Introduction to alternative spam for Windows XP

Everyone is familiar with the computer cleaning work! However, many friends still have some limitations in their understanding of cleanup. They are more focused on deleting some junk files generated by Windows itself. In fact, there are some alternative junk files, for example, projects in the context menu of the software, items in the shortcut menu of IE, toolbar icons, useless items in favorites, and invalid shortcuts.

Their existence not only wastes valuable hard disk space, but also leaves a chance for viruses. Therefore, it is necessary to promptly clean up the computer.

1. Right-click the resource manager menu

1. Delete unnecessary items from the right-click menu

As we all know, when installing many software, we should first extract the installation file to a temporary directory (usually the temp directory under the Windows folder), such as WinZip and other tools, then install the SDK.

If the software design is neglected or the system is faulty, after the installation is complete, these temporary files will become non-"temporary" and become a pile of garbage in the hard disk, often *. TMP faces appear; some temporary swap files are usually generated during the software running process, such as someProgram*. Old ,*. the backup files such as Bak are the backup files generated when anti-virus software or system software checks the hard disk. After the software is detached, some folders and * are left in the hard disk ,*. DLL file ,*. HLP files, registry key values, and various unknown little things have become real junk.

In fact, after an application is uninstalled normally, some unnecessary projects will be left in the right-click menu and deleted as well. These legacy projects are generally stored here.

"Hkey_classes_root * shellexcontextmenuhandlers"

If the project is only valid for folders, it is stored in these places

"Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshell"

"Hkey_classes_rootdirectoryshellexcontextmenuhandlers"

Sometimes in "hkey_classes_rootfoldershell"

You can also find "hkey_classes_rootfoldershellexcontextmenuhandlers" and delete them.

In addition, you can use the registry search function to remove the files left after uninstallation, find and delete software-related key values in the registry, and there may be multiple, you can continue searching with the F3 shortcut until all the projects are deleted.

(Note: before deleting a registry, you must export the items to be deleted in the Registry Editor .)

2. Use shellexview to clear

It is convenient to manually delete undesired right-click menu items in the registry, but you must export the deleted items to prevent errors! Many of my friends may think it is a little troublesome. Here I suggest you use the free shellexview software to complete the above tasks. It is a Windows Shell extension that can display and control all Windows Shell extensions installed on the system, for example, you can right-click a menu, right-click a file, or open a folder, and then pop up a menu.

After downloading the package, you can decompress the package to any folder, for example, "C: shellexview.pdf, run the program shexview.exe" to start the program.

If you want to remove the previously installed Real Player software from the project in the right-click menu, you can find it in the "FILENAME" column and select "C: Program filesrealrealone playerrpshellsearch. DLL (search by file name, or by conditions such as "Description" and "extension name ), right-click and select "Disable selected items" to disable the selected project. In this way, the Real Player software disappears from the context menu.

If you select enable selected items again (enable the selected project), you can restore the project.

In addition, shellexview can also be used to add or delete specific folders (printers, recycle bin, scheduled tasks, network connections, etc.) on my computer and desktop ), for example, select "Administrative Tools" in the list, and then click "files → add selected items... "(add the selected project to), and select" my computer "from the sub-menu ". In this way, you can add "Administrative Tools" to "my computer.

Software name: shellexview

3. Delete the options in the "new" sub-menu

Right-click the pop-up menu and select "new" to display the new file corresponding to the installed application in the system. As the number of applications in the system increases, the content in the "new" sub-menu will also increase. However, in daily use of computers, users do not need to create so many types of files. In fact, we can delete the options in the "new" menu by modifying the registry, and the operation is not complicated. Just start the Registry Editor and set [hkey_classes_root. * **] (". * ** Delete the "shellnew" item under the file extension of the project, and then exit the Registry Editor and restart the computer.

Delete "shellnew" under it, return to the desktop, press F5 to refresh, right-click the blank area on the desktop, and select "new ", then you will find that the original "WinRAR compressed file" has disappeared.

4. Delete useless items in the "open mode" submenu

Right-click a file and choose open mode from the shortcut menu. there are three programs in the open mode of TXT file, which are not used at all. In this case, you only need to go to the Registry.

[Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionpolicerfileexts]

You can also find the corresponding extension items in [hkey_classes_rootsystemfileassociations], and then delete unnecessary key values or items in the "openwithlist" subitem.

Let's take the example of deleting useless items in the context menu "open mode" of a text file.

[Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversion

Assumerfileexts.txt openwithlist]

Delete the corresponding key value in the right pane, and then enter here

[Hkey_classes_rootsystemfileassociationstextopenwithlist]. Delete the subitem.

2. Let ie be light-loaded

With the continuous development of network technology, network communication and communication have become part of the daily life of many people. However, the discord in IE is always a headache. The title of the window and the default homepage are completely unrecognizable. Right-click the menu, toolbar, and toolbar are forcibly added to a variety of messy content. In fact, all the above situations can be solved by using the 3721 netassistant. If your system is not installed, open assistant.3721.com in your browser and download and install the netassistant to the system. After the installation is complete, restart the system and perform the next step.

1. Clear the IE shortcut menu

In the webpage window opened by the browser, a shortcut menu is displayed when you right-click the page. You can perform many operations such as file download and Image Storage quickly. However, as long as many programs are installed in the system, they add related projects in the IE right-click menu. In the long run, the IE right-click menu will not only become bloated, but also take longer and longer to pop up the right-click menu, affecting system operation. Therefore, it is necessary to clear unnecessary right-click menu items.

Start IE browser, and click "Internet Assistant> ie repaired> ie restored" in the address bar to open the window: to clear the right-click ie menu, you only need to select the "Clear ie right-click menu" tab in the window to open a new window. The list in the middle shows all projects in the current IE right-click menu. If you want to clear any items, select it with the mouse, and then click "clean now.

2. Clear IE Toolbar buttons

The method for clearing the IE Toolbar button is similar to this. Click "Clear IE Toolbar" to go to the function page:

The list in the middle shows the buttons that can be cleared on the IE Toolbar. You only need to click the check box before each item and then click "clear now" to remove the selected toolbar button.

Open a new ie window and you can see that the deleted toolbar button has disappeared.

3. Clear IE Toolbar

Due to the flexibility of IE, its tool bar can also be added at will. When many tool bars want to be placed on IE, ie becomes increasingly crowded.

In addition, if more than three toolbar is loaded, the startup speed of IE will be reduced. This is because IE initializes the toolbar to be loaded during startup and completes some settings. When there are only one or two toolbar, we don't feel it. The speed will be significantly reduced if there are more than three. In addition, if the toolbar content needs to be instantly downloaded from the internet, the latency is more obvious. Therefore, we recommend that you load up to two toolbar entries.

Of course, ie also provides the function of not loading toolbar. Click "View> toolbar" in the menu to view the tool bar that has been installed in IE. The "Standard button" and "Address Bar" are the most basic and should not be deleted. Others such as "Links" are of little use and do not need to be loaded. By clicking this item, the "check" mark in front of it disappears, and the toolbar represented by this item is no longer displayed in IE. However, it is clear that every time you remove a toolbar, You need to refresh ie. Therefore, this operation is troublesome.

In fact, we can use netassistant to complete this operation. Start IE browser, and then click "Internet Assistant → repair ie → restore ie appearance" under the address bar. To clear the IE Toolbar, select the "Clear IE Toolbar" tab in the window, you can open a new window. The list in the middle shows items that can be left blank in the IE Toolbar. You only need to click the check box before each item, and then click "clear now ". Open a new ie window and you can see that this toolbar is not loaded.

After the above cleanup, I believe that your IE will be much refreshed, And the startup speed of IE will be much faster because you have removed some baggage and loaded it lightly!

3. Delete invalid shortcuts

As we all know, whether it is Windows 9x/me or Windows XP with the SP1 Patch, it takes a long time to use, and there will be more and more junk files and junk information in the system. In Windows, there is also an unfamiliar type of garbage, that is, invalid shortcuts, such as folders where a software (or file) has been modified, however, the shortcut still points to the original location, or the software has been uninstalled or the file has been deleted, however, the corresponding shortcuts remain in "Start> program", "Start> Document", and "C: progeam Files". The longer windows is used, the more junk shortcuts, windows will become more and more bloated, and the running efficiency will of course be lower and lower. At this time, you can use the Windows optimization master to clean up, or use the free software orphansremover [Click to download] to find and clear them.

After the download and installation, run orphansremover. in the upper part of the software window, select folders to shortcut orphans: And Lnclude shortcuts with broken links: ", select the folder to be scanned, And the invalid shortcut that is connected to the mobile storage, and the CD. In the "user defined search folder" text box, you can specify a folder. Click the start scan button at the bottom of the window to start scanning. After the scan is completed, click Delete orphans to delete the invalid shortcut.

In addition, orphansremover also supports command line parameters, such as "D: Program filesorphansremover orphansremover.exe recent startmenu-silent", which can clear invalid shortcuts in the "document" and "start" menus, "Recent" is "document", "startmenu" is "start", and "-silent" indicates quiet execution in the background. For more information, see the manual.html file in the orphansremoverinstaller.

Iv. Clear ie favorites

When surfing the Internet, many websites need to be added to favorites for a while, but they are useless because of the end of the demand. Some websites are closed for one reason or another, there are also some websites that will be automatically added to your favorites when you access it ......, After a long time on the Internet, the favorites folder is getting bigger and bigger. How can I quickly know which website addresses have expired and delete these invalid websites? If we use previous links to inspect and clean up, it will be time-consuming and laborious. Is there a better solution? The free am-deadlink software comes in handy and can meet your needs.

Install and run the software. When the main window appears, the language selection window is displayed. Select "chinese_gb" from the drop-down menu and the software interface becomes Simplified Chinese, press the F9 key to verify the URLs in the favorites folder. We recommend that you press the second to last icon on the toolbar to display a browser window under the favorites List window, double-click the URL above to open the webpage in this window for further viewing.

If the URL does not exist, am-deadlink will display "file not found" in the "status" column. Do not click "favorites> Delete" first ", because it is likely that the website you add to your favorites is a deleted page of the website, but the website still exists, therefore, click the hammer icon on the right in the browser window below, and select "Raise level" in the menu to see if the website homepage will appear.

If you find that there is no problem with the homepage, you can continue to select "Replace the URL in the bookmarks with the opened URL address" and reset the URL. If the "Upgrade Level" option does not work, you don't have to worry about it. You can choose "Search for Google" in this menu ", am-deadlink uses the website name to search for the website in Google (the test shows that it does not support Chinese characters well), giving you the opportunity to find a new website.

In addition, many websites currently provide personalized favorites icons. If you find that there are no icons in front of your favorites website, you can press "favlcons → check bookmarks and download favorites icons ", it can help you solve the problem. At the same time, the AM-deadlink software also provides the backup favorites function, which supports backing up favorites into ZIP files. You only need to click "backup> Internet Explorer favorites (ZIP files.

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

5. Clear useless Fonts

1. Delete useless Fonts

In the process of document processing or art design, in order to meet beautiful or other requirements, we may need to install and use a variety of special fonts that are not included in the system. Over time, I'm afraid I don't know exactly how many fonts are installed in the system. In fact, there will be problems when there are more than 500 types of fonts, such as: the font disappears from the font list of the application and the startup speed of Windows is greatly reduced. Obviously, too many fonts not only occupy a large amount of system resources, but also affect the overall performance of windows.

To improve system performance, we recommend that you delete unused or infrequently used fonts.

To delete useless or infrequently used fonts, you must know which fonts cannot be deleted. First, cannot be deleted. It is the default Chinese font of the system. The screen font file (with the extension. fon) cannot be deleted at will, otherwise some text in the dialog box will become garbled, and may even cause Windows 98/me to fail to start; ". sys is the system font. These fonts are used in the system prompt information and the descriptive text of the icon. deletion may cause system crash. There are also some symbols, such as marlett and windings, and cannot be deleted at will.

Do not delete the font containing the 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, which are not necessary and almost impossible to be used in many cases. Therefore, you can find the similar fonts and retain several of the most commonly used fonts, you can use the following method to remove all other objects.

To avoid system faults caused by incorrect font deletion, it is recommended to remove the font from the "fonts" folder and store it in another directory, such as "D: fontsback. Create a shortcut for the file and place it in the "Start" menu or "Quick Start" bar.

When these fonts are used, you only need to open the folder and double-click a font to display it in the preview window. Once the preview window is opened, the font is loaded to the memory, it can be seen in the "font" menu of any application. You can use this method to load multiple fonts. After using these fonts, close the preview window.

2. Use font frenzy to clear useless Fonts

Font frenzy is a free font registration tool that allows you to view all fonts installed in the current system in the list. It has the function of installing and deleting fonts, you can also move unused fonts from the system font directory to the specified folder, and create a font image file so that you can use this image file to restore the font configurations that were previously installed by the system.

To delete all new fonts added after Windows installation, close all running programs, click "defrenzy" on the toolbar, and then click "defrenzy now" in the left-side pane, the backup dialog box is displayed. Click the "yes" button and select the folder to save the backup. Use the default folder and press the "OK" button, in this case, the backup snapshot name input window is displayed. Enter a name that is easy to remember and click the "OK" button. The software will soon move the font to the backup folder. If a problem occurs, click the "refrenzy" button and select the previous backup snapshot for restoration.

Of course, you can also manually remove the font. First, click the "frenzysnap" button on the toolbar, then click the "Save snapshot" button to save a snapshot, and then click the "frenzyman" button on the toolbar, select unnecessary fonts (especially Chinese fonts after the office is installed) in the font list, and then select "Uninstall & store fonts:" In the left-side pane :", click the select button and the fonts will be moved from the fonts folder of windows to the default font frenzy font save folder.

how is it? With the font frenzy assistant, you will no longer worry about font issues!