Play Windows XP Desktop Tips

There are a lot of tricks to play with the Windows desktop. This article introduces you to 10 windows desktop skills.

Having multiple desktops

Are you envious of advanced players with dual-headed graphics cards? In fact, if you are using the nVidia graphics card of the GPU core, you can enjoy the multi-desktop display, and the number of desktops is not two, it is 32! These desktops can be switched to each other, the content between them does not interfere with each other, and the information can be sent between different desktops ——

Step1 First make sure you have the privileges of the system administrator, then open the “Control Panel” and double-click “nVIDIA nView Desktop Manager” to display a dialog box as shown in Figure 1. The operation displayed on the desktop is completed in this dialog box. Now click the “Wizard” button (note that if the “Wizard” button is not available at this time, you can check the “Enable nView Desktop Manager” by selecting ““ Select the box and click the "Apply" button to activate it.

Step2 The wizard has 11 pages. The operation of these pages is very intuitive. I won't say much here. In addition to defining multiple desktop applications, you can also set whether to make the application's window transparent when it is moving, and you can set the transparency —— this effect is very cool! Here to remind you, although you can set up to 32 desktops, but even if your computer has the most powerful configuration, you should control the number of desktops below 4, otherwise the system resources will not be able to make ends meet.

Step3 After completing the configuration, you may have noticed that your Windows has quietly changed. For example, when you right click on the desktop or view the application's system menu, the menu shown in Figure 2 will appear. Switching the desktop operation is done in this menu. If you are too cumbersome to switch desktops, you can use the hotkey — the hotkeys are defined in the < hotkey" tab of the dialog shown in Figure 3 (Figure 3).

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Figure 3

Tip: In fact, the menu shown in Figure 2 can also perform many functions other than desktop switching, such as between different desktops. Send window and more. In addition, different versions of the nVidia display card driver may have different settings interface, so the above content is only a reference. The last thing to note is that when you complete the multi-desktop configuration, you may be asked to install IE6, but according to the author's experience, IE5.5 is still applicable.

Putting a note on the desktop

Before introducing the note on the desktop, please take a look at Figure 4. The note on the desktop can be moved and scaled like all Windows windows. very funny?

To achieve this function, you can do the following: use some word processing software (such as WORD) to create an HTML file, even if the text part of the text, because it is an HTML file, you can add a lot of multimedia material. . Right-click on the blank space of the desktop to pop up the shortcut menu, select the menu item “Active Desktop/New Desktop Project”, and then the “Create New Active Desktop Item” dialog box will be displayed. Specify the newly created dialog box in the dialog box. The URL of the HTML file is determined to exit. Going back to the desktop, the note has already slammed on the screen.

Let the desktop be empty

If the icons on the desktop of the computer all disappear, then please reinstall the system — make a joke. To achieve this effect, you only need three simple steps.

Step1 Right-click on the blank space of the desktop to pop up the shortcut menu and select the menu item “Active Desktop/Show Web Content”.

Step2 In the same menu, cancel the “Allow Desktop/Show Desktop Icon” menu item selection. At this time, the desktop of the computer is empty.

Step3 In order to beautify the desktop, you can specify a beautiful picture as a tablecloth in the display properties dialog box.

If you feel that there are no shortcut icons on the desktop that will affect your work, you can consider moving these icons to the taskbar by right-clicking on the blank space in the taskbar and creating a new desktop in the pop-up shortcut menu.

Automated Recovery of Desktops

We all know that IE integrated with Windows is very fragile, and sometimes an "illegal operation" may cause the desktop to collapse, of course Manually restore the desktop, but if the desktop can be automatically restored, isn't it better? We can do this by modifying the registry. Open the registry and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOF-TWAREMicrosoft WindowsNTCurr-entVersionWinLogon, which has a subkey named AutoRestartShell. When the value of the subkey is 1, Windows will automatically recover the crashed Explorer; if the value of the subkey is 0, Windows will not recover. Crashed Explorer.

Retouching icons on the desktop