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Windows 98 / ME: Acceleration of Windows 9x / Me

logo


When a Windows system displays an animated (or non-animated logo), as well as display it requires some resources, then the system load takes longer than in the case, if he was absent. It can be easily removed if the open MSDOS.SYS file from the root of the boot drive and write at the end of the line "logo = 0" (without the quotes), then the logo will not appear. But you can still do, and on the contrary, make your logo. To do this, you need only to create a picture with a resolution of 320 by 400 pixels with 8 bit color (256 colors), save it in BMP format and burn to the root of the boot drive named logo.sys, and MSDOS.SYS if not stated that logo should not be displayed at boot time, then after reboot you will see your picture. In the same way, you can create logos for "Preparing the computer to turn off the power" (logow.sys file in the folder where Windows is installed), and "You can now turn off your computer" (logos.sys file in the same folder). If you have no graphics except PAINT Editor (included with Windows), it is easier not to bother creating an image with the changes of its size, and open these files (or logos logow.sys), and just correct them. By the way, they do not open the standard option "Open ..." and "Open as ..." followed by the file type - BMP.

The folder for temporary files


By default, Windows makes it so that the folder is located at WINDOWS \ TEMP, but since hardly anyone looks back, then, respectively, and foul is a place much faster. There is a good idea to move it to the Trash. It is also very simple. To do this in the AUTOEXEC.BAT to register two lines - SET TEMP = C: \ RECYCLED and SET TMP = C: \ RECYCLED. After that, all programs will put all its temporary files to the Trash. And, you can clean this folder every time you start Windows. To do this, in the same line of AUTOEXEC.BAT prescribed @DELTREE / YC: \ RECYCLED (erases all RECYCLED folder and all its contents, without requiring any evidence to remove), and then @MD C: \ RECYCLED (RECYCLED creates a folder again, but in principle it can be the last line and did not prescribe, Windows will create it again himself at boot time).

Fonts


only one piece of advice According fonts - do not go crazy and do not place more of them than you really need. Often while working in an assembly company, we have seen customers who bring back warranty computers, complaining that they are much slower analogues of the neighbors. When checking it was found out that in 70% of cases this was to blame stabbed Shopping and a large number of additional fonts. A 10% - excessive suspiciousness clients. In other cases - usually their own hands curves, climbing in the BIOS Setup and other forbidden places for Dummies.

IP address


When you install a static IP address instead of a dynamically allocated load time it managed to reduce by more than 5 times. Do this: open the Control Panel, it go to its web properties, there is open the TCP / IP properties (note there is on your local network setup mind pozhaluystva not grobte your Internet propisaniem not the IP address). A protocol in the properties right on the first tab, change the obtain an IP address automatically to the permanent address of the 4 digits. Example 169.254.0.1 for the first machine, 169.254.0.2 for the second car, etc. Why the first two digits are? Because Microsoft believes unwritten standard (and can write, but they know our attitude toward them to write) that LAN IP addresses begin with those two digits.

Desktop Customization


The first problem - many people like to do yourself the drawings on the desktop. And absolutely nothing, that they are quite well reduce the system performance in some aspects, as well as a waste of precious memory. Example of performance degradation is not observed at the time fans to sit in Photoshop, created when pictures smaller or even more frightening larger than the resolution of the desktop, and then place the "Stretch" in the background settings. A friend of mine because of this forced me to change it quite a decent speed in 2D ASUS AGP/V3000TV on Banshee, believing that Riva128 - terribly slow in 2D Chip: Well, I'm not talking that Windows is pretty pathetic scales the picture, completely losing her quality. But in addition to the elementary the background at 1024 by 768 pixels occupies more than 2 megabytes of RAM, so to speak, quite significantly at least 128MB of memory volumes. In addition, if you really have a burning desire to hang on the background image, then is not it better to try to optimize it with Photoshop up to 256 colors to include in this dithering. Even some pictures look at this very well. For a practical example you can look into the recommendations section \ Detonator settings: there have a picture of a hare at 256 and 16mln colors. It looks almost identical. But the memory occupies a different number.

The second problem - our favorite Corporation is interested in design, and sometimes brings this passion to marasmic value. Example - a solid animation Windows98, everyones leaving these menus, rolling windows, etc. You understand that instantly display the window that appears much simpler than the same, but leaves the empty space, and therefore the resources it requires much less. And besides, all sorts of nice and cool animations increase the instability of the system. Disable too simple - to get into the Display Properties (via the control panel or by simply calling the properties of the desktop), go there in the section where all beautifully set up (in the English version - Effects), and there also disable this animation. By the way, if there is motion blur is enabled fonts, you can turn it off at the same time, it will be faster.

Setting sounds
Tip of the same series as the pro fonts. Do not - do not put too eats RAM and slow download, especially if you hang at the start of Windows that be long and beautiful. Removed from the control panel, in the sound settings. Just put the circuit to None, nothing else.