Windows XP Six undisclosed secrets

1. Support large hard drives of 137 GB or more

To use a large hard drive of 137 GB or more, you must use 48-bit LBA mode. First of all, your motherboard BIOS must support 48Bit LBA, followed by WinXP Home and Professional must have SP1 patch installed. Then open the registry, in the following path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services Atapi Parameter", find the "EnableBigLba" option, change its value from “0& rdquo; to "ld"; 1 & rdquo;. If the item does not exist, you can create your own “DWORD value” project, the same setting. Finally restart.

2.Delete shared documents

If you don't need to share files, you can remove it by going to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer My computer Namespace DelegateFolders, delete the key value “”.

3.Lock the desktop

To lock the desktop without being modified by others, you can use a lot of tools such as TweakUI, but in fact you can make small changes in the registry: enter HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer, create DWORD value & ldquo; NoDesktop & rdquo;, modify its value to “1”

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Don't want this feature, you can modify it like this: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control File system, create DWORD value “NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate”, change its value to “1”

5.Settings "Remote Access Connection Server (RAS)"

If necessary, you can modify it: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion WinLogon, create a new string value <;KeepRasConnections”, Change its value to “1”

6.Using plain text passwords (Lain Text Password)

When accessing a UNIX or LINUX server, sometimes you need a plain text password. This is easy to implement under XP: find "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services lanmanworkstation Parameter enableplaintextpassword” and set its value to “1”