Just three simple steps, you can easily create a shutdown icon in Windows XP desktop. 1. Right click on blank area of your desktop, a popup menu will shown out and choose “New > Shortcut”. This will bring you the “Create Shortcut Wizard”. 2. You then need to provide the path/location of your shortcut, “shutdown.exe […]
Sometimes we need to type symbol, but it is troublesome to locate in the symbol table. You can directly type in the symbol by using your keyboard. 1. While pressing down the ALT key, type the code on the Number Pad (the right edge of keyboard). 2. Release the ALT key. The character will appear […]
F1 – F12 Function Key Usage F1 Help. Click F1 Key can load the help file of the program. F2 Rename. Select a folder or file, click F2 to rename it. F3 Search. On desktop, click F3 to load the search form. F4 In Internet Explorer, click F4 will list the URL Address field. F5 […]
When you use your computer for some times, you may find that the computer runs a bit slower compared to the beginning. This is because you accumulate many old programs/files in the machine, this may slower the overall speed. You can clean up those un-used or temporary files. #1 Clean your Internet Explorer history Tools […]
If you want to shut down your computer one hour later, you can: 1. Click “Start” > “Run” 2. Type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” 3. Click “OK” Your computer will shutdown after an hour (3600 sec = 1 Hour) Actually, shutdown command can accept different optional parameter. -l Logoff current user -s Shutdown machine […]
A research from a university in Canada state that the power consumption of a computer in standby mode is about 35W per hour. It’s a little bit more than a light bulb. Those it is not much compared with the whole office. However, if you use your computer in a sensible way, you’re not only […]
Windows user should familiar with Recycle Bin. We can find our deleted files there. There are some properties we can set for the Recycle Bin. Change Capacity of Recycle Bin Right click on the Recycle Bin and choose “Properties”. You can adjust the precentage of the disk and change the recycle bin capacity. If you […]
We will create a desktop shortcut for those frequently used folder. Actually, there are two other places we can put a shortcut for these frequently used folder. #1 Task bar If we can put the folder on the task bar, it is much convenient. In fact, we can do that on task bar. Right click […]
WINKEY+D (Desktop) This is the most frequently used windows key shortcut. You can make all the opened windows minimized and show the desktop. If you hit the keys again, all the minimized windows will show out again. WINKEY+F (Find) You are no need to use the mouse to click “Start > Find > Files or […]
Few weeks ago, we have talk about how to make the word file slim. This week, we will talk about how to reduce the size of a PowerPoint file. #1 Compress Image The PowerPoint file size is too large is mostly caused by the image. In PowerPoint 2003 or higher, you can use the compression […]