!! windows generates them while it goes about its business. the Temp folder is kind of a "scribble pad" for windows to use day-to-day. it is safe to delete the files.

Thank you Ray! It was great of you to take the time to answer. Sarah

Hi Ray, My daughter-in-law sent me a file with pictures and I am unable to read it. At the very top of the file it says,"This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0" I know that it was sent from her Apple computer. I hate the idea of telling her that I cannot open it. Help Please. Sarah

Ray, Joe suggested that I try Winzip and sure enough I was able to extract the photos and then open them in Corel's Paint 8 program. I am still curious about this BinHex 4.0. It took a long long time to download the files from the ISP. Sarah

Hi Everybody - I had stopped visiting the Spring because it seemed that no one else was visiting. Sure am glad to see that it is active now. Miss you guys.RLS

hi rose! i am pretty busy right now but try to check in here as often as possible.