Windows XP Alternative Garbage detox strategy _windowsxp

Mention the computer cleanup work, we are very familiar with it! However, a lot of friends in the understanding of cleaning has some limitations, more is focused on the deletion of some windows generated by the garbage files, and so on, in fact, there are some alternative garbage, such as: Software in the right menu items, ie right menu, toolbar icons, unwanted items in favorites, shortcuts to failures, and more.

Their existence, not only waste our valuable hard disk space, but also leave the opportunity for the virus. So it is necessary to give the computer a big clean-up in time.

　　 Right-click menu of Resource Manager

　　 1, remove the extra items in the right button menu

As you all know, many software in the installation, the first to extract their own installation files to a temporary directory (typically Windows folder under the Temp directory), such as WinZip Tools, and then install.

If the software design is negligent or there is a problem with the system, when the installation is over, these temporary files become not "temporary", they become a heap of garbage in the hard drive, often they appear with *.tmp faces, and in the process of running the software, it usually produces some temporary exchange files, such as the form that some programs produce when working. Old, *.bak, such as backup files, anti-virus software or system software to check the hard disk generated backup files, etc., and the software is unloaded, will also leave some folders on the hard disk, *.dll files, *.hlp files and registry keys and a variety of unknown small things, become the real rubbish.

In fact, after we uninstall an application normally, the right menu will leave behind some items that are no longer needed and need to be deleted as well. These legacy items are generally stored here.

"Hkey_classes_root*shellexcontextmenuhandlers"

If the item is only valid for the folder, it is stored in these places

"Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshell"

"Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshellexcontextmenuhandlers"

Sometimes in "Hkey_classes_rootfoldershell"

There are "hkey_classes_rootfoldershellexcontextmenuhandlers" also have to find and then delete them.

In addition, the use of registry lookup function can also be removed after the uninstall of the legacy files, in the registry to find software-related key values, find and delete, there may be multiple, at this time you can use F3 shortcut keys to continue to find, until all the items are deleted.

(Hint: In Registry Editor, export the item you want to delete before you make any registry deletion operations.) )

　　 2. Use Shellexview to clean up

It is convenient to manually remove unwanted right-click menu items in the registry, but be sure to export the items you delete to prevent errors! Many friends will think there is some trouble, here to recommend the use of Shellexview free software to complete the above tasks, It is a display and control of all installed to the system Windows shell extensions, such as: Right-click menu, right-click the file or folder to release the button after the pop-up menu and other gadgets.

After downloading you can extract the compressed package to any folder, such as "C:shellexview", Run the "Shexview.exe" can start the program.

If you want to remove items from the previously installed Real Player software in the right-click menu, locate and select the "C:Program filesrealrealone Playerrpshellsearch.dll" item under the "Filename" column ( You can find it by file name, or by using criteria such as "Description" (description), "Extension name" (Extended name), right-click, and select Disable Selected items (disable selected items) so that real The player software disappears from the item in the right-click menu.

If you select Enable Selected items again (enable the selected item), you can recover.

In addition, with Shellexview, you can add or remove specific folders (printers, Recycle Bin, scheduled tasks, network connections, and so on) on my Computer and desktop, for example, select "Admin Tools" in the list, and then click "Files→add Selected Items to ..." (Add the selected items to) and select "My Computer" in the Subordinate submenu. This allows you to add administrative tools to my computer.

Software Name: Shellexview

　　 3, delete the options in the New submenu

Selecting the New submenu in the menu that pops up in the right mouse button displays the new file for the installed application on your system. As more and more applications are in the system, the contents of the new submenu will increase. However, in the daily use of the computer, users do not need to create so many types of files. We can actually delete the options from the new menu by modifying the registry, and the operation is not complicated, just start Registry Editor and delete the "Shellnew" item under [hkey_classes_root.***] (". * *" is the file extension to delete the item). Then quit Registry Editor and restart your computer.

Let's take the example of deleting the "WinRAR compressed file" item in the New submenu: First find [Hkey_local_machnesoftwareclasses.rar], remove the "shellnew" item under it, go back to the desktop, press the F5 key to refresh, Then right click on the desktop space, choose "New", then you will find the original "WinRAR compressed file" has disappeared.

　　 4, delete the "open mode" submenu of unwanted items

Right-clicking on a file may have some programs that we don't need in the "Open with" submenu of the right-click menu. TXT "Open method" of the file has three programs, in fact some do not use, then just to the registry here

[Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexplorerfileexts]

You can also find the appropriate extension entry in [hkey_classes_rootsystemfileassociations] and then delete the unwanted key values or items in the Openwithlist subkey.

Let's take the example of removing the unwanted item from the right-click menu "Open with" submenu in the text file; get in here.

[Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversion

Explorerfileexts.txtopenwithlist]

Remove the corresponding key value from the right pane and enter here

[Hkey_classes_rootsystemfileassociationstextopenwithlist], delete the corresponding subkey.

　　 second, let ie travel light

With the development of network technology, communication and communication through the network has become a part of many people's daily life, however, the disharmony factor in IE is always a headache. Window title, the default home page has been changed beyond recognition; Right menu, toolbar, tool bar is forced to join a variety of messy content, etc., in fact, these situations above, can use 3721 Internet Assistant all solve. If your system is not installed, you can open the assistant.3721.com in the browser, the Internet Assistant to download and install to the system, after the installation, it is recommended to restart the system and then proceed to the next step.

　 1, Clean IE right button menu

In the Browser open page window, the right mouse click, pop-up shortcut menu, from which we can quickly do such as file download, picture save and many other operations. However, now many programs as long as the installation into the system, they took the liberty of the IE right-click menu to add related items. In the long run, ie right menu will not only become very bloated, but also will make the right menu pop-up more and more time, affecting the operation of the system. Therefore, it is necessary to clean up the unwanted right-click menu items.

First start IE browser, and then click the Address bar below the "Internet Assistant → repair ie→ restore ie appearance", you can open the window: to clean up the IE right menu, we just choose the window "Clean IE right menu" tab, you can open a new window, The middle list shows all the items in the current IE right-click menu, and if you want to clear which item, just select it with the mouse and click the "Clean Now" button.

　　 2, Clean IE toolbar button

The way to clean up IE toolbar buttons is similar. Click "Clean IE toolbar button" to enter the function page:

The middle list shows the buttons that can be cleared on the IE toolbar. Just click the check box in front of each item and click "Clear Now" to remove the selected toolbar button.

Re-open an IE window and you can see that the toolbar button that was removed has disappeared.

　　 3, cleaning IE tool bar

Because of the flexibility of IE, its sidebar can be added at will, in many of the toolbars want to put on IE, ie more and more crowded.

Also, if more than 3 toolbars are loaded, IE will start to slow down. This is because when IE starts, the toolbar that needs to be loaded is initialized and some settings are completed. When there are only 1 or 2 toolbars, we don't feel that way. And more than 3, the speed will be significantly reduced. In addition, if the contents of the sidebar need to be downloaded from the Internet, the delay is even more pronounced. So we recommend that you load up to 2 toolbars.

Of course, IE also provides the ability not to load the sidebar. Click on the menu "view → toolbar", you can see IE installed in the toolbar, where the "standard button", "Address bar" is the most basic, should not be deleted. Other like "link" and so on, there is not much use, you can not load. The method is to click on the item, and the "tick" mark in front of it disappears, and the bar that represents it is no longer displayed in IE. But obviously, because each strip is removed, you need to refresh the IE, so this operation is more troublesome.

In fact, we can use the Internet Assistant to complete this operation. Start IE Browser, and then click the "internet Assistant → fix ie→ to restore IE appearance" under the Address bar, to clean IE toolbar, we simply select the "Clean IE Toolbar" tab in the window to open a new window with the middle list showing items that are not loaded in the IE toolbar bar. Just click the check box in front of each item and click "Clear Now". Re-open an IE window and you can see that the toolbar is not loaded.

After the above cleaning up, I believe your IE must be refreshing a lot, and because of the removal of some baggage, light, ie start faster than a lot of it!

　　 Third, delete the invalid shortcut

As you all know, Windows 9x/me or SP1 patches of Windows XP, used for a long time, the system of various kinds of garbage files and spam information will be more and more. And there's a little bit of junk in windows that's not known, this is the shortcut to failure, such as the folder where a software (or file) has been modified, but the shortcuts still point to the original location, or have uninstalled the software or deleted the files, but the corresponding shortcuts are still left in the "Start → program", " Start → documents, "C:progeam Files", and so on, the longer Windows uses, the more junk shortcuts, the more bloated windows becomes, and the less efficient it is. At this point, you can use Windows Optimizer master to clean up, or use orphansremover this free software [click to download] to find and clear them.

After downloading and installing, run Orphansremover, "Select folders to Shortcut orphans:" and "Lnclude shortcuts with broken links to:" Above the software window. Item, select the folder you want to scan and the invalid shortcuts to connect to the Removable Storage, CD, and so on. The User defined Search Folder text box allows you to specify a folder. Finally click the "Start Scan" button at the bottom of the window to start the scan, and then click the Delete Orphans button to remove the invalid shortcut after completing the scan.

In addition, orphansremover This software also supports command-line parameters, such as "D:program Filesorphansremover orphansremover.exe recent startmenu-silent" can clean up "document" , the Start menu is not an invalid shortcut, where "recent" is "Document", "StartMenu" is the Start menu, and "-silent" indicates quiet background execution. Other parameters refer to the instructions for the Orphansremover installation folder manual.html file.

　　 Four, the Clean IE Collection folder

When surfing the web, many websites are collected for a while, but they are useless because of the end of demand. There are also some sites that have been closed for one reason or another, and there are websites that will automatically be added to your favorites when you visit them ..., surfing the internet for a long time, but the collection folder is getting bigger. How quickly do you know which Web site addresses have expired and delete these invalid URLs? If you take the previous link to detect, clean up the method, it is certainly time-consuming and laborious, there is no better way? The free Am-deadlink software comes in handy, and it meets your needs.

Install and run the software, the main window will pop up at the same time the language Selection window, in the Drop-down menu select "Chinese_gb" after the software interface into Simplified Chinese, and then press the F9 key software to begin to check the URL in the Favorites folder, it is recommended to press the penultimate icon on the toolbar, The Browse window appears below the Favorites List window, and you can double-click the URL above to open the page in this window for further viewing.

For URLs that do not exist, Am-deadlink will display "File not found" in the "status" bar, then do not click "Favorites → delete", because it is likely that your favorite site is a deleted page of the site, and in fact the site still exists, So please click on the Hammer icon button on the right in the Browse window below and choose "Raise a Level" in the menu that appears to see if the home page will appear.

If you find there is no problem with the home page, you can continue to select "Replace the URL in the bookmark with an open URL" and reset the URL. If "Raise a level" also not good, do not worry, can choose this menu "search for Google", Am-deadlink will use the name of the site search Google (after the test found that support for Chinese is not good), so that you have the opportunity to find a new Web site.

In addition, many Web sites provide personalized Favorites icon, if you find your favorite URL in front of no icon, you can press the "favlcons→ Check bookmark and download Favorites Icon", it can help you solve. The Am-deadlink software also has a backup Favorites feature that supports backing up your favorites to zip files by simply clicking "Back Up →internet Explorer Favorites (zip file)."

Software name: Am-deadlink, software version: 2.06 Chinese

　　 Five, clean up useless fonts

　 1. Remove unwanted fonts

In the process of document processing or art design, in order to achieve aesthetic or other requirements, we may need to install and use a number of non-system-specific fonts. Over time, the system has installed the number of fonts I am afraid even their own is not very clear. In fact, there are problems with more than 500 fonts, such as: Fonts disappear from the application's font list and Windows ' startup speed drops dramatically. Obviously, too many fonts are not only consuming more system resources, but also affecting the overall performance of Windows.

In order to improve system performance, it is recommended that you do not use or infrequently used fonts to remove.

To remove unwanted or infrequently used fonts, you need to know which fonts cannot be deleted. First, the song body cannot be deleted, it is the default Chinese font for the system, and the screen font file (with the extension. FON) can not be arbitrarily deleted, or some dialog box text will become garbled, and even cause Windows 98/me can not start; SYS "is a system font that is used in system hints and icon descriptive text, and may cause the system to crash after deletion, and some symbols, such as Marlett, windings, and so on, cannot be deleted at will.

And do not delete fonts with these text: Arial, Courier, MS Serif, Tahoma, Verdana, comic Sans, MS Sans Serif, Symbol, Time New Roman, Impact, Lucida Console, Marlett, Modem, Samall Fonts, Webdings, windings, Roman, MS-dos CP437, script, Simhei, Simsun&nsimsun, Palatino, Linotype, Microsoft, MS.

In addition, many similar fonts are installed in Windows, and in many cases are unnecessary and almost impossible to use, so you can find similar fonts, keep a few of the most commonly used, and others can be removed using the following methods.

In order to avoid the wrong deletion of the font caused by the system failure, the recommended method is to move the font out of the "FONTS" folder, centrally stored in another directory, such as "D:fontsback". Also, create a shortcut for the file and place it on the Start menu or on the Quick Launch bar.

When you use these fonts, simply open the folder, and then double-click a font to display it in the preview window, and as soon as the preview window is open, the font is loaded into memory and visible in any application's font menu. Users can load a variety of fonts in this way, and when these fonts are used, simply close the preview window.

　 2, with the font frenzy cleaning useless fonts

Font Frenzy is a free registered fonts tool that lists all the fonts installed on the current system, has the ability to install and remove fonts, can move unused fonts from the system font directory to a specified folder, and can make a font-mirroring file. To later use the mirrored file to revert to the font configurations that were previously installed on the system.

If you want to remove all new fonts after Windows installation, close all running programs, click the Defrenzy button on the toolbar, and then click the Defrenzy Now button in the left pane to pop up the dialog box that prompts you to back up, and click Yes Button pop-up Save the backup folder selection, directly using the default folder, press the "OK" button, then pop-up backup snapshot name Input window, enter the name of easy memory and click "OK" button, the software will quickly move the font to the backup folder. If there is a problem, you can click the Refrenzy button and select the previous backup snapshot for recovery.

Of course, you can also take a manual approach to font removal. First click the Frenzysnap button on the toolbar, click the Save Snapshot button to save a snapshot, and then click the Frenzyman button on the toolbar to tick the unwanted fonts in the list of fonts (especially the Chinese fonts after you install Office) , and then in the left pane, select Uninstall & Store Fonts:, and when you click the Select button, the fonts move from the Windows Fonts folder to the font Frenzy default fonts Save folder.

How about it? With the font frenzy this good assistant, you will never be worried about the font problem!