Windows 2000 Tips

1. Encrypt files or folders

With the Windows 2000 encryption tool, you can protect files and folders. In Windows Explorer, right-click the file or folder that you want to encrypt, and then click Properties. Click Advanced on the General tab, and then select the Encrypt content to secure data check box so you don't have to worry about other users logging in to your confidential files, but you can use them on NTFS-formatted partitions.

2. HDD Error checking and repair

Using the Windows 2000 Error Checking tool, you can find file system errors and bad sectors on your hard disk. To do this, open My computer and select the local disk you want to check. On the File menu, click Properties, and then click the Tools tab. Click Error Checking/start checking and select the scan and try to recover bad sectors check box under disk Check options.

3. Make the Startup disk

You can boot directly from the optical drive or install Windows 2000 from Windows, but if your BIOS does not support the drive to boot directly, and you want to install Windows 2000 directly, is it only possible to install Windows 2000 by first installing a Win98? Remember the Winnt of the previous boot disk? Here we can also make a startup disk, but not with Winnt.exe plus parameters, Windows 2000 has separated the boot disk production into the Bootdisk directory above the Windows 2000 CD. Execute the MakeBoot.exe on it (you need four disks).

4, diagnose the hardware problem

If you have problems with a peripheral, open Control Panel/Add/Remove devices, click Next, click Add/Repair devices, and then click Next. After Windows 2000 completes the lookup of a new Plug and Play device, select the device you want to diagnose and repair, click Next, and then follow the instructions on the screen.

5, the choice of starting mode

said that Windows 2000 is Win98 and Winnt of the two, in this splash screen is the first to be reflected, there are 12 ways to start: Safe mode, Safe mode with network connection, the security mode with the command line is the original Win98, and the start of VGA mode, Last Known Good configuration ... is from the Winnt, believe that whether used Win98 or Winnt users will find their familiar way to start.

6, personalized Menu

Make the Startup menu adapt to the way you work, showing the applications you use most often. But this self thought very clever small thing, it unexpectedly has many tools to conceal, although may by clicks the small arrow to make it to appear again, but after all has a procedure, how to do? Open the start/set/Taskbar and Start menu, and clear out the "Use Personalized Menus" option on the General Options page.

7. Internal code Conversion

In the past, if you need to save the information sent by Taiwanese netizens into Simplified Chinese, you need some tools, however, with the integration of the Code conversion tool in Windows 2000, open the Code conversion tool in programs/attachments, you can quickly convert files between simplified and traditional, and you can convert Half-width and full-width. and supports input of files and clipboard.

8, network settings

The network system was redesigned in Windows 2000, "Local Connection" is mainly about the internal network settings, on its right click to select "Properties" into the "local connection", where you can configure the network card needs to configure the protocol and the properties of various protocols, and Winnt under the LAN settings almost. See the bottom of the "connection in the taskbar to display the icon" No, if you select it, whether you have access to the Internet, as long as there is information transmission in the LAN, there will be two adjacent computers in the taskbar flash Flash, indicating that data transmission.

9, the real "My Documents"

Windows 2000 has made some changes to my Documents-"My Documents" is a real personal document directory, not someone else's. For example, suppose a Windows 2000 operating system has several users at the same time: Xiao Li, Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhao, then Xiao Li's document is his own, and Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhao are invisible, and vice versa. This document directory is located in the profile directory, so it is more suitable for the confidentiality and sharing of documents in the network, users can not only set up his own favorite Windows interface, but also suitable for users to create their own documents.

10, Login

Before we log in Winnt, always press Ctrl+alt+delete to enter the password input box, but in Windows 2000 default is not to press Ctrl+alt+delete can log in. For security reasons, you need to set up a ctrl+alt+delete login, which is simple: open user and password in Control Panel, and on the Advanced Options page, select "Require users to press Ctrl+alt+delete before landing".