Four magical uses of the ESC key?

　　First, the magical use of the Internet

1. When surfing the Internet, if you point to a wrong URL, press ESC directly to stop opening the current page.

2. When surfing the Internet, it is unavoidable to fill in some username or something, if you fill in the wrong, press the ESC key to clear all the contents of the box, and typing, if the wrong number can also press ESC to clear the wrong word box.

3. In addition to the "Ctrl+alt+del" key combination can be pulled out of Windows Task Manager, press the "CTRL+SHIFT+ESC" key combination can start Task Manager.

4. When a program is not active and we want to restore it to active state, press the "ALT+ESC" key to activate the application without having to click the program title bar with the mouse.

5. For pop-up windows with the Cancel option, if you choose to cancel, press ESC directly to implement the cancel operation.

　　Second, fast shutdown programs that do not respond

Start → run, enter "Regedit", open Registry Editor, create a new string value Waittokillapptimeout under Hkey-current-user, set its key value to 1000 (ms) or smaller.

　　Allow forced shutdown

Enter Heky-users.defaultcontrol paneldesktop, create a string "Autoendtask" and set its key value to "1". For the real panic, the general can only two times to press the "Ctrl+alt+del" key combination or by the "Reset" button on the host box (because consumption of less resources, so the former priority) to restart.

　　Automatic reboot when system crashes

Enter the Hkey_local_machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetc-o-n-trolcrashcontrol primary key and modify "AutoReboot" in the right-hand window to change its key value to "1".

　　Third, speed up the switching machine

When you shut down in Windows XP, the system sends a message to the running program and remote server, telling them that the system is shutting down and waiting for a response before the system starts shutting down. Speed up the boot, you can set the automatic End task, first find HKEY_CURRENT_USER control Paneldesktop, the Autoendtasks key value set to 1; Then there is a "hungapptimeout" under the branch, Change its value to "4000 (or less), default to 50000, and finally find Hkey_local_machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrol, also set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to "4000"; The shutdown speed is significantly faster by this setting.

　　Four, speed up the start

To speed up the start of Windows XP. You can do this by modifying the registry, and in Registry Editor, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE---SYSTEM-----current----ControlSet---control----session Manager----Memory Management-----prefetchparameters, find the Enableprefetcher primary key on the right, and change its default value of 3 to 1, so that the scroll bar scrolling time is reduced.