1. If previous versions of Windows concealed, how long they are able to work without rebooting, the HR in this regard have much to be proud of. Go to the command line from the Accessories menu, which is called All Programs start button, and type systeminfo. The computer will give you a lot of helpful information, including time, uninterrupted work. To save this data in the file, type the systeminfo> info.txt.

2. To delete files, not saving them to "garbage" basket, select Run ... From the Start menu, and type gpedit.msc, and then select the User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and check Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin. JSON in gpedit, you can find a lot of interface and system parameters, but beware: some of them may lead to undesirable behavior computer. (This works only in the Professional Edition.)

3. Working station HR can lock two mouse clicks. By clicking on the desktop right click, create a new label and fill out the location string rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation. Give this label any name. Now double-clicking on it, you can freeze your computer. The same effect can be a combination of keys Windows + L.

4. XP hides some elements of the system on which someone may want to remove. This could be, for example, the Windows Messenger. Using the editor Notepad or Edit, the corresponding text file / windows / inf / sysoc.inf, finding and removing the word hide it. Then Go to Add or Remove Programs on the control panel, select the Add / Remove Windows Components - and you open everything that has been hidden.

5. Those who own art work with DOS batch files, HR offers a number of interesting new teams. Among them eventcreate eventtriggers and for the creation of system events and track them, typeperf to monitor the performance of various subsystems and schtasks to manage scheduled tasks. As usual, the /? after the team gives a list of options - too numerous to enumerate here all.

6. In HR, there is support IP version 6 - Internet Protocol new generation. Unfortunately, no such support from your ISP, so you can experiment with it only in the local network. Enter ipv6 install in the Run ... (do not worry, the current network setup is not affected by this), then type ipv6? from the command line for more information. If you do not know what IPv6, do not worry and do not bother themselves.

7. Finally, an opportunity to withdraw tasks from the command line. Dial taskkill / pid and number of tasks, or just room and tskill process. The number can be found by typing tasklist command, which in addition will report much about what's going on in your system.

8. XP believes Zip files folders - it is convenient if you fast car. At a slow HR systems can be forced to abandon that practice, typing at the command line regsvr32 / u zipfldr.dll. Later on, if you change, you can return back all the team regsvr32 zipfldr.dll.

9. In HR built smoothing technology ClearType fonts on the screen, but it is disabled by default. It's worth a try, especially if you started with DOS and looked at the screen all these years, earning astigmatism. To enable ClearType, right-click on the desktop, select Properties, Appearance, Effects, then find in the second ClearType drop down menu and allow this option. Best results are obtained at laptopah. If you want to use ClearType and on the screen greetings Welcome again parameter HKEY_USERS / .DEFAULT / Control Panel / Desktop / FontSmoothingType in the registry value of 2.

10. A friend who works in the home network and uses network address translation (NAT), using remote access mechanism - but not immediately. First, ask your friend to send you e-mail with an invitation Remote Assistance, tentatively editing the file. In RCTICKET attribute specified IP address NAT, such as 192.168.1.10. It must be replaced by a valid IP address of your buddies - he can identify it, visit the site Find My IP Address - Lookup - and even if it is satisfied that its firewall port 3389 is open and redirected to a problematic computer.

11. You can execute programs on behalf of another user - without breaking the system and the re-registration. Click on the icon right button, choose Run As ... , and enter the user name and password. They will be in effect until the end of the current session. This is especially useful when you need to get administrator privileges to install programs, which happens very often. Keep in mind that many programs perform under different names - an absorbing occupation, but it could lead to unpredictable effects.

12. Windows XP has a tenacity against automated check updates, registration in the Passport system, use Windows Messenger, etc. So you privyknite time, but if they feel that not survive until then, in sound mind, run Regedit, log in HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / Current Version / Explorer / Advanced and create a DWORD value named EnableBalloonTips and 0.

13. You can start work without typing a user name and password. Select Run ... From a launch menu and type control userpasswords2 that lead to the opening of the annex, manager of user accounts. On the Users remove the box next to a position Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer and click OK. A dialog box Automatically Log On, enter a user name and password for the desired account.

14. Internet Explorer 6 can be configured to automatically delete temporary files. Open your browser, select Tools / Internet Options ... and Advanced, down to the Security section and check the position Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder When Browser is Closed.

15. HR attached to the network free of charge indicator - in the event that you are not visible LEDs on the network board. Right click on My Network Places on the desktop and select Properties. Right click on the label of its local network or dial-up connection, select Properties and activate Show icon in the area warning of a network. Now if the network traffic on the right side of the task bar you will be cheerfully endmost small icon network.

16. Start Menu when it decides to appear, it might seem slow, but the process can be accelerated, reducing the value of the parameter HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry / Control Panel / Desktop / MenuShowDelay by default equals 400. Take him, for example, zero.

17. In Windows Explorer can rename files together. Highlight of files in the window, right click on one of them and if you need to rename it. All of the selected files to obtain the name of a file with individual numbers in parentheses. In addition, the icons in the folder can be arranged alphabetically ordered in groups - for the select View, Arrange Icon By ... Show In Groups.

18. Windows Media Player playback tracks in the album cover shows - if they found the image on the Internet during copying tracks from the CD. Otherwise, and if you have a large library of music files WMP, you can put your own copy of the cover image on the same directory where records are stored. Just name it names. Jpg, and Windows Media Player and will withdraw this picture.

19. The combination of Windows key + Break open system Control Panel applet; keyboard + D opens Windows desktop, a keyboard Windows + Tab switches the taskbar buttons.

20. The next version of Windows XP code-named Longhorn due out at the end of the next or in early 2003, but there will be little change. A radically new version of a code-named Blackcomb in the 2003/2004 year.