Mining the mysterious treasures in the Windows XP installation disk

If you are a careful person, you will find a lot of useful tools hidden in the support directory of the Windows XP system installation CD. Since these tools are not automatically installed in the default installation mode, the general "Rookie" has very few opportunities to access them. Occasionally, the author was fortunate to have witnessed the "details" of these tools hidden in the Windows XP system installation package, and now recommend some very useful tools to everyone.

Before using these hidden tools, these tools hidden in the Windows XP system installation package must be properly installed on the computer system. You can directly double-click the ResourceKit.zip package in the support directory with the mouse, and then a pop-up window will pop up and execute the setup.exe file to start the installation. The installation process is also very simple, just follow the on-screen prompts and click the “Next” button. If you don't have the original system installation CD, you can go directly to the Microsoft homepage and download some of the tools for free.

Once the tools in the tarball are properly installed, your Windows XP system will add more than 300 features in a flash. Considering the length of the relationship, the author only recommends some more practical tools here.

Taskbar Program Shortcuts

This applet provides you with the ability to add shortcuts to the system tray. With it you can easily add frequently to the taskbar. A shortcut to running the program. When adding a shortcut, you can double-click the file named quicktray.exe in the subsequent open interface (Figure 1), click the “add” button, in the pop-up file selection dialog box, select A program file that needs to be executed often is OK. If you want the shortcut of a program to disappear from the system tray, you can reopen the file selection dialog above, then select the program file you want to delete, and click the “Remove” button. However, this method of adding shortcuts to the program is also insufficient, because the added shortcut icons are all "crowded" in the tray area of ​​the system, which is not conducive to quickly identifying and selecting programs.

Monitoring System Performance

In the system, first find the wperf.exe file, and double-click the file with the left mouse button to start the monitoring system performance tool (Figure 2). It only consumes very little resources of the system when monitoring system performance. By default, you can only use this tool to monitor the "CPU LINE GRAPH" information. To let it monitor more system information, you can use the mouse pointer to click the “Select” button in the tool interface. In the subsequent window, you can define the system content that needs to be monitored according to actual needs, such as Context Switch/Sec, Thread Cound, Pages Available, Pages Faults, Pages Pool, and so on.

Figure 2

Turning the program "transform" into a service

Execute the srvinstw.exe file in the system to open an interface for adding new services. In this interface, you can easily convert a program into a system service, so that you can ensure that the specified program is like the system service when you log out of the system or when you have not logged into the system. The background runs silently, this feature can save you a lot of system resources. In the “Install a service” setting of the tool interface (Figure 3), you can add a new service yourself. A prompt window will appear on the screen to ask if you want to add a remote service or a local service. In most cases, you should select the “Local Machine” option to add a local service. Below you can enter a name for the service to be added, and then click the “Browse” button with the mouse pointer to open a file selection dialog box, select an executable program that needs to be converted, for example, you can select it here. D:aaaqq.exe” program, then follow the on-screen prompts and click the “Next” button. When the prompt “The service was successfully installed” appears on the screen, it indicates that the system has converted the QQ program into a service in the system and automatically returns it to the system to run in the background. In order to verify whether there is a QQ service, you may wish to open the "Services" window in the "Administrative Tools" to see if the QQ service is quietly "lying" and waiting for you there. Of course, with this function, you can't turn all the executable programs into a service of the system. If you find an abnormal prompt on the screen during the conversion process, I suggest that you do not force the conversion. Otherwise, it may lead to system instability.

Redefining the keyboard

First find a file named Remapkey.exe in the Windows XP system. Double-click the file with the left mouse button to run the program and open the corresponding file. The program interface, (as shown in Figure 4), the keyboard in the "Base keyboard" indicates the original standard keyboard in the system, and the keyboard at the interface "Remapped keyboard" is for you to customize the keyboard. Here, you can directly select a button at the "Base keyboard" with the mouse, and then drag it directly to a key at the "Remapped keyboard", and then the corresponding target key will automatically become The red color. For example, suppose the author drags the “A” key at the “Base keyboard” to the “B” key on the “Remapped keyboard”, and then press ““B” on the keyboard”. When the key is on the screen, it is the letter “A”. Obviously, with this tool, you can easily replace a common key that has been damaged in the keyboard with a key that is not commonly used, and no longer need to find another keyboard repair tool. However, in order for the above button to be replaced successfully, you must also click the <quo;option” menu item in the tool interface to execute the “Setup Auto Logon” command from the open drop-down menu. If you want to restore the keyboard to its original state, you can execute the “delete all” command in the “edit” menu item to return each button to its normal state.

Figure 4

Freely shutting down the computer

In the hidden tool of Windows XP, there is also a system that allows you to remotely shut down the system, automatically shut down the system, and shut down the network. The system tool, its name is shutdown.exe. Double-click the file with the left mouse button to open the tool interface. At the “Computer Name” of the interface, you will be able to see the name of the local computer on the network. If you want to remotely shut down the system through the network, you can change the name of the computer here to the name or IP address of the target computer you need to shut down. By default, the tool will automatically select the “Reboot after shutdown” option, you must cancel this option to automatically shut down the system. In the “Delay” setting of the interface, you can also freely set the delay time for automatically shutting down the system. Usually the delay time is in seconds. After completing the settings, you can click the “OK” button to make the settings. In effect, if you want to cancel the previous settings, just click the “abort” button. How, the tool brings more choices to your shutdown.

Enhanced Clipboard Features

Although the clipboard feature provided by Word allows you to copy and paste up to 12 times, if you use editors such as WordPad or Notepad frequently When there is no blessing to enjoy such a function. To do this you can find the file that enhances the clipboard function —cliptray.exe. Once the file is run, it will automatically work silently in the background of the system, and a control icon will appear in the lower right corner of the system tray. Double-click the control icon with the left mouse button to open the program interface of the tool (Figure 5). At this point, you can use the mouse to select the content you want to copy and paste it into the <quo;Entry Text” Also enter a suitable name in the "Name of Clip Tray Entry" text box to make it easier to call the contents of these pasteboards later. Of course, you can also click on the “ADD” button here to add other content that needs to be copied. If you want to call the content in the enhanced clipboard in the future, you can right-click the control icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar, select the corresponding title content from the pop-up shortcut menu, and then the specified content will be called to the target location. .

Figure 5

Ok, let's recommend so many hidden tools first, how about? Are they very practical? If you are interested, then try to ponder other hidden tools, I believe there are more exciting waiting for you!