1. System optimization settings.
1. Delete the attachments imposed by Windows:
1) Use Notepad Notepad to modify, use Ding? to replace the function, enter hide (an English comma followed by hide), and set the "Replace with" box to empty. And choose all to replace, so that all the hides will be removed.
2) Save and exit,
3) Run "Add-Remove Programs" and you will see that there are several additional options in "Add/Remove Windows Components"; this way you can delete many useless attachments.
2. Turn off the debugger Dr. Watson;
It is a built-in system maintenance tool, which will be displayed when the program fails to load or crashes. Run drwtsn32 and remove everything except "dump all thread context". Otherwise, once a program error occurs, the hard disk will ring for a long time and take up a lot of space. If you have encountered this situation before, please look up the file and delete it, which may save dozens of M of space. This is the scene of the error program and it is useless to us. Then open the registry, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionAeDebug subkey branch, double-click the Auto key value name below it, change its "numerical data" to 0, and finally press F5 to refresh to make the settings take effect, so that it will completely cancel its operation.
In addition, those that appear when the blue screen can also be deleted. Can turn off the DUMP when BSOD in my computer/properties
3. Turn off "System Restore":Right-software click "My Computer" on the desktop, select "Properties", and find "System Restore". If you are not installing some software (are you better than me??), you can also remove it, which can save a lot of space.
4. Turn off "Hibern Support":Because the sleep function takes up a lot of hard drive space, it is better to turn it off.
Console--??Power options-??Hibern (do not check)
(Blues Note: I think dormant is still very useful.)
5. Turn off unnecessary services
Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click "Administrative Tools" → "Services", and after opening, you will see a list of services. Some services have been started, while others have not. Right-click the service you want to configure and click Properties. On the General tab, select Automatic, Manual, or Disable, where Automatic means that Windows XP will automatically start the service every time the system starts; Manual means that Windows XP will not automatically start the service, but will start the service manually when you need it; and Disable means that the service is not allowed to start the service. During actual configuration, selecting "Manual" or "Disable" can achieve the purpose of turning off the service. It is recommended to use the manual function so that you can start some temporarily needed services at any time.
Some services are required for Windows XP and cannot be shut down, otherwise the system will crash. As for the functions of each service, we can view it by double-clicking the service or hovering the mouse over the service name. The specific service instructions are simple and you can understand them. You can choose which ones you want. The modified method is: select the disabled service, right-click, select `Properties`??`Stop`, and set the `Start type` to `Manual` or `Disabled`.
6. Speed up the switch of XP
1) Shorten the waiting time
Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl.
Set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to: 1000 or less. (Original setting value: 20000)
Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and turn the window to the right
WaitToKillAppTimeout is changed to 1000, (original setting value: 20000) that is, wait only 1 second when closing the program. Change the HungAppTimeout value to: 200 (original setting value: 5000), which means that you wait 0.5 seconds when a program error occurs.
2) Let the system automatically close the program that stops responding.
Open the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and set the AutoEndTasks value to 1. (Original setting value: 0)
3) MsConfig. Most friends should be familiar with MsConfig, which is a built-in Windows setup tool for the system. Click the Start menu, select "Run", and then type "msconfig" in the entry box to enter. What we want to do is the (Startup) tab, click it, which displays all the programs that run when Windows starts up. There is no program here that is life-and-death for Windows, so don't worry and boldly remove the unnecessary ones. After removing the part, Windows will start faster and there will be more idle system resources.
7、XP Prefetcher
Windows XP comes with a service called Prefetcher, which manages the program initialization when Windows starts, and the specified programs can be loaded quickly during future use. Prefetcher is turned on by default, but its performance can be further improved. Open the Registry Editor and find it in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory
ManagementPrefetchParameters, where there is a key value called EnablePrefetcher, which in most cases has a value of 3. The recommended setting value is 5. On my machine, the working condition is best when set to 5. You can try different values at will until you find the most suitable value for your machine.
You can also disable Prefetcher, just set the value to 0. However, unless it is for testing purposes, most people are not stupid enough to set it to 0.
8. Compress folders
This is a pretty good optimization. Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, and we can browse zip files as folders. However, the system needs to use some resources to implement this function, so disabling this function can improve system performance. The implementation method is very simple. Just cancel the registration. Click Start?? Run and type in: regsvr32 /u. Then press Enter.
9. DLL file not loaded
After the browser uses it, some DLL files will often be cached in memory for a long time, and a considerable amount of memory will be used by unused DLL files. To prevent this from happening, find the following location of the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
Next create a double-byte value called 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 after Windows restarts.
10. Completely turn off Windows XP file protection function. Use this trick with caution
Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon from the registry, modify the "SFCDisable" key value to "FFFFF9D". If you need to re-enable this function, reset it to "0".
11. Manually specify the process order to view
Press Control+Alt+Delete at the same time, and then click the "Processes" tab. You can see a dialog box as shown in the figure above, where you can see all the processes currently running. If you want to allocate more process time to a program, such as 3D Studio Max, just right-click the process, then move the mouse pointer down to "Set Priority??", and select which priority you want the program to be in. When I receive email, I set 3DMAX to "standard", but when I leave the computer, I will quickly upgrade its priority to the highest "real-time", so that the computer can focus more on handling 3D actions faster and faster
12. Turn off the error report
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13. Speed up the window display speed: We can change the window pop-up from the taskbar by modifying the registry, and minimize the action of regressing the taskbar. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor and find HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Control PanelDesktopWindowMetrics subkey branch, find the MinAniMate key value in the window on the right, its type is REG_SZ. By default, the value of this skill value is 1, indicating that the animation displayed in the window is opened. If it is changed to 0, the display of the animation is prohibited. Next, select the "Login" command from the Start menu to activate the modifications just made.
14. Remove the "Update" option: For most users, the Windows Update function of Windows XP seems to be of little use. We can remove it. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor and find it.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
Explorer subkey branch, select the "New" command under the "Edit" menu, create a new value of type REG_DWORD, name is NoCommonGroups, double-click the newly created NoCommonGroups subkey, enter the key value "1" in the "Edit String" text box, then click the "OK" button and restart the system.
15. Modify the login background pattern of Windows XP: Faced with the long-lasting monotonous login pattern, you may become tired of it over time. We can change it to your favorite pattern through the registry. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor, find the HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop subkey branch, double-click the wallpaper, type the path of the picture you selected, such as: c:Documents and SettingsMy DocumentsMy, click "OK", and then find Tilewallpaper, double-click it to enter the key value "1", and restart the system to see the effect.
16. Modify the background color when logging in: If you also want to modify the background color when logging in, you can follow the following steps: Open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelColors subkey branch, double-click the Background key value name under the subkey branch, and the "Edit string" dialog box appears. Enter the key value representing the color in the "Numerical Data" text box (for example, the RGB value of black is 000, the RGB value of white is 255 255 255, and the default value of system is 58 110 165), click the "OK" button and restart the system.
17. Set up startup information or add warning information:If you want to display some personalized information you define when starting Windows XP, you can follow the following steps: Open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon subkey branch, double-click the LegalNoticeCaption skill name below it, open the "Edit String" window, enter the title of the information dialog box in the "Numerical Data" text box, such as "Hello, welcome to use this machine", then double-click the LegalNoticeText, enter the warning information you want to display in the "Edit String" window that appears later, such as "Please don't modify the settings at this level at will, thank you!", click the "OK" button, and restart to see the modified effect.
18. Keep desktop settings unchanged every time you start: We can protect our desktop settings by modifying the registry. No matter what modifications are made, the desktop will be restored to its original state as soon as it is restarted. The steps are as follows: Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY_CURRENT_USERSSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion Polices
The Explorer subkey branch, find NoSaveSettings below it, its type is REG_SZ, change its key value to "0", or directly delete the key value item, restart the system to make the settings take effect.
19. Customize button colors: Although Windows XP itself has multiple window display schemes, users want to define the color of a certain part, such as changing the color of the button from black to blue or red. At this time, you need to modify the registry. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelColors subkey branch, double-click the Bottontext below it, change its key value to the value of the color you want in the dialog box, such as red 255 0 0, click the "OK" button, and restart the system to see the effect. At this time, the text color on the button will turn red, and you can also modify the width, height and background parameters of the button.
20. Modify the right mouse button menu
We know that under 98, you can modify the right mouse button menu through the registry, but in fact, it is also possible in WinXP. The method is as follows: Here is an example of adding "Browse here with DOS window" on the right mouse button menu.
1) Open the registry editor, find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell, then select it, right-click, create a new primary key, name it "DOS", then select the newly created primary key, double-click the default string value on the right, enter "Browse here with the DOS window" in the pop-up dialog box, then select the newly created primary key, then create a primary key, name it "command", select the "command" primary key, and modify the default value to "/k `cd %L`".
2) Check: Press the right mouse button on any folder, and you can see "Browse here with DOS window" in the pop-up menu. Choose to browse here with DOS window, press the left mouse button, see if it is not, the DOS window pops up!
21. Modify the system ID number (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, etc. This is the ID number. The ID numbers of each set of genuine WinXP are different (you should be able to guess my purpose, right?), so can we modify it? Of course (nonsense! If not, there is no need to write this article). Come with me and see my skills!
1) The ID number is stored in the registry. Mainly placed under these key values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerRegistration String ProductId
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftUser information string product identification /*If you do not use it to register with Microsoft, it will not appear here*/
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion string ProductId
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion string ProductId
The above 4 places store the key values of the ID in the registry. When modifying, you must modify them at the same time. After modifying, look at the regular tags in the system properties to avoid the modification failure and causing the ID to be restored.
22. Modify the version number:
There is a built-in version number in Windows (the official version is: .010817-1148). This version number is also stored in the registry. The specific location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersion. It is recorded with a string. Modifying the string named BuildLab can modify the version number of your XP.
23. Delete files from hidden trash bins
The default location of the Windows XP trash is in the lower right corner of the desktop, above the bottom system tray. If the user opens multiple windows, the trash can be blocked, making it impossible for the user to drag files and folders to the trash can. To this end, Microsoft has made a very user-friendly design. When a user drags a batch of files and moves them to the lower right corner of the desktop, the user can drag the mouse and move all files to the blank area of the task bar at the bottom of the desktop, and stay there for a few seconds. All open windows will be automatically minimized, allowing the user to drag files to the trash. In addition, regardless of whether the multiple windows opened are maximized, the user performs the above operations to minimize all windows.
24. Set up the music catalog pictures at will
Windows XP provides many more advanced management functions on previous Windows operating systems, including the picture album generator, which can automatically place the album cover pictures into the corresponding music folders saved by the user (these music files are generally Microsoft's WMA format files). Although this feature is very convenient, there are some problems. For example, if some users have previously transcribed some music CD discs into MP3 format and saved on their hard disk, although users can download the CD cover pages from some music websites such as `` and ``, users can only manually add these cover pages to each music folder one by one. This will take a long time, and once the user reinstalls the operating system, he will have to repeat the complicated operations mentioned above.
How to solve this problem? In fact, it is not complicated. When a user downloads a music record cover picture, please save the image file name as `` and put it in the corresponding music folder. In this way, the Windows XP system will automatically default to the thumbnail picture of the folder. Moreover, if the user uses the Media Player for Windows XP (MPXP) player to play music files, the system will automatically display the album cover picture. After this operation, there will be no problem even if the user reinstalls the operating system in the future.
In addition, if the user has a need, he can save a smaller picture file named "` when saving the above mentioned `` file. The advantage of this is that if the user uses an MPXP player to play music files, but the player's window is less than 200 X 200 pixels, the player can directly display the smaller picture. Otherwise, the player needs to process "` and adjust its size to display it in a smaller window, which will naturally have a certain impact on the speed of file calls.
25. Conveniently defragment hard disk
After the computer is used for a period of time, a large number of file fragments will be generated by the hard disk, and users need to call the disk defragmenter regularly to clean it up. To this end, here is a method that allows you to call hard disk fragmentation programs more conveniently.
Users use Notepad to edit a registry import file named `context_defrag.inf` and enter the following content into the file:
; context_defrag.INF
; Adds Defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP
[version]
signature=`$CHICAGO$`
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=AddMe
[AddMe]
HKCR,`DriveShellDefragcommand`,,,` %1`
After editing, right-click the file with the mouse and select "Install". After installation, a text menu is added to the Windows XP operating system. When a user needs to organize his hard drive, open "My Computer", right-click with the mouse to select the hard drive letter that needs to be sorted, and select the `defrag` item from the pop-up text menu. At this time, the system will automatically call the built-in `` program to organize the hard drive.
If the user needs to delete the above-mentioned information installed in the system registry, he can use the registry editor to edit and modify it. The specific operation is to find the `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshell` directory entry, delete the `defrag` folder, and finally close the registry editor.
26. Clear the shared folder
A relatively unfriendly user interface for Windows XP operating system is to display all shared folders in the upper half of the "My Computer" window. If the user sets a lot of shared folders, whenever the "My Computer" window is opened, there will be a lot of shared folder information listed. How to delete the display of this information? Use the Registry Editor and look for this primary key `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My Computer NameSpace DelegateFolders`, under which there is a secondary key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. Deleting the secondary key will clear the shared folder information. The above modifications can take effect without restarting
27. Display the sharing settings tag
In Windows 2000 operating system, users are very easy to set the shared properties of folders. Just right-click the folder and select properties to see the Share Settings tab. However, it is more complicated when setting folder sharing on Windows XP system, and users cannot see the sharing settings tag through the above operations. The specific modification method is as follows: Open "Tools" in "My Computer", select "Folder Properties", call up the "View" tab, scroll to the bottom in the "Advanced Settings" section to cancel the selection in the "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)". In addition, if there is a `Mickey Mouse` item in the options bar, it will also be selected to cancel. In this way, after modification, users can easily modify folder properties like using Windows 2000.
28. Call the system sound scheme
Compared with previous Windows operating systems, Windows XP provides a better sound solution, but the system does not call this solution by default. In order to activate this scheme, we need to perform the following operations: Open the "Control Panel", select the "Sound, Voice, Audio Device" item, find the taskbar of "Modify Sound Scheme" from it, and select "Windows Default" in the dialog box that opens. At this time, the system will prompt the user whether to save the previous sound scheme settings. The user can select "No" and click "Confirm" to complete the modification
29. Speed up the display of the start menu
The default start menu of Windows XP system is slow to display, but users can speed up the display by editing the registration key value. The specific method is: open the registry editor and look for the `HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay` primary key. The system default value is 400. Users can adjust the key value appropriately according to their preferences, and the minimum can be set to "0". If this method is invalid, select "Show Properties" from the Control Panel, select "Advanced" in "Show Effects", and cancel the selection of the `show menu shadow` item, so that the display of the start menu can be accelerated.
30. Make the welcome window clearer
The display effect of Windows XP system has been greatly improved, mainly because it uses a clear technology called `ClearType`, which specifically allows users who use laptops and LCD monitors to feel different effects from previous systems when running Windows XP operating system. However, since this clear effect can only be called after Windows starts, the welcome window during system startup still cannot achieve this effect. In order to make the welcome window clearer, users can use the registry editor to modify it and 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 the clear display effect can be achieved.
31. Automatic call to `Windows Messenger is prohibited during startup.
In order to promote the live chat program `Windows Messenger` launched by Microsoft, the default setting for the Windows XP operating system is to call the program when the system starts. But if you are not used to using this program, you can do this by removing the `HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunMSMSGS` key.
32. Display "Hibernate" in the shutdown dialog box
The default setting of Windows XP is that there is no option to let the system enter a hibernation state in the shutdown dialog box, and the operation to display this option is very simple. When the shutdown dialog box appears, the user can press the `SHIFT` key at the same time, so the "Sleep" option appears.
1. Delete the attachments imposed by Windows:
1) Use Notepad Notepad to modify, use Ding? to replace the function, enter hide (an English comma followed by hide), and set the "Replace with" box to empty. And choose all to replace, so that all the hides will be removed.
2) Save and exit,
3) Run "Add-Remove Programs" and you will see that there are several additional options in "Add/Remove Windows Components"; this way you can delete many useless attachments.
2. Turn off the debugger Dr. Watson;
It is a built-in system maintenance tool, which will be displayed when the program fails to load or crashes. Run drwtsn32 and remove everything except "dump all thread context". Otherwise, once a program error occurs, the hard disk will ring for a long time and take up a lot of space. If you have encountered this situation before, please look up the file and delete it, which may save dozens of M of space. This is the scene of the error program and it is useless to us. Then open the registry, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionAeDebug subkey branch, double-click the Auto key value name below it, change its "numerical data" to 0, and finally press F5 to refresh to make the settings take effect, so that it will completely cancel its operation.
In addition, those that appear when the blue screen can also be deleted. Can turn off the DUMP when BSOD in my computer/properties
3. Turn off "System Restore":Right-software click "My Computer" on the desktop, select "Properties", and find "System Restore". If you are not installing some software (are you better than me??), you can also remove it, which can save a lot of space.
4. Turn off "Hibern Support":Because the sleep function takes up a lot of hard drive space, it is better to turn it off.
Console--??Power options-??Hibern (do not check)
(Blues Note: I think dormant is still very useful.)
5. Turn off unnecessary services
Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click "Administrative Tools" → "Services", and after opening, you will see a list of services. Some services have been started, while others have not. Right-click the service you want to configure and click Properties. On the General tab, select Automatic, Manual, or Disable, where Automatic means that Windows XP will automatically start the service every time the system starts; Manual means that Windows XP will not automatically start the service, but will start the service manually when you need it; and Disable means that the service is not allowed to start the service. During actual configuration, selecting "Manual" or "Disable" can achieve the purpose of turning off the service. It is recommended to use the manual function so that you can start some temporarily needed services at any time.
Some services are required for Windows XP and cannot be shut down, otherwise the system will crash. As for the functions of each service, we can view it by double-clicking the service or hovering the mouse over the service name. The specific service instructions are simple and you can understand them. You can choose which ones you want. The modified method is: select the disabled service, right-click, select `Properties`??`Stop`, and set the `Start type` to `Manual` or `Disabled`.
6. Speed up the switch of XP
1) Shorten the waiting time
Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl.
Set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to: 1000 or less. (Original setting value: 20000)
Find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and turn the window to the right
WaitToKillAppTimeout is changed to 1000, (original setting value: 20000) that is, wait only 1 second when closing the program. Change the HungAppTimeout value to: 200 (original setting value: 5000), which means that you wait 0.5 seconds when a program error occurs.
2) Let the system automatically close the program that stops responding.
Open the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop key and set the AutoEndTasks value to 1. (Original setting value: 0)
3) MsConfig. Most friends should be familiar with MsConfig, which is a built-in Windows setup tool for the system. Click the Start menu, select "Run", and then type "msconfig" in the entry box to enter. What we want to do is the (Startup) tab, click it, which displays all the programs that run when Windows starts up. There is no program here that is life-and-death for Windows, so don't worry and boldly remove the unnecessary ones. After removing the part, Windows will start faster and there will be more idle system resources.
7、XP Prefetcher
Windows XP comes with a service called Prefetcher, which manages the program initialization when Windows starts, and the specified programs can be loaded quickly during future use. Prefetcher is turned on by default, but its performance can be further improved. Open the Registry Editor and find it in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory
ManagementPrefetchParameters, where there is a key value called EnablePrefetcher, which in most cases has a value of 3. The recommended setting value is 5. On my machine, the working condition is best when set to 5. You can try different values at will until you find the most suitable value for your machine.
You can also disable Prefetcher, just set the value to 0. However, unless it is for testing purposes, most people are not stupid enough to set it to 0.
8. Compress folders
This is a pretty good optimization. Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, and we can browse zip files as folders. However, the system needs to use some resources to implement this function, so disabling this function can improve system performance. The implementation method is very simple. Just cancel the registration. Click Start?? Run and type in: regsvr32 /u. Then press Enter.
9. DLL file not loaded
After the browser uses it, some DLL files will often be cached in memory for a long time, and a considerable amount of memory will be used by unused DLL files. To prevent this from happening, find the following location of the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
Next create a double-byte value called 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 after Windows restarts.
10. Completely turn off Windows XP file protection function. Use this trick with caution
Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon from the registry, modify the "SFCDisable" key value to "FFFFF9D". If you need to re-enable this function, reset it to "0".
11. Manually specify the process order to view
Press Control+Alt+Delete at the same time, and then click the "Processes" tab. You can see a dialog box as shown in the figure above, where you can see all the processes currently running. If you want to allocate more process time to a program, such as 3D Studio Max, just right-click the process, then move the mouse pointer down to "Set Priority??", and select which priority you want the program to be in. When I receive email, I set 3DMAX to "standard", but when I leave the computer, I will quickly upgrade its priority to the highest "real-time", so that the computer can focus more on handling 3D actions faster and faster
12. Turn off the error report
Console------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
13. Speed up the window display speed: We can change the window pop-up from the taskbar by modifying the registry, and minimize the action of regressing the taskbar. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor and find HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Control PanelDesktopWindowMetrics subkey branch, find the MinAniMate key value in the window on the right, its type is REG_SZ. By default, the value of this skill value is 1, indicating that the animation displayed in the window is opened. If it is changed to 0, the display of the animation is prohibited. Next, select the "Login" command from the Start menu to activate the modifications just made.
14. Remove the "Update" option: For most users, the Windows Update function of Windows XP seems to be of little use. We can remove it. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor and find it.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPolicies
Explorer subkey branch, select the "New" command under the "Edit" menu, create a new value of type REG_DWORD, name is NoCommonGroups, double-click the newly created NoCommonGroups subkey, enter the key value "1" in the "Edit String" text box, then click the "OK" button and restart the system.
15. Modify the login background pattern of Windows XP: Faced with the long-lasting monotonous login pattern, you may become tired of it over time. We can change it to your favorite pattern through the registry. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor, find the HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop subkey branch, double-click the wallpaper, type the path of the picture you selected, such as: c:Documents and SettingsMy DocumentsMy, click "OK", and then find Tilewallpaper, double-click it to enter the key value "1", and restart the system to see the effect.
16. Modify the background color when logging in: If you also want to modify the background color when logging in, you can follow the following steps: Open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelColors subkey branch, double-click the Background key value name under the subkey branch, and the "Edit string" dialog box appears. Enter the key value representing the color in the "Numerical Data" text box (for example, the RGB value of black is 000, the RGB value of white is 255 255 255, and the default value of system is 58 110 165), click the "OK" button and restart the system.
17. Set up startup information or add warning information:If you want to display some personalized information you define when starting Windows XP, you can follow the following steps: Open the Registry Editor, find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon subkey branch, double-click the LegalNoticeCaption skill name below it, open the "Edit String" window, enter the title of the information dialog box in the "Numerical Data" text box, such as "Hello, welcome to use this machine", then double-click the LegalNoticeText, enter the warning information you want to display in the "Edit String" window that appears later, such as "Please don't modify the settings at this level at will, thank you!", click the "OK" button, and restart to see the modified effect.
18. Keep desktop settings unchanged every time you start: We can protect our desktop settings by modifying the registry. No matter what modifications are made, the desktop will be restored to its original state as soon as it is restarted. The steps are as follows: Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY_CURRENT_USERSSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion Polices
The Explorer subkey branch, find NoSaveSettings below it, its type is REG_SZ, change its key value to "0", or directly delete the key value item, restart the system to make the settings take effect.
19. Customize button colors: Although Windows XP itself has multiple window display schemes, users want to define the color of a certain part, such as changing the color of the button from black to blue or red. At this time, you need to modify the registry. The steps are as follows: Open the registry editor, find the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelColors subkey branch, double-click the Bottontext below it, change its key value to the value of the color you want in the dialog box, such as red 255 0 0, click the "OK" button, and restart the system to see the effect. At this time, the text color on the button will turn red, and you can also modify the width, height and background parameters of the button.
20. Modify the right mouse button menu
We know that under 98, you can modify the right mouse button menu through the registry, but in fact, it is also possible in WinXP. The method is as follows: Here is an example of adding "Browse here with DOS window" on the right mouse button menu.
1) Open the registry editor, find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell, then select it, right-click, create a new primary key, name it "DOS", then select the newly created primary key, double-click the default string value on the right, enter "Browse here with the DOS window" in the pop-up dialog box, then select the newly created primary key, then create a primary key, name it "command", select the "command" primary key, and modify the default value to "/k `cd %L`".
2) Check: Press the right mouse button on any folder, and you can see "Browse here with DOS window" in the pop-up menu. Choose to browse here with DOS window, press the left mouse button, see if it is not, the DOS window pops up!
21. Modify the system ID number (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, etc. This is the ID number. The ID numbers of each set of genuine WinXP are different (you should be able to guess my purpose, right?), so can we modify it? Of course (nonsense! If not, there is no need to write this article). Come with me and see my skills!
1) The ID number is stored in the registry. Mainly placed under these key values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerRegistration String ProductId
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftUser information string product identification /*If you do not use it to register with Microsoft, it will not appear here*/
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion string ProductId
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion string ProductId
The above 4 places store the key values of the ID in the registry. When modifying, you must modify them at the same time. After modifying, look at the regular tags in the system properties to avoid the modification failure and causing the ID to be restored.
22. Modify the version number:
There is a built-in version number in Windows (the official version is: .010817-1148). This version number is also stored in the registry. The specific location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows NTCurrentVersion. It is recorded with a string. Modifying the string named BuildLab can modify the version number of your XP.
23. Delete files from hidden trash bins
The default location of the Windows XP trash is in the lower right corner of the desktop, above the bottom system tray. If the user opens multiple windows, the trash can be blocked, making it impossible for the user to drag files and folders to the trash can. To this end, Microsoft has made a very user-friendly design. When a user drags a batch of files and moves them to the lower right corner of the desktop, the user can drag the mouse and move all files to the blank area of the task bar at the bottom of the desktop, and stay there for a few seconds. All open windows will be automatically minimized, allowing the user to drag files to the trash. In addition, regardless of whether the multiple windows opened are maximized, the user performs the above operations to minimize all windows.
24. Set up the music catalog pictures at will
Windows XP provides many more advanced management functions on previous Windows operating systems, including the picture album generator, which can automatically place the album cover pictures into the corresponding music folders saved by the user (these music files are generally Microsoft's WMA format files). Although this feature is very convenient, there are some problems. For example, if some users have previously transcribed some music CD discs into MP3 format and saved on their hard disk, although users can download the CD cover pages from some music websites such as `` and ``, users can only manually add these cover pages to each music folder one by one. This will take a long time, and once the user reinstalls the operating system, he will have to repeat the complicated operations mentioned above.
How to solve this problem? In fact, it is not complicated. When a user downloads a music record cover picture, please save the image file name as `` and put it in the corresponding music folder. In this way, the Windows XP system will automatically default to the thumbnail picture of the folder. Moreover, if the user uses the Media Player for Windows XP (MPXP) player to play music files, the system will automatically display the album cover picture. After this operation, there will be no problem even if the user reinstalls the operating system in the future.
In addition, if the user has a need, he can save a smaller picture file named "` when saving the above mentioned `` file. The advantage of this is that if the user uses an MPXP player to play music files, but the player's window is less than 200 X 200 pixels, the player can directly display the smaller picture. Otherwise, the player needs to process "` and adjust its size to display it in a smaller window, which will naturally have a certain impact on the speed of file calls.
25. Conveniently defragment hard disk
After the computer is used for a period of time, a large number of file fragments will be generated by the hard disk, and users need to call the disk defragmenter regularly to clean it up. To this end, here is a method that allows you to call hard disk fragmentation programs more conveniently.
Users use Notepad to edit a registry import file named `context_defrag.inf` and enter the following content into the file:
; context_defrag.INF
; Adds Defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP
[version]
signature=`$CHICAGO$`
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=AddMe
[AddMe]
HKCR,`DriveShellDefragcommand`,,,` %1`
After editing, right-click the file with the mouse and select "Install". After installation, a text menu is added to the Windows XP operating system. When a user needs to organize his hard drive, open "My Computer", right-click with the mouse to select the hard drive letter that needs to be sorted, and select the `defrag` item from the pop-up text menu. At this time, the system will automatically call the built-in `` program to organize the hard drive.
If the user needs to delete the above-mentioned information installed in the system registry, he can use the registry editor to edit and modify it. The specific operation is to find the `HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshell` directory entry, delete the `defrag` folder, and finally close the registry editor.
26. Clear the shared folder
A relatively unfriendly user interface for Windows XP operating system is to display all shared folders in the upper half of the "My Computer" window. If the user sets a lot of shared folders, whenever the "My Computer" window is opened, there will be a lot of shared folder information listed. How to delete the display of this information? Use the Registry Editor and look for this primary key `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My Computer NameSpace DelegateFolders`, under which there is a secondary key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. Deleting the secondary key will clear the shared folder information. The above modifications can take effect without restarting
27. Display the sharing settings tag
In Windows 2000 operating system, users are very easy to set the shared properties of folders. Just right-click the folder and select properties to see the Share Settings tab. However, it is more complicated when setting folder sharing on Windows XP system, and users cannot see the sharing settings tag through the above operations. The specific modification method is as follows: Open "Tools" in "My Computer", select "Folder Properties", call up the "View" tab, scroll to the bottom in the "Advanced Settings" section to cancel the selection in the "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)". In addition, if there is a `Mickey Mouse` item in the options bar, it will also be selected to cancel. In this way, after modification, users can easily modify folder properties like using Windows 2000.
28. Call the system sound scheme
Compared with previous Windows operating systems, Windows XP provides a better sound solution, but the system does not call this solution by default. In order to activate this scheme, we need to perform the following operations: Open the "Control Panel", select the "Sound, Voice, Audio Device" item, find the taskbar of "Modify Sound Scheme" from it, and select "Windows Default" in the dialog box that opens. At this time, the system will prompt the user whether to save the previous sound scheme settings. The user can select "No" and click "Confirm" to complete the modification
29. Speed up the display of the start menu
The default start menu of Windows XP system is slow to display, but users can speed up the display by editing the registration key value. The specific method is: open the registry editor and look for the `HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay` primary key. The system default value is 400. Users can adjust the key value appropriately according to their preferences, and the minimum can be set to "0". If this method is invalid, select "Show Properties" from the Control Panel, select "Advanced" in "Show Effects", and cancel the selection of the `show menu shadow` item, so that the display of the start menu can be accelerated.
30. Make the welcome window clearer
The display effect of Windows XP system has been greatly improved, mainly because it uses a clear technology called `ClearType`, which specifically allows users who use laptops and LCD monitors to feel different effects from previous systems when running Windows XP operating system. However, since this clear effect can only be called after Windows starts, the welcome window during system startup still cannot achieve this effect. In order to make the welcome window clearer, users can use the registry editor to modify it and 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 the clear display effect can be achieved.
31. Automatic call to `Windows Messenger is prohibited during startup.
In order to promote the live chat program `Windows Messenger` launched by Microsoft, the default setting for the Windows XP operating system is to call the program when the system starts. But if you are not used to using this program, you can do this by removing the `HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunMSMSGS` key.
32. Display "Hibernate" in the shutdown dialog box
The default setting of Windows XP is that there is no option to let the system enter a hibernation state in the shutdown dialog box, and the operation to display this option is very simple. When the shutdown dialog box appears, the user can press the `SHIFT` key at the same time, so the "Sleep" option appears.