XP skills Serialization Optimization A word to the secret

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Windows XP is currently the most used operating system, and the Bookworm has summed up his experience of using Windows XP over the years as a serial dedication. All strive to refine, practical. Today is the Windows XP optimization technique that everyone is more concerned about. Because the article is longer, so we are divided into the next three parts distributed. This is the first part.

Let the "Start" menu speed up

When you use the Windows XP Start menu, you find that it appears to be slightly slower to display, and if you want to make it faster, open Registry Editor, and find [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]. In the right pane, modify the value of Menushowdelay to 0. Quit Registry Editor and restart your computer. If you find that the Start menu is showing too fast, you can set the value slightly larger. After using the above techniques, still be disappointed with the Start menu open speed, you can open the display properties → "appearance" → "Advanced", turn off the "Show Menu Shadow" option.

"Active Desktop" helps you conserve memory resources

When you use any of the usual methods of using a wallpaper (select wallpaper on the Desktop tab of the Display Properties window), Windows converts the picture you selected as a wallpaper to a bitmap format (even if the picture you selected as a wallpaper is in JPG format). You think the use of a 220KB jpg picture, is actually in a 3MB bmp bitmap. If you don't want Windows to convert the wallpaper format yourself, it's a good idea to use Active Desktop to set up the wallpaper. Right-click the desktop space, select Properties, then open the Desktop tab, click Custom Desktop, select the Web, click New, browse to the wallpaper you want to use, and then click OK to make sure the "Lock Desktop Item" is selected, identified and closed. Now, your wallpaper seems to be in a window, drag it to the right place, then right-click on it, click "Arrange Icons", then select "Lock Desktop Items", now, your wallpaper will not be as expensive as before the system resources.

Adjust Windows XP Browsing speed

When you connect to a website, the computer will send the message back and forth, and some of the information will be used to convert the name of the site to the IP address, DNS information, which allows you to visit the site each time without knowing where the site is. Windows 2000/XP has a fairly effective DNS cache setting that increases its cache space and helps improve system browsing performance. The following registry content will help you complete the work:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\dnscache\parameters]

"Cachehashtablebucketsize" =dword:00000001

"Cachehashtablesize" =dword:00000180

"MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit" =dword:0000fa00

"Maxsoacacheentryttllimit" =dword:0000012d

Create a new text file, copy and paste the above English content and save it, and name it Dnscache.reg. Then double-click the file to import into the registry.

Speed up your favorites for IE 6

Some friends may experience an extremely slow problem with IE 6 favorites, especially after installing TweakUI 1.33. This technique can help you solve this problem, click "Start" → "Run", Input: SFC, return to the system will automatically run the System File Checker, may be a flash of Kung fu. In general, you can resolve the problem that the browser favorites display is not working correctly.
Turn on or off startup tuning

A nice new feature in Windows XP is that you can defragment the disks at startup so that the files that are necessary to start up are arranged adjacent to each other, making the next startup faster. If you do not have this feature open in Windows XP, you can open Registry Editor and find [Hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\dfrg\bootoptimizefunction]. Right-click the Enable value in the right pane, select Modify from the pop-up menu, and change the value to Y (open) or n (off). Close the Registry editor when you have finished modifying and restart the computer.

Modify automatic Restart Settings

Although the performance of Windows XP is very stable, but Microsoft still provides the error (blue screen) Automatic restart feature, we can open it in the following ways, open the Registry Editor, find [hkey_local_machine\system\ Currentcontrolset\control\crashcontrol], in the right pane, double-click AutoReboot, and then change its value to 1, or turn off this feature if set to 0. Close the Registry Editor and reboot the computer to take effect.

Shutdown/reboot takes 1 seconds

If you want Windows XP to shut down instantly, then you can press Ctrl+alt+del, then in the pop-up "Task Manager" click on "shutdown" → "shutdown", while pressing CTRL, less than 1 seconds you will find that the system has been closed, almost in the blink of an eye, the same reason, if in the " Shutdown menu, choose Reboot to restart quickly.

How to make System Restore take up less disk space

The minimum value of Windows XP is always fixed at 200MB, so can you make it smaller? Then you need to use the registry to help, open the Registry Editor, find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Nt\currentversion\systemrestore], In the right pane, find the binary value of Dsmin, double-click to open the Modify window, click "Decimal" in it, and then enter 50 or other values in the Value input box on the left. Close the registry after the modification is complete, and then set the disk space used in the System Restore tab of the System properties, and you will find that the minimum value has changed to 50MB.

Small Tips

In the right pane you will also find a key value called DISABLESR. When the value is changed to 1 (decimal), the System Restore feature is disabled for all drives, and the "Turn off System Restore" option on all drives is the same, and the option to modify it is also in the selected state.

How to make System Restore take up less disk space

The minimum value of Windows XP is always fixed at 200MB, so can we make it smaller? Then you need to use the registry to help, open the Registry Editor, find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Nt\currentversion\systemrestore], In the right pane, find the binary value of "Dsmin", double-click to open the Modify window, click "Decimal" in it, and then enter 50 or other values in the left Value entry box. Close the registry after the modification is complete, and then set the disk space used in the System Restore tab of the system features, and you will find that the minimum value has changed to 50MB.

Small Tips

In the right pane there is also a key value called DISABLESR, when the value is changed to 1 (decimal), the System Restore feature is disabled for all drives, and the "Turn off System Restore" option on all drives is the same, and the option to modify it is also in the selected state.

Turn off the System Restore feature

Right-click My Computer, select Properties, click the System Restore tab, and then select Turn off System Restore on all drives. This can improve Windows performance and save disk space.

Disable System Restore completely

Completely disabling System Restore in Windows XP is not as difficult as Windows Me, open Registry Editor, and find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Nt\ Currentversion\systemrestore], locate the Disablerestore value in the right pane, double-click the Modify window, click Decimal, and then enter 1 in the left Value input box to disable System Restore. When you open the System Properties window again, the System Restore tab has disappeared from here. Also, you cannot start the System Restore component in the system.

How to use the System Restore tool in DOS

XP provides system Restore functionality, but what if you can't get into the Windows graphical interface or Safe mode properly due to a serious error?

After the system has a self-test beep, press the F8 key before the Windows Welcome screen appears, then select Safe Mode with Command Prompt in the menu, and then log on as an administrator and enter at the command prompt:%systemroot%\system32 \restore\rstrui.exe, follow the on-screen instructions after the carriage return to restore the system to its previous normal state.

Resolve Refresh Rate Bugs

Windows XP is an upgrade to Windows 2000, but unfortunately it also inherits Windows 20,001 bugs. For example: For each resolution and color depth, if you do not specify the settings for each mode, Windows XP defaults to the 60Hz refresh rate. If you choose the 2D display mode, there may be other modes you cannot set, such as direct and OpenGL. Some display card vendors provide a workaround. But we recommend the Multires tool, which allows you to easily control the refresh rate settings, and even provides the ability to lock the refresh rate at a particular resolution.

Remove space-consuming hardware drivers

When Windows XP is installed, if you do not change the hardware appliance, you can delete the Driver.cab file located in \windows\drivercache\i386, and you can use the Windows XP installation CD directly when new hardware is added later. Remove the Driver.cab and save 50MB of space.

Simplicity = Performance

Although Windows XP is beautiful, beauty is at the expense of some system performance, if you pay more attention to efficiency, you can open the "control Panel" → "performance and Maintenance" → "system", click the "Advanced" tab, click on the "Performance" option under the "Settings" button in the pop-up window "visual Effects" tab, select adjust to best performance.

Turn off the auto upgrade feature

If you want to save money and CPU performance, it is recommended that the automatic Upgrade feature in Windows XP be turned off, open Control Panel → system performance and maintenance → system, click the Automatic Updates tab, and then select "Turn off Automatic Updates and I will manually update the computer."

Open UDMA66 Mode

First make sure your hard disk supports UDMA66 mode and connect using the correct 80-pin IDE connector. Next, open Registry Editor and find [hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\class\\0000], In the right pane, create a new Double-byte value (DWORD) named EnableUDMA66, and set its value to 1. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer to take effect.

Disk IDE channel overlooked by you

Because Windows XP has a large number of drivers built into it, it automatically detects all possible devices at startup, which can cause slower startup speeds: one of the most critical settings is the one that mentions a few articles, the disk IDE channel. In general, Windows XP users do not need to install the IDE driver or patch for the motherboard, the ULTRA DMA feature is turned on, and it can be said that the vast majority of people make the IDE channel in full automatic state. This is what makes XP very slow to start-because the motherboard can connect four IDE devices, most people have only two IDE devices, the optical drive and the hard drive, and a few may have dual optical drives (DVD or burner), one hard drive or dual hard drive, one optical drive, and three IDE devices, There is generally a two IDE channel is in the idle automatic state, at this time, you should put the nonexistent IDE device, set to none, rather than "automatic detection", so that the next time you start Windows XP, you will find Fast!