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Sauve Consulting provides IT and computer support in Cairns, Queensland and area. We support businesses and home customers with timely onsite service since February 2002.

On July 1, 2012 Robert Sauve Consulting was established along with the domain names:
sauveconsulting.com.au and sauveconsulting.com

Our current business name Sauve Consulting was established on January 24, 2018.
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Computer and IT services:

• Maintenance and Repair Service
• Virus and Malware Removal
• Data Backup/Restore Service
• Networking Services

Email Attachments: Photo Files

Are you getting complaints from friends  and family about the size of your emailed photo attachments?

Here is a solution:

1. In your Pictures folder locate and select a photo(s) you want to email
2. Right mouse click on the selected photo(s) and select Send to -->> Mail recipient.
3. Windows will prompt you with options to reduce the size of the photo(s) and will then attach them to a new email message.

This also works for other types of files such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF documents, etc (no size reduction allowed for these file types).

Alternatively, try Image Resizer for Windows: https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

1. Select some photos in your Pictures folder:

Note the size of the selected files in the status bar (above). The three selected photos are 9.56MB in size.

2. Now send the selected photos to your email client program (Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, etc):

3. Choose the size of the photos to be attached to you email message:


In this example the three selected photos will be reduced in size to "large 1024x768".

Photos are now attached and ready to send:

Look at the size difference between the original photos and the newly attached photos:

Original size: 9.56MB (9,560,000 Bytes)
Attached size: 414KB (414,000 Bytes)

Your email recipient will not notice a difference viewing the attached photos from the originals. However, If the recipientneeds to print the photos in their original size it is better to deliver them in full size on DVD disc, usb flash drive or use a cloud service such as Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud.

Expand Columns: Windows Techniques

Need to see text hidden behind a column list?

Hover your mouse cursor over the column header's right edge.
The mouse cursor will change shape to a move/directional cursor ().
Normally one would left mouse click-hold and drag (expand) the column to the right.
Instead, try a double left mouse click.
The column will automatically expand to the end of the longest line of text.

Expand a column in Windows Explorer Details view (before):

After:

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Right Mouse Button: Windows Navigation

Try using the right mouse button on any object or background (desktop image) in Windows.
You will find useful menu options relating to the specific selected object or background.
This technique will go a long way to help you understand how Windows or Windows programs work.


Right mouse click on selected objects in Windows Explorer:

Right mouse click on selected text in a Word document:

Selecting Windows Objects

The objects you see on your desktop, in your Documents folder or any other location are called icons. Icons represent files or folders.

What is the difference between a file and a folder?
Answer: A folder contains files. A folder can also contain more folders within, known as nested folders.

Think filing cabinet. A filling cabinet contains folders that hold sheets of paper.

Your PC contains folders that hold files. Files can be things like word processor documents, text documents, photos, videos, music tracks or a program.


An icon can also represent a shortcut. A shortcut is an iconthat points to a file or folder.


Icons can be selected in various ways. Windows Explorer is a program that is found in all versions of Windows and is used to navigate to and organize your files and folders.

Here are three examples of how to select files and folders using Windows Explorer.
Each example is shown in "Details" view and "large Icons" view:

Select a single icon: Left mouse click on a single icon, this icon is now selected and highlighted (wow!).

Details View:

Large Icons View:

Sequential select: As in the above example, click on a single icon. Now hold down the shift key and select another icon from above, below, or to the left or right of the selected icon. All icons between and including the first and last icons are now highlighted (selected).

Details View:

Large Icons View:

Random select: Press and hold down the control key (Ctrl) and click on a single icon. Continue to hold down the Ctrl key and select more icons. This highlights only the icons you select.

Details View:

Large Icons View:

Now with your selected icons, right mouse click anywhere within the highlighted areas and a context menu will appear. This menu will allow you to perform various options like Copy, Cut, Delete, Send to, etc.

Right mouse click on selected objects:

Thunderbird Signature

Question:
How to get rid of those annoying double dashes before the message signature?

Windows User Temp Folder

A quick way to get to your Windows User temp folder in Windows 2000/XP:
Start -->> Run -->> %temp% <enter>

Windows Vista/7:
Start -->> Search programs and files -->> %temp% <enter>

Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10:
-R -->> %temp% <enter>

In Windows Vista/7 you can select the Start button and select the "Search programs and files" field:

This will also work in Windows 8/8.1/10 if you have Classic Shell installed.

To open the Run Window Press and hold down the "Windows Logo" key (lower left hand corner of the keyboard) and press the "R" key:






You can safely delete all files and folders in this area, however, some items maybe active and can not be deleted.

A Windows Mantra

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Right mouse click for options
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Left mouse click for actions
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Use your left mouse button to select files or objects (double left mouse click to open or start)
Use your right mouse button to display options relating to a selected file or object.
This works for all things Windows.
Give it a try.

Read on for more Windows tips.

Windows Shortcut: Removable Drive

This Windows tip will allow you to create a shortcut on a removable device such as a USB flash drive. The shortcut will not be drive letter dependent and so will work on any Windows PC you plug the removable device into.

Explorer.exe in Shortcut Target

You can create a relative shortcut by using C:\%windir%\explorer.exe in your shortcut Target field.

Just create a shortcut on your removable device as normal.
1. Open the shortcut properties.
2. At the beginning of Target field add C:\Windows\explorer.exe followed by the existing path in “”.
3. Remove the drive letter from the path so it looks like this:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe “\path-to-target”