Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Added 5/21/02
If you need to reinstall WindowsXP and want to keep all your current installed
applications and settings:
1. Start WindowsXP
2. Go to the location of your source files
3. Run WINNT32 /unattend
I've often need to do this to repair something that had gotten corrupted and didn't want to
do a clean install
Added 3/4/02
Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot
to WindowsXP
The program is called BootVis
Running CHKDSK
Added 8/17/05
One way to run a chkdsk (this is like Scandisk that was with Win9X), is to
You can also run chkdsk from the command line with will give you more options.
The following switches are available:
Added 8/16/01
Poweroff at Shutdown
1/4/03
If your computer does not turn off the power when doing a shutdown,
you may need to edit the registry. I have all the correct BIOS and Power settings and still
needed to do this.
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
3. Edit the key PowerOffActive and give it a value of 1
4. You can do the same in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
There are a lot of things which can negatively impact how fast XP will browse network
shares.
One has been previously covered regarding browsing to Win9x computers.
Other things you can try, especially when there is slow browsing to network shares with a
lot of files:
2. Change the registry so shared folders on remote computers are not automatically added
to My Network Places when you even open a document from that shared folder
1. Start Regedit
2. Create a DWORD value:
3. HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ Explorer \ NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1.
4. I have also seen setting the following help as well.
HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ Explorer \ UseDesktopIniCache to 1.
3. Increase the amount of data is buffered at one time to send to a client. On the computer
with the shared directory:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServ
er\Parameters
3. Create a DWORD Key called SizReqBuf
4. Give it a value of Hex FFFF