Articles Archive for March 2008
General, Shortcuts, Tutorials »
I’m surprised that many people don’t actually know this, and reach for their camera to take a picture of the current screen image.
Most keyboards have a special button Prt Scr / Sys Rq on them. It’s just to the right from F12. When pressed, it captures the current screen into a bmp image which can be pasted (Ctrl + V) into any image editing software. Even Paint will do.
The only problem is that you can only take one screenshot, if you take another, the previous one will be erased. The …
General, Other, Shortcuts, Tutorials »
Tap Ctrl and + to make text larger or Ctrl and – to make text smaller.
PS: Sorry for no posts the last few days, my connection was down.
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Appearance, Performance, Tutorials »
By disabling unneeded visual effects, you can speed up your windows xp pretty much.
How to change display effects:
Go to control panel from the start menu
Open performance and maintenance
Choose adjust visual effects
In the window that appears, uncheck any effects that you don’t consider necessary, or just choose “Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer”
Hit OK and you’re done!
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Performance, Tutorials »
You probably need only half the programs that have been set to be loaded at startup. Having too many programs drastically slows down your startup. It’s very easy to specify which ones you want to start automatically. It’s wise to leave all the anti virus and system tools.
Here’s what you need to do:
Go to Run from the Start menu
Open “msconfig” (without the quotes!) and click OK
In the windows that opens, choose the Startup tab
Make your choices by unchecking the programs you don’t need to load at startup
Hit OK and restart …
News »
A new beta version of Internet explorer was released this week at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. According to Microsoft, the browser will render the Acid2 browser test correctly and supports CSS 2.1. It also has various other bug fixes and improvements. In addition to IE8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 (all in beta) were released.
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General, Tutorials »
Open up Microsoft Solitaire from Start -> All Programs -> Games
1. When clicking on the stack in the top-left of the game, three cards will come. To have them come one-by-one, press down Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking on the stack.
2. Instantly Win: Alt + Shift + 2
3. Illegal move. Drag any card anywhere and press Escape before you release it.
4. All cards up. Ctrl + A will move any cards up that can move to their suit deck.
Happy cheating!
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