Five setup tips after installing Win XP

When you buy XP discs with great length, after a long file copy, Windows recognition hardware and initialization system, you finally enter Windows
XP. When you are swimming in the interface, please pay attention to the settings in the five tips in this article, you will find that XP is more convenient to use.

Turning off System Restore
Although Windows
XP System Restore is one of its selling points, I suggest you close this setting. System restore requires huge hard disk space. The default setting is to restore points in each partition. Record the software installation and usage status of each partition. If you can't wait to use the computer according to the default settings, you can't use it for a week. The hard disk will be filled with a large number of files generated by G, and this kind of restore function; and the system restores a large amount of data to read and write the hard disk, the CPU usage is also very large, and most people's machines still stay at present. In CPUs below the G level, the speed may be affected. So unless your hardware is really top-level configuration, and you need to install new software or change the system settings frequently, you can use XP system restore function, otherwise it will be closed, the old and practical software itself The uninstall function.

If you really want to experience this new feature, the compromise is to turn off the rest of the partition, leaving you to install XP partition, so you can record and select the status of Windows. Restored. Like you install games and put pictures, MP3 partitions, there is no need to use the system restore function.

The "Group similar taskbar button" setting in the taskbar
This depends on your most common application. The "Group similar taskbar button" setting can make your taskbar open less and keep it clean, but 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 setting of XP - every time you want to switch the conversation object, you must first click on the group, then pop up the menu to select the friends you want to talk to, and each friend is displayed in the group. All of them are the same icons. When there are many conversation objects, you may have to click one by one to see who just replied, waiting for your reaction, and choosing the wrong one, you have to choose from the group, very trouble. Obviously, this is not as good as opening a few windows, and clicking on each small window in the taskbar can start chatting.

This default setting for XP is designed to make it easier for users to browse the web. Therefore, it is recommended that you change this setting according to your actual application. If you want to browse the Internet frequently, you can use an IE kernel browser such as MYIE, which can affect the use of QQ without occupying multiple taskbar positions. Two things in one fell swoop. The way to change is: Start - Control Panel - Appearance and Theme - Taskbar and Start Menu, remove the hook in front of the "Group Similar Taskbar Buttons" option.

Maximum Skills for Text Files and Mail
Starting with Windows 2000, when you click on a message with the suffix EML stored on your hard drive, the default state is not always maximized, but a Annoying small windows, and the ability to remember the state, when you maximize this window, the next time you open the mail is a small window. There are similar situations in text files. This is estimated to be a negligence in Microsoft's design. In the formal help files and setup options, there is no description or option for this memory maximization problem. I once sent an email to Microsoft China's feedback mailbox on this question, and the answer I got was to let me call the technical support hotline, hehe. Although it has no effect on the function, it is very troublesome to click the maximize button every time. This small problem in XP has not been solved, and it is estimated that it is plagued by many people.

The author explored XP in the past two days and finally found that you can use the drag window size method to maximize the memory of Windows: after opening an EML mail, do not click the maximize button, but Move the pointer to the edge of the small window, hold down the left mouse button to pull the window up, down, left, and right to the maximum state of the screen, then click Close. Next time you will find that Windows is automatically maximized when you open this file. The same is true for the text file TXT.

But to remind everyone that in Windows
98, it is not the use of such skills. In 98, to maximize the state of email memory, you must first maximize an open email, then click Reply, the interface of the reply will be maximized, and Windows remembers its maximized state. In Windows
9X, if you are simply dragging and dropping the window or maximizing the mail every time, it is invalid.

Turn off automatic updates, directory sharing, and remote assistance support
These, like those in Windows 2000, are features designed specifically for web applications. For most people in China, Microsoft's Windows automatic update and remote assistance are useless; if you set up directory sharing, viruses like FUNLOVE that are raging in the LAN will be difficult to remove, so there is no special application. It is recommended to close as well. These features can be turned off in System Options and Service Management.

If your computer hardware configuration is not high, XP visual effects such as animation window, fade in and out, please turn off, so as not to affect the speed.

Sleep button settings
After XP installation, the default setting is that the user presses the sleep button on the keyboard, and the computer does nothing. Because XP sleep is a function of suspending the hard disk, even if you completely cut off the power, XP can read the last boot state from the data stored in the hard disk at the next boot, and quickly restore the user's boot. time. This kind of function, and the sleep in Windows9X can not cut off the power is different, the wake-up time is longer than 9X, but the speed of entering Windows after rebooting is much faster. XP is set to be invalid considering user habits and compatibility issues between XP and some older power supplies. You can reset the sleep button to active in the power management in the control panel. I suggest you set it as a pop-up menu so that you can choose to sleep, shut down or log out.

Because XP sleeps first read the current state of the system from memory, so it requires the hard disk space equal to your physical memory capacity, the default is in the C drive, so the user should be based on the actual hardware Ability to set. After setting the sleep button, some motherboard power supplies must be restarted for XP to be effective. Immediately after setting, press SLEEP to test, it is non-responsive; but some can take effect immediately. Note that if your motherboard battery is powered down, causing the date to be incorrect, and XP is not activated, you may be activated by XP after the hibernation is detected, otherwise the system will be locked.