The Task Manager (Shortcut = Ctrl+Shift+Esc)

The task manager can be your best friend. It contains information about programs that are currently running, the amount of RAM and Processor they are using, and lets you check for spikes in your processor usage and as well as how much of your paging file is used up.

Not to mention to can right click a process and “End Process” which should end the process. “End Process Tree” will kill a browser, and any new windows that are still trying to open up for those annoying chain popups that used to be so common.

If windows is acting up, you can right click and kill the explorer. The desktop will disappear, don’t panic. The explorer is not to be confused with the “windows explorer” but instead the GUI Shell that you interact with including your desktop.

All you have to do to get it back up is go to the file menu, choose “New Task(Run…)” and type in explorer and your desktop will start back up.

Under “Options” , you can check “Hide when Minimized”.and it will hide itself in your toolbar. But it will show a little grid that will rise and turn green when you are using a lot of your processor.

The same is true for Windows Media Player, (version 10 of which came out in the last month and is really slick looking). If you right click the toolbar and check windows media player, you can minimize the player into a little window and play movies right off your task bar on top of any other program you are working in.

Windows Shortcuts

I learned today, that like (Windows Key +E) will launch a windows explorer, you can get a run line prompt by pressing (Windows + R)

Then for a DOS prompt, type “cmd” and hit enter.

To get the IP address for your computer from the command line type “ipconfig” and hit enter.

How do I remote desktop between to Windows XP machines?

Click the start icon

Accessories > Communications > Remote Desktop Connection

Make sure of course that your computers are networked, and get the IP address of the computer you want to Connect to, and enter it here.

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