How to pack for holidays - The Universal Packing List

Here's a very handy website that I have used a fair bit, especially when going overseas.

Here's the link - The Universal Packing List.
http://upl.codeq.info/

Generate a custom packing list for any journey.

This was the list it generated for my two week trip to Bali.
QUOTE
Check the expiration date of your passport
Make a lunch
Shave
Pet Care
Unplug electrical stuff
Empty all trash cans
Confirm airline tickets
Memorize PIN codes to credit cards
Check out what hospitals are covered by your health insurance
Get travel insurance
Change money
Install or recharge batteries
Get maps
Forward (or hold) delivery of newspapers and magazines

To do for longer trips
Balance your bank account
Wash clothes
Pay the rent and other necessary bills
Plant care
Store away things that are easy to steal
Empty your fridge of perishables
Hold delivery of snail mail

Core vaccinations
Typhus vaccination
Typhoid vaccination
Polio vaccination
Tetanus vaccination
Destination specific vaccinations
Yellow Fever vaccination
Cholera vaccination
Hepatitis vaccination
Plague vaccination
Meningitis vaccination
Japanese B Encephalitis vaccination

Clothes
Underwear
Shirts
T-shirts
Shorts
Socks
Trousers ( Pants, Jeans )
Sweater
Cap ( Hat )
Shoes
Sandals ( Flip-flops )
Optional clothes
Belt
Raincoat
Umbrella
Swimming trunks ( Bikini )
Beach pants

Money and documents
Passport
Visas
Vaccination certificate
Insurance certificate ( Health Insurance card )
Paper from your local social insurance office
Cash
Credit/ATM cards ( Visa, Eurocard/Mastercard, American Express etc )
ID card
Address list (with phone numbers and email addresses)
Optional documents
This packing list
Photocopies of passport and other important documents
International Student Identification Card ( ISIC )
Tourist organization certificate
For carrying money and documents
Wallet
Paper folder
Tickets
Airline tickets
Maps
Guidebook
Equipment

Things for packing
Small extra backpack ( Knap sack, Day pack )
Plastic bags ( Ziploc )
Stuff Sack
Small box
Suitcase
Luggage belt
Eating equipment
Multi-tool ( Folding knife )
Miscellaneous equipment
Pens
Sunglasses
Keys
Extra things
Safety pins

Hygiene
Toilet bag ( Bathroom bag, Necessaire )
Razor
Toothbrush ( Electric toothbrush with charger )
Toothpaste
Shampoo
Sunblock lotion
Extra glasses
Hygiene (optional)
Comb
Hair brush
Laundry bag
Fingernail clippers
Moisturizer
Tweezers

General health items
Prescription medicine
Sore tape ( Adhesive tape )
Insect repellent
Band-Aids ( Plaster )
First aid kit
Water bottle
Water purifying filter
Pills, tablets and medicines
Water purifying tablets
Motion sickness tablets
Fever tablets
Pain killers
Allergy pills ( Anti-histamines )
Malaria tablets

General electrical items
Cell Phone ( Mobile Phone, Cellular Phone )
Charger to Cell Phone
Wall socket adapter
Watch
Flashlight ( Torch )
Bookmark reading light
Extra batteries for your camera, flash, torch, watch, MP3-player, PDA and GPS
Digital Camera equipment
Digital camera
Memory cards
Battery charger for camera
UNQUOTE

Packed and ready. Cheers. Si
Checked April 2014 for link and relevance - still brilliant.

How To check your start up programs using Quick StartUp and . Windows XP and Windows 7. April 2014

Here's my latest find. Use this to check what programs start up at boot - and check what they are too.
It's a free start-up clean-up program called Quick Startup.
Here's the link - Quick StartUp at Glarysoft
http://www.glarysoft.com/quick-startup/

It looks like this...



"Quick StartUp organizes applications that auto-run using Registry, Startup folders in the Start menu and Win.ini file.

Do you have a ton of programs that start automatically each time Windows starts? Surely you are not using all of them right away, so there is no sense waiting for all of them to load and to start at the hourglass. Quick Startup allows you inspect, edit, temporary disable or delete such programs.

When you select a startup entry in the list, Quick StartUp displays detailed information on the program in the Details box at the bottom of the window.

You can easily determine whether or not you wish to have the program started on the basis of the Product name and Company. If you have never heard of the company or the product, then the entry is probably not needed.

Click the check box in front of an entry to clear it, and the program will no longer be started the next time you start Windows. In this way, you can find out for certain whether the entry is needed."

If you click the link at the very bottom that says "More Information", it will take you to an online library of most known programs and how relevant they are to your start-up.


Go get it. It's essential stuff.
Cheers. Si.
Checked April 2014 for link and relevance. Still valid for Windows XP and Windows 7 - I used this just two days ago. Still a very useful program with peer voted context.