Hi again, Mao...
The download manager is easy. Download Mage is one of the few
pieces of software I've considered worthy of paying for in the
shareware department, and a single click of the system tray
icon allows you to set a bandwidth limit of your choice and
enable it. It defaults to 3 KBps, but is completely adjustable.
This bandwidth limit will apply to all the files in its queue.
It has too many features to detail here, but one of the best
is that, if the download is resumable for a file (most are),
you can set DLMage up to create, by default, say, 4 connections
with each file, with a maximum of, say, 32 connections total.
You can then queue any number of files for download and set it
to download the batch automatically.
The great thing is that, even if the site from which you're
downloading a single file has a slow connection, your 4
connections at 75KBps can add up to a 300KBps download.
It has a 30-day trial period, and can be registered for $19.95:
http://www.dlmage.com/
We can handle the second and third requests with a single bit
of elegant freeware, created by Steve Gibson, called Wizmo:
http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm
Let's start with the restart and shutdown options:
"reboot ? restart (reboot) the computer
Attempts to gracefully close all of the user's running
programs, exits Windows, reboots the system and restarts
Windows.
Example: wizmo reboot"
"shutdown ? shutdown the computer
Shuts down all of the user's running programs, exits
Windows, then powers off the machine if supported by
the system's hardware.
Example: wizmo shutdown"
Other options include:
standby
hibernate
logoff
exit
On to the screensaver options:
"blank ? activate the system's screen saver
This simply trips the system's currently chosen screen saver
exactly as if the screen saver's automatic timeout had been
reached.
Example: wizmo blank"
"blackout ? blank the screen to "basic black"
Leave the system's monitors powered on, but blank the
screen(s) to absolute black. Colors other than black can be
chosen by using the "desktop" command instead of "blackout."
Example: wizmo blackout"
Wizmo produces an audio cue when you activate it, but if
you want to silence it you just use the 'quiet' command.
I use this command to blackout my screen when I'll be away:
C:\Windows\wizmo.exe quiet blackout
It takes a small amount of work to set up and personalize
the shortcuts for these commands, but the result is well
worth the effort.
Just use Windows Explorer to go to the Windows directory
where wizmo.exe is located (though you can put it anywhere
you like). Right-click on the file and select Create Shortcut.
The new shortcut will appear at the bottom of the list. Now
right-click on the shortcut and rename it to something
appropriate. If you're setting up the screensaver, name it
'wizmo screen', e.g. Now right-click the shortcut again and
select Properties. In the Target box, add whatever commands
you want to use to the basic location, by changing:
C:\Windows\wizmo.exe
to, say,
C:\Windows\wizmo.exe quiet blank
Click apply and close the dialog box, and you've got a
one-click wonder which you can cut and paste to any
location you like, such as your desktop, which will
instantly initiate your screensaver, or an exit from
windows, or a computer shutdown.
Wizmo also has its own built-in customizable gravitron
screensaver and a host of other commands, from muting
your audio to opening your CD tray!
All of this in a mere 37kb of free code!
It's a beautiful thing.
This didn't require any searching, since I happily use
both of these programs, and have found them irreplaceable.
As always, if you have any questions, just ask.
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