Also see........Cybomanaic
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Create your own icons using Windows XP
Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Paint
On the Image menu, click Attributes
Type 32 for both the Width and Height of the document, and make sure that Pixels is selected under Units
Click OK to create a new 32x32-pixel document: the size of an icon
Now add type, color, or do whatever you'd like to your image.
I like to shrink photos (headshots work great) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paint document.
When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As.
Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, then give it a name followed by ".ico" and click Save.
You just created an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your own icon!
Now you just right click on any icon, click Properties, select change icon.
Select browse and follow the path you set to your newly created masterpiece!
How To Copy Movie from a Scratched disc
How To Copy Movie from a Scratched CDThis is the most common problem, people encounter. They get a CD/DVD on rent and try to copy the movie. But alas, the CD is scratched, so after sometime, you get a cyclic redundency check error.
Well, things are not as hopeless as it seems. Here are few methods:
--[ONE ]-- Use Nero to create an image of the media. In most of the ways, this happens, so that you can later use Nero Image Drive to mount the CD and then view it.
--[TWO]-- Create a new Briefcase, by right clicking and choosing a new BriefCase, in the folder that you want to copy the file. Then synchronize the briefcase with the MPEG/AVI file of the video. At any instant of time, if you feel that the system hangs up, just close the synchronization. This method will copy the file, to the scratched extent. This method isparticularly useful, if the scratch is at the end of the movie
