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10 time saving hacks for Win XP

1. Create your Sleep button in Windows XP You could activate Stand By or Hibernate mode from the Shut Down Windows dialog box. An alternative to this method is to create your own Sleep button by creating a shortcut on your desktop. Here's how. 1. Right-click on the desktop. 2. Select New Shortcut. 3. Type rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState in the text box. 4. Click Next. 5. Type Sleep in the text box and click Finish. Now when you click the Sleep icon, Windows XP will put the computer into either Stand By or Hibernate mode depending on how the When I Press The Sleep Button On My Computer setting is configured on the Advanced tab of the Power Options Properties dialog box. 2. Liven up your desktop with Windows XP's animated pointer schemes . Windows XP has a variety of built-in animated pointer schemes. Here's how you can start using some of these little-known tricks. Here's how. 1. Go to Start Control Panel and double-click the Mouse tool to access the Mouse Prop...

PDF tips: Speed up PDF loading with Adobe Acrobat

This is one of my all-time favourite tricks! It took me far too many years to finally get sick of how slow Adobe Acrobat loads PDF files. It was taking between 10 and 30 seconds to load a single file. How could this be? Well, I found a solution and I highly recommend it to everyone, everywhere - it’s that good. Every time you run Adobe Acrobat up to 20 plugins are loaded unnecessarily - most users do not need even a fraction of them! To disable unneeded plugins and make them optional instead, follow these instructions: - Install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat - you can get it here - Browse to the plugins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins - Create a new folder named Optional - Move all files from the plug_ins folder to Optional, except EWH32.api, print*.api, and Search*.api That’s it! Load any PDF in Adobe Acrobat to see the difference!