{"id":14,"date":"2008-03-05T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-i-configure-windows-xp\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:27:09","slug":"how-i-configure-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-i-configure-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"How I configure Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I configure Windows XP:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Remove Internet and E-mail from Start menu. Right click on Start menu, select Properties | Start Menu tab | click Customize button, uncheck Internet and E-mail. I use keyboard to start web browser and email client.<\/li>\n<li>In Customize Start Menu dialog select Advanced tab. Turn off My Music, My Network Places, My Pictures, Set Program Access and Defaults. I use Far Manager for file navigation so these items just clutter start menu.<\/li>\n<li>Add Administrator to Welcome screen. In Registry Editor, open<br \/>\nHKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon\\SpecialAccounts\\UserList. Create DWORD entry <strong>Administrator<\/strong>, set value <strong>1<\/strong>. Normally I&#8217;m running as normal user; to install new programs I log in as Administrator.<\/li>\n<li>Turn off search with the dog. Open Explorer, click Search button. Select Turn off animated character. Whee! The dog is gone.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/images\/2008\/03\/dog.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"dog.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nClick Change Preferences, then Change files and folders search behavior. Select Advanced and click OK.<\/li>\n<li>Use Windows classic folders. Common tasks pane is too fancy for me.<\/li>\n<li>Set List view as default mode in Explorer. Select View | List menu. Then go to Tools | Folder Options | View tab and click &#8220;Apply to All Folders&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>Set advanced Explorer settings:\n<ul>\n<li>Display the contents of system folders &#8211; <strong>on<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hide extensions for known file types &#8211; <strong>off<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Use simple file sharing (Recommended) &#8211; <strong>off<\/strong>. I know how to share folders, thank you very much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how I configure Windows XP: Remove Internet and E-mail from Start menu. Right click on Start menu, select Properties | Start Menu tab | click Customize button, uncheck Internet and E-mail. I use keyboard to start web browser and email client. In Customize Start Menu dialog select Advanced tab. Turn off My Music, My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-i-configure-windows-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I configure Windows XP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}