The Best Way To View These Pages
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AOL (America Online) Users
For BEST RESULTS displaying any of our descendant trees in AOL, MAXIMIZE the browser window in which it displays (the one with the red heart in the upper right region of the blue window banner). To MAXIMIZE the window, click on the button with the square picture, located two positions to the right of the red heart. If your screen is already maximized, the window banner will be grey instead of blue and you will not see the red heart. Therefore, if you wish to bookmark the page (add this page to your favorites), you will have to first restore the screen's original size by clicking on the RESTORE button (the one that looks like a double square) next to the "close box" (the box with the "x" in it) in the upper right hand corner of the GREY window banner.
WARNING!
With your screen maximized in AOL, the grey window banner displays directly underneath the blue America Online application banner. The AOL application banner also contains Minimize, Restore and Close buttons in its upper right area, so you will see one set of these controls in the blue area and another set in the grey area.
DO NOT CLOSE YOUR BROWSER WINDOW WHILE IT IS MAXIMIZED!
Even though you may click on the "close box" in the grey area, AOL may disconnect you and terminate your session. Therefore, you should click on the MINIMIZE or RESTORE buttons in the grey banner before closing the window.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Users
These pages were created with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 under Windows 95/98, using display properties as follows:
Screen Area of 640 x 480 pixels with 24 bit True Color and SMALL fonts
In order to view our pages, particularly the Outline Descendant Trees, the way they were intended to be viewed, you may want to determine what your current display properties are and make temporary adjustments to your text size in your Internet Browser Window.
Settings can be found by following this Windows 98 Menu path:
[Start] [Settings] [Active Desktop] [Customize My Desktop] [Settings] [Advanced]
Or this Windows 95 Menu Path:
[Start] [Settings] [Control Panel] [Display] [Settings] [Advanced]
Windows 95/98 users
If you are using Windows 95/98 and you are viewing web pages in the Internet Explorer 5.0 browser window, the text size may be changed from the View menu without rebooting.
In this case, the following settings provide the best viewing of our pages.
If your display properties are set at:
640 x 480, using SMALL fonts, no adjustment should be necessary.
640 x 480, using LARGE fonts, set the text size to "smallest"
800 x 600, using LARGE fonts, set the text size to "medium"
800 x 600, using SMALL fonts, set the text size to "larger"
Important Note about Changing Display Font Size in Windows Control Panel
We do NOT recommend changing your Display Font Size (or any other Display Properties) in the Windows Control Panel simply to view our pages. But if you should decide to do so for your own reasons, there are a few things you should take into consideration.
In order to reset Display Properties, including the Default Font Size, in Windows 95/98, you must first close all programs and then reset your font from the Advanced menu, as indicated above. After clicking Apply and then OK (or click on Apply again for this screen), the system will prompt you to reboot. Font size will not be changed until this is done. However, we don't recommend giving a reply of Yes to this prompt, since programs you've recently terminated, especially Internet Service Provider software (America Online, for example) may require at least 20 to 30 seconds of background processing time to completely shut down after they appear to be closed, and terminating Windows before that happens is not a very good idea. Therefore, we recommend giving a reply of No to the restart prompt. You can then give your programs sufficient time to close, after which you can shutdown the way you normally do.
Also, you may experience some problems with your event sound files after changing the display font size. For some reason, as a result of changing display font size, Windows can lose its pointers to the filenames for the event sounds, such as your Windows startup music (if you have any) and the dings or beeps you hear when you try to perform certain operations in any given Windows application. You might want to check your .wav filenames and locations before changing the display font size. That will make it easier to set them up again after you've settled on a screen and font size you'd like to keep. Before plunging on to reset your sound settings, it's always a good idea to bring your system to a complete shutdown (power off) and bring it up again, to see if that doesn't solve the problem.
If not, the sound settings can be found by following this menu path for Windows 95/98.
[Start] [Settings] [Control Panel] [Sounds]
Once there, click on the function in the Events window and if a window pops up to tell you that Windows cannot find the .wav file and asks if you want to use the specified file anyway, reply "yes". This will be the filename you should look for in the Browse window. The full path should be given for the sound file that worked for that event before Windows lost its pointer when you changed your font size setting. Simply locate that file in the Browse window, select it and click on the OK button. Your sound should play when you click on the forward arrow next to the preview box. If the sound plays, then go on to retrieve the sound for another event. When you're finished, click on the OK button and you're all set.
If nothing plays, then you may have lost your sound driver(s) and you are on your own (sorry). All we can tell you is that the drivers should be on your Windows installation CD, a special Drivers CD that came with your system or possibly on the CD that came with your sound card, if you have one (or you may have to download them from the Website of your sound card manufacturer), but check your C:\ drive first, just in case you didn't really blow them away. You may even find the filenames of the drivers still listed in your
[Start] [Settings] [Control Panel] [System] [Device Manager] display. Once there, click on Sound Controllers, select the Controller for your sound card and continue the path as follows: [Device Drivers] [Driver File Details].
Mind you, we are NOT recommending that you change anything, delete anything, remove or install anything unless you know what you are doing. But following the above menu path may tell you what the names of your sound drivers are. How you manage to put them back into operation is a matter of your skills and the support you get from your software and hardware vendors. That is all that we can say without possibly getting you into trouble. Good luck!
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Screen Area of 800 x 600 pixels with 24 bit True Color and LARGE fonts
With the 800 x 600 setting, the right 15-20% of the screen will be empty.
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[My Computer] [Control Panel] [Display] [Settings] [Advanced]
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[My Computer] [Control Panel] [Display] [Settings] [Advanced]
No other display sizes, browsers or platforms have been available to us for testing. Any feedback from those of you who run Windows 3.1, Internet Explorer 3.x or 4.x, Netscape or Mac browsers on this or other issues relating to our page formatting is most welcome.
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[My Computer] [Control Panel] [Sounds]
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