1. What is it with Adobe/pdf files? What is Adobe used for, and why is it any different from any other browser, if that's what it is? (somehow I have been 20 years working with computers and never found this out).
2. I know www. stands for World Wide Web, but why are some URLs "http://website.com" and some http://www.website.com? Is there some advantage to having www. in your URL? Or in not having it?
3. I read Dwight's icon size advice on winorlose's thread, and I know how to adjust my screen resolution. But what confuses me is that everything else - toolbars, taskbar, navigation bar, etc., etc., doesn't change with it. It seems they all have to be separately changed. Is this right?
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Adobe is not a browser, it's a system that manufactures application software such as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. The .pdf is the extension which stands for Portable Document Format. Acrobat is used to relay information in a fixed format that looks like a publication such as a magazine page or a map. You need Acrobat Reader to view .pdf files and that is a free download available from adobe.com
When browsing the web you will see links that state they are .pdf or available to view in html. If you click the .pdf version, acrobat reader will launch automatically (if you have it installed on your computer) and open up the document in a format that might look like a presentation, a brochure, a diagram, a textbook, a catalogue, etc. If you view the same documennt in html pictures might be missing and there will be no fixed format.
Urls with the prefix of "www" are not necessary now. The prefix was used in the past when organizations named servers according to the services they provided. Web servers were labeled with "www", ftp servers were "ftp" and news servers were "nntp". Host names followed. The "www" is not required by any technical standard and has no affect on the way a website is shown. It was just a prefix and no advantage to having it in a web address.
Someone else will have to answer your third question
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3. I read Dwight's icon size advice on winorlose's thread, and I know how to adjust my screen resolution. But what confuses me is that everything else - toolbars, task bar, navigation bar, etc., etc., doesn't change with it. It seems they all have to be separately changed. Is this right?
Yes, you will have to resize the toolbars, taskbar, navigation bar, etc., unless you use a preset "Theme".
You will find several pre-installed Desktop Themes in the Display Properties dialog box.
1) Right click anywhere on an unused portion of Desktop 2) Choose "Properties" from the right-click menu 3) In the Display Properties, Click the "Themes" tab 4) Select any theme that you wish and OK your selection
If you find you don't like your choice, you can go back into the Display Properties dialog box and choose "None" in the Themes tab.
Dwight
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