A summary of 30 tips on how to use computer skills

　　1. Reload Windows XP no more activation required

If you need to reinstall Windows XP, you will typically have to reactivate it. In fact, as long as the first activation, back up the WindowsSystem32 directory in the Wpa.dbl file, there is no need to activate the work. After you reload Windows XP, you only need to copy the file to the directory above.

　　2. How to know if your own Windows XP is activated

Open start → run, enter in the popup dialog: OOBE/MSOOBE/A, the system will pop up the window to tell you whether the system has been activated.

　　3. Close the Zip folder feature

Do you think the Zip folder in Windows XP is too slow to function? If so, you can open the start → run, enter in the popup dialog box: regsvr32/u Zipfldr.dll, the zip folder function can be closed after the return.

　　4. Enable Windows XP to engrave ISO files

Windows XP does not provide the ability to directly burn an ISO file, but you can download a third-party plugin to add this functionality to your system. The download address for this plugin is: Http://members.home.net/alexfein/is...rderSetup.msi.

　　5. Landing screen background change color

Open Registry Editor and locate [Hkey-users. DefaultControl panelcolors], change the value of background to "0 0 0" (without the quotation marks) so that the login background becomes black.

　　6. Completely uninstall XP

Some friends after installing Windows XP found that they do not like the operating system, you can use the Windows 98 installation CD to boot to DOS, and then type:

Format-ur

This removes all XP files, and you can reinstall Windows 98/me.

　　7. The system has straws.

When you suspect that the changes made to the computer before the system restarts may cause a failure, you can press the F8 key while booting the system and select Last Known Good Configuration to restore the changes made to the system.

　　8. Restore hardware Previous drivers

When a new hardware driver is installed and you find that the system is unstable or the hardware is not working, simply select the Driver Recovery button in Device Manager to revert to the previous normal system state. However, the driver for the printer cannot be restored.

　　9. Automatic Login

Click start → run, enter "Rundll32netplwiz.dll,usersrundll" (without the quotation marks), and then in user accounts, cancel "Users must enter a user name and password to use T His computer ", click" OK ", then enter the user name and password you want to login in the popup dialog box.

　　10. Shortcut keys for fast shutdown or restart (can be timed)

Right-click on the desktop, select New (shortcut, in the Popup Wizard, enter the location: C:windowssystem32shutdown.exe-s-T 10 (where the-s can be changed to-R, that is, restart, and T 10 for a delay of 10 seconds, You can change this number according to your needs). After you have finished making this shortcut, specify an icon for it in the method above. This quick shutdown or restart skill will show a nice dialog prompt to shut down (reboot), and you can add "-C" in the back of the "I want to shut down!", so this sentence will be displayed in the dialog box, of course the text you can write freely, but pay attention to not.

　　11. Turn off the AutoPlay feature

Once you insert the media into the drive, Autorun reads the data from the drive, which causes the program's settings file and the music on the audio media to start immediately. You can use the following method to turn off this function: click "Start" → "Run", enter "gpedit.msc" → "Computer Configuration" → "Administrative Templates" → "system" in the dialog box, double click "Turn off AutoPlay", and select "Enabled" in "Settings" to confirm.

　　12. Uninstall Unused dynamic Links

The resource manager often leaves useless dynamic links in memory, in order to eliminate this phenomenon, you can open the Registry Editor, set the key value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoftwindowscurrentversionexplorer.

Alwaysunloaddll=dword:1 set it to 0, this feature will be turned off. Note: In order for the settings to take effect, you need to restart your computer.

　　13. Eliminate Windows Document Protection features

To completely eliminate the Windows Document Protection feature, open Registry Editor and set the key value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Softwaremicrosoftwindows Ntcurrentversionwinlogon SFC Disable =0xffffff9d

　　14. View Drive Component Information

Right click on "My Computer", select "Manage" in the pop-up menu, turn on "Removable Storage" → "Library", right click on the drive you want to query, click "Properties" in the pop-up menu, click "Device Info" to see the information of the drive.

　　15. Empty the paging file at shutdown

Open "Control Panel", click "Administrative Tools" → "Local Security Policy" → "Local Policy" → "Security Options", double click on the "Shut down: Clean up virtual memory paging file", click "Enabled" in the pop-up menu 16. Let Windows XP read the English alphabet

Find the Narrator program in the Accessibility group, click the Sound button, go to the Sound Settings screen and set it up and save it. When you point the mouse to a dialog box with an English letter, a menu, and a button, you hear a male speaker reading English

　　17. Restore the Windows Classic interface

The first thing many people do after installing Windows XP is that Windows becomes pretty. It's just a pity that the price of beauty consumes the memory and graphics that we're not rich in. To revert to an interface and usage that is similar to classic Windows, right-click on the desktop and choose the Properties command to go to the Settings window for display properties. There are five tabs for theme, desktop, screen saver, appearance, and settings here. On the tab of the current tab there will be a yellow color highlighting, the default is the "Theme" tab, where we simply select "Windows Classic" in the "theme" drop-down menu, you can immediately see the display in the preview window, as well as the contents of the Appearance tab will be changed accordingly.

Note: the theme and Appearance tabs are closely related in Windows XP, and you will see changes in another tab as soon as you change either of these options.

　　18. Restore the Start menu

The new Start menu for Windows XP is convenient and has little impact on system resources. If you like the classic menu of the past, right-click on the taskbar blank, select the "Properties" menu, go to "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" of the Settings window, select the "[Start] Menu" tab, select the "Classic [Start] menu" to revert to the previous appearance.

　　19. Optimize Visual effects

Windows XP's operating interface is really good-looking, good-looking behind is to consume a lot of memory as a cost, compared to speed and aesthetics, we prefer the former, right-click on "My Computer", click "Properties/Advanced", in the "Performance" column, click "Settings/visual Effects", Here you can see all the settings of the appearance, you can manually remove some of the unwanted features. We can save "a large amount" of memory by closing all visual effects such as fade, smooth scrolling, sliding open, and so on.

　　20. Disabling redundant service components

Windows XP and Windows 20,001 can be used as HTTP servers, mail servers, FTP servers, so every time Windows XP starts, and then it starts a lot of services, there are a lot of services for us ordinary users is completely useless, So it's a good choice to turn them off. You can do this by right-clicking My Computer, selecting Administration/Services and applications/services, and disabling the unwanted service components. (Editor: Basic computer Knowledge www.58116.cn)

　　21. Reduce Load Project at startup

Many applications are automatically added to the system startup group at the time of installation, and each boot system will run, which not only prolongs the startup time, but also consumes a lot of system resources after the start-up. We can reduce the number of programs that are loaded at system startup by selecting Run on the Start menu and typing Msconfig "Start the System Configuration Utility" and go to the "Startup" tab, which lists the projects and sources loaded at system startup, and carefully check if you need it to load automatically, or clear the current check box, the less items you load, the faster you start. This entry requires a restart to take effect.

　　22. Turn off the System Restore feature

The System Restore feature is an important feature of the Windows family operating system, which restores the operating system after a problem occurs with Windows running. System Restore is useful for people who often make mistakes, but it can keep your hard drive in a very busy state, and you'll find that your hard drive is always busy because Windows XP records operations for later restoration. If you have confidence in yourself, don't use it because it takes up a lot of memory.

To turn off System Restore, click Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore, in the System Restore interface, click System Restore settings, go to the System Restore Settings window, and clear the Turn off System Restore on all drives check box so that Windows XP removes the backup System Restore point, freeing up the disk space it occupies.

In general, in order to take into account system performance and system security, I recommend that you open the System Restore feature of the Windows XP drive letter.

　　23. Turn off Automatic Updates

"Automatic Updates" is a new feature that Windows XP has introduced to help users upgrade their systems, which automatically reminds users to upgrade their systems when Microsoft launches a system upgrade patch or system security patch, but there is a requirement that the user must always be online, But for those of us who are short of iron and silver "poor", this requirement is harsh, so we turn off the "auto-upgrade" function and change it to "manual upgrade".

To turn off Automatic Updates: Right-click My Computer/Properties/Automatic Updates, and in the Notification Settings column, select Turn off Automatic Updates. I will manually update the computer "one item.

　　24. Turn off Remote Desktop

One feature of this feature is the ability to allow others to access your desktop on another machine. This feature is useful in a local area network. For example, if you have a problem, you can ask your colleague for help, and he can use the Remote Desktop to access your machine to help you solve the problem. But for the average user of a single computer, this is a redundant feature, so let's turn it off and not let it waste memory there. To do this, right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties/Remote" to remove the "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" in Remote Desktop.

　　25. Disable the sleep-cancelling function

Windows XP hibernation can put the current system state in memory completely to the hard disk, when you turn on the next time, the system will not need to go through the loading, system initialization and other processes, and directly to the state of your last hibernation, so start very fast. But it takes up a lot of hard disk space (just like your memory size), you can turn it off in Control Panel/Power Options/Hibernate to free up hard disk space, and then turn it on when you need it. To do this, click Start/Control Panel/power management/hibernation and remove the check box before "Enable hibernation".

　　26. Turn off the "Send Error report automatically" feature

Everyone in Windows XP must have this experience, once a program terminates abnormally, the system will automatically jump out of a dialog to ask you whether to send the error to Microsoft, this is the "Automatic send Error" function in XP, it can send the error message to Microsoft's website. Although Microsoft has repeatedly vowed to provide a strong security that does not reveal personal privacy, the information sent to Microsoft may contain information about the documents you are viewing or editing, which may include personal privacy or company secrets, so if you want to protect your rights, We should not hesitate to turn this function off. Click Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced, click the Error Reporting button, and then select Disable Error Reporting, and the following "Notify me when a critical error has occurred" can be selected.

Turn off the Internet time synchronization feature

"Internet time synchronization" is to keep your computer clock synchronized with the Internet time server once a week, so your system time will be accurate, but this feature is not useful for us, and may cause the problem of freezing. In general, you can synchronize time once you have installed Windows XP. So we're going to turn it off. Click Start/Control Panel/date, time, language, and regional Options, and then click Date and Time/internet time.

　　27. Set up virtual memory reasonably

For virtual memory files, Windows XP is always set to the security default value is very large, wasting a lot of hard disk space, in fact, we can completely set its value smaller. The method is: Go to "Control Panel/System/Advanced/performance/settings/Advanced/virtual Memory/change", come to the Virtual Memory Setup window, first determine which drive letter your paging file is in, and then disable all paging files of other drive letter drives. It is recommended that you set it to a different partition than the default system, which can improve the read and write speed of the paging file and facilitate the system to run quickly. According to Microsoft's recommendation, the paging file should be set to 1.5 times times the memory capacity, but if your memory is larger, then it occupies a considerable amount of space, so, it is recommended that if the memory capacity is below 256MB, it is set to 1.5 times times, the maximum and minimum value, if above 512MB, set Half of the memory capacity is fully viable.

　　28. Delete Redundant documents

There are many files in Windows XP that we seldom use and put on hard disk, wasting space and reducing system performance. We can completely delete these files that are not available, the files that need to be deleted are:

Help files: Under the C:windowshelp directory.

Driver Backup: C:windowsdriver Driver.cab file under the cachei386 directory.

System file Backup: The general user is not very use, use the command sfc.exe/purgecache delete.

Alternate DLL file: Under the C:windowssystem32dllcache directory.

Input method: In the C:windowsime folder directly delete Chtime, Imjp8_1, imkr6_1 three directories can be, respectively, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean input method.

　　29. Remove the implied components from the WindowsXP

After the normal installation of Windows XP, many components are installed automatically, many of which are not normally used, installed in the system will occupy a lot of space, reduce system performance, we can use the following methods to remove the unused components.

Use Notepad to modify the Sysoc.inf file in the C:windowsinf directory, use the Find/Replace function, enter ", hide" in the Find box (a comma follows hide), and set the "Replace with" box to null. and choose to replace all, so that all the "hide" are removed, save the exit, and then click on "Start/Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs", you can see many of the components you normally do not see, select Do not need to delete the program.

　　30. Clean Up junk files

Windows XP will produce junk files with the extension TMP, BAK, and old during normal use, and you can use the Windows search function to locate the files and delete them. In addition, Windows XP defaults to log error events when the system fails, and writes debug information, which we can completely discard. This is done by clicking Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and recovery, emptying the write event to log file, and selecting None in the Write Debugging information drop-down box.