File properties within XP system It's a trick to make it all.

All along, not often to use or focus too much on Windows XP, the properties of those files, are the properties of this property is only to know the size of the file capacity, sharing settings and other common operations. In fact, there are a lot of hidden powerful features in the file properties. What else is there, take a look at it!

Keep IE window maximized

Many friends in the open IE Browser, its page window is the default to minimize the state, you can only manually maximize its operation, trouble unceasingly. In fact, the use of IE Shortcut "properties" can make IE open always to maximize.

Delete the IE icon on your desktop, and then create a shortcut for IE. Right-click the new shortcut icon, select Properties from the pop-up menu, and open the Properties Settings dialog box. Switch to the Shortcuts tab, and in the Run as option bar, select Maximize. Finally click on the "OK" button, and then double-click the IE shortcut, you can see that the open IE window is the maximum state.

"Pulling out" the hidden self-extracting Trojan

Downloaded a number of self-extracting files, before running, have you considered that they include a trojan? If so, the Trojan will run automatically when the file is self-extracting. So for the sake of security, or check the file properties first, checking whether there is a Trojan horse is the best policy.

Right-click the self-extracting package in EXE format, select the Annotation tab in the Pop-up Properties dialog box, and note in the middle of the comment window: "The following comment contains a self-extracting script command." If there is an executable filename after the "setup=" statement in the annotation content, it can be concluded that the uncompressed file will execute the specified program when the self-extracting operation is performed, with a very dubious purpose.

Make file properties More "clear"

Some files on your hard disk are important system files, some are hidden files or read-only files, is there a quick way to get a clearer idea of all the properties of the files?

Open Explorer, click the menu "View" → "Select Details", in the Open Details Settings dialog box, select the "Properties" project name, click on the right "display" button, and then click the "OK" button to close the dialog box. Return to the Explorer, then click the menu "View" → "details" command, you can see the file as a list of information to arrange the display. and an extra "property" in the InfoBar, where "A" means "Archive file" attribute, "S" is the System file property, "H" indicates "hidden" file attribute, "R" is the "read only" file attribute, and all files are clear. Reduce resource occupancy rates

The system resources are not enough, want to save the resources that the program runs? This is fine, right-click the program file name, select Properties, and select the Compatibility tab in the Open window. In the Display Settings column, you can set the program to run at 256 colors and 640x480 resolutions, which reduces the amount of color depth and resolution resources. In addition, you can check the "Disable visual Styles" item to disable various visual effects in Windows XP, effectively reducing the CPU occupancy rate, especially when running large office software, the speed can be added a lot.

Use document properties Pivot text content

When you hover over a Word document, you can display summary information about the document so that you don't have to open the document to get a general idea of what it is. So what does a normal text file want to achieve the same effect? If you are using an NTFS disk format, the problem can be solved.

In NTFS-formatted partitions, right-click the text file and select Properties. In the Open Property Settings window, select the Summary tab. Here you can enter text title, subject, content and author, and other information, in the "Remarks" column can also enter the text of the approximate content. Close the dialog box, click the menu "View" → "Select Details", in the Open Details Settings dialog box, check the "Memo" item. When you are sure, move the mouse over the previously modified text file to see that the settings are all displayed.

Hide the properties to disable the optical drive

In Explorer, right-click the optical drive icon to see the disc information and set items such as AutoPlay. If you pay more attention, you will find that there is also a hidden property content, which allows the CD-ROM drive to be disabled.

Open the Properties Settings window of the optical drive and switch to the Hardware tab. Select the optical drive in the "All disk drives" list and click the "Properties" button below to open the "hidden" Properties dialog box. Select the "Do not use this device" command in the Device usage drop-down list by selecting the General tab. "OK", then open the Explorer, you can see the optical drive icon has been "disappeared" without a trace, unknown so people think the optical drive has broken down.