2.20 Windows XP operating system optimization skills case
We always pursue faster speed and more stable performance when using the operating system. After installing the Windows XP operating system, you can optimize the system by modifying some settings. Below, the author has prepared 20 optimization skills for Windows XP operating system.
1. Delete attachments imposed by Windows.
1) Use Notepad to modify \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf, use the find/replace function, enter, hide (English comma followed by hide) in the find box, and set the "Replace with" box to be empty. And choose to replace all, so that all hiding is removed,
2) Save and exit,
3) Run Add and Remove again, and you will see several options in Add and Remove Windows components; This can delete many useless attachments.
2. Close the debugger, Dr. Watson; ;
Dr.Watson is a self-contained system maintenance tool, which will be displayed when the program fails to load or crashes. Run drwtsn32 to delete everything except "Dump all thread contexts". Otherwise, once a program goes wrong, the hard disk will ring for a long time and take up a lot of space. If you have encountered this situation before, please find the user.dmp file to delete, which may save tens of meters of space. This is the scene of the wrong program, which is useless to us. Then open the registry, find the branch of HKEY _ local _ machine \ software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ Current Version \ AE Debug, double-click the name of Auto key below it, change its "numerical data" to 0, and finally press F5 to refresh the setting to take effect, thus completely canceling its operation.
In addition, the memory.dmp that appears when the screen is blue can also be deleted. You can dump BSOD when you close it in My Computer/Properties.
3. Turn off system restore.
Right-click "My Computer" on the desktop, select "Properties" and find "System Restore". If you don't often install some software (are you better than me), you can also remove it, which can save a lot of space.
4. Turn off hibernation support
Because the hibernation function takes up a lot of hard disk space, it is better to turn it off.
Console->; Power options-> Hibernate (don't tick)
5. Turn off unnecessary services
Click Start → Settings → Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools → Services, and you will see a list of services, some of which have been started and some of which have not. Right-click the service you want to configure, and then click Properties. Select "Automatic", "Manual" or "Disabled" on the General tab, where "Automatic" means that Windows XP automatically starts the service every time the system starts; "Manual" means that Windows XP will not automatically start the service, but manually start the service when you need it; Disabled means that starting the service is not allowed. In the actual configuration, you can turn off the service by selecting Manual or Disable. Manual function is recommended, so that some temporary services can be started at any time.
Some services are necessary for Windows XP and cannot be shut down, otherwise the system will crash. As for various services
We can view the function of by double-clicking the service or hovering the mouse over the service name. The description of the specific service is easy to understand, and you can choose whether you want it or not. The modification method is: select the disabled service, right-click Properties > Stop, and set the Start Type to Manual or Disabled.
6. Accelerate XP switching.
1) shortens the waiting time.
Open the Registry Editor and find HKEY _ Local _ Machine \ System \ Current Control Set \ Control.
Set WaitToKillServiceTimeout to: 1000 or less. (Original setting value: 20000)
Locate HKEY _ Current _ User \ Control Panel \ Desktop key and set it.
WaitToKillAppTimeout is changed to 1000 (original setting: 20000), that is, only wait 1 second when closing the program. Change the HungAppTimeout value to: 200 (original setting value: 5000), which means waiting for 0.5 seconds when the program makes an error.
2) Let the system automatically close the program that stops responding.
Open the HKEY _ Current _ User \ Control Panel \ Desktop key in the registry 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 installation tool. Click the Start menu, select Run, and then type msconfig in the input box and press enter. What we need to do is tamper with the label. Click it. This tab shows all programs that were running when Windows started. There are no life-and-death programs for Windows, so you can delete unnecessary programs at will. After removing some checkmarks, Windows will start faster and there will be more idle system resources.
7. XP prefetcher
Windows XP comes with a service called Prefetcher, which initializes the management program when Windows starts, and the specified program can be loaded quickly in future use. By default, the prefetcher is on, but its performance can be further improved. Open Registry Editor and locate:
HKEY _ Local _ The current control settings of the machine system control the memory of the session manager.
ManagementPrefetchParameters, which has a key named EnablePrefetcher, and its value is 3 in most cases. The recommended setting value is 5. On my computer, it works best when it is set to 5. You can try different values at will until you find the one that suits you best.
You can also disable the prefetcher by setting the value to 0. However, unless it is for testing purposes, most people are not stupid enough to set it to 0.
8, compressed folder
This is a very good optimization. Windows XP has built-in support for. ZIP file, we can browse the zip file as a folder. But the system needs to use some resources to realize this function, so disabling this function can improve the system performance. The implementation method is simple, just cancel the registration of zipfldr.dll, click Start-Run, and enter: regsvr32/u zipfldr.dll. Then get into the car.
9. Don't load DLL files.
After the browser is used, some DLL files will be cached in memory for a long time, and a considerable part of memory will be occupied by unused DLL files. To prevent this, locate the following location in the registry:
HKEY _ Local _ Machine Software Microsoft Windows Security Edition Browser
Next, create a two-byte value named AlwaysUnloadDLL with the value of 1.
If you want to delete this optimization, just set the key value to 0 (or simply delete the key). Note: This optimization will take effect after Windows restarts.
10, completely turn off the file protection function of Windows XP (this move should be used with caution).
Find HKEY _ local _ machine \ software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon from the registry, and change the key value of "SFCDisable" to "FFFFFF9D". If you need to re-enable this feature, just reset it to "0".
1 1. Manually specify the process sequence to be viewed.
Press the Control+Alt+Delete key at the same time, and then click the "process" tab, and you will see a dialog box as shown in the above figure, where you can see all the processes currently running. If you want to allocate more process time for a program, such as 3D/33.shtml' target =' _ blank' class =' article' > 3D Studio Max, just right-click the process, then move the mouse pointer down to "Set Priority & gt" and select the priority you want the program to be in. When I receive an email, I will set 3DMAX as "standard", but when I leave the computer, I will upgrade its priority to the highest "real-time", so that the computer can process 3D actions more intently and quickly.
12, speed up the window display.
We can modify the registry, change the popup of windows from the taskbar, and minimize the action of returning to the taskbar. The steps are as follows: Open the Registry Editor and find the current HKEY user.
Control panel \ Desktop \ windowmetrics subbranch, and find the MinAniMate key value in the right window, with the type of REG_SZ. By default, the value of this key value is 1, which means that the animation displayed in the window is open. If it is changed to 0, animation is prohibited. Then, select the Logout command from the Start menu to activate the changes you just made.
13. Delete the "Update" option.
For most users, the Windows Update function of Windows XP seems to have little effect. We can delete it as follows: Open Registry Editor and find.
HKEY _ Current User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Policy \
Explorer subbranch, select the "New" command under the "Edit" menu to create a new value of type REG_DWORD named NoCommonGroups. Double-click the newly created NoCommonGroups subitem, enter the key value "1" in the Edit String text box, and then click OK to restart the system.
14. Modify the login background mode of Windows XP.
You may get tired of the monotonous login mode for a long time. We can change it to your favorite pattern through the registration form. The steps are as follows: Open the Registry Editor and find the subbranch of HKEY _ user. Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop, double-click wallpaper, enter the path of your selected picture, for example: C: \ Documents and Settings \ My Documents \ MyPIC.bmp, click OK, then find Tilewallpaper, double-click it, enter the key value "1", and restart the system to see the effect.
15. Change the background color when logging in
If you still want to change the background color when logging in, you can follow the following steps: open the registry editor and find the subkey branch of HKEY _ user. The default is \ ControlPanel \ Colors. Double-click the background item name under the subitem branch to open the Edit String dialog box. Enter key values representing colors 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 system default value is 5811kloc-0/65), and click "OK" to restart the system.
16. Set startup information or add warning information.
If you want to display some personalized information defined by yourself when starting Windows XP, you can follow the following steps: Open the Registry Editor and find the subbranch of HKEY _ Local _ Machine _ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ Current Version \ Winlogon. Double-click the name of the legal caption key below it to 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 legal caption and enter the warning information you want to display in the subsequent edit string window, such as "Please don't modify the settings at this level at will, thank you!" , click the "OK" button, restart, and you will see the modified effect.
17, keep the desktop settings unchanged every time you turn it on.
We can protect our desktop settings by modifying the registry. No matter what changes are made, the desktop will be restored after restarting. The steps are as follows: open the registry editor, find the sub-branch of HKEY _ current _ user \ software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ current version \ policy \ resource manager, find NoSaveSettings under it, and change its key value to "0", or delete it directly, and restart the system to make the settings take effect.
18, any custom button color
Although Windows XP itself has a variety of window display schemes, users want to define the color of a part, such as changing the color of a button from black to blue or red. At this time, it is necessary to modify the registry. The steps are as follows: Open the Registry Editor, find the branch of HKEY _ Current _ User \ Control Panel \ Color subitem, and double-click Bottontext under it. In the Open dialog box, change the key value to the desired color value, such as red 255 0 0. Click OK 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 parameters such as the width, height and background of the button.
19, modify the right mouse button menu.
We know that the right mouse button menu can be modified through the registry in 98, but it can also be modified in WinXP. The method is as follows: Take adding "Browse here with DOS window" to the right mouse button menu as an example.
1) Open the registry editor, find HKEY _ class _ root \ directory \ shell, then select it, click the right mouse button, and create a new primary key, named DOS, then select a new primary key, double-click the default string value on the right, enter "Browse here with DOS window" in the pop-up dialog box, and then select a new primary key to create a new primary key. Name it "command", select the "command" primary key, and change the default value to "cmd.exe/k" CD% l ".
2) Check: Press the right mouse button on any folder, and you will see "Browse here with DOS window" in the pop-up menu. Choose to browse here with DOS window, press the left mouse button to see if the DOS window pops up!
20, modify the system ID number
Under the general label in the system properties, we can see a series of numbers, such as: 55661-005-0809362-22169 and so on. This is the ID number. The ID number of each set of genuine WinXP is different (should you guess my purpose? ), then can we modify it? Of course (nonsense! If not, there is no need to write this article. Come with me and see what I can do!
The 1)ID number is stored in the registry. Mainly under these key values:
HKEY _ local _ machine \ software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ registered string ProductId.
String Product ID HKEY _ Local _ Machine \ Software \ Microsoft \ User Information/* If you are not registered in Microsoft, */
HKEY _ Local _ Machine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ The string ProductId of the current version.
HKEY _ Local _ Machine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ The string ProductId of the current version.
The above four places are the key values of the ID stored in the registry, which should be modified at the same time.