Take you a comprehensive understanding of WinXP installation disk toolset

WinXP often has many failures. For all kinds of failures, WinXP system's "All Programs" menu, "System Tools" has a bunch of tools for you to choose from. Many friends will also use the software on the network to help solve the problem. In fact, more than that, the WinXP system installation disk also has a more luxurious tool set, fully known as the Windows Support Tools tool set, which is specially prepared for some experienced users. Let Xiaobian bring you a comprehensive understanding of this WinXP installation disk toolset.

Before the formal mining this treasure, Xiao Bian want to warn you: misuse of some tools may endanger the safety of the system itself. Don't use tools in order to use tools. Before running each tool, you must have clear goals and be careful.

The default installation of WinXP does not include Support Tools. These tools must be manually installed using the Windows installation CD. During installation, the wizard asks if you want to perform a typical or full installation, with a typical installation that will install 57 tools and a full installation with 103 tools. After the installation is finished, a new folder Support Tools will be added to the Program Files directory. The tools obtained by the full installation method are naturally more, and the extra tools are mainly used to diagnose network and server related problems.

We can take a few examples to see the rich features of Support Tools: application monitor Apimon.exe, counting and timing all function calls, able to monitor page invalidation errors; disk probe Dskprobe.exe Directly access, edit, save, and copy areas of the hard drive that may be difficult to access in the usual way, such as replacing the hard drive's master boot record (MBR), repairing corrupted partition tables, and Windiff. Exe, able to analyze two files or folders and compare the differences between the two.

First, the general use process

If you want to understand the general use of a program, the best way is to read the Help Tools Help Tools, it is in "all programs" Below the menu. In this help file, you'll find an alphabetical list of tools that contain most of the Tools and their functional descriptions. Some tools are separate. Hlp help file, open the \\Program Files\\Support Tools folder and double click on one. The hlp file can view its contents.

Most tools can be double-clicked in the Program Files\\Support Tools folder. The exe file is launched, but not every tool has a graphical user interface. Some tools must be run from the command line. The operation of such tools is usually controlled by command line parameters. Enter the name of a tool and add “ The /?” parameter gives a list of command line arguments and their usage descriptions.

Second, install from the command line

Sometimes Windows XP can not be started, you need Support Tools to help find out the cause of the failure. However, if you have not installed Support Tools on your system, you will not be able to use Support Tools. Don't worry, Msiexec can help. Msiexec can perform installation, modification, and other operations of the Windows Installer from the command line.

The command to perform a typical installation of Support Tools on the command line is: msiexec /i x :\\support\\tools\\suptools.msi /q, where x is the letter of the CD drive. The fully installed command is: msiexec /i x:\\support\\tools\\suptools.msi /q ADDLOCAL=ALL, where ADDLOCAL=ALL means all tools are installed.

Third, the processing software uninstall failure

After using a certain software, you may want to delete it. However, sometimes it should be easy to delete the operation, the system is inexplicably dead, or there are strange information. There are many reasons for the failure to delete, either the software itself has not been fully tested, or the registry configuration may be corrupted or invalid. Don't worry, Support Tools can help you. In fact, you can find two Windows Installer removal tools: msicuu.exe, msizap.exe. The latter English name is Windows Installer Zapper and can only be run from the command line.

msicuu.exe: This tool cleans up files, folders and registry information added to the system when installing programs in Windows Explorer. If the "Add or Remove Programs" control panel does not work for a certain software, msicuu.exe is worth a try. Msicuu.exe provides an easy-to-use dialog window to help you clean up problematic software. Note that you must log in to Windows XP as an administrator when using msicuu.exe, otherwise the system will prompt an error message. Previous12Next page Total 2 pages