Sometimes you will need to change drive letter of your hard disk, removable USB flash memory or CD/DVD ROM drive. For example you might want to have same drive letter for you removable USB memory stick on different computers. Here is how you do it.
Sometimes you might need to find out what is your public IP address. Depending on your network configuration it might not be straightforward. There are many ways to determine your IP address. Here are few.
If your Pocket PC is running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, Windows Mobile 5 or newer, you can change screen orientation. Choices are Portrait, Landscape right-handed and Landscape left-handed. Also, you can assign hardware button to change screen orientation on the fly.
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“Start Menu” is most convenient place to have shortcuts to applications that you use often. Use The Menu applet to add or remove shortcuts from “start menu”.
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Creating shortcut to an application or a file on Pocket PC is not straightforward. You need to know how to use “File Explorer” and location where to put new shortcuts (for example to have them appear in “Programs”).
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Have you ever tried to delete shortcut on your Pocket PC? You have probably tried to click and hold on shortcut icon to select delete from popup menu, but nothing happened. It is a bit more complicated on Pocket PCs with Pocket PC 2002, 2003 and Windows Mobile 5 operating systems.
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The main advantage of DVD-RAM disc over standard DVD R/RW disc is that it can be used as regular drive storage, something like floppy disk but with huge capacity (4.7 GB). All you need is DVD recorder that supports DVD-RAM (most new ones).
Follow these simple steps to start using DVD-RAM under Windows XP.
If you have DVD-RAM disc in a cartridge and your DVD recorder does not support cartridges, you need to remove the disc from its cartridge.
Instructions:
Reflective foil behind radiators
Some of the heat from a radiator will heat up the wall on which it is mounted. If that wall is an outside wall, a lot of this heat will be conducted to the outside of the building and lost. Luckily, it is very cheap and simple to prevent this from happening, by placing reflective foil on the wall behind the radiator. Research in the UK has shown that almost any kind of reflective foil (even ordinary aluminium kitchen foil) can reduce this heat loss by 5%. Properly designed reflective panels, which combine reflective foil with a thin layer of insulation, can reduce the heat lost through walls by up to 18%.
How the wind causes energy loss
One of the most important factors leading to energy loss from buildings is the wind. There are two reasons for this:
How much energy does a hot water pipe lose?
Any object that is hotter than its surroudings will transfer energy to the surroundings. So, if you have a pipe carrying hot water from one place to another (e.g. from a hot water tank or boiler to your taps) some of the heat energy the water contains will be lost.
Normally, heat flows from warmer objects to cooler objects just as water naturally flows from high places down to lower places. If you want to force water to move upwards, you need to use a water pump. Similarly, if you want heat to move ‘uphill’ (i.e. from a cooler place to a warmer place) you need to use a heat pump. A refrigerator is basically an insulated cabinet containing a heat pump. Heat is continually leaking into the refrigerator (because the interior is cooler than the exterior) so the heat pump has to continually force this heat out again.