Number 278 - July 2006

Fast Acces To XP Utilities
Thousand Oaks PC club newsletter 5 May 2006 http://www.topcc.org
Windows XP has several "utility" programs that manage various aspects of XP.    You can quickly and easily run any of these utilities by using them as "run" commands. Here's how:    Click on Start, and then click on Run. In the Open: box, type one of these shortcuts and press the Enter key or check OK.    control          Opens Control Panel    clipbrd *          Opens Clipboard Viewer    notepad           Opens simple text editor    wordpad           Opens Word-like text editor    compmgmt.msc           Computer management    devmgmt.msc           Device manager    diskmgmt.msc           Disk management    dfg.msc **           Disk defrag    eventvwr.msc           Event viewer    fsmgmt.msc           Shared folders    gpedit.msc           Group policies    lusrmgr.msc           Local users and group.    perfmon.msc           Performance monitor    rsop.msc           Resultant set of policies    secpol.msc           Local security settings    services.msc           Services	You can check any of these utilities to see what they do. It's an easy way to expand your knowledge of the inter workings of Windows XP. TOGGLE Editor's Notes:    * The original article said "clpbrd" but it wouldn't work with our Windows XP but "clipbrd" did.    ** "dfg.msc" would not work in our copy of Windows XP nor would any other combination we could think of.    This article was apparently excerpted from an online lesson series: www.jefflevy.com/Lessons/LESSON%20420.pdf. You can look at other lessons by changing the number 20420 to 20419 or 20421, say. The subject matter of each will be different.    Most if not all, of the above areas can also be reached through the the Control Panel. This article simply lists the commands to do so directly following the steps outlined above.
Number 278 - July 2006