Small computer Knowledge 30 tips

1. Re-install Windows XP no longer requires activation

If you need to reinstall Windows XP, you usually have to reactivate it. In fact, if you back up the Wpa.dbl file in the Windows/system32 directory the first time you activate it, you don't have to work on the activation. After you reload Windows XP, you only need to copy the file to the directory above.

2. How do I know if my Windows XP is active

Open start → run, in the pop-up dialog box input: oobe/msoobe/a, enter the system will pop up the window to tell you whether the system has activated the system home.

3. Close Zip folder feature

Do you think that the Zip folder in Windows XP is too slow to function and not attractive? If so, you can open the start → run, in the pop-up dialog box input: regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll, enter the Zip folder function can be turned off.

4. Let Windows XP also carve ISO files

Windows XP does not provide the ability to burn ISO files directly, but you can download a Third-party plug-in to add this functionality to your system. 5. Landing interface Background Change color

Open Registry Editor and locate [hkey-users/. Default/control Panel/colors], change the background value to "0 0 0" (without quotes) so that the login background is black.

6. Completely uninstall XP

Some friends after installing Windows XP found that they do not like the operating system, then you can use the Windows 98 installation CD to boot to the DOS state, and then type:

Format-ur

This allows you to delete all XP files and reinstall Windows 98/me.

7. The system can help to have straw

When you suspect that changes made to your computer prior to the system reboot may cause a failure, you can press the F8 key when you start the system and select Last Known Good Configuration to restore changes to the system.

8. Restore hardware Previous drivers

When you install a new hardware driver and find that the system is unstable or the hardware is not working, you can revert to the previous normal system state by selecting the "Driver Recovery" button in Device Manager. However, you cannot restore the printer driver.

9. Automatic Landing

Click start → run, enter "Rundll32netplwiz.dll,usersrundll" (without quotes), and then cancel the "Users must enter a user name and password to use T in user accounts His computer ", click OK, and then in the pop-up dialog box, enter the username and password you want to log in yourself.

10. Fast Shutdown or restart the shortcut key (can be timed)

Right click on the desktop, select New (shortcut, enter the location in the Pop-up wizard: C:/windows/system32/shutdown.exe-s-T 10 (where the-s can be changed to-R, that is, reboot, and-T-10 indicates a delay of 10 seconds, You can change this number according to your own needs. After you have finished making this shortcut, assign an icon to it in the way above. This quick shutdown or reboot technique will show a more beautiful dialog box that prompts the shutdown (reboot), and you can add "-C" to the back and I'm going to turn it off! ", so this sentence will be displayed in the dialog box, of course the text you can write at will, but be careful not to

11. Turn off the AutoPlay feature

Once you insert the media into the drive, Autorun reads the data from the drive, which causes the program's settings file and the music on the audio media to start immediately. You can turn off this feature by using the following method: Click "Start" → "Run", enter "gpedit.msc" → "Computer Configuration" → "admin template" → "system" in the dialog box, double click "Turn off AutoPlay", select "Enabled" in "setting", OK.

12. Uninstall useless dynamic Link

In order to eliminate this phenomenon, resource managers often leave useless dynamic links in memory, and you can open Registry Editor and set key values: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoftwindowscurrentversionexplorer.

Alwaysunloaddll=dword:1 it to 0, this feature will be turned off. Note: The computer needs to be restarted in order for the settings to take effect.

13. Eliminate Windows Document Protection features

To completely eliminate Windows Document protection, open Registry Editor and set key values: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Softwaremicrosoftwindows Ntcurrentversionwinlogon SFC Disable =0xffffff9d

14. View Drive Component Information

Right-click on "My Computer", click "Management" in the pop-up menu, turn on "Removable Storage" → "Library", right-click on the drive to query, click the pop-up Menu "Properties", click "Device Information" can see the drive information.

15. Clear the paging file at shutdown

Open Control Panel, click "Administrative Tools" → "Local Security Policy" → "Local Policy" → "Security Options", double-click the "Shutdown: Clean up the virtual memory paging File" Item, click "Enabled" in the pop-up menu 16. Let Windows XP read English letters

Find the "Narrator" program in the Accessibility group, click the "Sound" button, and go to the "Sound settings" interface to set it up and save it. When you point your mouse at a dialog box, menu, and button with an English letter, you will hear a male speaker reading English.

17. Restore the Windows Classic interface

The first thing many people do when they install Windows XP is that Windows gets pretty awesome. It's just a pity that the cost of beauty is to consume the memory and RAM that we are not rich in. To revert to a similar interface and usage of classic Windows, click the right mouse button on the desktop and select the Properties command to enter the Settings window for display properties. There are five tabs for the theme, desktop, screen saver, appearance, and settings. A yellow bright color is highlighted on the label of the current tab. The default is the Theme tab, where we simply select "Windows Classic" in the "Theme" dropdown menu and immediately see the display in the preview window, and the contents of the Appearance tab change.

Note: the theme and Appearance tabs in Windows XP are closely related, as long as you change any one of them and you see the corresponding changes in the other tab.

18. Resume the Start menu

Windows XP's new Start menu is handy and has little impact on system resources. If you like the classic menu of the past, right-click the taskbar space, select the Properties menu, go to the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Settings window, select the Start Menu tab, select the Classic [Start] menu to return to the previous image of the XP system download.

19. Optimize Visual effects

The Windows XP interface is really nice, looking behind is to consume a lot of memory as the price, relative to the speed and beauty, we prefer to choose the former, right click on "My Computer", click "Properties/Advanced", in the "Performance" column, click "Settings/visual Effects", Here you can see all the settings for the appearance, you can manually remove some unwanted features. All the visual effects, such as fading, scrolling, sliding, and so on, are turned off and we can save a lot of memory.

20. Disabling redundant service components

Windows XP and Windows 20,001 can act as HTTP servers, mail servers, and FTP servers, so when Windows XP starts, many services are started, and there are many services that are completely useless for our average users. So it's a good choice to turn them off. You do this by right-clicking my computer, selecting management/Services and applications/services, and disabling the unwanted service components.

21. Reduce Startup Load Items

Many applications are automatically added to the system startup group when they are installed, each time the system will be automated, which not only prolongs the startup time, but also the system resources have been eaten a lot after the boot completes! We can reduce the program that is loaded when the system starts by selecting Run from the Start menu and typing Msconfig "Start the System Configuration Utility", enter the "Startup" tab, which lists the items and sources that are loaded when the system starts up, and carefully see if you need it to load automatically, otherwise clear the current check box of the item, the less loaded items, the faster the startup speed. This item requires a reboot before it can take effect.

22. Turn off the System Restore function

The System Restore feature is an important feature of the Windows family of operating systems that restores the operating system after a problem occurs with Windows. System Restore is useful for people who make frequent mistakes, but it keeps your hard drive in a highly busy state, and you'll find that your hard drive is always busy because Windows XP records the operation for later restoration. If you have faith in yourself, then do not use it, because it can account for a lot of memory.

To turn off System Restore, click Start/All Programs/attachments/System Tools/System Restore, in the System Restore interface, click System Restore settings to go to the System Restore Settings window, and empty the turn off System Restore on all drives check box so that Windows XP deletes the backup's System restore point, freeing up the disk space it occupies.

Generally speaking, in order to take care of system performance and system security, I recommend that you turn on the System Restore feature of Windows XP on the letter.

23. Turn off Automatic Updates

Automatic Updates is a new feature of Windows XP designed to help users upgrade their systems, which automatically alerts users to upgrade their systems when Microsoft upgrades patches or system security patches, but there is a requirement that users must always be online, But for those of us who lack iron and silver "poor", this requirement is very harsh, so we put the "automatic Upgrade" function turned off, instead of "manual upgrade."

Turn off Automatic Updates for: Right-click My Computer/Properties/Automatic Updates, and in the Notification Settings column, select Turn off Automatic Updates. I will manually update the computer.

24. Close Remote Desktop

One feature of this feature is the ability to have someone else access your desktop on another machine. In a local area network, this function is useful. For example, if you have a problem, you can ask a colleague for help, he can not go to your front, directly through the "Remote Desktop" to access your machine to help you solve the problem. But for the average user who has only one computer, this feature is redundant, so we turn it off and don't let it waste memory there. To do this: right click on "My Computer", select "Properties/Remote", "Remote Desktop" in the "Allow users to remotely connect to this computer" check out.

25. Disable Hibernate function

Windows XP hibernate can completely save the current system state in memory to the hard disk, when you start the next time, the system does not need to go through the loading, system initialization and other processes, and directly to the state of your last hibernation, so it starts very fast. But it takes up a lot of hard disk space (the same size as your memory) and can be turned off in Control Panel/Power Options/Hibernate to free up hard disk space until you need to use it. Click Start/Control Panel/power management/Hibernate to remove the check before enable hibernate.

26. Turn off the auto-send Error reporting feature

You certainly have this experience in Window XP, once a program terminates abnormally, the system will automatically jump out a dialog box to ask you whether the error sent to Microsoft, this is the "Auto send Error" feature in XP, it can send the error message to Microsoft's website. While Microsoft has repeatedly vowed to provide strong security and will not disclose personal privacy, the information sent to Microsoft may contain information about the documents you are browsing or editing, perhaps with personal or corporate secrets, so if you want to protect your rights, We should turn off the function without hesitation. Click Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced, click the Error Reporting button, and then select Disable Error Reporting, and then "notify me when serious errors occur" can be selected.

Turn off the Internet time synchronization feature

"Internet time synchronization" is to keep your computer clock synchronized with the Internet time server once a week, so that your system time will be accurate, but this feature is not useful for us, but also may cause a panic problem. In general, it's OK to sync once after installing Windows XP. So we're going to turn it off. Click Start/Control Panel/date, time, language, and regional Options, and then click Date and Time/internet time.

27. Reasonable setting of virtual memory

For virtual memory files, Windows XP is always set in order to secure the default value is very large, wasted a lot of hard disk space, in fact, we can set its value a little bit. To get to the Virtual Memory Settings window, go to Control Panel/System/Advanced/performance/setup/Advanced/virtual memory/change, first determine which drive letter your paging file is in, and then disable all paging files for the other drive. It is recommended that you set it to other partitions, rather than the default system location, which can improve the paging file read and write speed, conducive to the rapid operation of the system. According to Microsoft's proposal, The paging file should be set to 1.5 times times the memory size, but if your memory is larger, then it occupies a considerable amount of space, so it is recommended that if the memory capacity below 256MB, set to 1.5 times times, the maximum and the minimum value, if more than 512MB, set to half the memory capacity of the full depth XP system download.

28. Delete Redundant documents

There are many files in Windows XP that we rarely use, put on hard drives, waste space, and reduce system performance. We can completely delete these files that are not in use, the files that need to be deleted are:

Help file: In the C:/windows/help directory.

Drive Backup: The Driver.cab file in the C:/windows/driver cache/i386 directory.

System file Backup: The general user is not used, using the command sfc.exe/purgecache delete.

Alternate DLL file: In the C:/windows/system32/dllcache directory.

Input method: In the C:windows/ime folder directly delete Chtime, Imjp8_1, imkr6_1 Three directory can be, respectively, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean input method.

29. Remove the implied components from Windows XP

After a normal installation, Windows XP installs many components automatically, many of which are not normally available, are installed in the system takes up a lot of space, reduce system performance, we can use the following methods to remove unused components.

Use Notepad to modify the Sysoc.inf file in the c:/windows/inf/directory, with the Find/Replace feature, enter ", hide" in the lookup box (an English comma follows the hide), and set the Replace with box to empty. and choose all of the replacement, so that all the ", hide" are removed, save the exit, and then click the "Start/Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs", you can see many of the components are not normally seen, choose not to need to delete the program.

30. Cleaning up Trash files

Windows XP produces garbage files with the extension tmp, BAK, old, and so on during normal use, and you can use the Windows search function to locate and then delete the files. In addition, Windows XP defaults to logging error events when the system fails and writes debug information that we can completely discard. Click Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and recovery, empty "write events to log file", and select "None" in the Write Debug Info drop-down box.