http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56728

Just tweaks to help your XP systems run faster. I have a few of them implemented on my XP machine.

Would you happen to know how to get rid of that annoying sidebar when opening folders in XP? It bothers me sometimes, taking up almost a whole fourth of my screen, not to mention being nearly useless.

Lol, go to Tools>Folder Options, then under the General tab check the "Use Window's classic folders" radio button thingy.

Edit: While your in Explorer, of course.

Thank you.

Now everything looks weird.

What do you mean?

I just got so used to that blue bar on the left side of the folders. Now it looks all... blank.

Ah, I see. Well, if you keep your folders in detailed view, it'll be fine

EDIT: More tweaks:
http://www.tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx

My "windows xp" is so modified it could hardly be called "windows" anymore. Lol.

When you know what all the stuff in the C/windows folder duz, you get goin' crazy

My system runs about 20% off of DOS.

Windows XP isn't based off of the command line. The command line is no longer the primary interface to the Windows Kernel. Along with that, DOS is incompatable with many of the newer features of the 32-bit system. DOS was late 16-bit to early 32-bit. So, to make it properly work with even 20% of your system functions, as you've said, you'll have to do years of hacking, which you aren't going to have, judging by your age. Quit lieing.

And I suppose that you know what's inside the "./windows/" folder.

I know a lot of what's inside of it. I just choose not to mess with it unless I know what it is, what it really does.

If you are familiar with the Resource Hacker program, you can decompile any script built into the .. say, explorer.exe file (which I deleted), or the winlogon file. For example I de/recompiled my shell file to edit a bunch of settings on the Start Menu.

And that's why I prefer DOS. Because it is off the comand line. Less exploring to do. You type what you want, and you're there. Information.. whatever. The only disadvantage is the hassle you go through having to run programs through it, which I don't.

20% of dos, I meant by means of having XP as a "glove" over the hand, wheras the hand is DOS, running in the background (as it used to to in previous versions of windows). However because XP does not run off of DOS, I just make sure than the window for DOS is always open and ready to use via Explorer. I simply meant that I don't prefer the system of navigation that windows xp uses to explore files and other such things.

A year or so ago I just spent a few weeks checking out all the files in there, seeing what they did, what programs used them, etc.

That's a neat little program.

Very much so

Resource Hacker is fun to mess with.

Well, that stuff is nice to know. It's good to see you can explain your madness, unlike the bunch of nubs that I have to deal with everyday.

And those "nubs" being?...

People on system forums.