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Vance Hunt
has provided home-user help desk style support for his consulting company for over 6 years. Making his home in beautiful Southern California, Vance provides general computer Q&A for users via his weekly column.
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 | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| I miss <strike>Big Blue</strike> <strike>Baby Blue</strike> Lenovo. |
| By Vance Hunt |
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I have an IBM 16.5" monitor type 9516-B13 I have been trying to get the driver for this monitor from IBM. I am able to download a driver but I can not use it because each time I click on the driver ( to install it ) I get a message telling me that this driver is for a Lenov, or something, system.
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You're probably seeing a message telling you the driver is from
Lenovo, which is the
company that purchased IBM's ThinkPad (and a few other divisions) line.
As stand-alone LCD monitors and laptop monitors are really the same thing, it is
not that unexpected that your driver is now supported by them.
 The
page
with your monitor type does not show driver specific to that model type, and
the
user manual does not mention any drivers for any OS other than Windows 95.
The only thing on the
downloads page for this monitor that I can see for any OS other than Windows
95 is a color pallet and test patterns disk. As these are the official
pages from Lenovo and IBM for this monitor, I would double check where the
driver you have came from, and if it is, in fact, for a monitor and not a
display adaptor.
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When I right-click a file, I can choose to send it to my desktop or floppy disk using the Send To menu. Is there a way I can add to the send to menu to move the files to any location I want?
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The Send To menu created by displaying shortcuts, similar to the way the
Start Menu does. The shortcuts for the Send To menu (for Windows XP users)
under the Documents and Settings folder, your profile sub-folder, in the Send To
folder. When you select a file or files, Windows passes the file locations
of those file to the program specified by the shortcut, that then does whatever
that program is design to do. In most events, this is simply a shortcut to
a location on your computer and it is handled by the Windows Explorer.
There are several things you can do to expand this functionality.
The first is to add your own shortcut location. Say you like everything to
go to your USB Keychain drive (we'll call it drive letter U). Just
right-click in the Send To folder, select New | Shortcut, then type in U:\ and
follow the rest of the dialogs until you are done. Now you have that
destination. But just like the other shortcuts in this folder, it will be
a copy, not a move.
If you want to be more dynamic with this, you will need to think about either
using a
freeware/shareware application to move files, or script something on your
own. This script, for example, can be
placed in the Send To folder and will move a single file to a location you
specify. The script is not very dynamic but it shows a starting point.
The last option you have is to not use the Send To at all, but rather extend
the context menu on files and folders to include a Copy To and Move To option.
This can be done using the
Windows
tweak found here.
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