Are you looking for a desktop wallpaper that will spark and inspire your imagination? Then you will definitely want to have a look at our fantasy theme wallpapers collection.
Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image—these wallpapers vary in size so you may need to crop, stretch, or place them on a colored background in order to best match them to your screen’s resolution.
It’s Friday and you’re sick and tired of the boss telling you about the TPS Reports that are due. Time to have some fun on company time and play the fun flash game Mechanical Commando 2.
Mechanical Commando 2
This is a cool game where you are in the cockpit of your mech and visit different planets to obliterate enemies and save civilians.
At the main menu you pick the planet where you want to start a mission at. As you progress through levels you’ll have more mission options. From here you can control the game volume and quality.
Do you wish you could just jump right into playing music when you open Media Center? Or maybe just skip that start up animation? Today we are going to show you a variety of startup switches that will allow you to customize the way Media Center opens in Windows 7.
Startup Customizations
We will be adding all of these switches to the end of the Target, on the Shortcut tab in the properties of Windows Media Center. If you start Media Center from the Start menu, go to Start > All Programs, right-click on Windows Media Center and select “Properties.” If you launch Media Center from a desktop shortcut, simply right-click on the icon and choose “Properties.” On the “Shortcut” tab, you will see the Target box with the text string: %windir%ehomeehshell.exe.
To add each of these switches to the Target, simply leave a space after %windir%ehomeehshell.exe, type the switch, and click “Save.” When you are finished, it should read like this:
%windir%ehomeehshell.exe /no startupanimation
Disable the Startup Animation & Music
This switch opens Media Center without it’s animation and music. It doesn’t seem to open Media Center any faster, but if you are annoyed by the animation and music, this will rid you of both.
/no startupanimation
Media Only Mode
Media Only mode keeps Windows Media Center displayed in full screen with the minimize and close buttons hidden. A small padlock will appear in the top right corner next to the time.
/mediamode
You can turn off Media Only mode from within Media Center by going to Tasks > Exit Media Only.
RTL Mode
If you prefer to look at things from right to left, you may enjoy RTL mode.
/rtl
This switch essentially flips the direction of everything in Media Center. You’ll notice that in windowed mode, even the close, maximize, and minimized buttons are flipped to the left side.
Remove Shut Down from Tasks
This switch disables the Shut Down tile under Tasks on the Windows Media Center Start menu.
/noshutdownui
This can be especially useful for preventing family members from clicking shut down and turning off your PC when it needs to stay on to record your favorite shows.
If you’ve got a pet or toddler, then you know that an unguarded keyboard is a recipe for disaster – deleted files, lost work, and hard-to-explain Facebook status updates are just the beginning. In this article, we’ll show you how to disable your keyboard at the touch of a button – and, of course, how to re-enable it.
Keyboard Locker is a small program that does this job well and takes up very few system resources. It’s a small AutoHotKey script that was originally written by an AutoHotKey forum-goer named Lexikos. We’ve spruced it up a bit and compiled it so that you don’t need to have AutoHotKey installed. If you do have AutoHotKey installed, we’ve included the original script so you can tweak it to your liking.
When you open Keyboard Locker, you’ll see a small keyboard icon appear in your system tray.
To lock the keyboard, press Ctrl+Alt+L.
The icon in the system tray changes to indicate that the keyboard is locked.
Almost all keyboard input is now disabled, including most special keys on media keyboards and caps and num locks. There are a few key combinations that will still work, such as Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Win+L to lock your computer, but those are extremely unlikely for a paw or tiny hand to hit.
When you want re-enable keyboard input, simply type in the word “unlock.”
By default, the balloon notification seen above are not shown – only the system tray icon changes. If you’d like to enable the balloon notifications, right-click on the system tray icon and click on “Show tray notifications”.
If you don’t like the notification but you forget the right keyboard shortcut or command to type in, you can hover your mouse cursor over the system tray icon and a tooltip will pop up with the appropriate instruction.
Keyboard Locker won’t have any detrimental effects on your computer if you leave it running at all times, but if you want to close it, right-click on the system tray icon and then click on “Exit”.
If you want Keyboard Locker to start up automatically when you boot your computer, you can create a shortcut to Keyboard Locker in your startup folder.
To do this, click on the Start button, then All Programs. You should be able to find a folder called Startup.
Right click on the folder and click on Explore.
An explorer window will pop up. It may have some other shortcuts in here already (if there are programs in here that you don’t want to start up when Windows boots up, you can remove them here!). In either case, right click on an empty portion of the window and click on New > Shortcut.
Click on the Browse… button and navigate to the location that you saved Keyboard Locker in.
The path will be filled in. Click next.
Give the shortcut a name if you’d like, then click Finish.
You should now see a shortcut to Keyboard Locker in the startup folder. From now on, Keyboard Locker will start running every time you boot up your computer!
If you ever want to stop Keyboard Locker from running at startup, simply delete it from this folder.
Keyboard Locker is a great utility for those of us with curious creatures and inquisitive infants. If you have a different use for this program, let us know in the comments!
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