The latest WinXP application skills five

Win XP set up a dedicated folder for important files

If there are more users in Win XP, for security, we can set some folders into personal files Folder, others cannot view and change the contents of the dedicated folder. However, before using this feature, your drive partition format must be in NTFS format.

Open "My Computer", then double-click to open the "Documents and Settings" folder in the C drive and select the specified user folder. Right-click on any folder in the user profile and select the "Properties" command from the pop-up context menu. Select the "Share" tab in the pop-up window and check the "Make this folder private" checkbox so that the dedicated folder is set up successfully.

Prompt application initialization failed when shutting down

Q: I am using Windows XP system, I don't know why, when I shut down recently, there will always be "because the window is closed, the application initialization failed." "This kind of dialog box, and now the speed of the system startup program is also significantly reduced, what is the reason?

A: The prompt is because Windows has started the shutdown operation, but a background program has to create a window. Since the resource has been released by Windows, the window creation fails. It is recommended that you turn off all third-party programs before shutting down. If you still have this problem, you can use the latest version of anti-virus software to do a comprehensive scan to see if there is a virus. Alternatively, you can follow http://support.microsoft.com/? The method on id=316434 will perform a startup item cleanup on your system to see if you can solve your problem of slow startup speed.

Retrieving the Lost "My Documents"

Q: I am using the Windows XP system. I recently used the software to modify the system icons. I don't know if it was a mistake or something, I found out. The icon for "My Documents" on the desktop is gone. Is there any way to get it back?

A: Right click on the desktop, select "Properties", open the "Display Properties" dialog box, in the "Desktop" tab, click "Customize Desktop → Desktop Icon", put "My Remove the hook before the document, click on the application, then click on the hook and click on the application to see if "My Documents" is back.

Also talk about Windows XP automatic login

In order to avoid entering the user name and password in the user login screen before Windows XP login, the usual method is to modify the registry. Open the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinLogon" branch, create (or set) the two string values ​​DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword, and set their values ​​to the user name and password for automatic login. Also, create a new AutoAdminLogon string value and set the value to 1.

If you don't want to modify the registry, here I will give you another way. When Windows XP only has a user with a blank password and the Guest account is disabled, and the system is not a member of the domain, Windows XP will automatically log in, and there will be no interface for selecting users and entering passwords.

When the system has more than one user, you can click "Start → Run", enter control userpasswords2, click "OK", the "User Account" dialog box appears. Uncheck the "Before you want to use this machine, the user must enter the username and password". After clicking "OK", a new dialog box will appear asking you to set which user to log in automatically. Enter the user name and password of the automatic login user here.

Uninstalling the "Recovery Console"

Many friends installed it on the hard disk in order to use the "Recovery Console" diagnostic and recovery system function under Windows 2000/XP/2003. on. However, the "Recovery Console" does not provide an executable uninstaller, so how do I uninstall it when we no longer need it?

First, you should directly delete the installation files on the hard disk of the Recovery Console. By default its location is the cmdcons folder under the system partition. Then click "Control Panel → System", in the "System Properties" window, click the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" button in the "Startup and Recovery Failure" button, click the "Edit" button in the pop-up dialog box . Finally, in the file named boot, delete the following statement: "C:CMDCONSBOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console" /cmdcons" to uninstall the "Recovery Console".