Just recently (in my last post to be exact) I needed to get a screencap of a movie that was running in my MediaPlayer. Every time I did it, I ended up with a black screen in Photoshop, so I needed to find a way to get around that. I used Google to find me a site that could help me and arrived at Darknet. They listed up how to screencap movies for RealPlayer, Windows MediaPlayer and Mac.
Capturing screen shots of a movie, a ‘how-to’ guide :
"For Windows Media Player, you have to disable Hardware Acceleration. You can do this in Windows Media Player 6.4 and later by clicking on View -> Options and moving the Hardware Acceleration slider to None. You can do this in Windows Media Player 7 by clicking on Tools -> Options, going to the Performance tab, moving the Hardware Acceleration slider to None, and restarting Windows Media Player. Now you may make take a screenshot by pressing the [ALT + PRNTSCRN] combination."
Remember to restore the settings after your copy-paste adventure. via [Darknet]
Philipp also did a blogpost on it, but I noticed it too late.
Next : In case you want to convert a video to DVD, VCD, SVCD, CVD or
AVI,DivX,Xvid, ASF and a lot of other formats, check out the guides from [Video-Help]. They have really good tutorials about it.
Next : "Do you use the Run feature in Windows XP? [...] tools and utilities that I bet you never knew you had that can be accessed through the Run feature."
Check out the 113 (!) options on [FixMyXP] and expand your XP knowledge.
Next : "Windows allocates resources according to its settings and manages devices accordingly. You can use the System tool in Control Panel to change performance options that control how programs use memory, including paging file size, or environment variables that tell your computer where to find some types of information."
From Microsoft’s Knowledge Base [id: 308417] :
How to set the performance options for your computer Win XP Home/Pro :
* How to manage processor time
* How to manage computer memory
* How to change the size of the virtual memory paging file
* How to optimize the memory usage
* How to change the visual effects
Next : Tuning Internet Explorer :
* One more way to fine tune Internet. Explorer load time
* Customize Internet. Explorer Title bar
* Further speedup broadband cable Internet connection
Highlight : Remove unnecessary Scheduled Tasks scan by Internet Explorer and make Internet Explorer Load faster :
[...] "trick is to open registry and navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace and then looking for shared tasks ClassId key {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}. Simply delete it and get out of registry. No need to reboot. Launch Internet Explorer and see the difference."
From [XPTuneUp]