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Friday, 14 March 2014

WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPLICATIONS

1) Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)

2) Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe

3) Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)

4) Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)

5) DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)

6) Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)

7) IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self- extracting / self-installing package)

8- Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented)

9) Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic)

10) ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases)

11) Object Packager = packager.exe (to do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files)

12) System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for uber-geeks only )

13) Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell)

14) Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant)

15) Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry)

16) Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network)

17) File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe

18) Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (I've included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area)

19) System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! )

20) Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database - use with care, it's virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords,

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