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a. First enter your BIOS/CMOS Setup by pressing the appropriate key specified in your computer/motherboard manual during the bootup POST (Power On Self Test) screen, and DISABLE ALL (Advanced) Power Management (APM/ACPI) settings, like: "Doze Mode", "Standby Mode", "Suspend Mode", "HDD Power Down", "Video Off" etc. Save your changes and reboot. b. After your Win9x GUI comes up: open Control Panel -> Power Management -> select the "Always on" Power scheme -> make sure the "Turn off monitor" and "Turn off hard disks" boxes show "Never" -> Click OK/Apply to save the changes. c. Edit your SYSTEM.INI file (found in your Windows folder) with Notepad or Sysedit (but BACKUP IT UP FIRST!) -> go to the: [boot] section -> look for the "power.drv" entry on the "drivers=" line -> move it to a new line of its own starting with a semicolon (;) to disable it e.g :- [boot] drivers=mmsystem.dll whatever.vxd ; power.drv DO NOT remark/disable ANY other filenames on the "drivers=" line! [386enh] section -> look for the "device=*vpowerd" line -> disable it by placing a semicolon (;) in front of it e.g :- [386enh] ; device=*vpowerd Save your file. d. Go in registry and goto: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VCOMM Under each key above -> double-click on the "EnablePowerManagement" DWORD/Binary (depending on your Win9x release) value in the right hand pane -> change ALL characters to read 0 (zero) -> click OK/press Enter. e. Click Edit from the Regedit menu -> select Find -> start 3 separate Registry searches: type "power.drv", "vpower" and "vpowr" respectively (no quotes) in the "Find what..." box -> delete ALL found keys/entries. f. Move to a safe BACKUP location these 2 files from C:\Windows\System: POWER.DRV and VPOWERD.VXD. g. Disable ANY Power Management entries from the System Agent (Task Scheduler) h. Reboot. Your Win9x machine should perform smoother from now on, without annoying interruptions or intermittent errors. :) 66. Diagnostic Info At the Run command Type the following: HWINFO /UI - you'll get a ton of info, where in the registry it's located and any problems you might have (although sometimes it says you got problems when are ok. 67. Got problems and don't want to reinstall... Don't wanna lose any of your settings or software? There's a command line option that'll get you back on your feet in no time. Boot up your PC with a Windows 98 boot disk, pop in your Windows 98 CD, and once you're at the command prompt, type your CD-ROM drive letter immediately followed by a colon. So, if your CD was set to "D" you'd enter D: and then hit ENTER. At this point, type the following command: SETUP /pf. This switch will restore all of Windows critical files to their factory state, and in 99% of situations doing this will fix whatever problems you were having in Windows 98. 68. Increase refresh rate of windows If you want to possibly speed up the refresh rate in Console Windows, add the following to the [386Enh] section of SYSTEM.INI: WindowsUpdateTime=10 (the value is the refresh rate in milliseconds). Using values less than 15-20ms requires a fast machine and a good video card. Otherwise your system will become very slow when a DOS Box or Win32 Console Application is running). Make sure to reboot your system after setting the tweak. 69. Having shutdown problems ? Try these registry switches -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Shutdown] "FastReboot"="0" ------End cut & paste here------ And if you have Windows Millennium :- -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "PowerDownAfterShutdown"="1" ------End cut & paste here------ Also check out these websites:- http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk/shutdown_errors.htm 70. Faster Startup After Adding Network Card After adding a network card to your Windows 95/98 installation you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay when Windows is loading at the graphic splash screen. This is caused by Windows attempting to poll your network for a TCP/IP address. Under normal circumstances Windows will not be able to find one and will manually assign you one. The delay you experience is the process where Windows is polling the network. To eliminate this follow these steps: Go to your network neighborhood, right click and bring up the properties dialog. Scroll down in the install protocols list until you see an entry marked "TCP/IP -> [Network Card Name]". DO NOT select the one marked "TCP/IP -> Dial-up Adapter" as this is your modem and your Internet service provider will normally assign you a TCP/IP address upon connect.
Click on the property tab for this protocol and go to the "IP Address" tab. Click "Specify an IP Address" and type in any IP address. Do not include "zeros" in any of the four fields. For example, mine is set to 192.198.1.11. Change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 Click "OK" and Windows will inform you it needs to restart. Let it. The delay should now be gone. IP addresses for a small, local network are not too terribly important. Just be sure that you give EACH computer on the network a unique IP address. For consistency sake, always keep the first 3 set of numbers the same. There are technical details about why, but suffice it to say it’s the best option. 71. Block those bloody net adverts There is an easy and free way to eliminate many of these ads with the added benefit of speeding up the serving of web pages; the "HOSTS" file can be used as a tool to block these ads, and it can be customized by each user to suit their browsing habits. The Hosts file shows the IP address [in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] and name of various domains. Generally, if a domain has a constant IP address browsing is speeded up as Windows will consult the Hosts file first when translating domain names to IP addresses. In the Windows folder, there is a file named "Hosts.sam" [meaning sample] file. There is an IP address reserved for all local computers (yours and mine) which is the same for everyone; that address is 127.0.0.1. Since Windows will look in the Hosts file first to translate a domain name to an IP address, if the domain names of advertisers are listed in your Hosts file with the IP address of 127.0.0.1, then Windows will, of course, not find the real IP address of the advertiser and no advertisement will be sent to you. When you browse to a web page which has ads from the domains listed in your Hosts file, the web page will show one to several blank spots where the ad would be and Windows won't miss them or wait for them. And, you, the surfer, will be served up content without the wait for and clutter of ads. Download an excellent up to date hosts file from :- http://www.smartin-designs.com/hosts_info.htm Making a HOSTS File a - Find the Host.sam file in your Windows folder. (If the extension does not show, open Windows Explorer; on the Menu Bar, select "Tools/Folder Options/View Tab". Uncheck "Hide file extensions for knowm file types.") b - Copy/paste it back into the Windows folder. c - Rename the "copy of hosts.sam" file to "Hosts" [no quotes]. Notice that there is no extension. Windows will complain about renaming it but ignore the nag. d - The Hosts file can be opened & edited with any text editor such as Notepad.exe. Don't edit it with a word processor such as Wordpad.exe. Fortunately, there already exists lists of common ad serving domains neatly compiled with the 127.0.0.1 address in a Hosts friendly format. One such list can be found at http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml . Copy, then paste the list of ad server domains with the 127.0.0.1 IP addresses from that webpage into your Hosts file. Customizing Your HOSTS File Your new Hosts file will now block the major ad serving domains from placing ads on the web pages you access. However, depending on what software you use (such as free ISPs) and where you browse, many ads will still get through. To add your own entries to the Hosts file, use IE4/5's cache of browsed files; it is a gold mine of ad server domain names. The name of the cache folder is Temporary Internet Files (AKA TIF). a - First, clear the TIF, from "Internet Options/General Tab/Delete Files". Check "Delete all offline content", select OK twice. b - Put a shortcut to the TIF and the Hosts file on your Desktop. c - After browsing various websites (especially, the larger, commercial ones) with one or more of your ISPs and signing off, open the TIF shortcut to find ads which may have appeared on webpages you accessed. (Note: Set your TIF view to "Details" by selecting View on the Menu Bar.) Ads are usually "gif" files whose URLs appear to be from ad servers. The domain names of these ad servers can be copied from the Address Bar if you open the "gif" or from "Properties" when right clicking on the "gif". Paste just the domain name, not the entire file name into the Hosts file after entering 127.0.0.1 and a space. Each entry in the Hosts file should be on a separate line. (Note: If, when trying to open a TIF file, you receive a message that "Running a system command on this item might be unsafe. Do you wish to continue?", select Yes. If you get a message that "Your current security settings do not allow you to perform system commands on this item.", then enable or prompt "Launching programs and files in an IFRAME" in Internet Options/Security Tab.) More Ad Blocking Strategies 1 - If you use AOL and have placed Ad Server domain names with 127.0.0.1 in your Hosts file, browse the web OVER the AOL shell; in other words, open your browser as a standalone application when you want to access websites that use advertisements. 2 - Some websites serve ads from their own domains often with other graphics. One example [without naming names], is a newstype website whose main page consists of about 26kb [2 files] of text content and 107kb [46 files] of graphics [which are a mixture of ads and standard navigation or identification pictures]. Loading the page with graphics turned on is materially slower than loading the same page with graphics turned off. [Graphics in IE can be turned off by unchecking "Show Pictures" on the Advanced Tab of Internet Options.] 3 - Turning off graphics solves much of the problem of ad clutter, but it is overkill as all pictures are turned off when another website is accessed. You can turn graphics back on by checking "Show Pictures", but this can become a time consuming and clumsy approach. You can solve this problem by putting some sites in a graphics permitted category and other sites in a no graphics category as follows: a - Start a browsing session with graphics turned on, that is with the "Show Pictures" option checked. b - When you want to access a website that is known to serve its own ads from its own domain [examining the TIF periodically will reveal the origin of the ads], run a Registry entry to turn off graphics & open a separate instance of your browser. Now you will have two instances of IE open; one will show graphics [it will be on the left side of the Taskbar]; the other will show no graphics [it will be on the right side of the Taskbar]. c - The above graphics on & off works because the first instance of IE is "looking at" a Registry that says to Show Pictures while the second instance of IE is "looking at" a Registry thats says do not Show Pictures. With these two instances of IE open, you can browse in graphic & non-graphic mode by alternating between the left side [graphic] & right side [non-graphic] browsers. 4 - Some ads [gifs] are served from a domain name that looks like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where "x" is a number. ,Putting these numbers in the HOSTS file is useless; since Windows gets the IP address from the web page, it doesn't need to refer to the HOSTS
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