01-04-2004, 09:56 PM | #1 (permalink) |
shit faced cockmaster
Location: CT
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Two (hopefully) simple questions.
How do you take a screen shot of a movie. Mostly asking in wmp if that matters, but if there's a general solution I'll take it. Print screen doesn't work.
Completely separate, I was wondering if there was a way to password protect my computer. I'm using ME and all I can get is that crappy windows login which doesn't help considering one can easily hit cancel. And no, XP won't run on my computer well.
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01-05-2004, 12:56 AM | #3 (permalink) |
WoW or Class...
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If you're playing off of DVD's you can use a simple program like WinDVD.
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01-05-2004, 07:53 AM | #4 (permalink) |
paranoid
Location: The Netherlands
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Try searching for FRAPS.
That utility helped me take some screenshots of games (which are also tough to take screens from) As for the password thing: You could use a bios password as Junglistic said
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01-05-2004, 08:53 AM | #5 (permalink) |
beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Yeah, with ME, you dont have much of a choice but to use a BIOS password. Sorry.
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01-05-2004, 11:57 AM | #7 (permalink) |
Free Mars!
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BIOS is generally used to jump start the computer's priority functions. You usually see them when you turn your computer one and there's bunch of mumbo jumbo in white text on black background. It's usually accessed by hitting specific keystroke, I can't remember I think it was F1 or F4. By doing that, you'll get into the setup of BIOS where you can configure the computer's start up as well putting password on the start up process preventing outsiders from accessing your computer.
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01-05-2004, 05:25 PM | #8 (permalink) | |
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Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Quote:
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01-05-2004, 05:37 PM | #9 (permalink) |
Free Mars!
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Graphics off? What you mean by that?
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01-05-2004, 07:59 PM | #10 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: MN
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Windows XP uses transitions and shadows as well as other animation to make the opening and closing of various windows and programs look smooth. You can turn all this junk off under the display properties. After those options are off the computer will run MUCH faster.
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01-05-2004, 08:37 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Quote:
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01-05-2004, 08:41 PM | #12 (permalink) |
Professor of Drinkology
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http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...,110663,00.asp
and Microsoft's word on the matter: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsME/u.../passwords.asp And Naturally, you can password protect all of your MS office files too. But that doesn't really answer your question of password protecting just ME without going into BIOS. Its a pity you'll have to patch together some semblence of security with ME. Microsoft really didn't provide any. Then again, even with Windows XP, its unbelievably easy to hijack a password and login with any account with nothing more than a 3.5" Linux boot disk. No windows (or Linux) system is completely secure. At best, you can hold off the amateur users.
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01-06-2004, 05:07 PM | #13 (permalink) |
Location: up north
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hehe... if u knew anything about programming, you could make your own login interface that cannot be closed or go around... i made one for win98 a few years back... not hard... it blocked ctrl alt delete, the ctrl key, alt key, win key etc... only A-Z worked.
OR: put a sceen saver password and put the screensaver in the startup so when someone logs in, the screensaver goes on. its only good if u know the other person wont go in safe mode.
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01-07-2004, 10:43 AM | #14 (permalink) |
shit faced cockmaster
Location: CT
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The XP thing sounds tempting, but aside from that I have to go into BIOs and make a password. Do I need to know something about programming to do that?
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