->You want to turn off many unwanted or less-used services, such as instant messengers, because they slow down your computer. You can do this in control panel or by running ''msconfig''. You can also look at your the list of your ''service''.

*%blue% Open Office
->Some students do not have PowerPoint on their personal computers. You can try the open-source version of Office software at http://download.openoffice.org/

*%blue% login to Linux servers
->[[ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html |''Putty'']] is a a good ssh-client for remote login to a Linux server. For easy file-transfer between Linux server and your windows computer, you can try [[ http://winscp.net/eng/index.php| WinScp]].

->You want to turn off many unwanted or less-used services, such as instant messengers, because they slow down your computer. You can do this in control panel or by running ''msconfig''.

*%blue% Turn off unwanted services
->You want to turn off many unwanted or less-used service, such as instant messengers, because they slow down your computer. You can do this in control panel or by running ''msconfig''.

*%blue% Software in zip files
->You often will receive or download software in zip format (or other compressed packages, such as *.tar). You need to first expand the packages into a temporary place, such as your desktop, then install the program. It is better not to run the program from the zip files directly (weird things can happen here).

->When you want to email several files, it is better to put them into a package (often called a zip file in Windows). To do this, you can download the free compression software ''7zip'', which is available at both http://www.7-zip.org and http://www.download.com/. After you have installed ''7zip'', you can left-mouse-click to select the files that you want to compress and then right-mouse-click to select ''7zip''.

* %blue% Compressing and packaging of files

* %blue% Compression and packaging of files

->When you want to email several files, it is better to put them into a package (often called a zip file in Windows). To do this, you can download the free compression software '7zip', which is available at both http://www.7-zip.org and http://www.download.com/. After you have installed '7zip', you can left-mouse-click to select the files that you want to compress and then right-mouse-click to select '7zip'.

->When you want to email several files, it is better to put them into a package (often called a zip file in Windows). To do this, you can download the free compression software '7zip', which is available either at http://www.7-zip.org or at http://www.download.com/. After you have installed '7zip', you can left-mouse-click to select the files that you want to compress and then right-mouse-click to select '7zip'.

* Compression and packaging of files
->When you want to email several files, it is better to put them into a package (often called a zip file in Windows). To do this, you can download the free compression software '7zip', which is available either at www.7-zip.org or at CNET. After you have installed '7zip', you can left-mouse-click to select the files that you want to compress and then right-mouse-click to select '7zip'.