AOL expanded to India on Thursday with its first portal targeting Asia’s growing online population. Although AOL has been dropping its Internet access businesses around the world, it has been making a bigger push at delivering content through free Web sites in hopes of boosting advertising opportunities. AOL expanded its portal audiences in Europe as part of deals to sell off its access businesses there.

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You can set up your computer to log on automatically at startup even if it has more than one account or if your account is password-protected. You may like automatic logon if you’re the main user but sometimes others log on, or if you keep your own separate accounts for different tasks.

To log on automatically at startup:

1. Choose Start, type control userpasswords2 in the Search box, and then press Enter.
or
If you’re connected to a network domain, choose Start > Control Panel > User Accounts >Advanced Options. If a security prompt appears, type an administrator password or confirm the action.

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If your mouse has a wheel, you can scroll up or down by turning it.

■    In many programs you can press Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End to go to a document’s beginning or end. If yours won’t, the fastest way to scroll is to drag the scroll box to the top or bottom of the scroll bar.

■    In Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Notepad, and some other programs, you can right-click anywhere on a scroll bar to show a navigation shortcut menu .

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If you were raised on IBM 84-key, nonstandard laptop, or ergonomic keyboards, you may be near madness from the placement of the Caps Lock, Ctrl, and Windows logo keys on stan-
dard 102-key keyboards.

PC Magazine’s TradeKeys utility ($8 U.S.; www.pcmag.com) lets you change, swap, or disable keyboard keys (including modifier keys) in almost any way. Different users can switch among
different mappings quickly.

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The world’s major print newspapers have also launched online editions that you can browse for free. Many ask you to fill out a free registration form so the site can harvest a little demographic data for its advertisers. Other newspapers try to make a few bucks by charging for online articles, either by monthly subscription or per article. For example, a number of newspapers let you read breaking news for free, but make you pay for archived articles more than, say, a week old. News sites like Google and Yahoo News frequently link to articles on newspaper sites. If you hit a for-pay site, use your Back button and try another link. You can usually find the same article for free from another paper’s site.

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There are a variety of News sites offering plethora of news on any subject under the sun. Among them Google and Yahoo are topmost.  These sites let you peruse headlines from hundreds of news organizations at once. Broadcasters like the BBC and CNN have also created Web sites, making text versions of their storiesalong with photos, audio, and videoavail-able online. 

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