Posts Tagged laptop
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
Posted by jayb in Microsoft, Technology on October 29, 2007
After just coming back to XP (link) This is a great list of new free software to try.
Description: I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the essential (and non-essential) software you need using strictly 100% freeware and/or [...]
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
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Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:48:54 GMT
How to Manage Power Settings as a Non-Admin
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005
This post is great for Admins trying to run with least privileges for their users. The post also includes a link for a way to view the calendar in the time/date applet without being an admin
A regular “user” does not have the ability to modify their power settings.? This is a real pain especially for laptop users.? The default Windows XP installation does a standby after 10 minutes of activity and a hibernate after 30 minutes.? There is nothing more frustrating for a user than to be in the middle of a presentation and have the laptop go into standby mode.? The only solution for this in the past was to give the user temporary Power User or Administrator rights on the PC since power management is managed on a per user basis.
I was doing some digging tonight and found this great gem on how to grant the rights for non-admins to manage their own power settings: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/02/09/370263.aspx
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[Via myITForum Blogs]
Task Switcher on Steroids
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on April 18, 2005
More great links from the MSDN blogs.
Steve Butler turned me on to this nifty utility that replaces the stock Task Switcher functionality.
I installed it on my laptop, and now the plain old Windows task
switcher seems so, well — plain, that I’ve put it on all my other
machines too. Pretty neat.
[Via MSDN Blogs]
Top 10 Favorite Free Windows Apps
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on October 8, 2003
Grabbed from the headlines of Slashdot
eabell asks: "I’m buying a new mid-grade laptop computer, which I plan to dual-boot between Windows XP Home and Mandrake 9.x. Before its arrival in a few weeks … [Slashdot]
Also checkout http://www.theopencd.org/
