Drawing for "old" computers

Tomorrow we have a drawing at my office for old computers.  We are cycling out 11 computers and have 14 people who want them so we are having a drawing for them.  All of the computers have minimum specs as follows:

• Dell Dimension 8200
• 2.00 GHz Intel P4
• 512 MB Rambus Ram
• 20 GB Hard Drive
• Nvidia 64 MB Video Card

2 of them have dual monitor 128 MB Video cards, 2 are 2.53 GHz and several of them have more RAM than 512.

The asking price for each of these computers… a whopping $50!!  Reason is that the cost for us to recycle the computers through Dell or HP would be, you guessed it, $50.  Some of you are probably saying to yourself, “Self, damn that better than my computer” but what you are forgetting is that these specs are on computers that are 3 years old!!  Check out the price of the new Dell Dimensions and do the comparison shopping for yourself.

The Amazing Race 7

Just sitting here watching The Amazing Race 7 and I can’t believe the “boyfriends”!  They are such a bad group of whiners it is crazy.  All they can do is cry about how much they hate Rob & Amber.  What really strikes me as weird is that they don’t understand that it is their attitude and their bit about how much people like them.  If you watch the show, you will see that Rob is nice to everyone that he meets and the boyfriends are just oblivious to all the natives of the lands they visit.

  

I love the fact that tonight they (boyfriends) started in first place and they are getting their butts kicked by Rob & Amber who came down from fifth place… as I type this, ironically enough, Rob is in 1st place and boyfriends are in 5th place.

Yes!!!!  Rob and Amber finished first!!!!  Now don’t get me wrong… I am not a big fan of theirs, I just don’t like other teams saying, “I hate them” about anyone.

LOL, the boyfriends are still trying and they are in a cab that had to pull over and ask for instructions on where they are going!!!  They ended up finishing in 5th place — an exact opposite in order of finishes!

I love this show!

Krusell Motorola MPX220 Flip Case - ExecutivePDA.com

Our new phone cases.  Pretty cool.  Not sure which site to go through yet, and I suppose it really does not matter too much since the price when all is done is within a dollar.  All that matters is that we get the thing right and right away!

Krusell Motorola MPX220 Elastic Multidapt Case

Krusell Motorola MPX220 Flip Case - ExecutivePDA.com

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick’s day from here in the States.  Thursday was actually the St. Patrick’s day and I had obedience training with the dogs.  Tonight Friday, we had a St. Patrick’s Day party at our friends Bob & Nancy’s house. 

Another thing, how about March Madness!!  Tonight, we have 2 big upsets (and of course none of them were my beloved Illinois).

The biggest shocker of the tourney so far, #14 Bucknell over #3 Kansas by a score of 64–63.

Gotta run for now, it is after 1:00 AM.

Right Click "My Computer"

Ever want a fast way to access thing you do over and over again... you probably create a shortcut on your desktop, right? Well what if you have 10 windows open, how are you going to get there easily? Here is the solution, simply right-click on My Computer and the context menu will be vastly improved.

What's that you say, it doesn't look any different. Well if you download and run this file, it will certainly look different the next time you right click it. I encourage you to open the file with notepad and view it first (never install something that will modify your registry that you download from the Internet without knowing what it does first!!)

The contents of this registry file is listed below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Adds Control Panel to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Control Panel\command]
@="rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL"

;Adds Add/Remove to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Add/Remove\command]
@="control appwiz.cpl"

;Adds Drive Cleanup to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Drive Cleanup\command]
@="cleanmgr"

;Adds Services to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Services]
@=hex(2)& #58;53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,0
0,00,00
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services\command]
@=hex(2)& #58;25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,0
0,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73, 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,0
0,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00, 65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,7
3,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52, 00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,0
0,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00, 32,00,5c,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,6
5,00,73,00,2e,00,6d,00,73, 00,63,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,00,00

;Adds System Restore to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\System Restore\command]
@=hex(2)& #58;25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,0
0,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73, 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,65,0
0,73,00,74,00,6f,00,72,00, 65,00,5c,00,72,00,73,00,74,00,72,00,75,00,69,00,2
e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,00, 00

;Adds LogOff to right click of My Computer. I add the [] to group these
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\[LogOff]\command]
@="shutdown -l -f -t 5"

;Adds Reboot to right click of My Computer. I add the [] to group these
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\[Reboot]\command]
@="shutdown -r -f -t 5"

;Adds Shutdown to right click of My Computer. I add the [] to group these
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\[Shutdown]\command]
@="shutdown -s -f -t 5"

mypc_context.reg
Save that and right click it and choose merge. Should be instantantly added to the right click of your My Computer icon.

Add a shortcut to any folder and it appears on Start Menu and all folders.
Note: This will appear on all Users menus.
I add the -| |- to make it look neater and easier to find, not needed. Just add the name you want to appear to replace this -| UnattendXP |-
Then paste your app dir without a backslash. D:\\_Appzz\\_UnattendXP
Easy way to jump to my current programming project.
Add as many as you like.
AnyFolder.reg
Save this as AnyFolder.reg.
It now points to C:\Windows\Inf folder and you can modify it to what you want. Note you need the double \\ in it.