Windows Xp Tricks (Learn Part 20)

Windows Xp Tricks

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126. Restoring Your Registry

Has your registry recently been damaged? To determine whether your registry was recently damaged, restore the registry from the previous day's backup.

To restore the registry from the previous day's backup:

Hold down the CTRL key as you restart your computer.

On the Startup menu, select Safe mode command prompt only.

Type C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND\\SCANREG /RESTORE, and then press ENTER.

When you are prompted, select Previous Day's Registry.

Note: If you restore a previous registry, you may need to reinstall any programs that were installed after the registry backup was made.


127. Power Management Troubleshooter

If you are having a problem with setting your power management, there Power Management Troubleshooter tool available either on the Win98 CD or on the web.

This a program that can help you determine the device or driver that might be interfering.

It is on the CD at \\Tools\\Mtsutil\\Pmtshoot\\Pmtshoot.Exe or the web at Power Management Trouble Shooter (158 K)
See Microsoft's site for More Information.

128. Bypassing the Need to Register Win98 to get the Automatic Upgrades

There talk about hacking the Windows 98 Registry to bypass the obligation of register them into Microsoft, in order to be eligible to get Automatic upgrades.

Run Regedit

Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Welcome\\
Select the CurrentVersion folder Double click the RegDone entry on the right side and set the value to 1

Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Welcome\\
Select the RegWiz folder

Right click at right panel and add a new string

Set the string name to @

Double click this new entry and set the value to 1


129. Mengoptimalkan database registry

Setelah beberapa bulan menggunakan Windows, file registry akan terus membesar
ukurannya.Akibatnya Windows akan membutuhkan semakin banyak waktu untuk me-load-nya saat start.

Melalui sebuah perintah DOS sederhana Anda dapat mengkompresi area di registry yang tak perlu di dalam database-nya sehingga ukuran file-nya menjadi lebih kecil. Start Windows 98 (setelah start BIOS tekan tombol [F8] sambil memilih option "Command prompt only". Selanjutnya masukkan perintah "scanreg /opt".

Program ini akan menghapus tempat kosong dalam database registry, sehingga ukuran file-nya akan semakin kecil.

Khusus untuk Windows Me, lakukan boot dari disket dan panggil perintah tersebut dalam direktori C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND.

130. Mengaktifkan dukungan Ultra DMA66

Sistem operasi Windows 2000 telah mendukung interface Ultra DMA66 hard disk generasi lanjutan dari Ultra DMA33 yang lebih cepat.

Sayangnya pada konfigurasi default-nya, UDMA ini tidak diaktifkan oleh Microsoft apa saja chipset motherboard Anda. Untuk mengaktifkannya, Anda harus melakukannya secara manual Klik berikutnya “Edit | New | DWORD Value” dalam menu "Edit", lalu dengan klikdengan melakukan sedikit perubahan dalam database registry.

Bukalah editor REGEDIT.EXE dan klik terus hingga cabang

"HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\ Control\\Class\\{4D36E96A -E325-11CEBFC1-08002BE10318}\\0000"t;. kanan namakan value-nya sebagai "EnableUDMA66". Klik ganda pada value tadi dan masukkan nilai "1" dalam bagian “Value data” untuk mengaktifkan fungsi tersebut.

Selanjutnya reboot PC Anda. Ingat bahwa UDMA66 baru akan aktif bila sebelumnya Anda
telah meng-install driver-nya.

Warning All the Tricks, which had shown in this site, is just for Teaching and Learning purpose. Use all tricks on your personal risk.


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