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How To Unlimited; 95 and 98 |
From Control Panel, double-click the 'System' icon. Click 'File System' and click the 'Floppy Disk' tab. Clear the 'Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer starts' check box.
1. Click 'Start' on the Windows taskbar. (The 'Start' menu appears.)
2. Select 'Settings' and select 'Control Panel'. (The 'Control Panel'
window appears.)
3. Double-click the 'System' icon. ('The 'System Properties' dialog
box appears.)
4. Click the 'Performance' tab.
5. Click 'File System...'. (The 'File System Properties' dialog box
appears.)
6. Click the 'Floppy Disk' tab.
7. Clear the 'Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer
starts' check box. 'Search for new floppy disk drives each time your computer
starts' check box
8. Click 'OK' and click 'OK' again.
Add the following line to the [Options] section of the Msdos.sys file:
BootDelay=0
1. In Windows Explorer, locate the Msdos.sys file.
2. If you cannot find the file do the following:
a. Open Windows Explorer.
b. Select the 'View' menu and select 'Folder Options...'. (The 'Folder
Options...' dialog box appears.)
c. Click the 'View' tab.
d. Select the 'Show all files' radio button from the Hidden subfolder.
e. Click 'OK'.
3. Remove the read-only attribute from this file:
a. Right-click the file name and select 'Properties'. (The 'Msods.sys
Properties' dialog box appears.)
b. Clear the 'Read-only' check box.
c. Click 'OK'.
4. Double-click the Msdos.sys file. (The 'Open With' dialog box appears.)
5. Select 'NOTEPAD' and click 'OK'. (The 'Msdos.sys - Notepad' window
appears.)
6. Add the following line to the [Options] section of the Msdos.sys
file:
BootDelay=0
7. Select the 'File' menu and select 'Save'.
8. Select the 'File' menu and select 'Exit' to exit the application.
Locate the Msdos.sys file, clear the 'Read only' check box, and click 'OK'. Open the Msdos.sys file in Notepad and locate the BootGUI=1 line. Delete the 1 and type 0. Save the file and exit Notepad. Right-click the file, select the 'Read only' check box, and click 'OK'. Restart the computer.
1. Click 'Start' on the Windows taskbar. (The 'Start' menu appears.)
2. Select 'Find' and select 'Files or Folders...'. (The 'Find: All
Files' dialog box appears.)
3. In the 'Named' drop-down list box, type the following:
MSDOS.SYS
4. In the 'Look in' drop-down list box, type <drive>:, where <drive>
is the name of the local hard disk.
5. If necessary, select the 'Include subfolders' check box.
6. Click 'Find Now'.
7. Right-click the Msdos.sys file and select 'Properties'. (The 'Msdos.sys
Properties' dialog box appears.)
8. Clear the 'Read-only' check box in the 'Attributes' group and click
'OK'.
9. In the 'Find: Files named Msdos.sys' dialog box, double-click the
Msdos.sys file.
(The 'Open With' dialog box appears.)
10. Select 'Notepad' in the 'Choose the program you want to use' list
box.
11. If selected, clear the 'Always use this program to open this type
of file' check box.
12. Click 'OK'. (Notepad opens.)
13. In the 'Options' group, locate the following statement:
BootGUI=1
14. Delete the 1 at the end of the statement and type the following:
0
EXAMPLE: The statement should now read as follows:
BootGUI=0
15. Select the 'File' menu and select 'Save'.
16. Select the 'File' menu and select 'Exit'.
17. In the 'Find: Files named Msdos.sys' dialog box, right-click the
Msdos.sys file and select 'Properties'. (The 'Msdos.sys Properties' dialog
box appears.)
18. Select the 'Read only' check box and click 'OK'.
19. To close the 'Find: Files named Msdos.sys' dialog box, select the
'File' menu and select 'Close'.
20. (Optional. Restart the computer.
NOTE: The computer will boot to an MS-DOS prompt. If you would like
to start Windows 98 from the MS-DOS prompt, type the following and press
ENTER:
WIN
If the computer is on, restart it. If the computer is off, turn it on. Press and hold down the CTRL key while it is booting up. Press 3 and press ENTER.
1. Do one of the following to start the computer:
a. If the computer is on:
1] Click 'Start' and select 'Shut Down...'. (The 'Shut Down Windows'
dialog box appears.)
2] Select the 'Restart' radio button and click 'OK'.
b. If the computer is not on, turn on the computer.
2. Press and hold down the CTRL key while the computer is booting up.
(The 'Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu' menu appears.)
NOTE: If the computer beeps because you are holding down the CTRL key,
disregard the noise.
3. Press 3 and press ENTER.
Click 'Start', select 'Programs', select 'Accessories', select 'System Tools', and select 'Welcome to Windows'.
NOTE: By default the 'Welcome to Windows 98' window is displayed every time you run Windows 98. The following procedure allows you to display the 'Welcome to Windows 98' window after you have closed the window or turned off the automatic display option.
1. Click 'Start' on the Windows 98 taskbar. (The 'Start' menu appears.)
2. Select 'Programs' and select 'Accessories'. (The 'Accessories' menu
appears.)
3. Select 'System Tools', and select 'Welcome to Windows'. (The 'Welcome
to Windows 98' window appears.)
4. To close the 'Welcome to Windows 98' window, click the 'Close' button
(represented by an X in the top right-hand corner of the window). (A confirmation
dialog box appears.)
5. Set the 'Welcome to Windows' display option:
a. To configure the 'Welcome to Windows' window to appear each time
you start Windows, click 'Yes'.
b. To prevent the 'Welcome to Windows' window from automatically opening
when Windows is started, click 'No'.
Insert the Emergency Startup disk in the floppy disk drive. Restart the computer.
1. Insert the Emergency Startup disk in the floppy disk drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. When the Windows 98 Startup menu appears, do one of the following:
a. Press the appropriate menu item number for your CD-ROM drive type,
and press ENTER.
b. Press 4 if you do not have a CD-ROM drive currently installed, and
press ENTER.
c. Press F5 to start the computer in Safe Mode.
d. Press SHIFT+F5 to go straight to the command prompt.
e. Press SHIFT+F8 and press the Y key to have startup prompt you for
confirmation at each step of the boot process.
NOTE 1: If you do not make a selection within 27 seconds, Windows 98
defaults to choice 4, 'No CD-ROM support'.
NOTE 2: Choosing menu item 4 creates a temporary drive (D. that holds
diagnostic tools to troubleshoot the computer's problems. If drive D is
currently your CD-ROM drive, the CD-ROM will be temporarily assigned a
different drive letter (usually E).
1. Make shortcuts to your Start Menu (C:\WINDOWS\START MENU) and Programs (C:\WINDOWS\START MENU\PROGRAMS) folders, and place them in your SendTo folder (C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO). When you come across an icon you wish were on the Start menu or Programs menu, right-click it and choose the appropriate Send To destination.
2. By default, Send To is a Move operation. When you want to copy to a Send To destination, select the icon by clicking it once, press and hold the Ctrl key, then right-click the icon and choose Send To and the appropriate destination. Got that? Okay, take it to the next step. When your destination folder is on a different disk drive, Windows makes the default Send To operation Copy instead of Move. To reverse that and make it a Move, hold down the Shift key and follow the same steps.
3. Make a shortcut of the SendTo folder (C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO) and place the new shortcut inside the SendTo folder! That way, you can customize Send To by adding destinations to it on the fly.
4. Speed up the process of moving objects to your Desktop by adding
a quick Desktop destination shortcut to your Send To menu. Open the SendTo
folder (C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO). Right-click the background and choose New/Shortcut
from the pop-up menu. When the Create Shortcut Wizard window appears, type
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP in the Command line field and click the Next button.
Give the new shortcut the name Desktop and click Finish.
NOTE:
This came to me from a http://whatUseek.com
newsletter. These are the people that provide my search engine.
It was such good advice I just copied it word for word.
The majority of us rely on our computers for just about everything. My partners and I operate all web based businesses, that actually show a profit each year (surprise! surprise!), so needless to say our livelihoods depend on our computers and our web servers. Take it one step further, and you will realize that our families also depend on our computers, as their lives are directly affected by our ability to operate our online businesses.
Just think of everything you keep stored up in your computer.
*email (possibly years worth of email)
*contact information (personal/business)
I have approximately 500 contacts in my Outlook program.
*schedules
*task lists
*reports
*plans
*accounting data
*banking information
*client data
*web site projects
This list goes on and on. Now ask yourself this question:
If I lost all of this information today due to a hard drive failure, theft, fire, tornado, flood, etc., what would happen to my business, to me, and to my family? Are you prepared for this disaster?
Answer this question honestly.
If you are prepared for this worst case scenario, congratulations! You can stop reading here, and skip down to the next article. Go ahead, you've earned it. 8-)
If you are not prepared, then read on.
I don't know about you, but Murphy's Law applies to me. Whatever can go wrong, will. Knowing this, it only makes sense to back up all of my DATA on my computers and web servers. When was the last time you backed up your data?
If you don't have a back up drive such as an Iomega Ditto Drive that will back up EVERYTHING on your computer (programs and data), that's okay. You should still back up all of your data files. You can always reinstall programs, but without all your data files, where will you be? For example, I use Microsoft Money 98. If my computer was stolen, I could reinstall Microsoft Money 98 on my new computer AND use my back up data files with all of my checking account information. Without the back up data files, the program itself is useless to me.
Hint: In your C drive, create a file folder called DATA ONLY. In this DATA ONLY folder, create folders for the programs you use. Within these subfolders, place all the data files you use. In other words, when you use a program, save your work to the appropriate DATA ONLY file folder.
EXAMPLE:
C:
DATA ONLY (folder)
microsoft money (folder)
mymoney.datafile
quickbooks pro (folder)
quickbooks pro.datafile
microsoft word (folder)
word.datafiles
microsoft excel (folder)
excel.datafiles
Don't forget inportand .ini files.
Each day, back up the DATA ONLY folder and all of the contents on an external disk. I suggest that you use a zip drive, super disk, or any 100+MB storage media. This way you only have to deal with one or two disks. Store the back up disks in safe place, and should Murphy's Law apply to you, you will be prepared.
Remember, you can always reinstall the programs with the installation disks or cd roms you used to install the programs on your computer in the first place. So don't worry about backing up the programs. Programs take up a lot of space and backing them up will take a lot of time. Just remember, when it comes down to it... it's all about the data files.
Block out one hour of your time today and make this happen. If
you don't take action and protect yourself today, tomorrow you may wish
you had taken my advice.
This usually applies when you add more RAM and your system slows down.
This can occur due to improperly matched chipsets with certain motherboards.
To find out what chipset you have, go to Control Panel | System | Device Manager and expand the System Devices part of the tree. Look for a device that starts with "Intel 82439TX" or "Intel82439VX". It's the "TX" or "VX" part is the important bit, there are many others such as "HX", "BX" and so on. Actually it's the "X" you're looking for.
You can try limiting Windows to 64MB and see if performance is better. To do this under Windows 98, select Start | Run | MSCONFIG and click the Advanced button on the General tab. Check the box next to "Limit memory to" and set the value to 64MB. Windows 95 users don't have MSConfig but can set the value manually in SYSTEM.INI by adding MaxPhysPage=04000 in the [386enh] section.
To use the MaxPhysPage entry to specify the amount of RAM that is available to Windows, add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file
MaxPhysPage=<nnn>
where <nnn> is a hexidecimal number that determines the number of memory pages available to Windows. A page is 4096 bytes of RAM for 486 and Pentium processors.
When the MaxPhysPage entry is used, the following formula is used to determine the amount of RAM available to Windows:
4096 X MaxPhysPage (decimal) = Amount of RAM available to Windows in bytes
Therefore, to limit Windows to 32 MB of memory, use the following formula to determine the MaxPhysPage entry:
(32 * 1048576) / 4096 = 8192 (decimal) or 02000 (hexadecimal)
NOTE: One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes.
The following table list some common RAM amounts and the corresponding MaxPhysPage entry:
Amount of RAM
available to Windows (MB) (Bytes)
MaxPhysPage entry
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960
1,006,632,960 MaxPhysPage=3C000
896
939,524,096 MaxPhysPage=38000
832
872,415,323 MaxPhysPage=34000
768
805,306,368 MaxPhysPage=30000
704
738,197,504 MaxPhysPage=2C000
640
671,088,640 MaxPhysPage=28000
576
603,979,776 MaxPhysPage=24000
512
536,870,912 MaxPhysPage=20000
448
469,762,048 MaxPhysPage=1C000
384
402,653,184 MaxPhysPage=18000
320
335,544,320 MaxPhysPage=14000
256
268,435,456 MaxPhysPage=10000
224
234,881,024 MaxPhysPage=0E000
192
201,326,592 MaxPhysPage=0C000
160
167,772,160 MaxPhysPage=0A000
128
134,217,728 MaxPhysPage=08000
96
100,663,296 MaxPhysPage=06000
88
92,274,688 MaxPhysPage=05800
80
83,886,080 MaxPhysPage=05000
72
75,497,472 MaxPhysPage=04800
64
67,108,864 MaxPhysPage=04000
56
58,720,256 MaxPhysPage=03800
48
50,331,648 MaxPhysPage=03000
40
41,943,040 MaxPhysPage=02800
32
33,554,432 MaxPhysPage=02000
24
25,165,824 MaxPhysPage=01800
16
16,777,216 MaxPhysPage=01000
12
12,582,912 MaxPhysPage=00C00
08
8,388,608 MaxPhysPage=00800