ГЖ CACHE - USE IT THEN LOSE IT    YOUR BROWSER'S CACHE CAN GROW TO AN ALARMING SIZE IF YOU BROWSE THE NET A LOT, BUT IT CAN BE A REAL TIME SAVER AND A MINI-GOLD MINE. FROM THE CACHE YOU CAN READ OFFLINE RATHER THAN ONLINE ALL THE WEB-PAGES YOU VISITED. IT IS ALSO NOT NECESSARY TO SAVE WEB-PAGES AND THEIR RELATED GRAPHICS WHILE YOU ARE ONLINE - THEY ARE ALL IN THE CACHE. MAYBE YOU SAW SOME GRAPHICS YOU LIKED WHILE BROWSING OR SEVERAL LINKS TO SITES YOU WANT TO VISIT LATER; THEY ARE ALL AVAILABLE IN THE CACHE. NO NEED TO SEPARATELY SAVE THEM WHILE ONLINE.
     A - GET THERE FAST - MAKE A SHORTCUT[S] TO YOUR CACHE FOLDER[S] AND PASTE IT ON YOUR DESKTOP.
      1]  : INTERNET EXPLORER AND AOL MEMBERS {USING THE 3.0 VERSION FOR WINDOWS 95 [32-BIT] }, CACHE FILES ARE NAMED "TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES" - MAKE A SHORTCUT TO THIS FOLDER WHICH IS IN THE WINDOWS DIRECTORY.
            a) INTERNET EXPLORER 3.X: TO GET AT THE "HARD" CACHE FILES, RIGHT CLICK ON THE CACHE SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP AND SELECT "EXPLORE FROM HERE". THE FOUR CACHE FOLDERS HOLD THE "HARD" CACHE FILES. FOR EASE OF USE, IT IS ADVISABLE TO MOVE ALL THE FILES IN EACH CACHE FOLDER INTO JUST ONE CACHE FOLDER. ALSO RENAME "HTML" EXTENSIONS TO "HTM" AND "ART" EXTENSIONS TO "GIF". SOME FILES MAY HAVE VERY STRANGE NAMES SUCH AS "AV%2|6%U?/O". THESE WON'T "READ" UNLESS YOU RENAME THEM WITH ACCEPTABLE CHARACTERS AND AN EXTENSION.

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b) INTERNET EXPLORER V4.X THE CACHED FILES IN THE "TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES" FOLDER ARE READABLE WITHOUT GOING INTO THE SUB-FOLDERS AS LONG AS THE "WORK OFFLINE" MODE IS SELECTED; THIS OPTION CAN BE SELECTED FROM FILE ON THE MENU BAR. WHEN YOU FIRST ATTEMPT TO OPEN A CACHED FILE, AN ERROR MESSAGE USUALLY APPEARS THAT "INTERNET EXPLORER CANNOT OPEN THE INTERNET SITE";THEN A "NAVIGATION CANCELED" SCREEN APPEARS. NOT TO WORRY. JUST SELECT "WORK OFFLINE' FROM THE FILE MENU, CLOSE THE "NAVIGATION CANCELED" FILE, AND RE-OPEN THE CACHED FILE YOU ORIGINALLY TRIED TO OPEN. GENERALLY THE FILES IN THE "TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES" FOLDER RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES AND DO NOT HAVE TO BE MANIPULATED AS WITH IE V3.X.
2] : NETSCAPE'S CACHE FILE IS IN THE NETSCAPE FOLDER. THESE ARE "HARD" FILES BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE SAME NAME AS THE ORIGINAL FILE. HENCE TRYING TO READ THESE HTM FILES OR THEIR ASSOCIATED GRAPHICS IS GENERALLY A GUESSING GAME. THERE IS A FREE PROGRAM AVAILABLE CALLED "MOZ.EXE" AT http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2414. THIS IS A DOS PROGRAM, BUT IF DOS IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO YOU, THERE IS AN EASY WORK-AROUND. TO AVOID ALL THE SWITCHES, PATHS AND COMMANDS YOU DON'T KNOW, JUST STICK A COPY [NOT THE ORIGINAL] OF MOZ.EXE ON YOUR DESKTOP. WHEN YOU NEED TO CONVERT YOUR CACHE TO THE ORIGINAL FILE NAMES, RIGHT CLICK ON "MOZ.EXE" ON YOUR DESKTOP AND SELECT COPY. NOW RIGHT CLICK ON THE NETSCAPE CACHE SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP, SELECT "TARGET" THEN SELECT "OPEN CONTAINER" WHICH WILL SHOW THE "CACHE" FOLDER. OPEN THE CACHE FOLDER AND PASTE IN AND OPEN MOZ.EXE.

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MOZ (/? for help) (c) 1997 Bruce Guthrie, Wayne Software Revised 09/08/97 Processing subdirectory: C:\PROGRA~1\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\CACHE\ Requires /COPY, /RENAME, or /SKIP option. Which one ( C, R, S, Esc ) ? R ................................. . . . .

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MOZ(/? for help)(c) 1997 Bruce Guthrie,Wayne Software Revised 09/08/97 Processing subdirectory: C:\PROGRA~1\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\CACHE\ Requires /COPY, /RENAME, or /SKIP option. Which one ( C, R, S, Esc )?R Parms: /RENAME /-ALL /MOZBACK=C:\MOZBACK.BAT /-SLIDES C:\MOZBACK.BAT exists already Overwrite (Y, N, Esc)? Y ................................. . . . .

TO CONVERT THE CACHE FILES FROM THE DOS SCREEN OF "MOS.EXE", TYPE IN R FOR RENAME WHEN ASKED TO CHOOSE COPY, RENAME OR SKIP. IF QUERIED TO OVERWRITE "MOZBACK.BAT", TYPE IN Y FOR YES AND EXIT THE DOS PROGRAM.
     B - RE-OPEN A PAGE: WHEN YOU WANT TO RE-VISIT A SITE THAT HAS SOME INTERESTING LINKS, BEFORE GOING ONLINE, OPEN THAT CACHE FILE AND MINIMIZE IT. AFTER SIGNING ON, RE-OPEN THE PAGE ON THE TASKBAR AND YOU NOW HAVE A PAGE WITH "LIVE LINKS" TO YOUR NEXT DESTINATION.
     C - PURGE THE CACHE: WHEN YOU'RE THROUGH WITH USING THE CACHE FILES, DELETE THEM TO RECLAIM HARD-DRIVE SPACE.
     D - MISSING PIXS?: WHEN OPENING AN HTM FILE FROM THE CACHE, OFTEN THE GRAPHICS DON'T SHOW UP BECAUSE THEY ORIGINATED FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTORY. BY OPENING THE UNDERLYING "TEXT" FILE OF THE WEB-PAGE AND DELETING THE SUB-DIRECTORY NAME PRECEDING THE "GIF", THE PICTURE WILL BECOME VISIBLE IN THE WEB-PAGE. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU SEE: IMG SRC="/IMAGES/RED.GIF", JUST DELETE THE TERM /IMAGES/ AND THE GRAPHIC WILL BECOME VISIBLE.

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ГЗ Q GET IT FASTER DO YOU FREQUENTLY FALL PREY TO THE ALLURE OF ALL THAT FREE SOFTWARE PLASTERED ALL OVER THE NET? BUT IT SEEMS EVERYBODY WANTS IT AT THE SAME TIME YOU DO OR THE COMPANY THAT IS OFFERING IT SENDS YOU 15 COOKIES AND 4 DIFFERENT WEB-PAGES TO GET AT YOUR PRIZE. THIS SOFTWARE RESIDES IN AN FTP DIRECTORY AND IF YOU CAN GET INTO THAT DIRECTORY, YOU CAN USUALLY GET THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF SURFING TO A WEB-SITE AND JOINING A CUE.

A. FTP - HOW TO GET THERE WITH A LITTLE INTUITION AND EXPERIENCE, YOU CAN GET INTO MOST FTP SITES TO DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE YOU WANT OFTEN FASTER THAN YOU CAN GRAB IT OFF AN "HTTP" SITE. AS AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU KNOW THAT "PCWORLD" IS OFFERING THE PROGRAM, YOU CAN GO RIGHT INTO THEIR FTP DIRECTORY WHERE PCWORLD UPLOADS THAT SOFTWARE. THEIR FTP ADDRESS IS FAIRLY SIMPLE TO FIGURE OUT - IT'S FTP.PCWORLD.COM. IN ORDER TO GET THERE, MAKE A BOOKMARK, FAVOURITE PLACE OR JUST TYPE THE FTP ADDRESS IN YOUR BROWSER'S ADDRESS BOX AS FTTP://FTP.PCWORLD.COM. OR, SOME ISP SOFTWARE HAS A DIRECT ROUTE TO FTP; FOR INSTANCE AOLers CAN USE KEYWORD "FTP" OR JUST ADD "FTP" TO THEIR "GO TO" MENU.

B. WHICH DIRECTORY? NOW THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED THE FTP, WHAT DO YOU SEE? USUALLY YOU WILL SEE FILES AND DIRECTORIES [I.E. FOLDERS]. IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WEB-SITE, THIS FTP WILL LOOK A LOT LIKE THE ONE YOU UPLOAD TO.] SO WHERE TO GO? USUALLY THE ANSWER IS THE DIRECTORY NAMED "PUB" OR SOMETIMES IT MAY BE WIN95, LIB OR PROGRAMS. WHEN YOU GET INTO THE "PUB" DIRECTORY YOU MAY SEE A LIST OF FILES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER WHEREIN YOUR DESIRED PROGRAM IS LISTED OR YOU MAY GET A MORE DETAILED LIST OF PROGRAM TYPES IN THEIR OWN FOLDERS SUCH AS "DESKTOP", "GRAPHICS", "MULTIMEDIA", AND "UTILITIES", FOR EXAMPLE. BY DRILLING DOWN THROUGH THE DIRECTORIES [MUCH LIKE ONE DOES IN FILE MANAGER OR WINDOWS EXPLORER], YOU SHOULD GET TO THE PROGRAM YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD. WITH A LITTLE EXPERIENCE, DIRECT DOWNLOAD FROM "FTP" IS OFTEN THE FASTEST AND MOST RELIABLE METHOD OF GETTING WHAT YOU WANT.

ГИBACKUP BLUES? Hate to do those full system back-ups because they take so long? Speed them up a litte. Before backing up- clean up and zip up. First empty the recycle bin, the "recent file", and all the caches. Second zip up large groups of files such as the Help files. After zipping up, delete the unzipped files, do your back-up then unzip. If you ever have to restore later from the backup, just unzip the restored files.
йAttention AOL Users [Win95 version]: If you have set your "GRAPHICS" preferences to 10 MB's or more, it is likely that your Main.idx file is several megabytes large. [The "Main.idx" file can be found in the AOL/IDB folder. It is mainly a graphic "cache" file that increases as you visit web-sites.] Just before backing up, open the AOL program [no need to sign on], access Members/Preferences on the Menu Bar. Select the graphics box and set the Graphics size to 1MB. After back-up is finished, reset the graphics preferences to its former value.

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ГЙINTERNET EXPLORER #4 - ONE BIIIIG BROWSERUnless you have a portable computer with a Gig or bigger hard drive and a 100+mhz CPU, IE 4.0 is going to cause a noticeable hit on your system's performance. Akin to running Win95 with 4MB of RAM - it can be done but it's a real strain. There is a real "problem" with IE 4.0 - it automatically overwrites IE 3.x and loads the Windows/System folder with new and revised DLL files. For a portable user who runs or stores programs on portable disks, the "ideal" programs are the ones who keep their "dll" files in their own folder. Conflicts and crashes are minimized and the size of the Windows/System folder is optimized. IE 4.0 is not just a browser, it is a revision to Win95's operating system and it sucks up a lot of your system's resources. This may very well impact your ability to run several apps simultaneously. If you install IE 4.0, before installation do a full system backup as well as separate registry and emergency recovery backups [Windows95 Emergency Recovery Utility is a freely available "CD-ROM extra" program which is very user friendly to those who "don't do DOS". Critical files including the Registry are backed up on a Floppy Disk. Restoration is as simple as changing the C:\ prompt to the A:\ prompt and typing erd.exe.] You may wish to go back to the lighter load of IE3.x. [Note: AOLers-If you are now using AOL3.0 for Windows95, once you install IE 4.0, your AOL built-in browser will become IE 4.0. If you use one or more of the Netscape browsers, your browsing performance is impaired because of the IE 4.0 overhead.]

ДА @ WEB AUTHOR? Do you have your own web-site? If so, visitors to your site may be using one of several browsers and your web-page(s) may look very different to them than the way you want it to. As a web-author you want to be aware of how your pages are going to look to the major browser programs because they all have differences in they way they "read" HTML. With a portable computer, you can most likely install and run Netscape Navigator 3.x, Netscape Communicator 4.x and either Internet Explorer 3.x or Internet Explorer 4.x especially with the aid of a portable disk. As you create/edit your web-pages, you can check their appearance with at least 3 browsers and make any necessary adjustments. If you want to keep your system running at its current performance, keep IE3.x as the active browser. [You can install IE4.x and then re-name the "Program Files" folder and the "Windows" folders to something like "4Program Files" and "4Windows". Then restore the old "Program Files" and "Windows" folders from the back-up you made before you installed IE 4.0. You may have to create a mini- "Windows\System" folder just to make your back-up program perform the restore operation - Windows will generally tell you which files are "missing" as you proceed with the restore. Just copy/paste the files Windows wants into your mini- "Windows/System" folder and NO others. Avoid any unnecessary cross-contamination between the Windows folders for IE3.x and IE4.x. If at the end of the restore operation, a message occurs telling you that there is trouble recreating the old registry, use the Emergency Recovery files on a Floppy Disk to restore your old files. Reboot to get your pre-IE 4.0 configuration up and running. With 2 separate sets of "Program Files" and "Windows" Folders on your hard drive, you are probably overloaded. Send the "4Program Files" folder and the "4Windows" folder off to portable disk(s). When you want to "see" what your web-pages look like to IE 4.0 users, copy/paste the "4Program Files" and "4Windows" to the hard drive, rename the existing "Program Files" and "Windows" folders to "3Program Files" and "3Windows" folder, then rename the "4Program Files" and "4Windows" folders to "Program Files" and "Windows". Re-boot and you will have IE 4.0 running as a stand alone browser and as the AOL3.0 for Windows95 browser if you use AOL. When you are through using IE 4.0, delete the "Program Files" and "Windows" folders and then rename the "3Program Files" and "3Windows" folders to "Program Files" and "Windows". Re-boot and your old configuration is back with IE 3.x. Be advised with all this folder moving and renaming, Windows is going to warn you that you may be impacting your programs. Well, that's exactly what your intentions are. Also, this shuffling of Browsers and their related files is a time consuming operation and must be done with care.]

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ДБ JKL TECH SUPPORT When trouble comes that requires outside help, don't become a Tech Support "guinea pig". You could well end up in a lot worse shape than from where you started. Some of these "engineers" shoot from the hip or are just plain over their head but will still offer a "solution" that will become your "dissolution". Try a variety of sources and compare the "cures" before proceeding. If the "engineer" you contacted has no experience with your problem, try to get a little higher up the chain to find someone who does. It's not your job to break in new tech help employees. You will end up paying for their errors.

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