How to get a Computer to Standby Automatically

In standby mode, Windows shuts off the monitor and keeps the hard drive from spinning while the CPU is also placed on the lowest capacity. At times, you may walk away from your desktop or notebook computer and not be able to get back in a short period of time. It is helpful to set the computer to standby automatically, without user intervention, to save power when you are away from your computer.


Decide how long you want a computer to sit idle before it goes into standby mode. This will vary depending on how often you use it and what times of day you work. Keep in mind weekend use when you make your decision.


The Control Panel choice is circled. Columns are similar in Windows Vista. Click on the "Start" menu in the bottom left corner of your computer screen. From there, open the Control Panel, which is in the right-hand column.







The Power Options icon is highlighted. Choose the "Power Options" choice in the Control Panel. The choices appear in alphabetical order, so this option is towards the bottom of the screen (see photo at left).








The System Standby choice is circled. Click the "System Standby" drop-down box choice towards the bottom of the screen. You will want to change that from "never" (see photo at left).











Choose the amount of time you wish for the computer to wait before it goes into standby mode automatically. This can be 1 to 10 minutes, and then increased by increments of 5 minutes. You can choose up to 5 hours.

Click the "Apply" button all the way to the right inside of the Power Options dialog box. Your computer is now ready to stand by automatically according to the time limits you set.

Repeat these steps if your computer use should ever change. This can also be helpful for keeping prying eyes away from your computer screen. This can work for business use, confidential data or children. You can set it to stand by after a few minutes and then require a password to log in to the computer again.

erase files from a hard drive permanently

There’s two ways to permanently delete data. To permanently erase an entire hard drive including the operating system, you need to get a program that can be burned to a CD so you boot from that and erase the hard drive using the instructions on the CD. There are paid programs for this but for free, you can download Darik’s Boot and Nuke aka DBAN.

Just download it and follow the simple directions to burn a special CD. Then leave the disc in your CD drive and restart your computer. Immediately after it turns on press whatever key it says to load up a boot menu. Usually it’s F12 on modern computers. On an older computer it may be F8. On really, really old computers it can be ESC.

When the boot menu comes up, choose the CD drive and a small mini-operating system will load up and give you options on how to wipe your drive. With most it’s really straightforward. With Darik’s just press F3 to view the types of wiping or just type dod and hit enter. The reason this type of bootable CD, full hard drive wiping works far better than formatting is a little complicated. Basically formatting is like erasing a book’s table of contents but none of the actual text so it looks empty but really isn’t. It leaves the data sitting on the hard drive and says it’s available space to be overwritten. It’s still there until new data actually overwrites it. Bootable hard drive wipers change every single bit on the hard drive to 0 so the data is completely gone.

Of course, the previous method makes the computer totally unusable if you wipe the main system hard drive. This makes it hard to resell because it now has no operating system. Reinstalling Windows is a pain too so it’s only a really common method for businesses that rent computers. Rental companies have other, faster methods of making them useable again. If you want to just permanently delete a couple files and still leave your computer useable, keep reading.

Selective file deletion programs are traditionally called file shredders. A file shredder alternates between overwriting the files you select with all 0’s and all 1’s to make the file even harder to recover. A nice free shredder comes as a separate application with the installer for Spybot Search and Destroy. It’s called the Secure Shredder. You just drag and drop files you want shredded and hit go. It seems to get exponentially slower with large numbers of files though and doesn’t have any progress bar so you never know when it’s going to be done.

That’s a free way to get rid of a couple files quickly but if you regularly need stuff shredded, you’ll probably want to buy a better program for it. Search the web, there’s dozens of good ones out there. All programs work the same way though so either way, your files will be completely unrecoverable.

Youtube Music Downloader 1.0.1

Youtube Music Downloader Publisher's Description
An easy-to-use windows software to download youtube music videos and convert them to MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP formats. You can download millions of music from youtube and listen them on your iPod, MP3 Player or watch them on your PC, iPod, iPhone

Editor's Review - Youtube Music Downloader
Youtube Music Downloader is a neat utility you can use for downloading your favorite music videos from Youtube. And that's not all. The program ca be used for converting the files into various multimedia file formats.

The user interface is clean and carefully designed. The thing I liked a lot about this application was the fact that it's based on a browser engine and it allows you to browse directly the website (Youtube) for your favorite media. The in-built browser is designed to search directly among Youtube music categories. There's also a search engine included in case you search for specific items.

Downloading and converting media files is quite easy. You can either browse the clips using the inbuilt browser and download them directly or you can use the 'Add New Download' window. Whenever you open a clip in a web browser (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.) and copy the video's URL, it will be automatically pasted into the program window in order to be downloaded.

All you have to do is to select your output format and settings as well as select a name for the new file and start downloading and converting. When the conversion process is complete, you can set the program to automatically open the target directory.Pluses: Direct browsing of video files using the in-built browser.

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XP AntiSpy 3.97 Beta 2

XP AntiSpy 3.97 Beta 2

XPAntispy description
Disables all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in Windows XP
XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.

For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don`t know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions.

If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wasting time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute?

XP-Antispy was successfully tested by many users and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP.

The xp-AntiSpy is a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication 'features' in WindowsXP.
For example, there's a service running in the background which is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions. If you like, you can even disable these functions manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wast time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute?
This utility was successfully tested by lots of users, and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP. It's customiseable, but comes up with the Default settings, which are recommended.

Changes in Version Version 3.97 Beta 2:
The following Tweaks are now included in the Beta 2:
* Command line promp in the context menu
* Disable service for serial numbers of mobile media
* Disable Help and Support Service
* Disable ctfmon.exe
* Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard
* Dont Search Windows Update for device drivers
* Disable File Association Web Service
* Disable automatic reboot on system crashes

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