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LAST WEEK I described the official release of Windows 2000. I celebrated this event by giving you four"quick tricks" from my new book, Windows 2000 Secrets (www .idgbooks.com), co-authored with Bruce Brown and Bruce Kratofil of BugNet fame.
Most of the secrets in this, the ninth book I've authored or co-authored on Windows, take a page or more to explain. So I've chosen 10 "quick tricks" whose main virtue is that they fit into a single paragraph. Here we go with the second installment of tricks, five through 10, in no particular order.
5. A personal portal in five minutes. Tired of Web "portals" that are just trying to sell you things? It's easy to create your own personal, noncommercial Web portal. Simply create a document in a modern word processor, such as Microsoft Word 97 or 2000, and type in the Web pages you want to have on your list. Save the file in HTML format anywhere on your hard disk. (To do this, click File, Save As, then look for HTML or .HTM as a file format you can save to.) In your browser, make this your Start Page. In Internet Explorer 5, for example, click Tools, Internet Options, then click the...