20 special tips for Win XP

  
        Many Windows XP users complain that the system shutdown waits too long, the disk usage is high, and some operations do not have Windows 98 and other issues. The following is a detailed description of the 20 skills, I hope to help you improve your application skills. 1. Automatically record the opening time of the file in Notepad In Notepad, we can record the time of opening a text file each time by entering ".LOG" in the first line of the file (Note: must be capitalized !), then wrap the text to start the text. This will automatically add the current time after the file is closed each time the file is opened.

2. Quickly browse offline pages

Need to browse an open page The traditional way is to find and open this page in a link, one link, in the order of online opening. The quicker way is to add this page to your favorites and later browse the page from your favorites in offline mode. In fact, creating a shortcut for this page is the fastest way. In the address bar of the browser, there is a small icon in front of the URL of the opened webpage. Hold down the small icon with the mouse and drag it to the desktop. You can quickly browse the webpage offline on the desktop next time.

3, fast mail

on the "Start" menu, click the right mouse button and select "Open" in the window that opens, click the right mouse button, select "New" --- "Shortcut", then type "mailto:" in the "Please type the location of the project" box, click "Next", enter the name in the "Type the name of the shortcut" box, click "Finish" . Just click on this shortcut to create a new email in the future. If you often email a friend, you can create a shortcut for this friend. The method is similar to the above. For example, if your friend's email address is [email protected], then you just need to type "mailto:[email protected]" in the "Please enter the location of the project" box, and the rest will remain unchanged.

4, the favorite program placed near the top of the Start menu

Are you very fond of a program and often use it? Then, it should be prioritized in the Start menu by placing it at the top of the list. This approach ensures that the program remains in the start menu and is not interfered with by other programs, even if other programs have a higher frequency of use. Right-click on the link to your favorite program on the Start menu and select "Apply to the 'Start' menu" in the shortcut menu that appears. Your program will be permanently moved to the top of the list, just below the browser and email program.

5, to increase the ringing

Capslock Capslock will become accidentally pressed when entering Chinese English capital, to this key plus a "ringing" worry more. To do this, open the Accessibility tab of the Control Panel and in the Keyboard item, select Use Switching Key.
6, to use the Recycle Bin folder encryption

(1) First, click on "My Computer → View → Folder Options", select "Show All Files", the single "OK."

(2) into the system root directory, right-click the "Recycle Bin", (that is called "Recycled" folder), the shortcut menu dialog box, select "Enable thumbnail view mode" Then click on "Apply" and you will find that the system automatically selects the "Read Only" property. You need to manually remove the "Read Only" property and then click "OK". At this point you will find that the icon becomes a normal folder, then double-click the "Recycled" folder, find an initialization file named "desktop.ini", activate it, and copy it to the file you need to encrypt. Next, as in the "d:\\MyFiles" folder below.

(3) Then right click on the "d:\\MyFiles" folder, select the properties, make sure the "Read Only" property is selected in the pop-up dialog box, and then check the "Enable thumbnail view mode" checkbox. Hook in front of the box and confirm.

7,

temporarily assign administrative rights for their many programs during the installation process requires that you have administrative privileges. Here is an easy way to temporarily assign administrative privileges to yourself when logged in as a normal user. Hold down the "Shift" key while right clicking on the program installation file. Click "Run as" in the shortcut menu that appears, and enter the username and password with the appropriate administrative rights. This is also true for applications on the Start menu.

8, refused Group similar taskbar

Although Windows XP "Group similar taskbar buttons" setting although you can make your taskbar to open a small window, keep it clean, but some need to open similar The work of multiple windows is very inconvenient. If you use QQ communication software to chat with people online, if there are more than two friends talking to you at the same time, you will immediately feel the inconvenience caused by the default settings of XP DD every time you want to switch the conversation object. You must first click on the group, then select the friends you want to talk in the pop-up menu, and each friend displays the same icon in the group. When there are many conversation objects, you may have to click one by one to see exactly Who replied, waiting for your reaction, and choosing the wrong one, has to choose from the group, it is very troublesome. Obviously, this is not as good as opening a few windows, and clicking on each small window in the taskbar can start chatting. Change method: Click “Start → Control Panel → Appearance and Theme → Taskbar and ‘Start Menu”. In the pop-up window, remove the hook in front of the “Group similar taskbar button” option.
9, change the file modification date to the date

XXX.exe (exe arbitrary file), copy XXX.exe can type in MS-DOS mode ,, + (Note: After addition No. 2 followed Comma), type "Y" when asked, and change to the current date.

10, uninstall unwanted dynamic link

Explorer often left unused in the memory dynamically linked, in order to eliminate this phenomenon, you can open the registry editor, set the key :HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\ SOFTWARE \\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\EXPlorer\\AlwaysUnloadDLL=DWord: 1 Set it to 0 and this feature will be turned off. Note: In order for the settings to take effect, you will need to restart your computer.

XP uses pre-reading to set up this new technology
to increase system speed. If you have PIII 800, 512M memory or more, it is recommended to modify: 1. Run "regedit" 2. Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Memory Management\\PrefetchParameters\\EnablePrefetcher>; 3. Set the value 0,1 , 2, 3. 0-Disable, 1-read-ahead application, 2-start pre-read, 3-pre-read both ("3", recommended). 4. Restart. This can reduce startup time.

12, remove prefetch files

XP when used for a period of time, the prefetch folder in the file can become very large, which will have dead links file, this will slow down the system time. Recommendation: Delete these files on a regular basis. (Windows\\prefetch)

13. Delete the system redundant dll file

"HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\ sharedlls" records the shared dll information, the following numbers indicate the current The dll file is shared by several applications. If its value is 0, it means that it is redundant. You can delete it by
14 and invalidate the reading ability of the ZIP file

Windows XP supports ZIP documents by default, but the system will consume a lot of resources. You can turn this off. Just type "regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll" in the "Run" of the "Start" menu.

15, performance

temporary files will affect the system into the "Internet options" mid-point "temporary Internet files folder" in the "settings" button, open the dialog "move folder" to Move the temporary folder of the Internet 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 put it and system files Play will affect the performance of the system.

16, quickly close the window

user through a series of "My Computer" folder to open when a deep, will in turn open a lot of windows, one by one closed quite troublesome. If the user presses the Shift key while closing the bottom layer of the window, all windows will be closed at the same time. If you close the middle window and press the Shift key, the upper window will be closed, and the lower window will remain unchanged.

Microsoft's recycling station, for a long time, we inevitably want to give this special object Take a different name, it is not difficult to do this, as long as we open the Registry Editor program and open the branch, change the "Recycle Bin" under it to your favorite name, such as "trash can" can. To the desktop refresh, a "trash can" to appear on the desktop

17, delete unnecessary programs

In addition, when you install WinXP, perhaps sometimes greedy all The program was all installed, and later it was found that it was useless. However, no traces were found in the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. At this time, you can use the following methods to force them to appear: To display hidden files and folders first, please perform the following steps: Click "Start → Control Panel → Tools → Folder Options" in the view tab list Under the hidden files and folders branch, click on "Show all files and folders". To edit the Add/Remove Windows Components dialog box, do the following: First, to ensure that you can revert to the initial configuration state if necessary, keep the sysoc.inf file (on the hard disk\\Windowst\\inf\\) before starting the operation. A backup in the Sysoc.inf folder) and give the backup a different name, such as Sysoc2.inf. Open the Sysoc.inf file. Each line of text in the file represents a component that can be displayed in the Add/Remove Windows Components dialog box. For example, you can change Pinball=ocgen.dll, OcEntry, pinball.inf, HIDE, 7 to Pinball=ocgen.dll, OcEntry, pinball.inf,, 7 to save the Sysoc.inf file, then close and restart it. computer. After that, you can delete the pinball game in the “Add/Remove” button in the control panel. The procedure is actually very simple. For those components that you want to see in the dialog box, delete the word HIDE in the corresponding text line (do not delete the comma). However, be aware that this method cannot remove Win core components such as Fax Services.

Generate an "autorun.inf" file on the disk you want to run automatically and open it with Notepad. Write: [Autorun> open= (fill in the program you want to run automatically, such as: C:\\Windows \ otepad.exe, followed by the parameter /autorun) icon=(fill in some icons here, such as: C:\\123.ico) So our hard disk will be the same as some CDs, it will automatically run when it is opened. program of.
18, recover deleted files under DOS in Windows98

in Windows98 can only restore the contents of the Recycle Bin in Windows to delete, you can recover deleted files under Windows98 in DOS mode using the following method : Run the "Lock" command first to remove the Windows access restrictions. Then use the command "UnDelete" to restore. Or restart into DOS, run "UnDelete" also, but the action is faster, otherwise it may not be able to recover.

19, quick restart

every time we restart the computer, the computer should detect system and hardware, which takes some time. In order to be able to restart quickly, we can follow the steps below: Click the "Start" button, select "Close System", in the "Close Widows Dialog" pop-up, select "Restart Computer", then hold Shift Click the "Yes" button at the same time, so you can skip the system and hard
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