Steal the bar and ask XP to lend an arrow to Vista"

I believe that many of my friends who like to taste it will upgrade their system to Windows Vista in the first time. After a short time of zero contact with the system, you will surely not forget the dazzling desktop effect and powerful security functions of the system. For example, the New User Account Control Function and Anti-Spyware function in Windows Vista, they all impressed us. So, for those who are still with the Windows XP system, do they have to sigh and change their ways? In fact, with some suitable settings or some professional tools, we can "borrow" some functions of Windows Vista to Windows XP, in addition, the system performance can be greatly improved without upgrading any hardware devices!

Automatic permission downgrading Using arrows

In order to effectively cope with the network security threats that are raging like crazy, in Windows Vista, when users use their own IE browser to surf the Internet, the system will automatically downgrade the Internet Explorer, specifically, whether you use a system administrator account or a common account to log on to the system, when you use the IE browser that comes with Windows Vista to surf the Internet, the user's Internet access permissions are automatically downgraded to common user standards, so that even if an illegal attacker attempts to attack the Local Computer System through the IE browser, the attackers only obtain the access permissions of common users, in this way, the security of the local computer system will not be greatly affected. Obviously, this function is very helpful to protect the security of the local computer system.

Unfortunately, Windows XP does not have such a function by default. Once a local computer is attacked by an illegal attacker, the attacker may directly gain system administrator privileges, this may cause various threat operations on the local computer system. However, if you download a free tool named "dropmyrights" from the Internet, the Windows XP system will be able to automatically gain the permission downgrading function. you can install the downloaded "dropmyrights" program to the C: aaa directory, right-click the IE shortcut icon on the Windows XP desktop, and execute the "properties" command from the shortcut menu. In the pop-up property setting window, enter "C: aaadropmyrights.exe" "C: Program FilesInternet assumer.exeiexplorer.exe" C "in the" target "text box, and click" OK, in this way, you only need to double-click the IE shortcut icon on the system desktop, and IE will be able to automatically access the website content with normal user permissions.

"Borrow arrow" Task Management Function

After trying out Windows Vista, we found that in this system environment, after entering the system's task manager window, click the process tab, on the option settings page, click the "View"/"Select column" command in the menu bar to open the "select process column Settings" dialog box, select the "image path name" and "command line" items in the dialog box, so that we can conveniently obtain detailed information about system processes, this helps us identify unfamiliar processes in the system.

Figure 1 selecting Columns

However, in Windows XP, when we open the Task Manager window of the system and enter the "process" option setting page, if the "image path name" and "command line" functions are not displayed (1), how can we make Windows XP have the same features as Windows Vista? In fact, to implement the above functions, we only need to find a way to extract the system files that implement the "image path name" and "command line" functions in Windows Vista, and copy them to the corresponding directory of the Windows XP system. The specific implementation steps are as follows:

First, log on to the Windows Vista system as a system administrator, and then click "start", "program", "attachment", "attachment", "tasklist", and "taskkill" on the system desktop, these files are related to the "image path name" and "command line" functions;

If the above files cannot be found in the "system32" folder window, you can click the "Tools"/"Folder Options" command in the menu bar of the system resource manager window, in the displayed folder option Setting dialog box, click the view tab and deselect the "Hide protected operating system files" option (2) on the corresponding options page ), click "OK", and then we can find the above file in the "system32" folder window;

Copy the taskmgr.exe, tasklist, and taskkill files to the flash drive, then, copy these files to the "Windows/system32" folder window of Windows XP and the "Windows/system32/dllcache" folder window, and restart Windows XP, in this way, the Windows XP Task Manager window has functions related to Windows Vista.

"Borrow arrow" parent Control Function

To prevent children from using computers to access some poor website content while their parents are not at home, the new Parental Control Function in Windows Vista allows you to conveniently control the use of programs, access websites, and logon times of standard user accounts. For example, during the summer vacation, parents want their children to be allowed to access the Internet only on Saturday and Sunday as usual. Computers are not allowed to access the Internet at other times; to achieve this purpose, we can easily use the new Parental Control Feature of Windows Vista. In fact, the above control operations can also be implemented as long as appropriate settings are passed in the Windows XP system environment. For example, if you want your child to be able to access the Internet from seven o'clock to seven o'clock every Saturday and Sunday, and do not use a computer to access the Internet any other time, follow these steps:

First, click the start button on the Windows XP desktop, click the run command from the pop-up Start Menu, open the system run text box, and enter the string command "cmd ", click OK to switch the system status to the doscommand line status;

 

Figure 2 Folder Options

Then at the doscommand line prompt, enter the string command "net user aaa bbb/add/times: SA-SU,-", where "aaa" is the name of the newly created user account, "bbb" indicates the password of the expected user account. After confirming that the above command code is entered correctly, click the Enter key and the system will automatically execute this command, once the command is successfully executed (as shown in Figure 2), a Logon account named "aaa" will be created in the local computer system, the time that this account allows to use computers is the period from seven o'clock AM to seven o'clock AM on Saturday and Sunday. Now, you only need to allocate the "aaa" account to your child. In addition, you can run the "net user aaa" string command at the doscommand line prompt to view the time allowed for the "aaa" account to log on to the computer system.

"Borrow arrow" Account Control Function

To effectively prevent unauthorized users from accessing their computer systems at will and pose security threats to the local system, Windows Vista has added the User Account Control Function (UAC function ); with this function, even if we log on to the local computer system as a system administrator, as long as the system performs operations that may pose security threats to the system, for example, when you delete a system file in the system installation directory, save external data information to the system partition, or modify the system restore parameter settings, the User Account Control function will automatically display a prompt dialog box, requiring the user to proceed with the following operations after careful confirmation, so as to effectively avoid the security trouble caused by misoperations to the system.

In fact, in Windows XP, we can create a normal User account to log on to the local system as a User account, in this way, when you delete a system file in the system installation directory under Windows XP, save external data information to the system partition, or modify the system restoration parameter settings, in Windows XP, an alert is automatically reported when permissions are insufficient. You must enter the password corresponding to the super Administrator Account to perform the next step. Of course, when you log on to Windows XP, if you want to perform some special operations, you can first execute the string command "run as" to temporarily obtain the system administrator's operation permissions. After obtaining the corresponding operation permissions, we can perform system management and maintenance operations under normal user status. Of course, please note that after you have completed system management and maintenance with the system administrator privilege, you must remember to return it to the normal user status in time, to protect the absolute security of the local computer system.