Some tricks in Windows XP

1. Cancel the current installation of compressed files (zip) in Windows XP

In Windows XP zip files are displayed as folders (folders). To cancel this display, do the following:

- Open command line mode ( Command Line: Start / run / cmd ).
- Type command: regsvr32 / u zipfldr.dll

To display it again as you did, use the command: regsvr32 zipfldr.dll

2. Turn off error message (Error Reporting)

If you're using WindowsXP, you've probably received a message dialog box of the form:

This message is displayed when your computer has any applications that fail because they are not turned off properly (restarting the computer when the application is running, the computer hangs hard you have to press restart .).

Usually the message appears after the machine has been restarted after a certain occurrence. This message aims to send this error to Microsoft.

Windows allows you to customize these error messages by: entering System in Control Panel, selecting Advanced, selecting Error Reporting .

In order not to display these error messages again, you deselect: But notify me when critical errors occur .

3. Prevent writing data to USB storage device

Most of the users of computers have a USB storage device. And the exchange of data between USB is often happening is there any way to prevent others from copying data from their computer to their USB? Here's how to do that (Only effective for Windows XP SP2).

- First open the Registry Editor ( Start / run / regedit )
- To: HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control StorageDevicePolicies
- Go to Edit> New> DWORD Value
- Enter a value of 1 (to prevent copying to USB), 0 (allow copy).
- After setting the value, restart the computer to see the result.

4. View computer information

To fully and clearly display your computer information, you simply do the following:

- Open command line mode ( Start> Run> CMD )
- In the command line window, type: systeminfo and Enter

So all the information you need about your computer appears (Windows version, memory capacity, etc.). It's easy, isn't it?

Hope that these tips will help you.

Doan Thanh
Email: dtha20@gmail.com