Get the Task Bar do What you Want

The taskbar is governed by settings, just like any component of Windows XP. You can make some changes to those settings so that the taskbar will operate in a way that is right for

you.

To change the taskbar's settings, just follow these steps:

1. Right-click an empty area of the taskbar--> and click Properties. If you have trouble--> open Control Panel and double-click--> Taskbar and Start menu.

2. On the Taskbar tab--> you have several different settings that you can change by clicking the check boxes. 

A few important ones to note are

A.  Auto-hide the Taskbar: This option makes the taskbar disappear when you are not using it. To see it, just move your mouse to the bottom of the screen and it will appear.

B.  Show Quick Launch: Quick Launch is a small section of the taskbar that holds Internet Explorer and other popular programs. It was available on other

Windows operating systems, but does not appear by default in XP. You can

make it appear by clicking the check box.

C.  Hide Inactive Icons: The notification area holds a number of icons, which can get in the way and make the taskbar kind of junky. The Hide Inactive Icons

option, which is selected by default, hides the icons until you click the arrow on the taskbar to make them appear.

3.  Make any selections that you want and click OK. Remember that you can return to this page at any time and make additional changes.

Windows XP Tips

Add a Restart Icon to the Desktop

Add an icon to the Windows XP Desktop that, when double-clicked, restarts the computer.

If you want to restart your Windows XP machine in a hurry, are you tired of clicking the Start button, selecting "Turn off Computer", and then selecting "Restart"? Or do you not wish to memorize keyboard shortcuts that may speed up the process? Instead, the following shows how to add an icon to the Desktop that you can double-click to restart your machine.

How to speed up Farm Ville in windows XP

Have you ever felt that your Farm Ville game runs slow? If the answer to this question is yes, then this article is for you.

The heart of the problem lies with two resources  your Farm Ville animals and the fact that they are script programs that run through java script and your computer.

The bottom of the story is that the java script enables your Farm Ville animals to be animated and move. Unfortunately when you have numerous animals the java script applications bog-down your browser and slow down the speed at which the applications on the web-page or website will function, and that is why the Farm Ville game goes so slow.

We are going to provide a series of articles/posts on Speeding up Farmville. This is the 1st one of the series.

In this article we will only talk about the first part of the story that being the animals and the decorations on Farm ville itself.