WinXP Tips: Application

In order to better use Windows, the author will introduce a few tips for searching for applications.

Dr.Watson displayed when the program will fail to load or crash;

1, turn off the debugger Dr. Watson. Run drwtsn32 and remove all the "dump all thread contexts", otherwise the hard disk will ring for a long time and it will take up a lot of space. If you have encountered this situation before, please find the user.dmp file and delete it, which can save tens of M space. Then open the registry, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAeDebug subkey branch, double-click the Auto key name under it, change its "Value Data" to 0, and finally press F5 to refresh the settings, so that it completely cancels its operation.

2, compressed folder

Windows XP built-in support for .ZIP file, you can zip files as a folder view. However, in order to support this operating system to use some resources to achieve this feature, disable this feature can improve system performance. To disable this service you need to unregister zipfldr.dll: Click Start - Run, type: regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll .

3, set the startup information or add a warning message if

when you start Windows XP, you want to display some of their own definition of personalized information, you can follow these steps: Open registration Table editor, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon subkey branch, double-click the LegalNoticeCaption name under it, open the "Edit String" window, enter the title of the information dialog box in the "Value Data" text box, such as "welcome", then Double-click LegalNoticeText, and enter the warning message you want to display in the "Edit String" window that appears. For example, "Please do not modify the settings of this level at will", click the "OK" button, restart to see the modified The effect is.

4, when the ban starts automatically calls "Windows Messenger"

Microsoft to promote their live chat program "Windows Messenger", the default setting will be invoked when the program is WindowsXP system startup. If you turn it off in the startup item for the first time, it will automatically restore to boot with the system once it is used. If you want it to never start with the system, you need to set it up: delete the "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunMSMSGS" button to achieve.

5, resolve the task bar suspended animation

"Control Panel" -> "Regional and Language Options" -> "Language" -> "Details" in the pop-up "settings window" Select "Language Bar" for "Preferences", turn off "Show Language Bar on Desktop", and tick the third "Show other language bar icons in notification area" checkbox.

6, performance

temporary files will affect the system into the "Internet Options" mid-point "Temporary Internet Files folder" in the "Settings" button, open the dialog "Moving Files Folder" Move the Internet Temporary Folder to another extent, don't let it be in the same partition as the system file. This is because the temporary file is small, multi, and messy, and it will generate a lot of fragmentation. If you let it and system files Putting it together will affect the performance of the system.

7. free system Tutorial


free system Tutorial
or "roaming Windows XP", most users are accustomed to during installation It is set to "not display at startup", but it is still a good tutorial
for novices. Its location is in System32 under the Windows folder, and the file name is tourstart.exe.

8. special symbol input

In some Windows programs often have to insert some special symbols, and another one to find trouble, then use the "Character Map" program to help. Use the Character Map to see which characters are in the selected font. When selected, click the Select and Copy buttons to copy the selected characters to the Windows clipboard. The location of the "character mapping table" is in System32 under the Windows folder, and the file name is Charmap.exe.

9, to change the style of smart ABC

open the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ SoftWare \\ Microsoft \\ Windows \\ Current Versiong \\ ABC intelligent sub-key "style," click Edit, the data value from "0 "" changed to "1".

10, settings for the application hotkey

use Windows built-in hotkey to open Explorer and other programs is very convenient, but for some of the later installation of the program, as there is no provision WORD Hotkeys, in order to start the program quickly and conveniently, we need to add it manually: find the shortcut that needs to set the program (such as WORD), right click and select "Properties", in the "Properties" in the "Shortcuts" interface You can see the "shortcut key", add a custom hotkey (such as Ctrl+Alt+W) and confirm it, then you can open Word to write the text by pressing "Ctrl+Alt+W" next time. It is.