WinXP FAQ

[cyber mouse45]

Originally posted by unclemojo


Just for you
click me and I'll show ya how to change the text.....I promise

Argh, virus!!! J/K

Thanks a lot man!

[S_Wilson]

My my, MD has been a busy busy bee. Thanks for posting these, nice to find everything in one place.

[Alexandrus]

Wow, great guide, thanks mooky !
I have one question though, I have disabled all the services I do not need, and everything is OK.
Well, almost everything, because even though there are no problems, there is one nag I want to get rid of.
When I boot up the PC, the system just freezes for a few seconds at the "Starting up Windows", you know, the blue screen that you sometimes see before you actually enter the actual shell.
Before I disabled the services I didn't even see that screen, so if any of you guys have any ideas about which service is responsable, please share them with me

[Haze]

Hows about telling us how to access a (NTFS) private folder after reinstalling windows and thus erasing the account it was 'private' to

P.S. Fantastic guide,almost everything I ever wanted to know

[Aedan]

Originally posted by Haze
Hows about telling us how to access a (NTFS) private folder after reinstalling windows and thus erasing the account it was 'private' to

As an administrator, if you've not encrypted it (important!), then you should be able to right-click, select the security tab and "take ownership".

If you've encrypted it, it depends how well you reinstalled windows. If you formatted the disk, there is no known recovery if you don't have the encryption key backed up.

Áedán

[Groltz]

Show hidden components in Windows Components Wizard
Locate the "sysoc.inf" file in the \WINDOWS\inf directory. (You may have to enable “show hidden files” and “show hidden/protected system folders” to find it)

Wherever you see

,hide,

remove the "hide" to make it

,,

Then save the file. Doing so will make formerly hidden items visible in the Windows Components list.




Enable a Details Tab in Each Device’s Properties Dialog Box
Click Start>>>Settings>>>Control Panel>>>System
Select the Advanced tab and click "Environment Variables"
Under the "System Variables" box click "New"

Variable Name:

DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS

Variable Value:

1

.

[Groltz]

Heavy Duty Disk Cleanup
Click Start>>>Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1

In the Disk Cleanup Settings dialog box check the items you want cleaned then click OK.
To make Disk Cleanup run with the new settings click Start>>>Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1

Enable file search to include all files in Windows XP
To make file searching faster Search only looks at registered files. To force Search to look through all file types go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Control\ContentIndex

in Regedit and change the decimal value data for

FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions

from 0 to 1


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[Groltz]

Enable viewing of previously attached (non-present) devices in Device Manager
By enabling this you will be able to see devices that were installed then removed. This can aid in cleaning out unused devices from your Device Manager. These non-present devices appear as half-opaque "ghost" icons.

Click Start>>>Settings>>>Control Panel>>>System
Select the Advanced tab and click "Environment Variables"
Under the "System Variables" box click "New"

Variable Name:

 DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES

Variable Value:

1

.

[Daniel ~]

Are we done yet? ":O}
Let me know and I'll copy it to our FAQ Topic. Great work Mooky!!