Computer FAQs & Tips

In most cases you need scrren capture when you need to illustrate your document with a screenshot or the area as part of what’s shown on your monitor. There are number of way to snabshot your screen, you either chose to purchase a commercial software, use free software or use existing feature in Windows. However they come with different feature and limittation.
Commercial software (eg. SnagIt) will give lots of feature which you can do with your snapshot image like edit or export to various output formats.
Now, let’s do it without downloading any third party software. All you need is Keyboard and Microsoft Paint. So it’s done without costing you any of your dollars.

Capture the whole screen

1. Press Print Screen key on your keyboard. This image of your your creen in the clipbord memory
2. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint
3. Paste the image in clipbord to Paint program by pressing Ctrl + V
4. Now you should get this creen as illustrated below
   
5. Now you can save this image to any format available in Paint program

Capture part of the screen

1. Repeat step 1 – 4 from the previous steps
2. On the right hand side tool bar choose Select button
   
3. Use mouse, hold left button and drag across the picture for the area you want your snapshot to be and copy it by pressing Ctrl + C
4. Open a new Paint Windows or click File > New and say No if it ask to save
5. Now you should get a blank page
6. Press Ctrl + V to paste the selected snapshot
7. At the end result you should something like this
   
8. Now you can save this image to any format available in Paint program

Capture current Window

1. Press Alt + Print Screen key on your keyboard. This image of your your creen in the clipbord memory
2. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Paint
3. Paste the image in clipbord to Paint program by pressing Ctrl + V
4. Now you should get this creen as illustrated below
   
5. Now you can save this image to any format available in Paint program

The snapshot of your screen or windows is available for use in any other sources.
NOTE: You can past the snapshot directly to another program that support picture (eg. Microsoft Word, Openoffice.org Write) without having to open Paint program.

Sometime you might find it very annoying with windows XP balloon notification, it keep popup every now and then, specially it keep on telling those information that you’ve already knew.
You don’t leave it with it. Now you want disable it?
Instruction below will tell you how to do it.

WARNING: If you don’t know or don’t have knowledge on windows registry, you’d better not to mess it. It might give you a serious problem if things goes wrong. If you know what you are doing, please proceed. No responsibility will be taken by this blog and its owner.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit
4. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft
   WindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
5. Right click on Advanced
6. Click New > DWORD Value
7. Change New Value #1 to EnableBalloonTips
8. Check if the Value data is set to 0, if not double click on EnableBalloonTips and enter 0 in Value data

Next time you restart computer, you won’t get those annoying bubble anymore.

Before you start reading, please make sure you if your computer supports Hibernate feature.

Check if Hibernate option available

• Click Start
• Click Control Panel
• Double click on Power Options
  
• If Hibernate tab appear, mean your computer can hibernate

Enable Hibernation

• On the same window, click on Hibernate tab
• Tick Enable Hibernation (if already ticked, just leave it as is)

Now there are 2 ways to hibernate your computer.
Hibernate with Turn Off Options or Create the Hibernate shortcut
The easy and simple way is to create a shortcut link and keep it at your desktop. So you can hibernate your computer with just one click.

Decide on which option then go a head and make work, below is how:

Hibernate with Turn Off Options

1. Click Start
2. Click Turn Off Computer
3. You should see this
   
4. Press Shift key
5. You should see this
   
6. Click on Hibernate

Create Hibernate Shortcut Link

1. Go to you desktop (Windows key + D)
2. Right click
3. Select New > Shortcut
4. In field Type the location of the item: enter this line below
   %windir%System32rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState
5. Click Next
6. In field Type a name for this shortcut: enter Hibernate
7. Click Finish

Now you have a shortcut link icon on your desktop, when you are ready to hibernate your computer, just double click on it.
Note that, there won’t be any confirmation message. If you accidently double click on it, just wait until your computer is completely powere off, then just power it back on and it will take you to where you were and restore everything to the original state before hibernation.

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