Install WinZip Self-Extracting Outlook Express Stationery

"Idle" tasks are what Windows XP performs after you have left the computer untouched for some time. Yes, the hard disk spinning starts automatically, and there's little you can do to stop it... except turning off the task scheduler, which I don't recommend, or running these idle tasks manually when you feel like it. That will put them to sleep for at least three days. You can also use this to make the idle tasks (which aren't all that idle but rather quite useful) if your permanent activity prevents them from ever being started automatically.
And for when you're idle, here's how to handle automatically expanding stationery:
Self-extracting Outlook Express stationery may unzip itself, but it doesn't install on its own. But getting that stationery to work is not difficult either.