Angie Harmon, Digital Art, More Spring Break
Episode #1553
Top Features
 Bit Chat: Angie Harmon The Agent Cody Banks star talks about her crusade against video voyeurism. |  Be a Digital Artist Digital artist Jeremy Sutton does Leo's portrait, creates a QuickTime movie, and shares some tips and tricks. Sutton's book, "Secrets of Digital Art Award Winners," will be available in June. You can preorder it online. |
More From This Episode
Your hosts for Monday's show are Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton.
Pittsburg High
In today's studio audience, we welcome students from Pittsburg High in Pittsburg, California.
Today's headlines
Join our LAN Party
Frag fellow fans (and staff members) in the only live, televised LAN party in the world. Our LAN Party is held every Thursday, but you must register to participate.
Martin at Spring Break
More tales from Martin's in-depth exploration of the tech of half-naked beach babes.
Morgan's Web tip: Download notification
You may notice that once you finish downloading something, the message telling you the download is done stays on the screen. Here's how to make the message disappear:
- In Internet Explorer click the Tools menu and select Internet Options.
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Make sure that "Notify when download is complete" is unchecked.
Patrick's Hack: Volume knob
Add an external volume control knob to your sound card.
On This Day
In 1992, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a ten-month stay.
Tonight on 'Tech Live'
A special-edition two-disc DVD of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is out this week. See what the DVD has to offer on "Tech Live," right after "The Screen Savers."
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- The big deal about battle robots
- Stop Windows Messenger ads
- More tales from Martin's geeky Spring Break
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Live Calls
Windows 2000 passwordsPeter in St. Paul, Minnesota, wants to give his old Windows 2000 PC to a friend, but he doesn't remember the administrator password. How can he get into the system with admin rights?
You're going to have to use a few hacker tools, Peter. Patrick recommends the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor.
You have to dump the sam file, which is where the operating system stores the password. The file is located in the Registry. It helps to have a utility such as the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to access the file.
If you have Windows XP, you can create a password-recovery disk. Learn more.
Faster dialup
Timothy in Madisonville, Kentucky, wants to know if there are any software packages he can use to speed up his dialup connection in Windows XP. He gets 29 Kbps on a 56-Kbps connection.
Based on your phone call's poor sound quality, Leo says that your phone line is your biggest problem. A dirty phone line causes most dialup problems. Windows XP does all it can to optimize your connection, so there aren't any software solutions you can use.
Try using a different phone jack or a different dialup phone number. You might find a cleaner connection.
Don't buy any software that claims to speed up your connection. They don't work.
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Painter 7 Tips and Tricks
Digital artist Jeremy Sutton shares his top tips and tricks for using Painter 7. |
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Martin's Big Break
Find out what happens when we mix a pasty geek with a beach full of babes, all next week on 'The Screen Savers' at 7 p.m. Eastern. |
