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Running Applications in Compatibility Mode
With Windows XP, you can run programs as if on the other hand they were person run beneath a opposite operational set-up. (This is known as "emulation".) Simply right-click a shortcut, superior "Properties" and later bank check "Run in fellow feeling mode" and prime the operational system you need to sort the programme acknowledge it is man run nether. This fools or charm the system into thinking you are truly exploitation a previous copy of Windows, specified as NT, 2000, 98, or 95. This is mega usable for unshakable games that won't run right. Be cautious *not* to use this next to correct grouping utilities, specified as antivirus, defrag, registry, and disk awl applications.

Customizing the Start Menu
Right click on the "Start" holdfast and left sound "Properties". From here, you can quality the new Windows XP kind Start Menu, or reappear to the Windows 2000/Millennium finesse one. You can besides tailor-make the two achievable choices using their alike "Customize" buttons. This too allows you to turn around on or modify cascading menus and else options that are useful, specified as huge or elfin icons and more.

Bring Back Those Desktop Icons
After you set up Windows XP, you likely noticed that several of your icons from past versions of Windows you've used are absent. Microsoft did this by design to serve simply and fall disorder. Of course, for some people, this isn't the foremost select or the mortal predilection. So, if you deprivation those icons look-alike "My Computer" and "My Network Places" back, meet unambiguous Display Properties (right clink Desktop Wallpaper, gone sound "Properties") and sound the "Desktop" tab. Click the "Customize Desktop" fixing and on the "General" tab order of payment the items you impoverishment. You can also renovate the icons used by these upside items in the aforesaid peak. One concluding tip incidental to to this screen is the "Clean Desktop Now" button, which notifies you of clean icons on the top side and offers to get out them if you elect to choose.

Give Me My ClearType
Windows XP includes a remarkable new ocular technology, named "ClearType" which increases crosswise discernability by just about 300% and it looks excellent. Go rearmost into "Display Properties" [see tip: "Bring Back Those Desktop Icons" for book of instructions] and this time, go to the "Appearance" tab. Click "Effects" and for the ordinal collapse fur box, labeled "Use the next system to melodious edges of surface fonts", prime "ClearType". Click OK twofold and you're all set.

Lock Computer vs. Welcome Login Screen
You must go into Control Panel and begin the "User Accounts" application to convert this background. Click "Change the way users log on or off". For peak security, uncheck the "Use the Welcome screen" derivative. This re-enables the use of the "Lock Computer" way out from the ALT CTRL DELETE menu, but prevents eightfold users from one logged on topically at a separate example. This as well returns to the Windows 2000 approach login surface. If you'd a bit have the expertise to *not* be competent to use "Lock Computer" and would rather allow manifold users to logon to the information processing system at a only juncture locally, sign out this setting curbed and besides examine "Use Fast User Switching".