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Change/Set Default Win98 & Explorer

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by ronaldpornobi

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Situation: I have existing Word files saved in a folder in C: drive. I am using Windows 98 second edition operating system.

When I go to Explorer and point to the file I want to open, the AUTHOR and TITLE information shows up on the left side of the screen under the icon of the folder where the file is located.

The TITLE information shown is the wordings on the first line of the document.

I would like and prefer that this view of the Author and Title information be hidden or not displayed.

Any tip on how can I do this???
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Situation: I had my hard drive partitioned. So I have drive C and D. I also have drive E for my CD-ROM.

When I need to find a file or folder, I click on Windows Explorer then Tools the Find the Files or Folder.

At Find there is that section called ?Look in:? The default is always C: drive. I would like to change this default so that next time I use Find Files or Folders on Windows Explorer, the Look in: will be set on default for explorer to find on all local hard drives (C: AND D:)

My computer is on: Windows 98 O/S 2ed; MS Office 2000

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by joseph moore

Open up the documents in Word, then go to File -> Properties -> Summary tab. The info you see on the display is kept on this tab. Erase what you don't want shown, then save your changes.

As for your other question, I can't help. The setting is inthe Registry, though.

by thechas

When you open the find command from Windows Explorer, it uses the folder or drive sellected in the left pane of the explorer window as the "root" location, and searches from there.

You can manually edit the shortcut for Windows Explorer to open to My computer.
(of course, it would then search all drives, including removeable media)

This command will open Windows Explorer to My computer with My Computer selected.
C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n, /e, /select, C:\
Replace the command in your Windows Explorer shortcut with the above.

Chas

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