I was looking at a friend's new computer with Windows 98 and noticed that the program list, the one that appears when you click Start/Programs, was not alphabetized. Try as I will, I could not get these to sort "correctly." Is this a bug or a feature of Win98?
The reason that the Start menu doesn't list programs alphabetically is because one can put each entry wherever one wants it simply by dragging it to the desired spot, a feature not in Windows 95, where alphabetization was the norm. The plus side is that you can list programs that have similar functions together even if they have different names, for example, putting Adobe Acrobat with Xerox Text Bridge. The downside is it's harder to find programs not listed in alphabetic order.
I am attempting to install an HP 540 printer , but I lost the installation disk. Using the driver supplied with Windows 98, I have no color capability. So I downloaded the driver from Hewlett Packard's Web site and attempted to install it with "Add a Printer/Have Disk." I get a message saying that the system cannot find files on disk. Now what?
You did a great job wading through all kinds of complexities, only to get poleaxed just one step shy of success. Sloppy programming by Microsoft fails to explain how to find drivers you have downloaded onto your hard drive when you get to the point where Windows asks you to click the "Have Disk" button, which is set to look only in the A: drive.
Right next to the Have Disk button is one that says Browse. This lets you call up all drives on your computer and select where on the C: drive that HP driver sits.
I enjoy using my video camera to make home movies. Is there a computer program that will allow me to use my video camera, VCR, microphone and portable CD player to make excellent edited home movies, with title pages, music, narration, superior sound and picture quality?
You can get everything on your wish list except superior picture quality Avid Cinema 1.0, and a video card such as WinTV 404. The software costs about $150 and the video card is just a tad below $100.
Avid software lets you play videotapes through the WinTV card and saves the clips as digital film files.
It then lets you overlay music or voice from a variety of sources including music CDs, tape recorders or a microphone.
The downside is that the quality of the video in the movies you ultimately make is far from superior.
Pub Date: 03/15/99