Five tips for installing XP

Although Windows XP System Restore is one of its selling points, it is recommended that you turn off this setting. System Restore requires huge hard disk space, the default setting is to have restore points in each partition, record the software installation and usage status of each partition, and if you can't wait to use the computer by default, your hard drive will be stuffed with a huge file of G-meter, the restore function. and System Restore to do a lot of data read and write hard disk, CPU occupancy rate is very large, the majority of the machine is still stuck in the G-level below the CPU, the speed may be affected. So unless your hardware is really a top-level configuration, but also need to regularly install testing new software or change the system settings, XP System Restore function is really useful, or shut it down, honest with the software itself uninstall function.

If you really want to experience this new feature, the tradeoff is that you can turn off the other partitions and leave the partition where you installed XP so that you can record and selectively restore the state of Windows. Like you play games and put pictures, MP3 partition, there is no need to use the System Restore function.

2. The "Group similar taskbar button" setting in the taskbar

It depends on your most commonly used applications. The Group similar taskbar buttons setting allows you to keep your taskbar windows open. Keep it clean, but if you are chatting with people online like QQ, if you have more than two friends talking to you at the same time, you will immediately feel the inconvenience of XP default setting Each time you want to switch to a Conversation object, click the group first, then pop up the menu to choose to talk to friends, and each friend in the group show is the same icon, the conversation object more time, you may want to click to see the end just now who replied, waiting for you to respond, and chose the wrong one, I have to choose from the group, it's troublesome. Obviously, this is less than the original open a few windows, in the taskbar in each small window click once 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 should be based on their actual application to change this setting, really need to surf the internet often, in fact, with a myie such as IE kernel browser, you can not affect the use of QQ, and do not occupy a number of taskbar position, kill each other. The change is: Start-control Panel-appearance and theme-Taskbar and Start menu, remove the hooks in front of the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option.

3. Tips for maximizing text files and messages

From Windows2000 start, when you click on the hard disk in the suffix named EML Mail, the default state is always not maximized, but a nasty little window, and do not have the ability to memory state, when you maximize the window, the next time you open the message is a small window. The text file also has a similar situation. This is an estimate of Microsoft's design negligence, and in the formal Help files and settings options, there is no description or option to maximize the memory problem. I once sent the question to Microsoft China's feedback mailbox, received the reply is lets me call the technical support hotline, hehe. Although there is no effect on the function, but to click the Maximize button every time, the operation is very troublesome. The small problem in XP is not solved, it is estimated that many people are troubled.

The author of this two-day groping XP, finally found that you can use the drag window to maximize the state of Windows memory: Open a EML mail, do not click the Maximum button, but to move the pointer to the edge of the small window, hold down the left mouse button to pull the window up and down to the maximum screen state, then click Close. Next time you'll find that Windows automatically maximizes all the files you open. The same is true for text file txt.

But to remind you that in Windows 98, this is not the technique. 98 in order to maximize the message memory, you must first maximize an open message, and then click Reply, the reply will maximize the interface, Windows also remembers its maximum state. It is not valid in Windows 9X if you are simply a drag-and-drop window or maximize mail each time.

4. Turn off automatic Updates, directory sharing, and Remote Assistance support

These are the same features that are designed specifically for Web applications, as in Windows2000. For most people in the country, Microsoft's Windows Automatic Updates and Remote assistance are useless; If you set up directory sharing, such as funlove, such as the local area of the virus is very difficult to clear, so there is no special application, the proposal to close the good. These features can be turned off in system options and in service management.

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

5, the Sleep key settings

After XP is installed, the default setting is that the user presses the Hibernate key on the keyboard and the computer does nothing. Because the sleep of XP is a kind of suspend to the hard disk function, even if you completely cut off the power, XP in the next boot, also can be stored from the hard disk data read out the last power-on state, quickly restore speed up the user's boot time. Such a function, and windows9x sleep can not cut off the power is a difference, the wake-up time is also longer than 9X, but after a reboot into Windows faster. XP is set to be invalid considering user usage and XP compatibility issues with some old power supplies. You can reset the hibernate key to valid in power management in the control Panel, and I recommend that you set it as a pop-up menu so you can choose to hibernate, shut down, or log off.

Because the XP hibernate first reads the system from the memory the current state, therefore requests occupies with your physical memory capacity equal the hard disk space, the default is in C disk, therefore the user must according to own hardware actual ability to set. Set the Hibernate key, to restart XP to be effective, some people set up immediately after sleep to test, is unresponsive. Note that if your motherboard battery power off, resulting in incorrect dates, and XP is not activated, after hibernation may be due to the date of the problem is XP detection of activation, or lock the system.