5 latest Win XP application tips

Set a dedicated folder for important files in Win XP

If there are many users in Win XP, we can set some folders as private folders for security purposes, and others cannot view or change the content in private folders. However, before using this function, your drive partition format must be NTFS.

Open "my computer", double-click the "Documents and Settings" folder in drive C, and select the specified user folder. Right-click any folder in the user configuration file and choose "properties" from the shortcut menu. In the displayed window, select the share tab and select the set this folder as private check box, so that the private folder is successfully set.

An error occurred while initializing the application.

Q: I am using a Windows XP system. For some reason, a dialog box such as "application initialization failed because the window is closed" always appears when I shut down recently, and now the speed of the system to start the program is also significantly reduced, what is the reason?

A: A message is displayed because Windows has started shutdown, but a background program needs to create a window. The Window Creation fails because the resources have been released by Windows. We recommend that you disable all third-party programs before shutdown. If this problem persists, you can use the latest anti-virus software to perform a comprehensive scan to see if the virus exists. In addition, you can also follow the http://support.microsoft.com /? The method on id = 316434 clears the startup items of your system to see if it can solve the problem that your startup speed is too slow.

Retrieve the lost "My Documents"

Q: I am using Windows XP. I recently used software to modify the system icon. I don't know whether it was a misoperation or what happened. I found that the "My document" icon on the desktop is missing, is there any way to retrieve it?

A: Right-click the desktop and select "properties" to open the "Display Properties" dialog box. On the "desktop" tab, click "Custom desktop> desktop icon ", remove the hooks before "My documents", click the application, and then click the application to see if "My Documents" is back.

Windows XP Automatic Logon

To avoid entering the user name and password in the user logon screen before Windows XP Logon, the usual method is to modify the registry. Open the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon" branch, create (or set) DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword string values, and set them to the user name and password for Automatic Logon respectively. In addition, create an AutoAdminLogon string value and set it to 1.

If you do not want to modify the registry, I will provide you with another method. When Windows XP only has a user with a blank password, and the Guest account is disabled, and the system does not belong to a domain member, Windows XP will automatically log on, the user selection and Password Input page does not appear.

When the system has more than one user, you can click "Start> Run", enter control userpasswords2, and click "OK". The "User Account" dialog box appears. Cancel the check before "to use the local machine, the user must enter the user name and password. After you click "OK", a dialog box is displayed, asking you to set the user to which the automatic logon is sent. Enter the user name and password of the Automatic Logon user here and click "OK.

Uninstall the "Recovery Console"

To facilitate the use of the fault recovery console in Windows 2000/XP/2003 to diagnose and restore the system, many friends installed it on the hard disk. However, the fault recovery console does not provide executable uninstall programs. How can we uninstall the programs when we no longer need them?

First, delete the installation files on the hard disk of the fault recovery console. By default, it is located in the cons folder under the system partition. Click "Control Panel> system". In the "System Properties" window, click the "advanced" option page, and click "set" in "Start and recover fault, in the displayed dialog box, click "edit. Finally, in the pop-up file named boot, delete the following statement: "C: Your consbootsect. DAT =" Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console "/your cons" to uninstall the "fault Recovery Console ".