It’s fun to have a customized sound scheme. You can change the sounds that xp plays when you start your computer, log on, receive an error, etc. You can even record your own sounds.
To change the sound scheme:
Go to Control panel from the Start menu and click on Sounds, speech and audio devices.
Click on change the sound scheme.
Save your previous scheme if you want to and click on any event in the Program Events box to choose its sound.
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A service pack (SP), a term used by IBM and Microsoft, is basically a collection of updates, bug fixes and improvements. The latest service pack for Windows XP is SP. You can update to SP2 here: Service pack 2 for Windows XP.
Finding out which Service Pack you have is very easy.
Press the Windows key and Pause|Break at the same time and look in the System part of the System Properties Window.
Updating to Service Pack 2 has many advantages: several fixed security issues, better operation and various bug fixes.
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Internet Explorer has started to lose its popularity to Mozilla Firefox, as so many security holes and risks have been discovered. Mozilla makes an effort to update often solving new security issues. Firefox’s vast amount of plug-ins as an open source program is also useful.
Firefox is much safer and more user-friendly and it is recommended by most experts.
More info about Mozilla Firefox
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Often when your desktop freezes, or the taskbar disappears when you close a program, you don’t normally have to restart your computer, as often this just the case of explorer not responding. To fix this, open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Click on the Processes tab and look for explorer.exe. End it if it’s there and go back to Applications. Click on New Task and type explorer in the box and run it. Your desktop should reappear in a few seconds.
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