Mining the secret treasures from the Windows XP Setup disk

If you are a careful person, you will find in the Windows XP system installation CD in the Support directory, also hides a lot of useful tools. Because these tools are not automatically installed under the default installation method, the average "rookie" has little chance of getting in touch with them. Incidentally, the author was fortunate to witness these hidden in the Windows XP system installation package in the "elegant demeanor", now put some very practical tools to recommend to everyone.

Before using these hidden tools, the tools that are hidden in the Windows XP installation package must be installed correctly into your computer system. The installation can be directly double-click the Support directory under the Resourcekit.zip compression package, and then pop up a decompression window, the execution of which Setup.exe file, you can start installation. The installation process is also very simple, you just follow the screen prompts, step-by-step click the "Next" button on it. If there is no original system installation CD, you can go directly to Microsoft's homepage, to download some of the tools free of charge.

Once the tools in the package are installed correctly, your Windows XP system will add more than 300 features in the blink of an hour. Considering the length of the relationship, the author here only to recommend some more practical tools.

Taskbar program Shortcuts

This applet provides you with the ability to add program shortcuts to the system taskbar, and you can easily add shortcuts to the taskbar that require frequent running of programs. When you add a shortcut, you can double-click the file named Quicktray.exe, in the next Open interface (Figure 1), click the "Add" button, in the Pop-up File selection dialog box, select a frequently needed to execute the program file on the OK. If you want a program shortcut to disappear from the system taskbar, you can reopen the file selection dialog above and select the program file you want to delete, and click the Remove button. However, this method of adding program shortcuts is also insufficient, because the added shortcut icon all "crowded" in the system tray area, not conducive to rapid identification and selection of programs.

Monitoring System Performance

Find the Wperf.exe file first in the system, and double-click the file with the left mouse button to start this Monitoring System Performance tool (Figure 2). When monitoring system performance, it consumes only a minimal amount of resources on the system. In the default state, you can only use the tool to monitor the "CPU line GRAPH" information, if you want it to monitor more system information, you can click on the tool interface of the "select" button, in the subsequent window, can be based on the actual needs, The system content from the line definition needs to be monitored, such as context Switch/sec, Thread cound, pages Available, pages faults, pages pool, and so on.