I recently created a post about making an icon to lock your screen. Since then I have been playing around with some of the RUNDLL32 shortcuts available for Windows Vista. One of them I found handy was this one to put Windows into Hibernate mode.

1. Right-click an blank area on your desktop.

2. Select New >Shortcut

3. Type ‘ RunDll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState’ for the Location.

Give the shortcut a name like ‘Hibernate’. Now you can just double-click the icon whenever you want Windows to hibernate. This command works with Windows XP and Vista.

Create an icon that will lock your screen in Windows XP and Vista.

1. Right-click an blank area on your desktop.

2. Select New >Shortcut

3. Type ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ for the Location.

Give the shortcut a name. Now you can just double-click the icon whenever you want to lock your screen. I like to place mine in the Quick Launch area on the Taskbar. There, I only have to click it once.

Windows Key + L will also lock your screen

I had no idea that you could do this with Windows. Did you know that if you that you can rename a series of files all at once?

I took pictures at a tech show recently and I wanted them all to be labeled show1.jpg, show2.jpg, etc. To do this the easiest way, you can select all the images with your mouse, then right-click on one of the images and select Rename. The file you right-clicked on will be highlighted so you can type a name to change it to. Give the file a name, and after pressing Enter, all the files were renamed filename1, filename2, etc.

Such a simple feature that I never knew about.