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Tip 1: Changing the Picture Displayed for a User

You can change the picture that gets displayed for a particular user:

1. Go to the Control Panel.
2. Select User Accounts.
3. Click on the Account to change.
4. Click on Change my picture.
5. You can then browse to the picture you want to use.

Tip 2: Displaying the QuickLaunch Toolbar

By default, WindowsXP does not show the QuickLaunch toolbar.
To enable it again:

1. Right click on an open area of the toolbar.
2. Select Toolbars.
3. Select Quick Launch.
4. Now you can add programs like withWin98

Tip 3: Common Command Console Utilities :

WindowsXP comes with quite a few console utilities you can easily run from the command line:

• Computer Management - compmgmt.msc
• Disk Managment - diskmgmt.msc
• Device Manager - devmgmt.msc
• Disk Defrag - dfrg.msc
• Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc
• Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc
• Group Policies - gpedit.msc
• Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc
• PerformanceMonitor - perfmon.msc
• Resultant Set of Policies - rsop.msc
• Local Security Settings - secpol.msc
• Services - services.msc
• Component Services - comexp.msc

Tip 4: Changing the Internet Explorer Title :

1. Start Regedit.
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Main\Window Title
3. Enter what you want appear in the title bar.

Tip 5: Adding / Removing Additional Programs

By default, WindowsXP does not display all the programs you can add or remove.
To show this list:

In the Components section, simply remove the word hide.
This will leave two commas together (like on the rest of the items).
Then you can go to the Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs / Add/Remove Windows Components and the
new items will be displayed.

Tip 6: Speeding Up Network Browsing:

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:

1. Remove current shortcuts in My Network Places.
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
3. Start Regedit
4. Create a DWORD value:
5. HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \
   NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1.
6. I have also seen setting the following help as well.
   HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \
   UseDesktopIniCache to 1.
7. 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\CurrentControl Set\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
   3. Create a DWORD Key called SizReqBuf
   4. Give it a value of Hex FFFF

Tip 7: Viewing Your IP Address Information

There are several ways you can determine your IP address information:
IPCONFIG

1. Start / Run / cmd
2. IPCONFIG /ALL
   This opens a command window. One advantage is that you can send the information to a text file (IPCONFIG /
   ALL > c:\ip.txt)
   But sometimes the window shows show much information you need to scroll around to fine it.