Five super cool tips for Win 2000

Compared with Windows 98 system, Windows 2000 has greatly enhanced the stability of the system. Compared with Windows XP Windows 2000, the hardware requirements are not so high, but this also has some shortcomings. In this article, we introduce Windows to everyone. The five application tips of 2000 are of great help to your use of Windows 2000.

1. Let Windows 2000 also use "Msconfig"

Windows 2000 using NT kernel does not provide the "system configuration utility (Msconfig.exe)" in Windows 98/XP. And the usage rate is very high, but we can find the expand.exe and msconfig.ex_ files in the I386 folder on the Windows XP installation CD, copy them to a temporary folder, such as C:TEMP, then Open the DOS window and type the "expand msconfig.ex_msconfig.exe" command (without the quotes) to release the msconfig.exe file. Copy this file to the Windows 2000 installation folder, type msconfig in the "Run" of the "Start" menu, Windows 2000 can also use the system configuration program!

2, Windows 2000 service settings

There are many default system services in Windows 2000, they are mainly used to coordinate a certain function or some functions of the system (such as: network, printer, etc.) ) in order to make the system easier to use and easy to use. However, turning off services that you don't want or that are useless to you can speed up system startup and reduce system overhead (this is a bit like shutting down those resident programs). Of course, the consequence of this is to limit the system's ability in some aspects.

There are three settings for each system service: automatic, starting with system startup; manual, when accessed by other services or when the corresponding program is running; invalid, shutting it down, no longer working. So I suggest that some services be set to manual state, which will not increase the system cost, but also open it when needed. And through the following settings you will recycle about 10MB of system resources, really! It is 10MB!

Ok, come to your control panel, open the "Administrator Tools" item, and then open the "Services" item. The way to set up the service is to right click on a service and select Properties. Select the appropriate settings from the Start Type drop-down menu in the tab, such as Manual, Auto, or Expired.

Here is a list of services:

Alerter - This service sends an alert to the administrator when a system failure occurs, unless your computer is on a LAN and has a network administrator. Normally it can be set to manual or invalid.

Clipbook Server - This service allows other users on the network to view your clipboard, even if your computer is on a LAN, for security reasons I strongly recommend that you set it to manual, but for normal Users can set it to: invalid.

Computer Browser - This service controls network neighbors and other network functions. If the normal user can set it to: invalid, the LAN user should be set to: automatic.

Event Log - This service is mainly to control the system event record. If you don't care about the record information after the system error, you can set it to manual, but the author's suggestion is to set it to automatic. Be prepared.

Messenger - Send and receive messages on the network. If you turn Alerter off, this can be set to manual.

Net Logon - mainly to manage certain network security settings, such as login information, you can set it to manual.

Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM -- These two services are mainly to manage DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange), if you do not need to use Office and other software with them on the network, you can set it to : Manual.

NT LM Security Support - provides some NT network application security protection, it is recommended to set it to: manual.

Plug and Play──Open the Plug and Play feature of Win 2000. It is recommended to set it to: Auto, otherwise it will cause the registry to be confused.

Protected Storage - This service is suitable for confidential information like information cards. The recommended setting is: Auto. Of course, no private information is stored in your system.

RPC Services - There are two options for remote calling. But I don't know which network software needs to use these two services, but no matter what you set them, they will start with the system every time, so set them to: Auto.

Server - It is used to manage files and print servers on the network. For ordinary users, you can set it to: Manual. If you are a LAN user, you need to set it to: Automatic.

Print Spooler - This is used to manage your printer. If you don't have a printer, you can set it to: Manual or Invalid.

Task Scheduler - used to manage scheduled tasks, such as defragmenting disks on time every week. If you don't use Windows' scheduled tasks, you can set them to: Manual.

Uninterruptible Power Supply - This service is used to manage your UPS. If you don't have a UPS, set it to: Manual or Disabled.

Workstation - It is used to manage other network functions. If your computer is online, you should choose: Auto.

In addition to the services mentioned above, there are many other services in Win 2000. After you are familiar with Windows 2000 services, you can slowly explore them.

3, Windows 2000 achieve automatic shutdown time

But Windows 2000 itself does not automatically shut down this function, then you can use Windows XP shutdown.exe file to achieve this function, it is Windows Take a shutdown program. Copy shutdown.exe to the system directory. Let's take an example. If you plan to have your computer shut down automatically at AM1:00, click “Start” → “Run” and enter “at 1:00shutdown -s”. At 1 am, the computer will appear “System”. The Shutdown dialog box has a 30 second countdown by default and prompts you to save your work. If you want to shut down in a countdown mode, you can type "shutdown.exe-s-t 6000" to indicate that the system will automatically shut down after 6000 seconds. If you want to cancel, you can enter "shutdown -a" in the run. Also enter "shutdown -i", you can open the Set Auto Shutdown dialog box for automatic shutdown settings. If you want to get more detailed parameter information, you can get it by running "shutdown -help".

4. Hide the login name in Windows

Run the registry program, find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinLogon", change the value of "DontDisplayLastUserName" to "1", if not, create a new one. This and modify its value. Then change the value of "DefaultUserName" to null. Save the settings and restart to complete the modification.

5, automatically complete the file name

By default, Windows 2000 does not have this function, you first need to open the auto-completion function, use "cmd /f:on" can be opened. However, unlike Windows XP, the shortcut keys in Windows 2000 are "Ctrl+D" and "Ctrl+F". In fact, "Ctrl+D" automatically fills in the directory name, and "Ctrl+F" can either complete the directory name or complete the file name. In fact, CMD has many parameters, you can enter "cmd /?" to view detailed help information.