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EBIOS The extended BIOS driver did not find an extended BIOS, so it does not load. NDIS2SUP.VXD The NDIS 2 support driver did not find any NDIS 2 drivers to support, so it does not load. VPOWERD The Advanced Power Management (APM) driver determined that your computer does not support APM, so it does not load, or APM support may be disabled. To determine if you have inadvertently disabled APM in Device Manager, follow these steps: In Control Panel, double-click System. Click the Device Manager tab. Double-click the System Devices branch to expand it. Double-click the Advanced Power Management Support branch. (If this branch does not exist, your computer does not support APM.) Click the Settings tab. Verify that the Enable Power Management Support check box is selected. VSERVER.VXD Vserver.vxd does not load statically so that it can save memory by loading later in the boot process only if it is needed. For example, Vserver.vxd might not be needed when you start a laptop computer while it is out of its docking station. VSHARE If you examine the Bootlog.txt file, you will notice that VSHARE loaded successfully earlier in the boot process. The second copy of VSHARE detects that VSHARE is already loaded and does not load. FONT FAILURES When Font Manager searches the hard disk for fonts, it may find shortcuts in the fonts folder (C:\WINDOWS\FONTS), which point to font files (e.g., TTF files) which are in the fonts folder already. The solution is to remove those font shortcuts from the fonts folder. INITCOMPLETEFAILED=SDVXD Windows 95/98 automatically loads a miniature disk cache to increase the speed of the boot process. When the boot process is complete, the miniature disk cache is unloaded from memory. When it is unloaded, the above line is added to the Bootlog.txt file to indicate that the miniature disk cache has been removed from memory. This next part is normal behaviour... SYSCRITINITFAILED=JAVASUP The Java Support driver is not needed on your computer, so it did not load. Java is a programming language used on the World Wide Web (WWW). Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 3.0 and later include a Java subsystem. DEVICEINITFAILED=MTRR Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR) is a .vxd file responsible for manipulating memory ranges. This file is loaded with DirectX 5.0, however, none of the DirectX core components use the service provided by MTRR. However, NTKERN and some display drivers do use the service provided by MTRR to change memory ranges. 27. Case of filenames Stop Windows from changing the case of your filenames to upper or lower case and have them changed to how they are bloody typed in! Start regedit.exe. -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "DontPrettyPath"=dword:00000001 ------End cut & paste here------ Set the value to 1 to keep the case as you type it or 0 to adjust the case as Explorer requires. Click OK. Close regedit. 28. Defrag the registrys hive files I do NOT recommend performing this tip on Windows 95 - only on Windows 98. If using this tip on Windows 95 than you will more than likely get a corrupt registry so don't do it on Windows 95! What we are going to do is compact the registry. This process can take up to a couple of hours to perform so only do it if you can spare the time. Before you perform this option I suggest you run Microsofts RegClean (see programs I recommend further down this file). Regclean doesnt actually take the entries out of the registry but marks them as not being used anymore. Basically we are going to export the registry into one big file and import it again and it MUST be done in these steps ! a - Run Microsofts RegClean program b - Boot up in pure dos mode, using a bootdisc (do not use restart in dos mode on shutdown) Or press 'F8' at startup and boot the computer to a command prompt. c - Type 'smartdrv.exe 2048 16' - this will speed up copying. d - In pure dos mode type 'regedit /e c:\export.reg' (Will take some time- the e switch exports the registry) e - Rename the existing registry files e.g. rename c:\windows\classes.dat _classes.dat rename c:\windows\user.dat _user.dat rename c:\windows\system.dat _system.dat f - Type 'regedit /c c:\export.reg' (Will take some time - the c switch condenses the registry)
g - Restart your computer once step f has finished and if there is a problem you can delete the new registry and rename back the registry you renamed. If everything is fine which it should be than you can delete the export.reg from your c drive. I've found that you can significantly shorten the overall processing time by exporting the registry using the GUI version inside Windows, then rebooting to the command prompt and then start at step e above. Either way will do the same thing. Thats it the registry has now been recreated and if you compare the file sizes of the registry files you have probably saved in most cases megabytes in file size ! Think of it as a major defrag of the registry because it does defragment the registrys hive files. UPDATE : goto startmenu, run, type command and press enter. Type 'scanreg /OPT' and reboot if necessary. Repeat but type 'scanreg /FIX' 29. Change default IE pages Internet explorer default pages for events such as navigation canceled, navigation failed, offline information, and blank page are stored in the registry. You can replace these pages with your own. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs Modify the key values to the full path on the hard drive. C:\page.htm 30. Save your Dial up password Go to 'Control Panel' and click 'Network'. Make sure you have 'Client for Microsoft Networks' to save trouble. If you don't have it this is why your Internet Dial-up Password wouldn't save. Click on 'Dial-Up Adapter' and select Advanced. Go to 'IP Packet Size' and experiment with Small, Medium, and Large packets to see which one works best for you. This is similar to the program MTUSpeed that would change this setting for you. Also there is a value in your registry called 'SLOWNET' and it is usually set at '01' change this to '00' It won't dramatically increase your transfers but it will reduce timeouts. The key is as follows: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Net\0001] 31. Remove duplicate devices To improve your system's reliability and gain some more speed, you should remove the multiple devices that build up when changing drivers and hardware. Restart your PC in Safe mode ( Press F8 while system is booting and choose Safe Mode from the menu ). Right-click on the "My Computer" icon, choose "properties", open the "Device Manager" tab. Check all the device categories, and remove all but the first instance of the devices on your system. Note: Don't change your devices' properties while in Safe Mode. 32. Increase simultaneous HTTP connections To abide by the HTTP specifications Windows limits the number of simultaneous connections that it will make to a single HTTP (web) server. This affects all Windows Internet applications that use the standard API, including Internet Explorer. The behavior can be seen when downloading multiple files from a web site only a certain number (2 or 4) will be active at any one time. Create two new values, or modify the existing values, called 'MaxConnectionsPerServer' and 'MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server'. Change the values to equal the number of simultaneous requests allowed to a single HTTP server, the default values are 2 and 4 respectively. -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Setting] "MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000004 "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000008 ------End cut & paste here------ 33. Problem installing/updating a device? Here's a fix that applies to both Windows 98 and Me. If you have problems installing or updating drivers for a device, you may want to make a totally clean start. To do that, physically unplug the device and uninstall it via Device Manager. Then, go to the C:\Windows\Inf\Other directory and remove any files you find there for the device. (The Inf directory is hidden, so you'll need to set Explorer to view hidden files in Tools | Folder Options.) Next, remove the files DRVDATA.BIN and DRVIDX.BIN from c:\Windows\Inf and reboot. Windows will recreate those two files when you reboot and it detects the hardware again. 34. Turn off Throbbers in Windows 98, IE4, IE5 and IE6 A "throbber" is theanimated graphic that appears in the upper right corner of most web browsers. The function of a throbber is to let the user know, by displaying animation, that the browser is busy retrieving information. I find windows open and close quicker with these turned off. As usual copy and paste the details into notepad, put an extension onto the end called .reg and change the save as type to all files, save it and double click it to enter the details into the registry. To turn throbbers OFF in Internet Explorer :- -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser] "ITBarLayout"=hex:0c,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,74,00,00,00,1a,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,\ 17,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,6a,00,00,00,26,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,e0,00,00,00,e0,\ 01,00,00,02,00,00,00,29,00,00,00,44,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,33,00,\ 00,00,03,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,42,00,00,00 ------End cut & paste here------ To turn throbbers back ON in Internet Explorer :- -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4
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