My brother is on a quest to simplify his life. I’m on that quest too actually, although we’re both on the same quest, I believe mine has come more from a financial necessity than maybe his is at the current status.
Had this little tip included in an email newsletter today :
Time-Saving Tip: Shutting Down Your PC
If you spend 10 seconds every day going into the Start menu to shut down your computer, then you?re losing up to 45 minutes per year! Here?s how to create a time-saving desktop shortcut…
1 – Right-click on the desktop.
2 – Select New > Shortcut.
3 – Cut & Paste the correct code into the Command Line box:Windows 98 C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows
Windows XP C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe ?s4 – Select Next.
5 – Name the new shortcut “Shut Down Computer”
6 – Finish.If you go to the new “Shut Down Computer” icon on your desktop, your computer will shutdown without having to go through the Start Menu.
Now, I’m all for saving time and doing things for efficiently, but if this is the best way he can think of to share with me how to save 10 seconds of my day, I’m not that impressed. Guess it’s just part of that disposable diaper, microwave popcorn, and instant messaging lifestyle we’re in. Maybe at some point, we can stop actually wasting the time to ask questions and people will intuitively just start giving us answers to questions we didn’t ask. Wait, some already do that.