How to manage/remove startup Programs in Windows 7. Here's my two-cents worth: I know this is not a comprehensive list, but I've been Googling and experimenting for quite a while and here's some of the results: I won't even give all the usual cautions about goofing around in the Registry because if you're here trying to stop excess processes (which the average user doesn't even know or care about), you should know what the ill-advised Registry change can do.
Can be auto-starting IF: 1) The program has a visible window. 2) Program is loaded during the Windows boot process: Registry keys: 3) User's Startup folder: Start (Orb) > All Programs > Startup 4) msconfig Startup tab 5) Use CCleaner (or similar program that offers such a feature): Run CCleaner > Tools button > Startup button. 5) In Services: Start (Orb) > type services.msc > hit Enter > scroll down (and carefully) change Automatic services to Manual or Disabled > reboot 6) Use program's menu selection to start/not start automatically.
Kids' Games, Animals, Photos, Stories, and More -- National Geographic Kids. Flour Dust Fireballs. Suppressed Ancient Discoveries From Around the World. How to Turn Water Into Ice Without a Freezer. Instant Ice - Waterbending In Real Life! Science Fare. This is hydrophobic sand. Take it out of the water and you'll be surprised. News in Science (ABC Science) Super Hydrophobic Surface and Magnetic Liquid - The Slow Mo Guys. 15 Science Experiments You Can Do With Your Kids. By Therese Oneill Time to get messy, light some stuff on fire, and use food products in ways they were never intended! Parents and teachers across the internet have found fun ways to teach kids science, and have documented the experiments for the rest of us. Here are 15 hands-on science lessons that will stick in a kid’s brain far longer than anything they get from a textbook. 1. Lemony Sudsy Eruptions @ Blog Me Mom Fun Quotient: A much less stinky take on the trusty vinegar and baking soda eruptions.
Teaches: The baking soda base and the citric acid create an endothermic reaction while releasing carbon dioxide in bubble form. 2. TaxFix.co.uk Fun Quotient: Holy crud—you’re burning money! Teaches: Combustion, or what a fire likes to eat. 3. Fun Quotient: It makes pretty rocks you can eat! Teaches: Water evaporates, the sugar crystals don’t. 4. Fun Quotient: They get to use sharp things and electricity, which is Frankenstein-level cool. Teaches: Electromagnets are everywhere. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The annual Christmas Island Red Crab migration. Quantum locking. For $10, Convert Your Smartphone into a Microscope with Photo and Video Capabilities.
[Update - 10:43AM 10/29/13] We actually built one of these $10 microscope stands. Take a look at the photos we took using it to see how well it works. Now you can do science at home with a $10 DIY smartphone microscope stand. Like pretty much everything else they touch, smartphones make microscopes better by making them less expensive, more portable, and granting you the ability to take photos and video of your subjects.
It’s great to live in the future. If you’ve got the required tools handy, it should only take about 20 minutes to build the microscope stand. Considering how much a real microscope costs and the built-in photographic capabilities of the smartphone one, it’s well worth the time and effort. Also, if you’re into home science projects enough to want your own microscope, building the stand yourself is probably just an added bonus. (via BoingBoing, image via kmyoshino) Meanwhile in related links. Home | I Fucking Love Science. Light Wave Theory. Science for Kids. Fun Science Experiments for Kids - Cool Projects & Easy Ideas for Children.
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