Make Windows XP system more stable

Everyone has been using Windows XP for a long time, and is very familiar with the Windows XP operating system! Below, the author will share some of the experience accumulated in the process of using Windows XP operating system, so that everyone can master the use of XP more skillfully, and better enjoy the powerful functions brought by XP system.

1. Recover corrupted Win XP system files If Windows XP system files are corrupted by viruses or other reasons, we can recover those corrupted files from the Windows XP installation disk. Specific method: Search for the corrupted file in the installation disk of Windows XP. It should be noted that the last character of the file name is replaced by the bottom line “_ ” & rdquo; for example: to search for “Notepad.exe”, you need to use “Notepad.ex_” to search. Once you have found it, open the command line mode (enter “cmd”) in "run" and enter: “full path to the EXPAND source file Full path to the target file”. For example: EXPAND D:\\SETUP\\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\\Windows\\NOTEPAD.EXE. One thing to note is that if there are spaces in the path, you need to include the path in double quotes (quotation marks). Finding is of course the best, but sometimes we can't find the files we need when searching on the Windows XP disk. One reason for this is that the file you are looking for is in the "CAB” file. Since Windows XP treats "CAB" as a folder, for Windows XP, just drag and copy the "CAB” file right and copy it to the appropriate directory. 2, refused to "group similar taskbar", although Windows XP "group similar taskbar button" setting can make your taskbar less open window, keep clean, but for some need to open multiple windows of the same kind of work very inconvenient,. If you use QQ communication software to chat with people online, if there are more than two friends talking to you at the same time, you will immediately feel the inconvenience caused by XP default settings every time you want to switch conversation objects, You must first click on the group, then select the friends you want to talk in the pop-up menu, and each friend displays the same icon in the group. When there are many conversation objects, you may have to click one by one to see exactly Whoever replied, waiting for your reaction, and choosing the wrong one, has to choose from the group, it is very troublesome. Obviously, this is not as good as opening a few windows, and clicking on each small window in the taskbar can start chatting. Change method: Click “ Start & Rarr; Control Panel & Rarr; Appearance and Theme & Rarr; Taskbar and & lsquo; Start & rsquo; Menu & rdquo;, in the pop-up window, will be grouped similar to the taskbar button & rdquo; Remove it. 3. Uninstalling useless dynamic links through the registry Resource managers often leave useless dynamic links in memory. To eliminate this, you can open the registry editor and set the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\ CurrentVersion\\EXPlorer\\AlwaysUnloadDLL=DWORD: 1 Set it to 0 and this feature will be turned off. Note: In order for the settings to take effect, you will need to restart your computer. 4, clear the prefetch file in the prefetch folder When Win XP is used for a period of time, the files in the pre-read folder will become very large, there will be dead chain files, which will slow down the system time. Recommendation: Delete these files on a regular basis. (Windows\\prefetch) 5, Windows XP weight loss method The following method is my current winXP weight loss method, after use, I feel safer, the effect is obvious, at least can reduce the space of 300m. Note: It is not recommended for beginners to delete the driver backup: Driver.cab file (73MB) in the Windows\\Driver cache\\i386 directory. However, we must insert the Windows installation CD each time we install new hardware. Delete system file backup (usually not used): Run the command line sfc /purgecache to delete the alternate dll file: As long as you copy the installation file or have an installation CD, you can do so. Files under Windows\\system32\\dllcache (minus 200——300mb). 6. Understand the startup time of Win XP Although the startup speed of Windows XP has already made us satisfied, Microsoft still provides us with a small tool for understanding the startup time consumed by Windows XP when booting, and viewing the CPU. Usage, Disk I/O, etc., because the tool is graphically displayed, so it is clear at a glance. This gadget is useful if you can upload it if you need it. 7, restore EXE file association EXE file association error is very troublesome, because the occurrence of this situation is mostly caused by the virus, and the main file of the anti-virus software is EXE file, since the EXE file association error, how can it run anti-virus Software? Fortunately, XP provides a command line tool in safe mode for us to use, you can use the command line tool to solve this problem. In safe mode, type: assoc.exe=exefile, and “ldexe.exe=exefile” will be displayed on the screen. Now close the Command Prompt window, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the “Windows Security” window, press the “Shutdown” button and select the “Restart” option. After starting Windows in normal mode, all The EXE files will work fine!