Wi-Fi Market To Hit $3.1B By 2007

The Wireless LAN-802.11 market will grow from $1.5 billion in 2002 to $3.1 billion by 2007, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. The group said in its “Wireless LAN FiveYear Forecast” that most products will transition from 802.11b to 802.11g and then to 802.11 Multimode (802.11a/g), with the exception being Enterprise-class access points.

“As the barriers to WLAN deployments in the Enterprise fall and as WLAN clients and networks proliferate outside of the Enterprise, we will see increased penetration of WLAN in Enterprise environments,” the study said.

“I thought that files in ‘My Documents’ were private, but then I noticed something. In Windows Explorer, I can look at the ‘My Documents’ folders belonging to other users just by navigating to C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents. What can I do to keep the other users from doing the same with my own private documents?”

If you share a computer with others, you may want a bit more protection for your personal files than Windows XP offers by default. There are two easy ways to achieve this: Create a password-protected compressed folder or encrypt an existing folder.

Password-protected compressed folders can be created on NTFS or FAT32 partitions. Opening a password-protected folder requires the right password. To protect files using a compressed folder, right-click in the desired location and choose New | Compressed (zipped) folder. Name the folder and move the files into it. Open the compressed folder and select File | Add password .

Encrypted folders are supported only on NTFS partitions. Rather than requiring you to enter a password, these folders are available only to you. If you want to encrypt a folder and its contents, right-click on the folder, choose Sharing and Security from the Context menu, click on the General tab, and click on the Advanced button. In the Advanced Attributes dialog, check the box Encrypt contents to secure data. Click on OK and then OK again. Win XP will encrypt the folder and its contents.

You won’t notice any change except that the folder name displays in a different color. Other users, however, will no longer have access to the folder.

Save an Excel chart as a GIF file. Use this script:

Sub savechart()

If TypeName(Selection) = “ChartArea” Then

userFname = InputBox(“Filename of chart” _

& ” file?”, “Save chart”, “excelchart”)

If userFname = “” Then Exit Sub

userNameAndPath = ThisWorkbook.Path & “\” & userFname & “.gif”

ActiveChart.Export Filename:=userNameAndPath, FilterName:=”GIF”

MsgBox “Chart is saved as” & Chr(13) & userNameAndPath

Else

userReply = MsgBox(“Please select a Chart Area, ” _

& “then run macro again”, vbOKOnly, “Error in selection”)

End If

End Sub

Question: When I run Internet Explorer, the window opens a tiny window or sometimes i cant even find it. How do I reset it to open in a full window all the time?

Solution: Resize a IE explorer window to your preference. Close the window by holding the Shift key and clicking the X icon in its top-right-hand corner. The next time you open IE, it will remember you setting. Reapply this trick as needed.

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