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file. When you spot these kinds of URLs in the Cache, make a note of which website is using IP address served ads. To defeat these ads, use the same "pixs-off" strategy for domains that mix ads with standard graphics. Redirect Some websites redirect you to another page whether you want to go there or not. One such website is Hotmail; when the visitor logs off from Hotmail, the MSN home page [www.msn.com] is served up. To stop this behaviour, one can put www.msn.com into the HOSTS file; a "The page cannot be displayed" message will appear. Blank Message With Internet Explorer & an active HOSTS file, a typical blocked ad will return a red X . When an entire domain is blocked via the HOSTS file such as "www.doubleclick.net", browsing to that location will return "The page cannot be displayed" message. This same message will appear [at least partially depending on the size allocated to the ad] if that domain is embedded [such as through layering or Iframes] on a webpage of another domain [e.g. www.pcworld.com]. This message is embedded in the file "shdoclc.dll" [in the Windows\System folder] as common HTML code; to make this message less verbose [and annoying], open a copy of shdoclc.dll [pasted into a non-Windows locale] with a word processor; browse to the sections that hold "The page cannot be displayed" message and other text with an Edit/Find operation; change the font color from "black" to "white". It is strongly advised to save the original "shdoclc.dll", rename it to something like "shdoclc0.dll" [I prefer the 0 (zero) to denote original]; then copy your revised copy of "shdoclc.dll" to the Windows/System folder. NOTE: If you had been previously working with IE, Windows may complain about the rename & paste operations; a reboot may be necessary. Also the rename & paste operations can be made from native MS-DOS or from another OS if you dual boot. The new error message will show small icons with the red links for "Refresh", "Detect Network Settings", & "Back" still intact & functional; the background will be white. NOTE: If your system experiences problems, replace the original shdoclc.dll. Some problems have been reported with right click [context] menu functionality after the font color changes were made. If a white background is not to your liking, you can change the "bgcolor" of the relevant message sections to "black" from "white" and not change the font color. This will give a black backgound with the red links still intact & functional. Whether you prefer the white or black background, another change can be made to the Title Bar message which appears when the Hosts file blocks a domain. The standard Title Bar message is "Cannot Find Server"; browse to that phrase and change it to "Domain HOST Listed". 72. Having problems getting AGP 4x support from your Geforce card ! Check your BIOS setup, usually in the Chipset Features Setup, for something called the AGP Driving Value. This value controls the timing of the AGP driver in Windows. The value you place here can make AGP4X stable. This value is a hex value from 00-FF. In order to place a value here you might need to change another BIOS setup feature called the AGP Driving Control. This should appear with the AGP Driving Value. Set this to MANUAL if not already. The other option is AUTO. Try setting this value to DA or EA. Try DA for a VIA Apollo Pro 133A motherboard. On a KT133 motherboard you might want to try E7. Save your options and reboot your machine. Make sure you are running AGP4X and try some 3D games. Where they might have hung or crashed before they should now be running fine. If not, then go back into the BIOS Setup and try another value. I've found that values that end in an 'A' seem to work the best. Enabling AGP 4x in Windows 9x only -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\System] "EnableVia4X"=dword:00000001 ------End cut & paste here------ Enabling AGP 4x in Windows 2000 only -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nv4\Device0 "EnableVia4X"=dword:00000001 ------End cut & paste here------ 73. Increase your memory Free up to 75% of your RAM. Open notepad and put this in it: Mystring = Space(80000000) Now save it as memory.vbs and place it on your desktop. Just single or double click on it and presto, quick and easy. It's an easy way to gain 75% memory! How it works It's a VB script that makes use of an operating system 'trick' that many memory freeing programs use. It allocates a huge chunk of your memory, forcing Windows to dump out the current contents of your RAM to the hard drive and giving you a nice load of free RAM in return. Nice, simple and it works. Just be careful not to allocate too much memory or you might make Windows grind your hard drive for a while (annoying, but not a major problem). 74. Cache write delay This applies only to Windows 98 SE and ME, and consists in a workaround, by creating a Registry Value that allows enough time to write all data stored in the memory cache buffer back to the hard disk while Windows shuts down. This happens because newer hard drives have their own built-in memory cache buffers, which do NOT send proper signals to the drive controller and therefore their cache will NOT empty (flush) correctly upon OS shutdown. To do this, run Regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Right-click in the right hand pane -> create a New DWORD Value called "CacheWriteDelay". Click OK -> double-click on it -> check the Decimal box -> type 2000 (2 seconds delay measured in milliseconds) 75. Speed up your startmenu The default speed of the start menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. This works for all windows versions up to XP. HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up. 76. Speed up and browse faster Normally Windows scans for shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And its turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network from as Windows is using the extra time to search the remote computer. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows users will experience that actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improving significantly after applying it since it doesnt search for the Scheduled Tasks anymore. Open up the Registry and go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace Under that branch, select the key : {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} - and delete it. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes. 77. Remove ads from MS Messenger Go into the links.txt in MS Messenger folder and delete everything in it, and then change it read only. Don't delete the file, only what's in it. This only works on older versions of Messenger - Messenger Plus is a program that is good at blocking adverts for new versions of MSN. 78. Raid - create an optimiszed stripe set A stripe set is a group of hard drives that is accessed threw the operating system as one drive. For example, if you have three hard disks and created a stripe set with parity(RAID 5) the drive would have the combined space of all three drives and the files would be striped across all three. When you format a stripe set with parity (RAID 5) you lose the size equal to one of the drives in the set. For example, if you have three 9GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration the total size of the stripe will be 18GB. 79. Switch off devices you don't use and free up resources You can disable some hardware you don’t use in Windows. You can think of Joystick ports, MPU-401 (compatible)-port, CD-ROM Controllers on you soundcard if you don’t use them, etc. If you havent got any USB devices then disable it - you get the idea. Goto control panesl\system\ - doubeclick the device you want to disable, select disable this device in the hardwar profile, click ok, repeat this with other devices and restart windows. The devices you have chosen, are not enabled in Windows, so you can’t use them. Because they’re disabled, the needed drivers aren’t loaded now. This results in having more RAM and more system recourses free for other use. 80. IE Full Screen Bar This tip applies to ALL Microsoft Internet Explorer releases beginning with V4. I have been using MS IE 4.01 in full screen mode for some time, but I have never been able to adjust IE's menu bar to include all basic items, like: File, Home, Back, Forward, Reload, Full screen, Help etc, and the same time display the URL address bar and get rid of IE's annoying title bar. Export the registry key that will be modified further below just in case. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar Next copy and paste below into notepad and save as IE4bar.reg file and double click it -----Begin cut & paste here----- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar] "Theater"=hex:0c,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,74,00,00,00,18,00,00,00,1b,00,00,00,5c,\ 00,00,00,01,00,00,00,e0,00,00,00,a0,0f,00,00,05,00,00,00,22,00,00,00,26,00,\ 00,00,02,00,00,00,21,00,00,00,a0,0f,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,a0,0f,00,\ 00,03,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 ------End cut & paste here------ 81. CD/DVD Max Speed When you right-click on My Computer and select Properties, the System Properties applet opens. Click the Performance tab, click File System and choose the CD-ROM tab. Look at the "Supplemental cache size". When you move this slider all the way up to the right, Windows 95/98/ME allocates a maximum of 1238 KB from your computer's memory. You can increase these settings even further. The table below shows all the "CacheSize" and "Prefetch" values you need to modify for cd-roms/dvds of different speeds, starting with 4x (maximum allowed by Windows) and up to 52x The maximum values Windows allows are. Hex values: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\FileSystem\CDFS "CacheSize"=hex:6b,02,00,00 "Prefetch"=hex:e4,00,00,00
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