Article: Birds are typically very clean creatures and they spend a lot of time cleaning, preening, and grooming their feathers. This is natural self-care behavior that is important for birds to do. While preening, birds straighten out their feathers by pulling them through their beaks. This allows them to pull out dislodged feathers, clean out pests and debris, and spread preening oil across their feathers. Preening oil is produced from a gland near a bird's tail and the bird spreads it around to all of its feathers. This oil helps protect the feathers. If your bird has stopped preening, has ruffled feathers, and looks shabby, you should have it looked at by a veterinarian. This could indicate that it is not well. Bathing is an important part of feather maintenance for birds. If your bird stops bathing itself, that is a sign that it is no longer taking care of itself. This could signal depression, body pain, or lack of mobility. Your bird may simply take a quick bath in its water dish once in a while, so you may not catch it every time. However, you may notice water splashed all over the place in your bird's cage. This is a good indicator that your bird has taken a bath. Wing flapping can signal a lot of things, but one reason that birds do it is simply for the exercise. Birds in captivity still want to keep their wings in working condition, so flapping them around keeps the muscles conditioned to some degree. Your bird may also do this to get your attention or simply because it is happy.
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Look for preening behavior. Make sure your bird is bathing. Look for vigorous wing flapping.
Article: You'll need to be on an account that has administrator privileges in order to make changes to your computer's registry. Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen. This will search your computer for the Registry Editor command. It's a teal collection of blocks at the top of the Start window. Doing so will open the Registry Editor window. To do so: Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder by double-clicking it. Expand SOFTWARE Scroll down and expand Microsoft Scroll down and expand Windows NT Expand CurrentVersion Expand Software Protection Platform Click Activation It's a blue-and-white icon on the right side of the window. A drop-down menu will appear. If your mouse doesn't have a right-click button, click the right side of the mouse, or use two fingers to click the mouse. If your computer uses a trackpad instead of a mouse, use two fingers to tap the trackpad or press the bottom-right side of the trackpad. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. A window will appear. In the "Value data" text box, replace the "0" with a "1", then click OK. You may be prompted to confirm this choice. If so, click Yes or OK before proceeding. This item is also on the right side of the page. This will prevent the activation notification from appearing on your desktop. While removing the watermark notification will work temporarily, you may need to disable it again in the future.
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Make sure that you're on an administrator account. Open Start . Type in regedit. Click regedit. Click Yes when prompted. Go to the "Activation" key. Right-click Manual. Click Modify. Change the value data. Right-click NotificationDisabled. Click Modify. Change the value data to 1. Repeat this process if the notification reappears.
Article: Some clothes like jeans can be worn several times before washing, but wash your undergarments and socks after each use. If you are wearing clothes more than once, check for any dirt or stains on them before going out of the house. Don't wear wrinkled clothes or anything covered in pet hair. If you have a pet, keep a lint roller handy. It will pick up pet hair, bits of fuzz, and anything else that sticks to your clothes. While you might not have a big clothing budget, you can still match the clothes you have. Put a little more energy into putting an outfit together, then take a minute in front of the mirror to see how you look. Do not mix styles. Don't wear sweatpants with your blouse or dress shirt. Avoid wearing white socks with your dress shoes. Avoid wearing colors that clash. Avoid pairing colors with different intensity or undertone. Colors have different properties that will determine if they are complementary to the eye or if they clash. You can use color wheels to help learn to identify various color properties, or simply wear a lot of neutral colors that can make it easy to coordinate with your colored clothing. Avoid anything that is too baggy or too tight. Pants shouldn't be drooping down so low that your underwear is showing. Likewise, clothing that is too tight can be seen as too revealing or sexual. Find a size that fits you comfortably. Wearing a belt or suspenders can help keep your pants where you want them to be. Make sure any clothes that button up, like shirts and blazers, don't pull or gap across your chest or stomach. Avoid any outfits with holes in the fabric and clothes that went out of style ten years ago. When clothes start to seem stretched out or don't quite fit you anymore, it's a good idea to get rid of them and pick out some new clothes. Even if you don't have a big budget, a few new items like a nice pair of new pants and a couple neutral color shirts can go a long way to work with the rest of your wardrobe. If your closet's full of things you never wear, but they're in pretty good shape, you can donate them to a charity shop. Don't donate things that are worn out (and don't donate undergarments at all).
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Wear clean clothes. Coordinate your outfits. Wear clothes that fit well. Don't wear old, faded clothing.