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- shutting down the computer. With an ATX mainboard,
this also turns of power, so you won't even have to stand up to
press the power switch. As another goodie, the shutdown action
provides a "sleep timer" known from TV sets: every repeated
shutdown command will increase the timer by 15 minutes up to 90
minutes - your PC will never again run all the night just because
you felt asleep while watching a boring DVD.
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- putting the computer into standby mode to reduce
power consumption
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- turning off the display, if you can't stand it
anymore to have this flickering monitor on all the time while
listening to music
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- changing the display resolution. Very useful
to prepare the display to be switched into TV out mode. With the
proper tool,
the final task of turning on TV out can also be managed very easily.
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- connecting to the Internet, opening favorite
web pages and disconnecting
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- moving the cursor like if you were moving the
mouse. Even with mouse button and mousewheel support.
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- adjusting the volume of your soundcard, with
full support for panning, fading, bass and treble settings. You
can have this function behave like your car stereo: hit a remote
control button to cycle through the modes, then use the up and
down buttons to adjust them. In this way, only three buttons of
your remote are reserved for audio control.
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- controlling any window currently in the foreground
in the same way as specific application windows
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