Keeping XP working for you

Written by mark white


XP RECOVERY CONSOLE

Imaginerepparttar situation, you are about to start your days work on your trusty computer when blimey,repparttar 107675 thing won’t boot up. The reason could be a dodgy driver or an unknown virus may haverepparttar 107676 master boot record all in a tizzy,repparttar 107677 first thing you do is tryrepparttar 107678 automatic recovery to try and return torepparttar 107679 last know configuration (Usually f8 when booting then choose safe mode fromrepparttar 107680 menu options then all programs/ accessories/system tools/system restore ). If this doesn’t work you will have wished you had installedrepparttar 107681 little know recovery console supplied onrepparttar 107682 XP disk. This tool is not installed as default by Microsoft so you will have to do it yourself. It takes a mere 7MB and will take about 30 to 45 minutes. Insert your XP disk and fromrepparttar 107683 run box and type in or browse to di386WINNT32.EXE /cmdcons and press OK (d being shown asrepparttar 107684 letter drive your XP disk is in) . You will be prompted throughrepparttar 107685 installation process which when complete will addrepparttar 107686 option to boot intorepparttar 107687 recovery console upon start up.

HOW TO USE IT

Once selected fromrepparttar 107688 boot up screen you will have to choose a which installation you want to go to, this is for people that have multiple systems on their computer so if you only have 1 press 1 and enter. You should now be atrepparttar 107689 system root which is usually C:/windows A full list of commands is available atrepparttar 107690 HELP section, just type help and enter and you will be told everything thatrepparttar 107691 recovery console can do, Pressingrepparttar 107692 space bar continuesrepparttar 107693 list.

Putting Screensavers Under Control

Written by Roman Kramar


No matter how much you enjoy your favorite screensavers, sometimes they can be rather annoying. Don't like them interrupting your presentations? Hate them disturbing you watching movies? Look no further. This article will show you how to gain full control over your screensavers in no time.

There's no doubt screensavers bring a pleasant variety to your desktop. Not to mention they prevent your monitor from burn-ins. Still there are times they had better sit quiet and hadn't interfered with your work.

Demonstrating a slideshow, watching a movie, reading an article - all these activities and many others may leave your computer with no keyboard and mouse input for a few minutes. Depending on your preferred settings, two or three minutes of inactivity may be enough for a screensaver to start and interrupt your work when it shouldn't.

The obvious solution torepparttar problem is disabling screensavers right before any of those activities. However, it's very likely you'll forget to do it. Furthermore, it's even more likely you'll forget to turn screensavers back on later, thus leaving yourself without their benefits for indefinite time.

Thankfully, we are notrepparttar 107674 first people who encountered this problem. Quite many different tools already exist to help you. They range from simple support for screensavers in some applications to universal and powerful tools to control them.

If screensavers interrupt you often when you watch movies, but otherwise don't bother you, you may find it sufficient to use a media player that has a built-in support for screensavers. For example, Winamp and The Playa have an option to prevent screensavers from starting while they play a movie. Consider using one of them or another media player having that option unless you are looking for a more versatile tool.

For those of you who'd like to have full control no matter what you do, there are many universal applications. This time we will talk about two of them.

If you want a program that is easy to use and that would allow you to disable screensavers quickly and then easily enable them, Hot Corners is right for you. It's a small tool letting you control screensavers in three ways:

* by movingrepparttar 107675 mouse into one ofrepparttar 107676 screen corners

* by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard

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