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DWORD values: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\FileSystem\CDFS "CacheSize"=dword:0000026b "Prefetch"=dword:000000e4 CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM "CacheSize" values: Cache Size Decimal | KB Hex DWORD Small [Default] 619 | 1238 6b,02,00,00 0000026b Medium 1238 | 2476 d6,04,00,00 000004d6 Large 2476 | 4952 ac,09,00,00 000009ac CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW "Prefetch" Registry values: CD-ROM Speed Decimal Hex DWORD 4x [Default] 228 e4,00,00,00 000000e4 8x 448 c0,01,00,00 000001c0 12x 672 a0,02,00,00 000002a0 16x 896 80,03,00,00 00000380 20x 1120 60,04,00,00 00000460 24x 1344 40,05,00,00 00000540 32x 1792 00,07,00,00 00000700 40x 2240 c0,08,00,00 000008c0 44x 2462 a0,09,00,00 000009a0 48x 2688 80,0a,00,00 00000a80 52x 2912 60,0b,00,00 00000b60 DVD-ROM/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM "Prefetch" Registry values: DVD Speed Decimal Hex DWORD 1x 448 c0,01,00,00 000001c0 2x 896 80,03,00,00 00000380 4x 1792 00,07,00,00 00000700 6x 3584 80,0a,00,00 00000a80 8x 4096 00,10,00,00 00001000 10x 5376 00,15,00,00 00001500 12x 6400 00,19,00,00 00001900 16x 8192 00,20,00,00 00002000 Larger cache/buffer size means using more memory and you need at least 64mb before playing with these settings. You can test your settings by using CDCheck from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/sac/utildisk/chkcd101.zip 82. CD Keys If your Win9x system (or your Windows applications: MS Plus!, MS Office etc) become corrupted, and you have misplaced the installation cd-rom key (which is usually shown on the cd-rom sleeve or on the manual cover), there is still a way to find it, so you can reinstall your OS/app from scratch. This procedure requires a working copy of Windows. To make it easier to find them all, start a Registry search: click Edit, select Find, type "ProductID" (no quotes) in the search box, and hit Enter. With the GUI started, open Regedit and go to: MS Windows 9x: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductID MS Windows NT: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId 83. Click here to begin ! To get rid of the annoying "Click here to begin" moving arrow and message, which appear on the Taskbar every time you load the Windows GUI. HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer Modify the "NoStartBanner" DWORD value to read: "NoStartBanner"="01 00 00 00" by double-clicking on it, and then type: 01000000 84. Disable homepage to speed up launch By using a blank home page internet explorer does not have to use additional cpu time and uses the hard drive less. After all most of the time you want to go to a different site right away so it is not going to affect your productivity at all. Launch Internet Explorer. Select the Tools from the menu bar. Then select Internet Options... from the drop down menu. Once the internet options has loaded click on the general tab. Under the home page section click the use blank button. Click OK 85. Get free domain name and setup web/ftp server etc The first thing you'll need to go is head over to http://www.dyndns.com and register for your own domain name. The totally free way is DynDNS which is a dynamic domain naming service. This way, you'll get a free third level domain name that maps to the public IP address of the computer that is running the client software. A third level domain name is something such as tweaker.d2g.com. The advantage of this system is that it is totally free and dynamic. The bad news is that it's not a second level domain name, such as 3dfiles.com.
By the use of this client software, every time your computer is online, you can access your computer by typing "yourdomain.d2g.com" or whatever other domain you specify at DNSDNS. This is much easier than typing in a numerical IP address, especially if if changes every time you connect to your service. DynDNS will email you a special key that will unlock the DynDNS client. You can enter in different kinds of information to keep your connection alive if need by, as well as where to direct the user if the client if offline. The second way is free, depending on how you do it. The first step is getting your own REAL Domain name. www.register.com is a good place to get a .com, .net, or .org domain name for a small fee every year. Most places on the internet charge £18 per year for a .com, .net, and .org domain name. Using this process, you can have your own domain to the tune of www.yourname.com, ftp.yourname.com, and anythingyouwant.yourname.com. There are many places that will sell you a domain name but be careful there are a lot of companys that tie you in and a lot of small ones have gone bust. When you buy a domain name, that's only half the ordeal. You have to tell DNS Servers out on the internet what IP is equal to that domain name. DynDNS will do this automatically via the use of their client for a small fee. I urge you to check their site out if you haven't already. www.granitecanyon.com is a Public DNS Server. They have three domain servers that will tell other DNS servers what IP is equal to your domain name. Using this method, you must have a Static IP which costs extra from your ISP...usually, a lot extra. Because it's so expensive to have a static IP, I will not go in depth on how to use granitecanyon.com, because I feel their site covers itself very well. 86. Use SFC (system File Checker) SFC.EXE is a valuable tool to check your system files. Windows ME, 2K and XP will check and restore critical system files automatically. Since the bulk of people are still using Windows 9x, we need to fix Microsoft's problems ourselves. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't integrate it into your user-shell, thus it must be run from the command line. Select Start > Run, type: "SFC", Click OK. SFC will check your system files for their correct versions and will give you a logfile. Its best to run SFC before you put anything onto your system as you can check for changes in the since it was last updated. 87. Run programs at shutdown With windows XP you have the option to run programs a shutdown but how do you do it in the other MS systems ? All you need here is Notepad - to create a batch file. Batch files are simply plain-text files,launch Notepad and begin. For example, suppose we want to run Windows Scandisk on all drives without notification (unless errors are found) and then shutdown the system. Since we'd need to wait for Scandisk to complete before we shutdown, we need the START /W command to launch Scandisk. The final command will be the shutdown command itself. Since we don't need to wait for the shutdown to complete, START (without the /W switch) will be used. The batch file to do all this would be: You will see the number 1 at the end of the above lines - you can change the number and the numbers mean:- 0 Logoff 1 Shutdown 2 Reboot 4 Force 8 Poweroff @ECHO OFF START /W C:\WINDOWS\SCANDSKW.EXE /A /N START C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 or simpler shorter version:- @ECHO OFF START /W SCANDSKW /A /N START RUNDLL32 shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 1 Save the batch file with a meaningful name such as shutdown.bat and stick it on your desktop or some convenient location. Note that all batch files must have the .BAT extension in order to execute. Double-click the shortcut when you're ready to shut down. When the scandisk process completes, Windows will shut down. Perfect. Just change scandisk to whatever you want to run on shutdown. You can run as many or as few as you like, but the final command should always be the shutdown command itself - without the /W switch. Probably the hardest bit is to work out which switches or parameters the program requires in order to fulfil the function you require. Check the documentation for the program you want to run to ensure your command line arguments (switches and parameters) are correctly set. Note that programs residing in the C:\Program Files folder (or any folder using long-filenames) should be quoted in full. e.g. if the program were C:\Program Files\Long Filename.exe, we'd use: @ECHO OFF START /W "C:\Program Files\Long Filename.exe" START C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 CHAPTER [2] OPTIMIZING WINDOWS MILLENNIUM TIPS
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