Windows Xp Tricks (Learn Part 25)

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Windows Xp

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151. To redirect the Local URL

To replace the Windows Update local page (WUM.htm) with some other local page and have the appropriate local URL point to it:

1. Start Regedit

2. NoWindowsUpdate should remain 0

3. Either create or go to the following registry key string value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows Update

4. Create a string value called Local URL

5. For the value, enter the appropriate local web address.

152. Putting the Desktop Back on the Quick Launch Bar

Create a shortcut targeting: C:\\Windows\\System\\Show Desktop.scf Drag it to a toolbar.

Then delete the residual shortcut from the desktop.


153. Submitted by Paul Garavaglia

If you should delete the the Show Desktop icon from the Quick Launch toolbar, you can easily get it back again.

Go to

C:\\WINDOWS\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch

Create a Text file called ShowDeskop.SCF with the following contents:

[Shell]
Command= IconFile=explorer.exe,3[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

This will put the shortcut back on your Quick Launch toolbar.

154. Backing Up and Restoring the Registry

You can backup the registry in one of two ways:

From the Command Prompt

1. Boot to Windows98's DOS

2. Go to the \\WINDOWS\\COMMAND directory

3. Run SCANREG /backup

While within Windows98

1. Run SCANREGW /autoscan Backups are located in the \\Windows\\Sysbckup folder in the RB0xx.CAB file.

Where xx is replaced by the different backups. The default setting is to keep 5 versions.

See the next section, ScanReg.INI Settings, for how to change several of the default settings.

To restore a backup, you need to be in Windows98 DOS.

1. Go to the \\Windows\\Command directory

2. Run SCANREG /restore

3. From here you can select which one you want to restore

155. ScanReg.INI settings

Both ScanReg and ScanRegW use the settings in the Scanreg.INI file located in the \\Windows directory.

You can change several of the default settings Backup=1 - Run ScanReg at startup and make a backup automatically. Registry backup is skipped altogether if this is set to 0 Optimize=1 - Run ScanReg to optimize the registry, reducing its size to improve performance.

Registry automatic optimization is skipped if this is set to 0 MaxBackupCopies=5 - The number of backups to store. Valid entries are 0-99 BackupDirectory - Backup directory where the cabs are stored.

The default is C:\\Windows\\Sysbckup Additional system files to backup - Files=[dir code,]file1,file2,file3, Filenames are separated by a comma ',' ; The Dir Code can be:

· 10: windir (ex. c:\\windows)
· 11: system dir (ex. c:\\windows\\system)
· 30: boot dir (ex. c:\\)
· 31 : boot host dir (ex. c:\\)

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