How to Clean up your Laptop Screen

Do you miss that shiny new laptop look? Here's how to brew your own laptop screen cleaning kit. With Household Products you can do it, no need for fancy computer product wich do not come cheap.

Steps
Dilute isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) into a mix with no more than 50% alcohol and the rest distilled water.
Put the solution in a small spritzer bottle, the type that you push from the top to get a fine mist. It works really well at getting just the right amount on your screen with a spray on each quadrant.
Apply the mix to a cotton cloth, such as an old T-shirt, lint-free microfiber cloth, or other very soft cloth. A large cloth is best, since it will help to reduce the risk of leaving streaks across the screen from finger pressure.
Wipe the cloth against the screen in a counter-clockwise, or other consistent motion. Apply an even pressure to the cloth but take care not to press your fingers into the cloth or screen.

Tips
Expensive store-bought products such as Kensington Screen Guardian contain the same mixture of alcohol and water. 3M's Antistatic Cleaning Solution contains this same mix, plus Ethylene Glycol.
If you apply too much of the solution and it is drippy or too damp, wipe it off with a soft cloth and apply less.
Tissues will likely leave flakes of paper on your monitor. It's better to not even try using them.
You don't want mineral spots on your screen, so don't use tap water.
Using a 100% cotton cloth or shirt alone, without the alcohol mix, can sometimes produce the same smudge-free results without going to the trouble of mixing your own solution.
If you're a photographer, you can use your lint-free lens wipes instead of a soft cotton cloth.
If you are looking for a cheap way to get your hands on ready-made cleaning solution, try CD/DVD cleaner, which is often 55% Isopropyl alcohol and is not harmful to most plastic surfaces.

Warnings
Do not drink Isopropyl alcohol. It is not grain alcohol. It is toxic.
Do not use cheap paper towels. You will scratch the LCD screen.
Avoid using products such as Windex because these contain ammonia and it can degrade the LCD panel.
Shut down your laptop, unplug it from the power adapter, and remove the battery before cleaning it or you risk exposing yourself to an electrical shock.

Things You'll Need
Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol)
Distilled water
A soft cotton cloth

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Burning a CD in Windows XP takes forever

Burning a CD in Windows XP takes forever
When i Burn a CD it takes forever
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When burning a CD on my Windows XP computer, using Windows Media Player, it takes forever and does so very slowly. My other applications also freezes.
Solution: When you burn music from sources other than WAV files, your system has to automatically convert it to the other file format while it burns it. CD Audio is a particular hard format for a CD-burner in terms of resources. The system will use its resources to convert and burn the files onto the disk in order to avoid pauses in the flow of data to the burner, and this can take a lot of your CPU resources away from other applications.
There are two options available to you in order to increase your systems CPU resources and let your system run better when burning a CD. First, you should defragment your hard drive. If your drive is badly fragmented, your system will use up a lot of resources just reading files and running Windows from your drive. To defrag your system, simply open up you're my computer icon and right click on your hard drive (usually listed as C:) when the popup menu appears, select properties. When the properties window appears, you will see a few tab stops at the top of this window. Click on tools and you will be given a new window with the option of Defragment now. Left click on this button and when the defragment window appears, click on the defragment button at the bottom of the screen.To be able to defragment ,you need at least 5 gig of free space on your hard drive.


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This process can take some time, so it would be best to start this in an evening and leave it to run over night. When the process is complete, restart your system and try to burn your CDs again (making sure to close any unnecessary programs running in the background — you can also install and run Adaware or Spybot, free programs available on the Web that look for and remove resource-sapping spyware and adware hiding on your computer).
The second option is a simple upgrade in your computers memory. Windows XP need a minimum of 512mb of memory to run, Windows 2000 need a minimum of 256mb.The best would be to double the minimum amount of memory , 1gig of Ram for XP and 512 for WIn2000. When Windows is on idle with nothing else loaded, you can expect the operating system to use up to 128MB of RAM. As soon as you start running applications let's say Word and your media player, you can see it jump up to and sometimes 256MB. It would be recommended you upgrade your memory and you should see a great improvement in your system's available resources.

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