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How To Password-Protect Your Computer During Standby or Hibernation in MS Windows XP Professional 5

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How To Password-Protect Your Computer During Standby or Hibernation in MS Windows XP Professional

PC security is a very imporatant aspect of computing today. Especially with laptops, used in a mobile environment, you want to make sure that strangers do not access your information. If a computer running Windows XP goes to standby or hibernation, you can configure Windows XP to ask for a password when it returns to normal operation.

How to Delete Files from the CD Recorder Temporary Storage Area in MS Windows XP Professional. 0

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How to Delete Files from the CD Recorder Temporary Storage Area in MS Windows XP Professional.

Whenever you burn a CD in Windows XP, a temporary folder is used to store the files that you want to write to CD-ROM. This CD buffer ensures that the files are available (not in use) during the burning process. Of course this takes up some disk space, so if you want to free up this disk space as part of you system maintenance, you can delete them.

Remove Windows Uninstall Entries 0

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Remove Windows Uninstall Entries

Removing programs from Windows XP can be quite a problem. If the uninstall does not work you need to manually remove the program and application files. But even if the uninstaller works, things can be left behind. A typical uninstall problem is that the program is removed, but the program entry is still present in the Add/Remove Programs section of the control panel.

View All Devices in Windows XP Device Manager 2

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View All Devices in Windows XP Device Manager

When trying to analyze hardware or device problems, you might not be able to see the removable devices in the Windows XP device manager. It is possible to tweak Windows XP to change this behavior, and see all hardware devices in the device manager.