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CHAPTER 3

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MANAGING THE WINDOWS DESKTOP

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Image Resizer. This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image

files with a right-click. This is a fast and easy way to resize images for

Web pages, or to reduce the size of image attachments in e-mail (such

as when you send your newest pictures of the kids to the grandparents).

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CD Slide Show Generator. With this PowerToy you can view images

burned to a CD as a slide show. Doing a proper job of mastering a slide

show produces better results (and requires more effort), but if you just

want a quick and dirty way to display images from a disk, this is it.

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Virtual Desktop Manager. Manage up to four desktops from the

Windows taskbar with this PowerToy. Microsoft attempts to do what

Linux has done for years — increase the size of the virtual desktop.

You can switch between desktops and have each desktop focused on a

particular task or application.

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Taskbar Magnifier. Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen

from the taskbar. Similar to the Magnifier function in the Accessibility

folder, but more focused (pun intended).

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Webcam Timershot. This PowerToy lets you take pictures at specified

time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save

them to a location that you designate. You may have a feature like this

already in your Webcam software; if so, use the software that came with

your Webcam instead.

If you decide you don’t like a PowerToy, you can uninstall it from the Add

or Remove Programs window in Control Panel.

Add, remove, and change Windows components

You can add, remove, and change most of the components that are available

in Windows. These run the gamut from accessibility tools, to applets like

Calc and WordPad, to services like Internet Information Server (IIS) or

Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

Some components, such as additional mouse pointers, are just for fun or

add to the things you can do with Windows. Others, like IIS, are meant for

heavy duty use or more extensive use of Windows than as an ordinary desk-

top PC.

Because many of these components and services are really meant for

development usage there are limits on what you can do with some of them.

For example, the version of IIS that ships with Windows XP has a limit of ten

concurrent connections. So, although you can run a Web server on your

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