Tweaking Optimizing Windows.pdf - GEGeek

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
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OPTIMIZING WINDOWS MILLENNIUM TIPS