Windows XP Ultimate Setup Windows XP Ultimate Setup (painstaking edition)
Statement: The above data are collected from the Internet from the collation, I have not one by one test, so in the change to be careful, do a backup, preparedness, hehe.
First, system optimization settings.
1. Delete Windows imposed attachments:
1) with Notepad to modify \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf, with the Find/Replace function, in the lookup box, enter, hide (an English comma followed by hide), the "Replace with" box to empty. and choose to replace all, so that all of the hide are removed,
2) Save and exit,
3 and then run Add-Remove Programs, and you'll see several more options in the Add/remove Windows components, so you can remove any attachments that are not used.
2, turn off the debugger Dr. Watson;
Dr.Watson is a self-contained system maintenance tool that displays when a program fails to load or crashes. Run the drwtsn32 and remove all but the "dump all thread context". Otherwise, if there is a program error, the hard disk will ring for a long time, and will occupy a lot of space. If you've ever been in a situation like this, look for the User.dmp file and delete it, which may save dozens of m of space. This is the scene of the error program, it is useless to us. Then open the registry, locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Nt\ Currentversion\aedebug subkey, double-click the name of the auto key below it, and "Value data" to 0, and finally press F5 Refresh to make the settings take effect, so that it completely cancels its run.
In addition, the Memory.dmp that appear in the blue screen can also be erased. You can turn off the dump when BSOD in My Computer/properties
3, turn off "System Restore": the right mouse click on the desktop "My Computer", select "Properties" to find "System Restore", if you are not the old crackling to install some software (are you more powerful than me??) , you can also remove, so you can save a lot of space.
4. Turn off "hibernate support": Because the sleep function takes up a lot of hard disk space, closing is better,
Console--> Power Options--> Hibernate (do not tick)
(The Blues Note: I think hibernation is still very useful.) ）
5. Turn off unnecessary services
Click "Start" → "settings" → "Control Panel". Double-click Administrative tools → services, and you will see a list of services when you open them, some of which are already started, and others that are not. Right-click the service that you want to configure, and then click Properties. On the General tab, select Automatic, manual or disabled, where automatic means that Windows XP starts the service automatically every time the system starts, and "manual" means that Windows XP does not start the service automatically, but instead starts the service manually when you need the service; Indicates that the service is not allowed to start. When you actually configure it, choosing either manual or disable will enable you to turn off the service and recommend manual functionality so that you can start any temporary services you want.
Some services are required by Windows XP and cannot be shut down, or they can cause a system crash. As for the services
function, we can double-click the service or hover the mouse over the service name to view it. The specific service explanation is obvious, everybody understands, can choose those who want those not. The modified method is: Select the Disabled Service, right-click, select Properties > Stop, and Set Startup type to manual or disabled.
6, speed up the XP switch machine
1) shorten the waiting time
Open Registry Editor, find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control,
Set the WaitToKillServiceTimeout to: 1000 or less. (Original Set Value: 20000)
Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop key and turn the right window
Waittokillapptimeout to 1000 (the original Set value: 20000) is to close the program only wait 1 seconds. Change the Hungapptimeout value to: 200 (original Set Value: 5000), which indicates that the program waits 0.5 seconds for errors.
2 allow the system to automatically close the program that stops responding.
Open the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop key and set the Autoendtasks value to 1. (Original Set Value: 0)
3) MsConfig. Most friends should be familiar with Msconfig, this is a system built in Windows Setup tool. Click the Start menu, select "Run", and then enter "msconfig" in the input box. We're going to do it. (Startup) tab, click on it, this tab shows all the programs that run when Windows starts. Here is not a program for Windows is life and death, so feel free to boldly to remove. After the partial tick is removed, Windows will start faster, while idle system resources will be more.
7, XP Prefetcher
Windows XP comes with a service called Prefetcher, which manages the initial program of Windows startup, where the specified program can be quickly loaded in later use. Prefetcher is turned on by default, but its performance can be further improved. Open Registry Editor and locate in the registry:
Hkey_local_machinesystemcurrentcontrolsetcontrolsession managermemory
Managementprefetchparameters, which has a key value named Enableprefetcher, in most cases its value is 3. The recommended set value is 5, on my machine, set to 5 when the working state is the best. You can try different values until you find the one that best suits your machine.
You can also disable Prefetcher, just set the value to 0 on it. However, unless it is for testing purposes, the average person is not stupid enough to set it to 0.
8, compressed folder
This is a pretty good optimization, Windows XP has built-in support for the. zip file, and we can browse the zip file as a folder. However, the system will use some resources to achieve this, so disabling this feature can improve system performance. The implementation method is very simple, just cancel Zipfldr.dll registration on it, click Start-Run, typing: regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll. And then you can enter.
9. Do not load DLL files
After using the browser, some DLL files are often cached in memory for a long time, and a large portion of the memory is used by the unused DLL files. To prevent this from happening, locate the following registry location:
Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexplorer
Next, create a double byte value named Alwaysunloaddll with a value of 1.
If you want to remove this optimization, just set the key value to 0 (you can simply delete the key). Note: This optimization will not take effect until Windows restarts.
10, completely turn off the Windows XP File Protection feature. Use this trick with caution
Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Nt\currentversion\ Winlogon from the registry, and modify the "sfcdisable" key to "ffffff9d". If you need to re-enable the feature, reset to "0" is OK.
11. Manually specify Process Order view
Press the Control+alt+delete three key at the same time and tap the Processes tab to see a dialog box like the one shown above, where you can see all the processes that are currently running. If you want to assign more process time to a program, such as 3D Studio Max, just right-click the process, move the mouse pointer down to set priority>, and then select which priority you want the program to be in. When I receive an email, I will set the 3DMAX to "standard", but when I leave the computer, I will elevate its priority to the highest "real time", so that the computer can focus more quickly on processing 3D actions
12. Turn off error return
Console----> System----> Advanced----> Lower right corner---> Error reporting----> off
13, speed up the window display speed: We can modify the registry to change the window from the taskbar pop-up, and minimize the return to the taskbar action, the following steps: Open Registry Editor, find Hkey_current_user\
Control Panel \desktop\windowmetrics The branch of the subkey, finds the MinAnimate key value in the right window, the type REG_SZ, by default the value of this health value is 1, which indicates the animation that opens the window display, and changes it to 0, Disables the display of the animation, then select the Logout command from the Start menu to activate the changes you just made.
14, remove the "Update" option: For most users, Windows XP Windows Update function does not seem to be very useful, we can remove it, the following steps: Open Registry Editor, find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\
Explorer subkey Branch, select the new command under the Edit menu, create a new value of type REG_DWORD, name nocommongroups, double-click the new Nocommongroups subkey, and enter the key value "1" in the Edit string text box. Then click the OK button and reboot the system.
15, modify the Windows XP login background pattern: In the face of a long constant monotonous login pattern, you may be tired of the day, we can use the registry to replace it with their favorite pattern, the steps are as follows: Open Registry Editor, find Hkey_users\. DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop Branch, double-click Wallpaper, type the path to the picture you selected, such as C:\Documents and Settings\my Documents\My Pictures\ MyPic.bmp, click "OK", then find Tilewallpaper, double-click it to enter the key value "1", restart the system to see the effect.
16. Change the background color of login: If you also want to change the backgrounds of the login, you can 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 subkey branch, the Edit String dialog box appears, and in the Value data text box, enter a key value for the color (for example, the RGB value of Black is 000, The RGB value of white is 255 255 255, the system default is 58 110 165, click "OK" button, reboot the system.
17. Set startup information or increase the warning message: If you want to display some personalized information that you have defined when you start Windows XP, you can follow these steps: Open Registry Editor, and find Hkey_local_machine_software\microsoft\ Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Branch, double-click the name of the legalnoticecaption value below it, open the Edit String window, and enter the title of the Information dialog box in the Value data text box, such as "Hello, Welcome to this machine, and then double-click LegalNoticeText to enter the warning message you want to display in the Edit String window that appears, such as "Please do not modify this level of settings, thank you!" , click OK to reboot to see the modified effect.
18. Keep the desktop settings unchanged every time you start: We can modify the registry to protect our desktop settings, no matter what kind of modification, as long as the desktop will return to the original after reboot. The steps are as follows: Open Registry Editor and find hkey_current_users\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\ polices
\explorer the branch of the subkey, locate the nosavesettings below it, type REG_SZ, change its key value to "0", or simply delete the key value entry and reboot the system to take effect.
19, any custom button color: Although Windows XP itself with a variety of window display scheme, but users want to define a certain part of the color, such as the button color from black to blue or red, then you need to modify the registry, the steps are as follows: Open Registry Editor, find Hkey_current _user\control panel\colors Branch, double-click the bottontext below it, change its key value to the value you want to color in the Open dialog box, such as red 255 0 0, click OK and reboot the system to see the effect. The text color on the button will turn red, and you can also change the width and height of the button and the background parameters.
20, modify the right mouse button menu
We know that in 98 can be through the registry to modify the right mouse button menu, in fact, in the WinXP can also. The method is as follows: Here, for example, add "Browse here with DOS window" on the right mouse menu.
1 Open Registry Editor, find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell, then select it, click the right mouse button, create a new primary key, named "DOS", and then select the new primary key, on the right double-click the default string value, in the pop-up dialog box, enter " Browse here with a DOS window, then select the new primary key, then create a primary key, named "command", select the "command" primary key, modify the default value of "cmd.exe/k" CD%l "".
2) Check: In any folder on the right mouse button, you can see in the pop-up menu "with a DOS window to browse here", choose to use the DOS window to browse here, press the left mouse button, see No, the DOS window bounced out!
21, modify the system ID number (ID number in the WinXP is very important)
We can see a bunch of numbers, such as 55661-005-0809362-22169 and so on, under the General tab of the System properties. This is the ID number. Genuine WinXP each set of ID number is not the same (should be guessed my purpose?) ), can we revise it? Of course (nonsense!) There is no need to write this article if it is not possible. Come with me and look at my skills!
1 The ID number is stored in the registration form. Mainly placed under these several key values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\registration String ProductID
Hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\user information string Product ID/* If not registered with Microsoft, it will not appear here * *
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion String ProductID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion String ProductID
The above 4 places is in the registry to hold the key value of the ID, modify the time to modify at the same time, and then look at the system properties of the general label, so as not to modify the failure, resulting in ID restore.
22, modify the version number:
There is an internal version number on Windows (the official version is: 2600.xpclient.010817-1148), this version number is also stored in the registry, the specific location is hkey_local_machine\software\ Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, which records with a string, modifies the version number of your XP by modifying the string named Buildlab.
23, to the hidden ^ ^ box to delete files
The default location for Windows xp^^ boxes is in the lower-right corner of the desktop, above the bottom system tray. If users open more than one window, it will block ^ ^ box, so that users can not drag files and folders to ^^ box. To this end, Microsoft has made a very user-friendly design, when the user dragged a batch of files and moved to the lower right corner of the desktop, the user can drag the mouse and move all files to a blank area of the bottom of the desktop taskbar, and stay there for a few seconds, when all open windows will be automatically minimized, allowing the user to drag the file to the ^ ^ box. In addition, no matter how many open windows are maximized, the user can perform the above actions to minimize the effects of all windows.
24, the music catalogue picture free to set
Windows XP offers many more advanced management features on previous Windows operating systems, including a picture book builder, which automatically places album cover pictures in the user's corresponding saved music folder (which is typically Microsoft's WMA format file). Although this feature is very convenient, there are some problems. For example, if some users have previously transcribed some music CDs into MP3 format and saved them on a hard disk, users can download the CD cover page from some music sites such as "www.cdnow.com" and "www.amguide.com". However, users can only add these cover pages to each music folder manually one by one. This will take a long time, and once the user has reinstalled the operating system, it has to repeat the complex operation.
How to solve this problem? It's not really complicated, when a user downloads a music album cover picture, save the picture file name as "Folder.jpg" and put it in the appropriate music folder so that Windows XP automatically defaults to the folder's thumbnail image, and if the user uses media Player For Windows XP (MPXP) player to play a music file, the system also automatically displays the album cover picture. After this operation, even if the user later reinstall the operating system is not a problem.
In addition, if a user is in need, you can save a smaller picture file named "Albumartsmall.jpg" when saving the "folder.jpg" file mentioned above, and the advantage is that if the user plays the music file using the MPXP player, But the player's window is less than X 200 pixels, the player can directly display this small picture, or the player needs to "folder.jpg" processing, resize it to display in the smaller window, which will naturally affect the speed of file calls have a certain impact.
25, easy to defragment the hard disk
When a computer is used for a period of time, the hard disk produces a lot of file fragmentation, and the user needs to periodically call the Disk Defragmenter cleanup. To do this, here is a way to make it easier for you to call the defragment program.
Users use Notepad to edit a registry import file named "Context_defrag.inf," and enter the following 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 "
When you finish editing, right-click the file and choose Install, which adds a text menu to the Windows XP operating system after you install it. Users need to defragment the hard drive, open "My Computer", with the right mouse click to select the hard drive you need to defragment, from the pop-up text menu, select the "Defrag" item, then the system will automatically call the built-in "Defrag.exe" program to defragment the hard drive.
If the user needs to remove the information that is installed to the system registry, edit it using the Regedit.exe Registry Editor to find the "hkey_classes_root\drive\shell\" directory entry and remove the "defrag" folder , and then close the Registry Editor.
26, clear the shared folder
Windows XP operating system A more unfriendly user interface is to display all the shared folders in the upper part of the My Computer window, and if the user has more shared folders set up, a lot of the shared folder information is listed whenever the My Computer window is opened. How do I delete this information display? Use Registry Editor and look for this primary key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ currentversion \ Explorer \ my Computer \ Namespa CE \ delegatefolders ", under the primary key has a name of
{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}, delete the secondary key to clear those shared folder information. The above changes will take effect without a reboot
27. Display Share Settings tab
Users in the Windows 2000 operating system are very handy when setting shared properties for a folder, and you can see the Shared Settings tab by simply right-clicking the folder and selecting Properties. When you set up folder sharing on Windows XP systems, you are more complex, and users cannot see the Shared Settings tab through the above actions. The specific modifications are as follows: Open the tools in My Computer, select folder Properties, bring up the View tab, and in the Advanced Settings section scroll to the bottom to cancel the selection before the "Use Simple File Sharing (recommended)". Also, if the "Mickey Mouse" item is also selected in the options bar, it is canceled. After this modification, the user can easily modify the folder properties like using Windows 20,001.
28. Call System Sound Scheme
Windows XP provides a better sound scheme than the previous Windows operating system, but the system does not invoke the scheme by default. In order to activate the program, we need to do the following: Open Control Panel, select the sound, voice, audio Devices item, find the "Modify Sound scheme" task bar, select "Windows Default" in the Open dialog box, and the system prompts the user to save the previous sound scheme settings. Users can select "No" and click "Confirm" to complete the modification
29, speed up the Start menu display
The Windows XP system default Start menu displays slowly, but the user can edit the registration key value to speed up the display by opening Registry Editor, looking for "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ Menushowdelay "PRIMARY key, the system defaults to 400, the user can according to their preferences appropriate to reduce the key value, the minimum can be set to" 0 ". If this method is not valid, select Show properties from Control Panel, select advanced in Show Effects, and cancel the selection of the Show menu shadow item so that the Start menu display can be speeded up.
30, let the welcome window more Clear
The display of the Windows XP system has been greatly improved, largely based on its use of a clear technology called "ClearType", which specifically allows users with laptops and flat-panel displays to experience different effects from previous systems when running Windows XP operating systems. However, because the clarity effect is not invoked until Windows is started, the Welcome window during system startup still fails to achieve this effect. To make the welcome window clearer, users can modify it using Registry Editor to find these 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 effect.
31. Disable automatic call to Windows Messenger at startup
To promote Microsoft's Instant chat program "Windows Messenger", the default setting for the Windows XP operating system is to call the program when the system starts. But if you are not accustomed to using the program, you can do so by deleting the "hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\ currentversion\run\msmsgs" key.
32. Display "Hibernate" In the Shutdown dialog box
The default setting for Windows XP is the option to leave the system dormant in the Shutdown dialog box, and the option to display it is very simple, and when the Shutdown dialog box appears, the user can press the SHIFT key at the same time, and the Hibernate option appears.
Second, hardware optimization
1, Memory performance optimization
There are several options in Windows XP that can optimize memory performance, all of which are located under the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
1) Disable memory page scheduling (paging Executive)
Under normal circumstances, XP will write fragments in memory to the hard disk, we can prevent it to do so, so that the data remain in memory, thereby improving system performance. Note that users with a lot of memory (more than 256M) are better off using this setting. The name of this setting is the same as its function, called "disablepagingexecutive". Changing its value from 0 to 1 prevents the memory page from being scheduled.
2 Upgrade the system cache: the LargeSystemCache key value from 0 to 1,windows XP will be in addition to 4M of system memory allocated to the file system cache, which means that the XP kernel can run in memory, greatly improve the system speed. The remaining 4 m memory is used for disk caching, and XP will be allocated more when needed under certain conditions. In general, this optimization can lead to a considerable improvement in system performance, but it is also possible that some application performance will be reduced. As mentioned above, there must be more than 256M of memory to activate the LargeSystemCache, otherwise do not move it.
3 Input/Output performance: This optimization is only true for server users-it can enhance the performance of the system for bulk file transfer. By default, this key value does not exist in the registry, you must build a DWORD (double-byte value) key value, named Iopagelocklimit. Most people use this optimization to find the best performance between 8 and 16M bytes, what value to set, and try which value can get the best performance. Remember that this value is measured in bytes, so, for example, if you're assigning 12M, it's 12 * 1024 * 1024, which is 12582912. As with the previous memory optimizations, you can change the value only when your memory is larger than 256M.
2. Turn on DMA: Select IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to the appliance administrator to the Primary/secondary IDE channel, and set all forwarding modes to use DMA (if available), The system will automatically turn on DMA support (it should also be set to support DMA in the BIOS)
3, XP turn off the optical drive from the start (Autorun) function: Open: My Computer, under Mobile storage devices, right-click the CD-ROM drive, and then click Properties, see the AutoPlay tab? Change it yourself.
4, set Cpu:windows XP can not automatically detect the processor's level two cache capacity, we need to manually set up in the registry, first open the registry (run Enter "Regedit"), open:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory management\, choose "SecondLevelDataCache", Based on your own processor settings, such as PIII COPPERMINE/P4 Willamette is "256", Athlon XP is "384", P4 Northwood is "512"
5, XP installation driver, often appear a window, said this program has not been verified by Microsoft, we can in the Control Panel-system-Hardware-device administrator-driver signature, see the options, know how to do it.
6, for IRQ interrupt request row Priority
Each major part of the computer has an IRQ interrupt number set. This is done by modifying the precedence of each IRQ request to achieve the optimization goal. 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 do I find it? Open the System Properties in the Control Panel (or press the Windows+break hotkey combination on the keyboard to open it). Select the Hardware tab, and then tap the Device Manager button. Right-click the component that you want to check for IRQ numbers, select Properties, and then tap the Resources tab. Here you 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, and then run Registry Editor regedit to find the hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\ Prioritycontrol location in the registry. We're going to create a DWORD value called Irq#priority (where "#" is a specific IRQ interrupt number), and then set its value to 1. For example, my system CMOS real time clock IRQ interrupt number is 8, I want to establish the key name is irq8priority. After you restart your computer, you will find that the components you have just optimized have improved performance. This method is strongly recommended to optimize the system CMOS real-time clock, because it can improve the performance of the whole board. Of course, you can also increase the number of IRQ interrupt priority, but the effect is not so good, and may cause system instability. To undo this optimization setting, just delete the registry key that you just created and click OK.
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