Housekeeping

Housekeeping: Preparing Your Teacher Station for Re-Image


 * Save Your Favs **


 * Save Favorites in Internet Explorer 8: ** IE improved their favorites bar to make it easier to find your favorite websites. Video on how to add and organize favorites in Internet Explorer: [|Internet Explorer 8 favorites video]or follow these directions: [|How to Backup and Restore Favorites]


 * Save Favorites in Google Chrome: **Chrome differs because you actually save your favorites to your Google account and can be accessed on any computer as long as you are signed into Google Chrome!!! Here is a video on how to add favorites: Add Bookmarks to Google Chrome (2 minutes).


 * Clean Up Your Desktop **

Do you find that you have a lot of icons on your desktop screen and can't find specific file? Then you need to clean up your desktop! You can have the computer automatically locate and sort items on your desktop based on how frequently you use them.

Here is Microsoft's online guide to using their program to clean up your desktop: [|Online Guide to Cleaning Your Desktop]

You can also manually clean up your desktop. Right click on a blank spot on your desktop, a mini menu will pop up.
 * Click on new folder.


 * You can rename the folder and drag icons/documents/application into this folder. For example, you could have a "Weekly Parent Letter" folder on your desktop and drag all of your word documents into this folder rather than cluttering your desktop.

Clearing Your Browser's Cache
If you are finding yourself having issues with your browser and loading some of your pages you might need to clear you cache. This [|site] lists directions on how to do that for all the different browsers you might be using.