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System
Configurations
How can I
prevent Windows XP from reminding
me to enter Microsoft .NET Passport
details?
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After you install XP, the OS prompts you to enter a Microsoft
.NET Passport account to enable access to certain Internet
communication features. To turn off this reminder, perform
the following steps:
- Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
- Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService
registry subkey.
- If the PassportBalloon registry value doesn't already
exist, go to the Edit menu; select New, Binary Value; enter
a name of PassportBalloon; then press Enter.
- Double-click the PassportBalloon value, set it to 0A 00
00 00, then click OK.
- Close the registry editor.
How can I
set the number of times autologon
executes?
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By default, autologon will log on a defined user account
each time the machine starts. However, in some circumstances,
you might want automatic logon to occur only a defined number
of times (e.g., unattended installations require autologon
only once). To set the autologon count, perform the following
steps:
- Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
- From the Edit menu, select New, String value.
- Enter a name of AutoLogonCount, and press Enter.
- Double-click the new value, and enter the number of
times you want autologon to occur.
- Close the registry editor.
Each time autologon occurs, the AutoLogonCount will decrement
by one. After this value reaches 0, Windows will disable
autologon and remove all registry values related to this
setting.
How can
I start the System Restore Tool
from the Windows XP command
prompt?
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The System Restore Tool is useful for restoring your system
to an earlier state. However, you can't start the System
Restore Tool from the Recovery Console, and you might be
unable to boot your machine as normal or access the System
Restore Tool in safe mode. To access the System Restore
Tool in these situations, perform the following steps to
modify the Windows Explorer shell to use the old Program
Manager (progman.exe) shell from Windows NT 3.51:
- Start the computer in Safe Mode with Command Prompt.
- Log on as an administrator.
- At the command prompt, type
regedit
to open a registry editor.
- Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
subkey.
- Modify the Shell entry to "progman.exe" (don't type
the quotes), then press Enter.
- Close the registry editor.
- At the command prompt, type
shutdown -r
to reboot the machine.
- After the system reboots, log on as an administrator;
the Program Manager shell will start.
- From the File menu, select Run and enter
c:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
to start the System Restore Tool.
- Restore the system as normal. You won't need to set
the shell back to Windows Explorer because the act of
restoring the system state to an earlier point will accomplish
this task.
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