Use Keyboard & Mouse

Lock system with a mouse click....


Feel hard to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to lock your machine ??????
Try this and create the icon to lock the machine.

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type the following in the 'Type the location' of the item text box:
"rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" remove quotes while typing.
3. Click Next.

To edit a screen shot with Photo Editor:

1. First, capture your screen shot by pressing the PRINT SCREEN button. (To capture the active window only, press ALT+PRINT SCREEN.)
2. On your Windows desktop, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Photo Editor.
3. On the Edit menu, click Paste as New Image.
4. To select only a portion of your screen shot (the portion you want to copy to your Office document), click Select on the Standard toolbar, and then drag your mouse pointer over the area you want to select.
5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
6. Open the document you want to copy the selection into.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.

To format the image:

1. Right-click the image and then click Format Picture.
2. In the Format Picture dialog box, choose the formatting options you want.
3. Click OK

Editor's Note: If Microsoft Photo Editor isn't listed under Microsoft Office Tools on your Start menu, you can install it from your Office XP installation CD.

one click PC shutdown


This is really very easy one but very effective one. Enjoy it!

First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.


But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:

shutdown -r -t 01 -c “Rebooting your PC”

Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message “Rebooting your PC.” The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use.

I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:

shutdown -s -t 03 -c “Bye Bye m8!”
shutdown -r -t 03 -c “I ll be back m8 !”
Switch

What it does
-s
Shuts down the PC.
-l
Logs off the current user.

-t nn

Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.
-c “messagetext”

Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.

-f
Forces any running applications to shut down.
-r
Reboots the PC.
Automatic screen refresh

When you are working on your local computer and want to refresh any changes in your system automatically. For example some times you are watching sports results, online Stock Exchange rates and any changes to your hard drive but these changes are not usually refreshed until you press the F5 key on your keyboard.

To refresh your screen automatically you should edit your system Registry. But the best technique to edit the windows registry keys, always export or backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing. Because any mistake in Registry can cause serious problem in your computer to run properly.

Follow the given steps to change the updates automatically.

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
In Registry Editor panel go to the path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet /
Control / UpdateMode
Here in right hand side panel edit the DWORD value to be between 1 and 5.

Now restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Start A movie in paint!

Start movie in Paint!

* First start a movie in any player.
* Then open Paint.
* Now, in the player when the movie is being played, press "Print screen" button on your key board.
* Now, Press ctrl+v in Paint
* Leave the movie player open and don't minimize it.
* Open Paint now and see the movie in the Paint!