Directory (faq) for WindowsXP tweak and optimize xp

Contents
General information

(1.1) What is WIndowsXP?
(1.2) What is the final build? How exactly know the version of XP? How to distinguish pirated release of this?
(1.3) What is Windows Product Activation, and why is it needed?
(1.4) What kind of supplies are XP?
(1.5) What kind of computer you need to have for the normal operation of XP?
(1.6) What about compatibility with old software?
(1.7) What famous DLL-hell?
(1.8) What is the Dynamic Disk?
(1.9) What is Task Manager?
(1.10) What's new XP interface than previous operating systems from Microsoft?
(1.11) How to configure the Taskbar and Start Menu?
(1.12) How to manage users who can access a computer?
(1.13) As an administrator to log in?
(1.14) Are there analogues autoexec.bat and config.sys under XP?
(1.15) What is the difference Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home?
(1.16) How to Look Up Time (time since the last reboot)?
(1.17) What happened to regedit32.exe?
(1.18) How to create and edit a theme for XP?


Installation

(2.1) How to put XP?
(2.2) How to choose the correct version of the kernel and HAL when installing more?
(2.3) When installing the system does not allow you to choose the components, and after installation in the Add / Remove programs - Windows Components almost nothing.
(2.4) Whether it is necessary to move from FAT32 to NTFS?
(2.5) What is the general NTFS, and how does it work?
(2.6) What's new in the file system NTFS5, and what are its differences from NTFS4?
(2.7) What is the cluster, and what size should it be?
(2.8) How to reduce the volume occupied by ppoinstalipovannoy XP?
(2.9) Can otkonveptirovat FAT32 drive to NTFS without potepi data?
(2.10) How to fully disable the SFC (System Files Protection)?
(2.11) Which parameters can be changed in the boot.ini?
(2.12) How do I put in the Win9x already installed XP?
(2.13) How to change the drive letter of the system / boot drive in XP?
(2.14) How to rename a folder administrator account?
(2.15) How to make a boot floppy disks for XP?
(2.16) How to remove XP from the disk without losing data? Hado return to Win9x.
(2.17) After changing the file permissions (security permissions) on NTFS want to return everything to the mind, as it was after installation. Is it possible?


Tweaks

(3.1) When you start Windows Explorer opens the folder My Documents. How to make so that the opened root of the system drive?
(3.2) When you open a directory with a large number of files on the NTFS-partition, for example, WINNT, it is too long. You can speed up this process?
(3.3) How to speed up the work of the interface XP?
(3.4) How to disable Dr. Watson, a built-in debugger?
(3.5) What kind of service can be turned off to speed up?
(3.6) How do I disable autorun from CD drive?
(3.7) On what basis XP assigned a drive letter?
(3.8) How do I make DURING stop / zapyske stipalsya / create a new swap file pagefile.sys?
(3.9) How do I set ppiopitet process even DURING his zapyske? So as not to constantly climb in this task manager?
(3.10) XP boot checks for errors of all disk partitions, even if they are installed other operating systems. How to disable this?
(3.11) How to speed up the work with memory?
(3.12) I empty in the "AutoPlay", but some programs continue to start when you log into Windows
(3.13) Is it possible to enter into a state machine hibernate, or shut down the command line?
(3.14) Is it true that XP always loads a specific set of DLL, even if they are not used?
(3.15) How do tasks that would hang and no longer respond automatically murdered?
(3.16) How to add the contents of the desktop from the menu Start?
(3.17) How do I lock the my computer? Crtl + Alt + Del is not helping.
(3.18) When you open a folder with drawings, pictures are drawn as images. For the first time slows and then works quickly. Where is all ca