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- system related
02.01.2000
update 01.11.200198se, 2000, nt
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- you want to see the
fileattributes in explorer again? what a pity that this cannot be done?
start regedit: go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and set the entry "ShowAttribCol" as REG_DWORD from 0 to 1, afterwards navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder and create a new key there, called "ShowAttribCol", under this create the following values:
under 2000 and nt you must own adminstrator rights. under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced create additionally the new key "ShowAttribCol" as REG_DWORD with a value of "0x00000001(1)".
....that´s it!
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02.01.2000
95, 95b, 98, 98se |
- you wonder, why after right-clicking on any drive,
the response takes more time than right-clicking on a file? once more our friend billy has done a bad job. start regedit and search for disktool.dll. you will find the reference to it under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D3B1DE00-6B94-1069-8754-08002B2BD64F}, it is supposed to be in c:\windows\system. you will find it neither there nor elsewhere, not even on the ms-servers! probably the functions fulfilled by disktool.dll, which, in the meantime was removed, were shifted directly into the system and most likely someone simply forgot to remove the relevant entries from the installation routines according to all versions of win. therefore we all have yet another slowing down entry in our registry. it can be deleted safely!
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- you want to break over-long
icon text into two lines? mark the text to break in explorer and type ALT 10 at the appropriate place.
voila!
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28.01.2000
95, 95b, 98, 98se |
- you want to load updates from ms, but you do not want to
register?
change the key "RegDone" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion to 1. afterwards change the key "@" to "1".
done!
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- you want to have an icon or link
without text? mark the approbriate text and type ALT 0160.
finished!
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- you want to place a
commentary line (REMark) in the registry, to have a later access to the changed keys, like you do it within the .ini files? create a new character-type entry at the appropriate place, give it the name "REM". and change the content of it as you like.
easy!
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12.09.2000
98, 98se, 2000, NT, ME |
- if you encountered any difficulties with any piece of hardware, use the
hardware diagnostics . start it with "hwinfo /ui" directly via start/execute.
| color | meaning | | green | entry in registry | | pink | details to the used file | | dark red | entry in device-manager | | red | error information | | blue | warning |
this program is used also by microsoft´s "tech support" staff as main troubleshoot engine. if you use it more often to find a hard to locate error, you may wish to create a link in your start-menu.
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- microsoft has announced, that windows me is
incompatiblewith some programs! the cause of this is the new systemfile-monitoring. concerned is in particular virus software like mcaffe and symantec, as well as aol. see http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/.
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- be carefully with files which are renamed by your virus-software as
.vir . word und excel detect their own file-format even without the correct extension (.doc and .xls), so you are able to mistakenly open these .vir files and infect your machine!
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- your machine is too slow and you want to overclock your cpu? you dont know how far you could go? download the freeware test program
prime from http://www.mersenne.org/ . it will test your cpu overclocked for hours and is able to detect possible errors.
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- you want to
backup a complete partition or your current windows directory with all its sub-folders preserving the long filenames?
open a DOS-window under windows (it does´nt work in DOS-mode)! in this window type: xcopy32 source destination /c/h/e/k/r
rename all occurencies of the file ´chkdsk.exe´ (normally in c:\windows\command\) e.g. to ´chkdsk1.exe´. otherwise this sole file is not copyable! dont forget to re-rename it to ´chkdsk.exe´ afterwards. example: you want to copy completely c:\(source) to d:\backup\(destination): type xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\backup\ /c/h/e/k/r
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26.10.2000
98, 98se, 2000, ME |
- if you install a packing-program (like winzip), the program will associate itself with .cab files. because of this
cabinet files could not be opened with CabView, which is part of the shell.
if you want to restore the original state, start regedit- open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and navigate to ".cab"
- rename the value of "standard" to «CLSID\{0CD7A5C0-9F37-11CE_AE65-08002B2E1262}»
- in some cases the value must be «explorer /root,{0CD7A5C0-9F37-11CE_AE65-08002B2E1262}»
finished!
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- if you want to view and/or change entries in your
registry on a more regular basis, use the freeware-tool regfolder by eugene gershnik. it incorporates the complete registry in your explorer!
you can download it via www.tweakfiles.com
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- if you choose
shutdown your computer often ends up with a black screen displaying solely a lonesome blinking DOS-prompt and refuses all your attempts to bring it back to life, if you choose "restart" instead, the machine is shutting down and rebooting the proper way round?
go to: www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/Win98SE/Default.asp and choose the language of your win98-installation (important!) in the menu "License Agreement and begin Download", download the proper file "4756xx.EXE" and install it.
it will work!
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21.01.2001
95, 95b, 98, 98se |
your machine produces errors in a quite random order? from time to time it is inexplicable
in most cases it helps, sometimes it does´nt! edited 05.12.2001. it seems to be a rumor only.
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- unexpetedly .zip files are no longer associated with compressed folder, you want to have the previous state again? start regedit and navigigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.zip, the approbriate character entries have to be: standard="CompressedFolder" and ContentType="application/x-zip-compressed".
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- you ran into difficulties using your directX installation, your attempt to reinstall haven´t shown any effect, the corrupted files remain corrupted? deinstall your directX installation instead. despite of the fact that microsoft states, that exactly this is impossible, do it anyway! download the DirectXUnistaller, execute it and perform a clean reinstall of your choosen directX version!
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- you want to restore the backup-copies of system.dat and user.dat? by default win98 stores automatically generated registry-backup-copies and copies of other vital files in "windows\sysbackup" as (rbOOO.cab, rbOOl.cab,...).
in case of an urgent desaster recovery open the rb___.cab with the date-stamp of the last known working bootup procedure. extract the proper files (system.dat and user.dat in most cases) into a temporary directory. open a dos-box and remove the security attributes from both files in both directories using the dos-command "attrib -h -r ". copy both files to windows and set the attributes again using "attrib +h +r ", boot again. finished!
apropos: the given standarts can be altered in a quite easy way in scanreg.ini. as an example: you can hold the security-backups on another partition or drive (highly recommended) by altering the entry "BackupDirectory=" to F:\Regback or how many copies should been kept with "MaxBackupCopies=" set to 8 (highly recommended). if you prefer to have no backups at all, change "Backup=" from 1 to 0 (do not do that!).
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- if you have the impression your machine runs slower and slower. you should defragment your win386.swp perhaps. forget any available utilities, do it by yourself. open system.ini, navigate to [386Enh] and change the entry PagingDrive=X: to another partition. the swap-file will be created fresh and unfragmented after a reboot. after this delete the old win386.swp und changeback the system.ini.
p.s.: you should use your fastest harddisk and besides of that a partition not heavily in use.
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- because of the fact, that by restarting the explorer the registry is reread, in most cases it is not necessary to reboot windows entirely, it´s far enought to restart the explorer. many methods for this task are available, for me (and probably you) the best solution is this one, which is performed simply with windows´ own programs. start a DOS-window, after this choose "shutdown" via startmenu. in the requester now popping up hold the keys <strg>+<alt>+<shift> and click cancel. the explorer will shut down immediately. type "explorer" in the already opened DOS-window. that´s it!
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- you want to change the icon of your drives? this is possible using a relatively simple registry-changement. navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. if the key "DriveIcons" does not exist, create it. for every choosen drive create a subkey, named like the drive it is standig for (e.g. for drive c: create the subkey: "C"). under every of the new drive-subkeys make a sub-subkey with the name "DefaultIcon". at last set the value of "default" to equal the fully qualified name of the icon file (e.g. ""c:\windows\icons\drive1.ico", or, if the picture to choose is from within a certain dll: "c:\windows\icons\icon.dll,6", 6 is pointing to the position of the icon in the dll). at last perform a restart. done!
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