Unexpectedly, this actually turns out to be an excellent and useful thread :-)

I would like to add something that hasn't been reminded to newcomers yet : encouraging members to a) search before posting and b) use descriptive titles when they create new threads, are in a way the same thing.

When you need to find something buried in two year's worth of accumulated posts, it's sometimes difficult to find the right keywords. Even then, if those keywords are not very specific, there can be a lot of "noise" mixed up with the useful hits.

One of the best ways around this is to use advanced search and first search in topic titles only : if your keyword(s) appear in the topic title itself there's a much better chance the contents will be useful to you.

Of course, that only works if the topic creator went to the trouble of composing a meaningful title for it. Otherwise, the info you need may be hidden inside a "help me!" or a "Strange problem!" topic, and you will have a harder time finding it...