Apple’s iTunes, MTV’s Urge, and similar online stores take the pain out of buying music, but the embedded digital rights management technology in the songs adds a new headache, limiting where you can play them and how often. Some xapps strip out DRM by cracking the encryption, but that tends to be illegal.
You can achieve [...]
The Shutdown.exe command can shut down or restart your computer, optionally forcing it to shut down even if some programs attempt to prevent it. But it does not include an option to hibernate. If you hibernate quite often, then you can have a desktop shortcut for quickly putting your PC into hibernation.
To create a shortcut, [...]
It sometimes feels irritating when Acrobat Reader takes around 5-10 seconds to load a PDF document. It’s mainly because of the plugins it has to load that it slows down. You can speed up the loading by removing the plugins you do not require.
To do so, follow the steps below:
1. Make sure Adobe Reader is [...]
In Microsoft Windows XP, you can select the Thumbnails view for any folder, thereby gaining a quick way to find images. In some earlier Windows versions, you first had to right-click on the folder, choose Properties, and check a box titled Enable Thumbnail View. Either way, Windows generates a small thumbnail image for every file [...]
Having file extensions visible can make certain malicious programs in your e-mail in-box more obvious. For example, showing a file attachment such as image.jpg.exe, which would otherwise have the harmless-looking name image.jpg. On the other hand, displaying all file extensions all the time looks ugly, makes file names more difficult to read, and increases your [...]
The Registry in Windows XP has a feature that it remembers the last-used key. It also has the ability to save often-used keys as Favorites. The only way to disable this feature is to restrict the Registry from saving the last-used key information. To do this, open regedit and look for this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit
Right-click on the [...]
