Article: You may have one of several motives for wanting to do well. Perhaps your parents are pressuring you to do better than you are, or maybe you plan to pursue a specific career that requires better grades than those you are currently receiving. How you proceed will depend very much on these motives. For example, if you are being pressured by your parents to do better, is it because you can do better but are simply distracted, or is it that your present best just isn't good enough for them? After all, the most you can do is your best, so attempting to suddenly be a champion in a field you aren't interested in is both futile and a foolish waste of your present talents. If your motivation is to pursue a specific career path, then that should affect what courses you choose and possibly what extracurricular activities you participate in. For example, if you want to be an engineer, you'll want to try to take the most advanced math classes available. If you want to get into politics, you might consider running for the student council. One of the biggest factors in academic performance is how good your time management is. Start by organizing what you need to do to succeed. Some people work best by making to do lists for each class. Some prefer filling out a calendar with due dates and priorities. Then start budgeting your time. Set yourself specific times to work, and stick to them. Experiment with working at different times of the day to find out when you're most productive. Don't wait until the day before a test or when a paper's due to get started. Give yourself your own mini deadlines so that you spread out your work into manageable chunks. For example, give yourself the goal of writing one or two pages of a paper a day. Plan in advance a day to revise the paper before it's due. Give yourself a day to study each section of material that will be on the test. It's important to think ahead about how much time you need to do your best. Teachers and guidance counselors are there for your benefit, so use them to your advantage. Develop a relationship with your teachers. If you're struggling with an essay, go to your teacher after class and ask if you can talk about it. If you're not sure what to study for an upcoming history class, find a time when your teacher isn't busy to ask for help. Go to your guidance counselor any time you think you could use help deciding what classes to take, getting on track to pursue a certain career, or choosing a career path in the first place. Don't take the easy classes because you can do better in them. This won't help you in the long run. This is the time to challenge yourself, if for no other reason, then to see what you can accomplish. Take AP classes if your school offers them. Don't let rumors about how tough a teacher is sway you from choosing a class that interests you and you think you could excel at. One of the best predictors of success in college is success in high school. That's why taking your academics seriously in high school is such a big deal. The best motivation for putting more effort into your schooling is to never let yourself forget how much it will impact your future. Practically, this means thinking carefully about the courses you take and why you're taking them, being diligent about setting aside time to study regularly, and starting to look into colleges early, even before it's time to start applying. Also, when it is time to start applying for colleges, don't wait for the last minute. Get in on that early registration.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Find your motivation. Learn how to manage your time well. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Challenge yourself. Think about the future.

Problem: Article: You can find this in the Start Menu. For older versions of Windows XP, select "Settings" to see the Control Panel option. If you are using Classic View, select "Regional and Language Options". This will allow you to change the options for your input language. If you are switching inputs to an East Asian language or a complex script language, check the appropriate boxes and click "Apply" to download the required extra files. This will open the Text Services and Languages Input menu. Select your desired input and language and keyboard layout from the drop-down menus. Click "OK" when you're satisfied. Your newly-added language will appear as an option in the "Default input language" drop-down menu. Select it if you want to change your input language now. Click "Apply" to save your changes. The Language Bar will appear automatically when you have more than one input language installed. You can find it in your taskbar, next to the system tray. Click the active language to see a list of all your installed input languages. You can also press Left-Alt+⇧ Shift to cycle between your installed languages.
Summary: Open the Control Panel. Select "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options". Click the "Languages" tab. Click the "Details" button. Click the "Add" button. Select your new default language from the drop-down menu. Use the Language Bar to switch between installed input languages.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: To see your Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files, open the Tools menu and select Internet Options. In the General tab, select Settings and then View Files. Locate the address of the website that you found the file on. The website may have a prefix page to it, such as farm.addictinggames.com. This is the extension for Flash files. These can be movies or games or even advertisements. Look for a file with a name that matches the video you are trying to download. Right-click on the file and select Copy. Paste the file in an easily accessible folder.> If this occurs, open an Internet browser and the folder so they are both onscreen simultaneously. Click the file, and drag it into the body of the browser. It should then run.

SUMMARY: Open Internet Explorer, or use your computers search tool to locate your Temporary Internet Files if you use a different browser. Right-click and sort files by address. Locate the files with an SWF extension. You may not be able to run the file directly.

Carpet pads don’t just make your carpets more comfortable to walk on, because they can also protect your carpet. When you place a heavy piece of furniture on the carpet, the pad will help absorb the weight, and help prevent dents from forming.  Carpet pads come in different thicknesses, and it’s important that you choose the right pad for the type of carpet you have. Typically, household carpeting pads should be between ¼ inch and 7/16 inch (6.3 and 11 mm) thick, and should have a density of about 6 pounds (2.7 kg) per cubic foot (30 cm). Furniture dents form because heavy furniture compresses the same fibers in the same way for too long. An easy way to stop this from happening is to move the furniture often so that it doesn’t sit on the fibers long enough to compress them. Move the furniture by about an inch (2.5 cm) every one to two months to stop dents from forming. This method works best with small furniture and furniture that’s on casters. Furniture cups and gliders are pads that you place under furniture feet. These spread out the weight of the furniture more evenly among more fibers. That way, the furniture isn't just compressing a few fibers, so dents don’t form.  Cups tend to slide under furniture feet, and don’t get attached to the actual feet. Gliders are also designed to help furniture slide without causing scrapes. They often have sticky backs that attach to the feet, or screws or pins that get inserted into the wood. Carpets with shorter pile (shorter fibers) are generally easier to maintain and clean, and they aren't as dent-prone as carpets with longer pile. When it comes time to re-carpet or change your rugs, look for shorter fibers as opposed to longer and shaggier ones.
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Use carpet pads. Move furniture regularly. Use cups or gliders. Choose carpeting with a shorter pile.