Ed The Dev .com

Pressing the ‘Print Screen’ key while playing World of Warcraft saves a picture of whatever is on screen. This is a great way to memorialize great moments of game-play.

Of course, if you’re like me, you’re never really going to see these pictures again. So set your Windows screen-saver to display them using the following instructions.

1. Right-click on a blank space on your Desktop
2. Select ‘Properties’ from the little context menu that appears. You will see a window like this one:
3. Select the ‘Screen Saver’ tab at the top. The window will change to look more like this one:
4. In the drop-down box under ‘Screen saver’, select ‘My Pictures Slideshow’.

5. Press the ‘Settings’ button just to the right of that drop-down. A window will pop up that looks like this:

6. In the ‘My Pictures Screen Saver Options’ window, Set ‘User Pictures in this folder’ to C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Screenshots

7. If you want to be able to read your conversations, be sure to set the following:

   • ‘How big should pictures be?’ to Largest
   • Check the box next to ‘Stretch small pictures’
   • Check the box next to ‘Allow scrolling through pictures with the keyboard’

Enjoy! - Edward

Webkinz appears to have a server down, and shows the children this very unfortunate error message.

Now the children know, “There are no winners”.

1. Download and run the Python Windows Installer from http://www.python.org/download/
2. Add the Python home directory to your PATH environment variable.

   Right click 'My Computer'
   Select 'Properties'
   Choose the 'Advanced' tab
   The bottom panel is named 'System Variables'
   In the list below 'System Variables', select 'Path'
   Press 'Edit'
   The 'Edit System Vaiable' dialog will appear.
   Copy this text:
   C:\Python25; 
   And paste it at the beginning of the 'variable value'. Make sure it appears there in addition to whatever was there before.
   The final value of 'variable value' should be at least:
   c:\ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;
   And may be much longer.
   Press 'Ok' buttons until you are back at your Desktop.