Wonderful and practical: Windows XP hot tips big collection

1. Reinstall windows xp without activation

If you need to reinstall windows xp, you usually have to reactivate it. In fact, as long as the first time you activate, back up the wpa.dbl file in the windowssystem32 directory, you don't need to activate it anymore. After reinstalling windows xp, just copy the file to the above directory.

2. How to know if your windows xp is activated

Open Start→Run, in the pop-up dialog box, enter: oobe/msoobe /a, after the carriage return, the system will pop up a window to tell Whether your system has been activated.

3. Find the missing quick launch bar

Move the mouse to the blank area of ​​the taskbar, right click and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu. In the pop-up window, select " The Taskbar tab, then select the "Show Quick Launch" checkbox from the "Taskbar Appearance" box, and "OK" will do.

4. Change the background of the login interface

Open the registry editor, find [hkey-users.defaultcontrol panelcolors], change the value of background to “0 0 0” (without the quotes) ), so the login background becomes black.

5. Uninstall xp completely

Some friends found that they don't like this operating system after installing Windows XP. At this time, you can boot to DOS with Windows 98 installation CD, then type: Format -ur This will delete all XP files and reinstall Windows 98/Me.

6. System life has straw

When you suspect that the changes made to the computer before the system restart may cause a malfunction, you can press F8 when starting the system and select "Last correct configuration." "To restore the changes made to the system.

7. Recovering previous hardware drivers

When installing a new hardware driver and discovering that the system is unstable or the hardware is not working, just select "Device Manager" The Driver Recovery button will return to the previous normal system state. However, the printer driver cannot be restored.

8. Auto Login

Click Start→Run, type “rundll32netplwiz.dll, usersrundll” (without the quotation marks), and then cancel “users must enter a user name and in user acconts” Password to use this computer", click "ok", then enter the username and password you want to log in to in the pop-up dialog box.

9. Shortcut for quick shutdown or restart (can be timed)

Right click on the desktop and select New (shortcut, enter the location in the pop-up wizard: c:windowssystem32 shutdown .exe -s -t 10 (where -s can be changed to -r, which means restart, and -t 10 means delay of 10 seconds, you can change this number according to your needs). After making this shortcut, Assign an icon to it as described above. This quick shutdown or restart technique will display a nice dialog box prompting shutdown (restart), and you can add "-c " to turn it off later!", This sentence will be displayed in the dialog box, of course, you can freely text. But be careful not to exceed 127 characters.

10. Shut down, restart as long as 1 second

If you want To make Windows XP shut down instantly, you can press CTRL+ALT+DEL, then click “Shutdown” → “Shutdown” in the task manager that pops up, and hold down CTRL at the same time. In less than 1 second, you will find that the system has Close, it’s just In the blink of an eye, the same reason, if you select "Restart" in the "Shutdown" menu, you can quickly restart.