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Windows XP ultimate settings (painstaking)
Statement: The above information is collected from the Internet and I have not tested them one by one. Therefore, be careful when making changes and make backups. Are you prepared.

1. System Optimization settings.
1. Delete attachments imposed by Windows:
1) use Notepad notepad to modify \ winnt \ INF \ sysoc. INF, with the search/replace function, enter in the search box, hide (an English comma followed by hide), and set the "Replace with" box to null. And select replace all. In this way, all and hide are removed,
2) Save the disk and exit,
3) Run "add-Delete" again.ProgramYou will see several more options in "Add/delete Windows Components". In this way, you can delete unnecessary attachments.
2. Disable the debugger dr. Watson;
Dr. Watson is a built-in system maintenance tool that is displayed when the program fails to load or crashes. Run drwtsn32 to remove all except "dumping all thread contexts. Otherwise, once a program error occurs, the hard disk will ring for a long time and occupy a lot of space. If you have encountered this problem before, find the user. dmp file and delete it, which may save dozens of MB of space. This is the scene of the wrong program, and it is useless to us. Open the registry, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug sub-key branch, double-click the auto key value name under it, and change its "value data" to 0, finally, press F5 to refresh and make the settings take effect. In this way, the operation is completely canceled.
In addition, memory. dmp displayed on the blue screen can also be deleted. You can disable dump when bsod is enabled on my computer/properties.
3. Disable "System Restore": Right-click my computer on the desktop, select "properties", and find "System Restore ", if you are not always busy installing some software (are you better than me ??), You can also remove it to save a lot of space.

4. Disable "Sleep support": Because the sleep function occupies a large disk space, it is better to disable it,
Console --> power options --> sleep (do not tick)
(Blues Note: I think sleep is useful .)

5. disable unnecessary services
Click Start> set> Control Panel ". Double-click "Administrative Tools"> "services". The service list is displayed. Some services are started, while others are not. Right-click the service you want to configure and click "properties ". On the "General" tab, select "automatic", "Manual", or "Disable". "automatic" indicates that Windows XP automatically starts the service each time the system starts; "Manual" means that Windows XP does not automatically start the service, but manually starts the service when you need it. "disabled" means that the service cannot be started. In actual configuration, you can select "Manual" or "Disable" to disable the service. We recommend that you use manual functions so that you can start services that are temporarily needed at any time.
Some services are required for Windows XP and cannot be disabled. Otherwise, the system will crash. Various services
You can double-click the service or hover your mouse over the service name. The specific service description is simple and you can understand it. You can choose the ones you want or not. The modification method is as follows: select the disabled service, right click, select "attribute"> "stop", and set "Start type" to "Manual" or "disabled ".

6. Acceleration XP Switch
1) shorten the waiting time
Open Registry Editor and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control,
Set waittokillservicetimeout to 1000 or smaller. (Original value: 20000)
Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop key
The value of waittokillapptimeout is changed to 1000 (the original value is 20000). That is, when the program is closed, it takes only one second. Change the value of hungapptimeout to 200 (original value: 5000), indicating that the program will wait 0.5 seconds for an error.

2) Let the system automatically shut down the program that stops the response.
Open the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop key in the registry and set autoendtasks to 1. (Original value: 0)

3) msconfig. Most of my friends should be familiar with msconfig, which is a built-in windows setting tool. Click the Start menu, select "run", and enter "msconfig" in the input box and press Enter. Click the Startup tab, which displays all programs running during Windows startup. There is no program here, which is a matter of life and death for Windows. After some hooks are removed, the Windows Startup will be faster and there will be more idle system resources.

7. XP prefetcher
Windows XP comes with a service named prefetcher, which manages the program initialization during Windows startup. The specified program can be quickly loaded in later use. Prefetcher is enabled by default, but its performance can be further improved. Open the Registry Editor and find:
Hkey_local_machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrolsession managermemory
Managementprefetchparameters, which has a key value named enableprefetcher. In most cases, its value is 3. We recommend that you set the value to 5, which is the best working status on my machine. You can try different values until you find the value that best suits your machine.
You can also disable prefetcher by setting the value to 0. However, unless it is for testing purposes, the average person is not stupid enough to set it to 0.

8. compressing folders
This is a very good optimization. Windows XP has built-in support for. ZIP files. We can use ZIP files as folders for browsing. However, the system must use some resources to implement this function. Disabling this function can improve the system performance. The implementation method is very simple. You only need to cancel the registration of zipfldr. dll. Click start -- run and enter regsvr32/u zipfldr. dll. Then press Enter.

9. Do not load DLL files
After using the browser, some DLL files are often cached in the memory for a long time, and a large part of the memory will be used by unused DLL files. To prevent such a problem, locate the Registry as follows:
Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexplorer
Next, create a dubyte value named alwaysunloaddll with a value of 1.
If you want to remove this optimization, you only need to set the key value to 0 (you can also simply delete the key ). Note: This optimization takes effect only after Windows is restarted.

10. Disable Windows XP File Protection completely. Use this trick with caution
Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon from the registry, and change the "sfcdisable" key value to "ffffff9d". If you need to re-enable this function, set it to "0" again.

11. Manually specify the process order for viewing
At the same time, press the Control + ALT + Delete keys, and then click the "processes" tab. A dialog box shown in is displayed, showing all processes currently running. If you want to allocate more process time to a program, such as 3D Studio MAX, right-click the process and move the mouse pointer down to set priority> (set priority )", then select the priority of the program you want. When I receive an email, I set 3dmax to "standard", but when I leave the computer, I will give priority to the highest "real-time ", in this way, computers can focus more on processing 3D actions more quickly.

12. Disable Error return
Console ----> system ----> advanced ----> bottom right ---> Error Report ----> close

13. Speed up window display: you can modify the Registry to change the window pop-up from the taskbar and minimize the action of returning to the taskbar. Follow these steps: Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY_CURRENT_USER \
Control Panel \ Desktop \ windowmetrics sub-key branch. In the window on the right, find the minanimate key value. Its type is REG_SZ. By default, the value of this key is 1, indicates the animation displayed in the window. If you change it to 0, the animation cannot be displayed. Then, select the "logout" command from the Start menu to activate the modification.

14. Remove the "Update" option: For most users, the Windows Update function of Windows XP does not seem to be very useful. We can remove it as follows: Open the Registry Editor and find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \
Explorer sub-key branch, select the "new" command under the "edit" menu, create a value of type REG_DWORD, name it nocommongroups, double-click the new nocommongroups sub-key, in the edit string text box, enter the key value "1", click "OK", and restart the system.

15. Modify the logon background pattern of Windows XP: You may get bored with the monotonous login pattern that remains unchanged for a long time. You can use the registry to change it to your favorite pattern as follows: open Registry Editor and find HKEY_USERS \. default \ Control Panel \ Desktop sub-key branch, double-click wallpaper, and type the path of the image you selected, such as: C: \ Documents ents and Settings \ My Documents ents \ my pictures \ mypic.bmp, click "OK", find tilewallpaper, double-click it and enter the key value "1", and restart the system to see the effect.

16. Modify the background color when logging on: to modify the background color when logging on, follow these steps: Open Registry Editor and find HKEY_USERS \. default \ Control Panel \ colors sub-key branch, double-click the background key value name under the sub-key branch, the "Edit string" dialog box appears, in the "value data" text box, enter the key value that represents the color (for example, the black RGB value is 000, the white RGB value is 255 255 255, and the default value is 58 110 165 ), click OK to restart the system.
17. Set startup information or add warning information. If you want to display custom personalized information when Starting Windows XP, follow these steps: open registry editor, find the hkey_local_machine_software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon sub-key branch, double-click the legalnoticecaption key name under it, and open the "Edit string" window, enter the title of the Information dialog box in the "value data" text box, for example, "Hello, welcome to use this machine", and double-click legalnoticetext, enter the warning information you want to display in the "Edit string" window that appears later. For example, "Please do not modify the settings of this level at will. Thank you! ", Click "OK" and restart to see the modified effect.

18. Keep the desktop settings unchanged at each startup: we can modify the Registry to protect our desktop settings. No matter what changes are made, the desktop will be restored after the restart. Follow these steps: Open Registry Editor and find hkey_current_users \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ elastes
\ Explorer sub-key branch, find nosavesettings under it, its type is REG_SZ, its key value is changed to "0", or directly Delete this key value, restart the system to make the settings take effect.

19. Any Custom button color: Although Windows XP has multiple window display schemes, you want to define the color of a certain part. For example, you can change the color of the button from black to blue or red, to modify the registry, open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ colors sub-key branch, and double-click the bottontext under it, in the displayed dialog box, change the key value to the value you want to color. For example, red 255 0 0. Click "OK" and restart the system to see the effect, in this case, the text color on the button turns red. You can also modify parameters such as the width, height, and background of the button.

20. Modify the right-click menu
We know that you can right-click the Registry to modify the menu under 98, which is also available in WINXP. The method is as follows: Right-click the menu and add "Browse here with DOS window" as an example.
1) Open the Registry Editor, find hkey_classes_root \ directory \ shell, select it, right-click it, and create a new primary key named keys/K "cd % L.
2) Check: Right-click any folder and you will see "browse in DOS window" in the pop-up menu. Select to browse in DOS window, click the left mouse button to see no. the DOS window pops up!

21. Modify the System ID number (the ID number is very important in WINXP)
Under the regular label in the system properties, we can see a string of numbers, such as 55661-005-0809362-22169. This is the ID number. The idnumbers of each set of genuine WINXP are different (Should I guess my purpose ?), So can we modify it? Of course! If not, you do not need to write this article.Article). Come with me and look at my skills!
1) the ID number is stored in the registry. These key values are mainly used:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ registration string productid
String product ID of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ User Information/* if it is not used to register with Microsoft, it will not appear */
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion string productid
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion string productid
The above four items are the key values of IDS stored in the registry. They must be modified at the same time. After modification, you can view the General labels in the system properties to avoid failure of modification, resulting in ID restoration.

22. Modify the version number:
There is an internal version number in Windows (the official version is 2600. xpclient0000000017-1148). The version number is also stored in the registry. The specific location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion, which is recorded using a string, you can modify the version number of your XP by modifying the string named buildlab.

23. delete a file from the hidden ^ box
the default location of the Windows XP ^ box is in the lower right corner of the desktop and above the system tray at the bottom. If you open multiple windows, the ^ box is blocked, so that you cannot drag files and folders to the ^ box. To this end, Microsoft has made a very user-friendly design. When users drag a batch of files and move them to the bottom right corner of the desktop, you can drag the mouse and move all the files to the blank area of the task bar at the bottom of the desktop, and stay there for a few seconds. Then, all opened windows will be automatically minimized, this allows you to drag the file to the ^ box. In addition, regardless of whether multiple opened windows are maximized, you can perform the preceding operations to minimize all windows.

24. Set music directory pictures at Will
in the past, Windows XP provided many more advanced management functions on top of Windows operating systems, including the Image book generator, this album builder can automatically place album art images in the user's corresponding saved music folder (these music files are generally Microsoft WMA files ). Although this feature is very convenient, there are some problems. For example, if some users have previously converted some music CD discs into MP3 formats and saved them on the hard disk, although users can download the album art pages of the CD from some music websites such as "www.cdnow.com" and "www.amguide.com, however, you can only manually add these cover pages to each music folder. This takes a long time, and once you reinstall the operating system, you have to repeat the preceding complex operations.
how can this problem be solved? It is not complicated. When downloading the album art image, save the image file name as "folder.jpg" and put it in the corresponding music folder, in this way, Windows XP automatically uses the thumbnail of the folder by default. If you use the media player for Windows XP (mpxp) player to play music files, the system automatically displays the album art image. After this operation, you can reinstall the operating system.
if you need to save the preceding "folder.jpg" file, you can save a small image file named "albumartsmall.jpg, the advantage of this is that if you use the mpxp player to play a music file, but the player's window is less than 200x200 pixels, the player can directly display this small image, otherwise, the player needs to process "folder.jpg" and adjust its size to display it in a small window, which naturally affects the speed of file calling.

25. Convenient hard disk fragment
after a computer is used for a period of time, the hard disk will produce a large number of file fragments. You need to call the disk fragment program regularly to clear the fragments. To this end, we provide you with a method that allows you to conveniently call the hard disk fragment program.
use NotePad to edit a registry import file named "context_defrag.inf" and enter the following content in the file:
; context_defrag.inf
; adds defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP
[version]
Signature = "$ Chicago $"
[defaultinstall]
addreg = addme
[addme]
hkcr, "Drive \ shell \ defrag \ command", "defrag. EXE % 1 "
after editing, right-click the file and select" Install ". After installation, a text menu is added to the Windows XP operating system. When you need to organize the hard disk, open "my computer", right-click the drive letter to be sorted, and select "defrag" from the pop-up text menu, the system will automatically call the built-in "defrag.exe" program to sort out the hard disk.
If the user deletes the information installed on the system registration table, you can use the regedit.exe Registry Editor to edit and modify the information. The specific operation is to find the "hkey_classes_root \ drive \ shell \" directory, delete the "defrag" folder, and close the registry.

26. Clear Shared Folders
A unfriendly user interface of Windows XP is to display all the shared folders in the upper half of the "my computer" window. If the user sets many shared folders, whenever the "my computer" window is opened, many Shared Folder Information is listed. How can I delete the information display? Use the Registry Editor and find the primary key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ My computer \ namespace \ delegatefolders", which has a name
Delete the sub-Key of {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} to clear the Shared Folder Information. The preceding modification takes effect without restarting.
27. Display sharing settings labels
In Windows 2000, you can easily set the shared attributes of a folder. You only need to right-click the folder and select Properties to view the shared settings tag. In Windows XP, folder sharing is complicated, and users cannot see the sharing setting label through the above operations. The specific modification method is as follows: Open "Tools" in "My Computer", select "folder properties", and bring up the "View" tag, in the "Advanced Settings" section, scroll to the bottom to cancel the selection before "use simple file sharing (recommended, in addition, if the option bar contains the "Mickey Mouse" item, you can also cancel it. In this way, you can easily modify the folder attributes like Windows 2000.

28. Call the system sound solution
Compared with the previous Windows operating system, Windows XP provides better sound solutions, but the system does not call this solution by default. To activate this scheme, we need to do the following: Open the control panel, select the "sound, voice, audio device" item, and find the taskbar of "Modify sound Scheme, select "Windows Default" in the displayed dialog box. The system will prompt you whether to save the previous sound solution settings. You can select "no" and click "OK" to complete the modification.

29. Speed up the display of the Start Menu
In Windows XP, the default start menu is displayed slowly, but you can edit the registered key value to speed up display. The specific method is to open the Registry Editor, search for the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ menushowdelay" primary key. The default value is 400. You can set this key value to "0" based on your preferences ". If this method is invalid, select "Display Properties" from "Control Panel", select "advanced" from "display effects", and deselect the "show menu shadow" option, this will speed up the display of the Start Menu.

30. Clear the welcome window
The Display Effect of Windows XP has been greatly improved, mainly based on the cleartype technology, this technology allows users using laptops and LCD monitors to experience different effects when running Windows XP operating systems. However, this clear effect can only be called after Windows is started. Therefore, the welcome window during system startup still cannot achieve this effect. To make the welcome window clearer, you can use the Registry Editor to modify the two primary keys.
"(Default User) HKEY_USERS \. Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ fontsmoothing
(String value) "and" HKEY_USERS \. Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ fontsmoothingtype
(Hexadecimal DWORD Value) ", modify the key value to" 2 ", so that you can achieve a clear display.

31. Automatic calling of "Windows Messenger" is prohibited at startup"
To promote the instant chat program "Windows Messenger" launched by Microsoft, the default setting of Windows XP is to call this program when the system starts. If you are not familiar with this program, you can delete the key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \ MSMSGS.

32. "Sleep" is displayed in the shutdown dialog box"
The default setting of Windows XP is that the system is not set to sleep in the shutdown dialog box, and the operation to display this option is very simple. When the shutdown dialog box appears, you can press the "shift" key at the same time so that the "Sleep" option appears.

Ii. hardware optimization
1. memory performance optimization
Windows XP has several options to optimize memory performance, all of which are in the Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management
1) Disable paging Executive)
Under normal circumstances, XP will write fragments in the memory to the hard disk. We can prevent it from doing so and keep the data in the memory to improve system performance. Note that users with a lot of memory (more than MB) can use this setting. The name of this setting is called "disablepagingexecutive" just like its function ". Change its value from 0 to 1 to disable Memory Page scheduling.
2) Improve the system cache: Change the largesystemcache key value from 0 to 1, and Windows XP will allocate all the system memory except 4 MB to the file system cache, this means that the XP kernel can run in the memory, greatly improving the system speed. The remaining 4 MB of memory is used for disk caching. XP will allocate more memory when required under certain conditions. In general, this optimization will greatly improve the system performance, but may also reduce the performance of some applications. As mentioned above, largesystemcache must have a memory of more than MB. Otherwise, do not change it.
3) input/output performance: This optimization is only meaningful to server users-it can improve the system performance for large-capacity file transfer. By default, this key value does not exist in the registry. You must create a DWORD (dubyte value) key value and name it iopagelocklimit. Most people found the best performance between 8 to 16 M bytes when using this optimization. You can set the value to see which value can achieve the best performance. Remember that this value is calculated in bytes. Therefore, for example, if you want to allocate 12 Mb, It is 12*1024*1024, that is, 12582912. Like the above memory optimization, the value here can be changed only when your memory is larger than MB.
2. Enable DMA: Go to the device administrator and select ide ATA/atapi controllers to go to the advanced settings in primary/secondary ide channel, set all the transfer modes to use DMA (if available), the system will automatically enable DMA support (in the bios, you should also set it to support DMA first)

3, XP turn off the Drive SELF-boot (Autorun) function: open: My computer, under the Mobile storage device, right-click the CD-ROM drive, and then click Properties ", have you seen the "automatic playback" tab? Change it by yourself.

4. Set CPU: Windows XP cannot automatically detect the second-level slow storage capacity of the processor. We need to manually set it in the registry. First open the Registry (enter "Regedit" during running) and open it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management \, select "secondleveldatacache" and set it based on your processor. For example, if piII Coppermine/P4 Willamette is "256 ", athlon XP is "384", P4 Northwood is "512"

5. When installing the driver in XP, a window is often displayed, saying that the program has not been verified by Microsoft. We can sign the driver on the control panel-system-hardware-device administrator-driver, have you seen the options? Do you know what to do.

6. Prioritize IRQ interrupt requests
an IRQ interrupt number is set for each major component of the computer. Here, we need to optimize each IRQ request by modifying its priority. The main optimization object here is the system/CMOS Real-time clock, which improves performance through the motherboard. First, determine which component you want to achieve higher performance, and then find the IRQ interrupt number that the hardware is using. How to find it? Open the system properties in the control panel (you can also press the Windows + break hotkey combination on the keyboard to open it ). Select the hardware tab and click the Device Manager button. Right-click the component for IRQ check, select "properties", and click the "Resources" tab. Here we can see the IRQ interrupt number that the device is using (if there is no IRQ interrupt number, select another device ). Write down the interrupt number, Run registry editor regedit, and find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ prioritycontrol position in the registry. Here we will create a DWORD dubyte value named IRQ # priority (where "#" is the specific IRQ interrupt number), and set its value to 1. For example, the IRQ interrupt Number of the CMOS Real-time clock in my system is 8, and the key name I want to create is irq8priority. After restarting the computer, you will find that the performance of the optimized components has improved. I strongly recommend using this method to optimize the system CMOS Real-time clock, because it can improve the performance of the entire motherboard. Of course, you can also increase the priority of multiple IRQ interrupt numbers, but the effect is not so good and may cause system instability. To undo this optimization setting, you just need to delete the registry key value you just created.