13 tips for using the Windows operating system

1. Delete files that are not allowed under Windows
Sometimes you want to delete a file, the system will tell you that it cannot be deleted, change to DOS or safe mode can be deleted, but it is a bit troublesome. At this time, you can right-click on the Recycle Bin and select “Properties> Set the maximum space of the Recycle Bin to 0%. After confirming, delete the files you just deleted, generally you can.

2. Let Windows2000/XP timed automatic shutdown automatically shut down is a very useful function, but Windows does not seem to have such a function, then can you use Windows 2000/XP to automatically shut down without using extra programs and programs? The answer is certainly yes. Windows XP system directory windowssystem32 has a shutdown.exe file, which is a shutdown program that comes with Windows. If you want Windows 2000 to achieve the same effect, you can copy shutdown.exe to the system directory. Let's take an example. If you plan to have your computer
shut down at 1:00 am (1 am), click "Start”→“Run”, enter“ at 1:00 shutdown -s”, at 1 o'clock in the morning computer
will appear "System Shutdown" dialog box, the default has a 30 second countdown and prompts you to save the work. If you want to shut down in a countdown mode, you can type "shutdown.exe-s-t 6000" to indicate that the system will automatically shut down after 6000 seconds. If you want to cancel, you can enter “shutdown -a” on the fly. In addition, enter "Shutdown -i ”" to open the Set Auto Shutdown dialog box for automatic shutdown settings. If you want to get more detailed parameter information, you can get it by running “shutdown -help”.

3. Entering International Phonetic Alphabets in Windows In Windows, there is no direct input of English phonetic symbols, but it is achievable after setting. Double-click the “Font” icon in the “Control Panel” to retrieve the presence of “YinBiaoNormal” font. If not, you can load it from the appropriate disk or CD. The method is very simple, just copy the corresponding file of the font (yibn.ttf) to the directory ""C:/windows/fonts”. In this way, in the future, you need to input the phonetic symbols in Windows. Just switch the font to YinBiao, you can directly input the international phonetic symbols of English using the keyboard.

4. Modify the number of registry backup records When the system is unstable, you need to repair the registry, but usually the registry database has only 5 backup records, if the backup exceeds 5, the new backup file will Overwrite old backup files. However, if you think that there are not enough 5, you can set the number of backup files of the "Windows Registry Checker" to a maximum of 99. Select “Start”→“Run” and enter “scanreg.ini”, then open Notepad and open this file. After that, find "MaxBackupCopies=5” this line, modify "ld"; 5” for the value you want, save and close after saving. However, it is not necessarily good, 5 backup files will probably eat 2MB to 5MB of space. It is recommended to keep 10 or fewer backups. In fact, for most emergencies, these backup files are sufficient to protect your computer.

5.Hide "My Computer" To hide the "My Computer" icon on the desktop, you can use the following method: in "Start”→“Run” Enter regedit, open the registry editor, expand the registry to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID, create a new primary key "ShellFolder", and then create a new binary value in the right window "attributes", the key value is changed to "ld ff ff ff ff" , close the registry. Restart the computer, when the desktop appears again, you will find that "my computer" is gone! To resume the display, delete the "ShellFolder" key!

6. Quickly operate the desktop. The program on the desktop must click on the icon or folder on the desktop, but it will often be blocked by the window. At this time, you can start at “>running” Medium (while holding down the Win+R key), type a dot <;”, after the carriage return, the desktop folder will pop up.

7. Ingeniously copying rotten discs You may encounter this situation in peacetime: when copying a VCD, it is often at the last minute, and the system prompts “Unable to read the specified device”, it is simply mad! It doesn't matter, don't press OK at this time, immediately press the “reset” button to restart the computer. After entering the system, use the disk scanner to check the hard disk. You will find hundreds of megabytes of lost files, save them, and change the extension to Mpg, this is the file just copied.

8. Searching for Multiple Disks Simultaneously When you use the “Find ” command to find files on disk, you can generally select only one disk to search. In fact, after clicking the "Search” box, you can type the disk symbol to be searched directly in this box, and separate them by ";”, for example, type “A:;C: ;D:”, you can search for the files you need on multiple disks at the same time. To further narrow your search, you can also type the path in the "Search” box, for example, type “C:/Tools;C:/Windows;D:/123”

9. Clear the unnecessary program commands in the right mouse button. Some software will add your own commands in the right mouse button command menu after installation (such as installing Winzip), but these commands are not all we need, we want to delete It is not easy to delete, it is likely to stay in the right-click menu after uninstalling the software, annoying! It doesn't matter, just run the registry editor to open HKET_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell HKET_CLASSES_ROOThtmlfileshell. Find the unwanted command key values ​​and delete them directly.

10.Unlock Windows to lock the system folder When we open the Windows directory, such as Windowssystem or Windowssystem32, the system does not open the directory directly, but gives a warning message, only one more Click "Show file" to open the directory. It will be very troublesome to use for a long time. It seems that Windows is a bit confusing. In fact, you can only find the file named “Folder.htt” in the system's find command, and then delete or remove it to solve the locking of its system folder.

11. Prohibit the use of reg files In order to prevent someone from lifting the restrictions on the registry, you must make the .reg file open in the system default mode. The method is as follows: In the window to the right of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/CLASSES.reg, change the "default" value to “txtfile”, then try importing the .reg file, hey, how to open the notebook?

12. Test your CD-ROM performance with Windows built-in functions. You can use the "Accessories" →“System Tools”→“System Information" Put a good CD in the CD-ROM drive, expand the “Components” directory in the left window, then expand the “Multimedia” directory, select the “CD-ROM” option, the system will automatically test and finish. The test results will be displayed, including: manufacturer, name, transfer speed and other data. Several optical drives display several sets of data. You can see if it is close to the standard on the manual (but this test data is not very accurate)

13. Make the color of the icon more vivid. This change is used to determine the color depth of the icon (16 or 24 bit). ): Select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control/panel/desktop/windowmetrics primary key, create a new string value "shelliconbpp”, then double-click it and enter 16 (16-bit) or 24 (24-bit).