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In standyby or sleep mode, the power to the hard drives, fans, monitor etc is shut off, which gives you instant dramatic power savings if you are using a portable device with a battery as a power source, however the computer still uses a little bit of power to keep its RAM (volatile Random Access Memory) powered. When you resume from the standby or sleep mode, all your documents, programs etc that were open come back to life instantly as you left them running. The downside is that your computer still uses 2% of the battery power to maintain power to the RAM, which over longer periods of time can drain your battery.

This article shows how you can map a drive from a Windows XP machine to your external FTP server using Windows Explorer, note that this does not provide you with a drive letter.

If you are a computer techie like me, you must at some point come across the dreaded yellow exclamation mark icon in Windows XP device manager, usually indicating that there is a device that isn't working properly. It can be worst if it says "UNKNOWN DEVICE". This article details some steps on how to hunt this device down.

Too good to be true ? Yes you for sure can scan documents without a scanner, you can scan them to PDF, JPF or Tiff formats! A software called Snapter ICE would let you do this.

The following article explains how to install the FileZilla FTP server on a Windows machine (XP, VIsta, 2000 or server 2003) so that it can run as a service. You can configure various other options such as quotas and upload / download limits, this article just shows you the bare minimum required for a corporate or home environment.