Windows 98 / ME: How to tame Windows ME
Computer users often face a problem: they want to use
The most modern software (there are more functions and bells and whistles), Play the most modern games (they are more realistic), but by installing everything This happiness on the computer, often do not experience the proper satisfaction, because Really qualitatively new toys and new operating systems often Require and new iron .Windows ME, I probably do not refer to a particularly voracious, since fresh still in memory
Impressions of the work of Windoze 2k on 64 MB of RAM. No, this system in general is nothing: Interface alaWin 2 k , MediaPlayer 7, InternetExplorer 5.5, etc. But there is also Unpleasant moments: system restore, file protection - in general, everything that Called PC Health.Despite the fact that it is universally presented as the most advanced feature of the system
And that this is what distinguishes it qualitatively, I believe that it is nothing more than Pampering. I removed from my system PC Health, I quite often download from Internet'a and install various programs, sometimes completely useless, but These are my problems. So there's nothing wrong with my computer does not happen, As it did not happen and when I was 98th. If the system "lies down", then This, as a rule, occurs or because of own curves of handles (you know "there is nothing On a mirror to blame, if the face is crooked "?), Or because the term of freshness System (typical for all systems 9x). In any case, an experienced user Knows the only 100% medicine - guess yourself what .So, before us the task is to get a modern system, but at the same time keep
Control over it and over its productivity. There are two possible options.The first is that you install Windows 95 OSR2 (no, it's not
Typo, namely 95), then put Internet Explorer 5.0 on it (in addition to A fairly powerful browser, you will find both Active Desktop and Quick Launch Panel) And MediaPlayer 6.4. I'm not kidding - you really get a fast modern Operating system.The second case is suitable for those who, like me, managed to put on their own
A computer masterpiece by a programmer of thought called Windows Millennium Edition. This article is just for you.The first thing to do after installing Windows ME is to right-click
Click on Mycomputer , select Properties \ Performance \ File System \ Troubleshooting and tick the DisableSystemRestore . At the same time In the same place, click on the Floppy Disk tab and uncheck Search for new Floppydiskdriveseachtimeyourcomputerstarts , so that when loading Windows, I was looking for new disk drives, thus slowing down the whole process.Then click OK everywhere, the system prompts you to reboot, with which
It is necessary to agree.Having disabled System Restore, we only broke the ice, but before the jubilation of more
long away. The fact that the PC Health system for its operation should Constantly collect information about the state of the system.She collects it every 24 hours or every 10 hours of continuous work,
Whichever comes first. But if the spirit of experimentation is alive in us and we decided Abandon PC Health, then it would be logical to disable this collection of information. In- First, we go to Control Panel \ Scheduled Tasks, there are already registered two tasks. We will be interested in the one that contains the words PC Health. Click on it Right-click, select Properties and uncheck the first tab With Enabled ( scheduledtaskrunsatspecifiedtime ). You can do even easier: Instead of Properties , select Delete .Secondly, open Regedit.exe and go along the following path:
HKLM \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run. There will be
Parameter PC Health, the value of which will be "C: \ WINDOWS \ PCHealth \ Support \ PCHSchd.exe -s "(I assume that you have the Windows installed in the directory C: \ Windows, if not, then the path will be different). We right click on this Parameter and select Delete. Further we go to HKLM \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ RunServices , there we subject the execution At least two parameters: * StateMgr «C: \ WINDOWS \ System \ Restore \ StateMgr . Exe "and LoadPowerProfile " Rundll 32. exepowrprof . Dll , LoadCurrentPwrScheme. " The last parameter, I must say, has nothing to do with PC Health, but a similar entry is already available at HKLM \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run , so why twice? To load the same? If you do not use the Scheduler, also delete SchedulingAgent.Everything, we close Regedit and reboot the computer. I can congratulate you: you only
That they were done with System Restore! We move on to the next component of the PC system Health - SystemFileProtection ( SFP ). If you still tend to keep SFP, then You can skip a few paragraphs of this article and continue reading from that A place where it will go about reviving Real DOS Mode. The only thing I tell you is I recommend that you turn SFP towards yourself, and towards the forest ...The matter is that in System File Protection for Windows ME by default it is disconnected
The notification mode that SFP is restoring files. In order to To enable this mode, go to the registry at HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ SystemFileProtection , there will be Parameter ShowPopups of type dword . Assign it a value of 1, close Regedit and Restart the computer.Well, those who, like me, believe that SFP is needed by a competent user, like
Hare brake light, open your favorite Regedit and sent to the address HKEY _ LOCAL _ MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ VxD \ VxDMon . What are we there for? Watch? The SystemRestore parameter is set to N (No). Of course, we are He himself was cut down at the very beginning.But the parameter SystemFileProtection is still set to Y (Yes). what
Well, we will correct the injustice: click on SystemFileProtection twice and enter N. Next, as always, close Regedit and reboot the computer.Now we can say that we have disabled most of the PC Health system. AT
This condition was my system about a few months from the day Installation. But one day I needed to change (I do not even remember Why) the size of the Swap file.After rebooting the system, I was surprised to find that the disk
The volume of free space has dramatically decreased.It turned out that Windows, in addition to creating a new Swap file, saved the old one
Folder _ Restore \ Temp ! What are the reasons for such a "smart" act of the system, It's hard to say, but the problem is further aggravated by the fact that you delete this file from under Windows is not possible, and it's easy to reboot in the MS-DOS emulation mode (like this Was in the 98th), to clean the directory _Restore \ Temp, is also difficult. So I had to go into the BIOS, boot from a floppy, fix a misunderstanding Windows, then again climb into the BIOS, again put the Boot Sequence = C only ... In In general, it was decided to permanently uninstall PC Health.It is quite easy to do this. First go to Regedit and delete this key:
HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ VxD \ VxDMon, after
Reboot the machine . Then select Run from the Start menu, enter Rundll . Exesetupx . Dll , InstallHinfSectionUninstall 132 C : \ WINDOWS \ INF \ PCHealth.inf (I assume that you have Windows installed in the folder C: \ Windows) And press enter. The system will rumble a couple of seconds hard drive, they say Updating System Configuration - and everything PC Health for you history .It remains only to clean the registry a little. In particular, delete such keys:
HKEY_ CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ PCHealth, HKEY_CURRENT_USER \
Software \ Microsoft \ Active Setup \ Installed Components \ PerUser_ PCHealth, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Active Setup \ Installed Components \ PerUser_PCHealth. Also, search the registry for all references to StateMgr.exe (Most likely you will not find anything, but it is advisable to look for prevention) and Delete them.Now finally you can do what you (I'm sure) dreamed about for a long time,
But were afraid to admit it - to remove to such and such mother the folder _Restore from all Their disks. Windoze will not let you from now on.But the uninstallation of PC Health does not pass without a trace. There are two consequences, with
Which, however, it is easy to cope with. First, you can no longer call Vindolius Help by selecting the appropriate item in the main menu that opens when Press the Start button. The problem is that in Millennium the help system is cramped Integrated into the PC Health system, which we just ourselves ... But Upset there is no reason! After all, the Help has not gone anywhere, it still lies in the C : \ Windows \ Help . That is, in any program you can select the menu item Help (Or press F1) and access the help system. In principle, they do All normal people, and tell me, do you use the menu item Start \ Help? So I suggest that you get rid of it so that your eyes do not callose. To do this again Will have to be linked to the registry: at HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer create a new parameter (Binary Value) NoSMHelp and assign it the value hex: 01,00,00,00.After that, restart the computer.
The second consequence - together with a cumbersome help system, you can no longer
Select the menu item Start \ Programs \ Accessories \ SystemTools \ SystemInformation In order to get acquainted with the information about the system. And again There is absolutely no reason to be upset.Have you ever run System Information in the Millennium Edition? Greater
Stagnation and sluggishness and can not be imagined! We do not need such a System Information, that's whether it was in the 98th ...Hmm, the solution came by itself: why not use System Information from
Windows 98 in Millennium ? Find some distribution of Windows 98, and It does not matter in which language - I have Windows ME English, and all the distributions of the 98th, That he could find on the compacts - Russian. We are interested in two files: msinfo32.chm and Msinfo32.exe.In different versions of the distribution they can be in different archives (in my
Case msinfo32.chm was in win98_27.cab, and msinfo32.exe was in win98_40.cab), so That use some sort of file search that can dig inside Archives, for example, built-in Search in Windows Commander. Next, rewrite File msinfo32.chm in the directory C: \ Windows \ Help, and the msinfo32.exe file in C: \ Program Files \ CommonFiles \ MicrosoftShared \ MSInfo . Then create a shortcut to Msinfo32.exe and enjoy life.Once I put Windows ME on one computer on which the old one was running
(DOSO more) editor / compiler assembler. Assembler that was under one Specific processor, and the version of the editor under Windows simply did not exist. Unexpectedly, a problem arose: the editor flatly refused to dial Russian Font comments on the procedures. The only thing that could solve the problem - Keyrus (remember this? ). And how do you order Download a resident of Dosov in Millennium? Any intervention in autoexec.bat Or config.sys in this operating system will be ignored, and The corresponding files are fixed. Well, there are no desperate situations, and this The problem also found a solution. All statements about the fact that in Millennium Finally over with real MS-DOS mode, not entirely correct. Actually Real DOS in this operating system is (and how could it be otherwise, the roots of something 9x), simply by default it is well hidden. And since it arose in it Need, then try to return it.First, go here - http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ . Download
A small archive containing the necessary patch. Next, create somewhere on the Drive directory, say, backup, where to copy the following files: c: \ io.sys, C : \ windows \ command . Com and c : \ windows \ system \ regenv 32. exe . Keep these files in Dry and warm place in case you want to return to the original Windows configuration. Create another directory, for example, temp, where Copy the above three files, as well as the downloaded patch (winmedos.com).Run winmedos.com, then copy the "patched" files accordingly:
Io.sys - in c: \, with mmand.com - in c: \ and in c: \ windows, regenv32.exe - in the
C: \ windows \ system. Add the following line to the config.sys file:DEVICE = C: \ WINDOWS \ IFSHLP.SYS, autoexec.bat - C: \ WINDOWS \ WIN.COM.
Reboot. From now on, you can use autoexec.bat and config.sys, as in Good old times, and also when you start Windows, press F8 and select the mode Emulation of MS-DOS .I just want to add that if you do not have a really good reason to return
To real DOS mode, it's just that, for interest, it's still not worth it.Still there is such a thing in the new operating system, like Automatic Update: this is when you
Connect with the provider, Windoze will be independently connected to Microsoft'ovskim site and can even download upgrades. You, I hope, on the Internet Do not go out to upgrade Windows? If u really do Standing lotion, then here it is purposeful and you can swing, and so ... You, I I think, have already understood the hint: Control Panel \ Automatic Updates, there put a tick Opposite Turnoffautomaticupgrading and click OK .The next thing I want to talk about is "this should
Know / do everyone who cares about the performance of their system. " AT
Windows 98 SE by default was enabled mode, forcing the operating system
Immediately unload unused procedure libraries from memory after closing
Program, these libraries loaded. The advantages of this approach were me
Are described in the article "Managing computer memory" (one of the December numbers
KG). I suggest that you enable this mode in Millennium. For this purpose, the
Address HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \
Create a String parameter of AlwaysUnloadDLL and set it to 1.
By the way, create another string parameter in the same place Max Cached Icons (Note the blanks) and give it a value, say, 2000. This Will allow Windows to create a larger cache of icons (ShellIconCache file in the directory C: \ Windows), which in combination with the previous parameter can significantly Increase the speed of the GUI.If you have less than 256 MB of memory, then you just can not turn a blind eye to
Disk system settings. First, make sure that your hard drive is running in UDMA mode, if it is, of course, not very ancient. Secondly, adjust the dimensions Swap file and Hard disk cache using the information presented in Table 1. Swap file is being set up here - Control Panel \ System \ Performance \ Virtual Memory. Do not forget only the main principle that ensures maximum Performance, - the swap-file must be constant (minimal and The maximum size must match) and unfragmented (defragment it With Norton Speed Disk, where tick Optimize Swap-file).Table 1. Swap file and disk cache settings
Size MinFile Cache MaxFile Cache Swap File Size
16 MB 1024 4096 40 MB
32 MB 2048 8192 128 MB
64 MB - 16,384 160 MB
96 MB - 32768 140-150 MB
128 MB - - 128 MB
160 MB - - ~ 100 MB
192 MB - 64 MB
256 MB - - Disconnect!
The minimum cache size for the disk is set as follows: open the file system.ini
And in the vcache section, specify MinFileCache = x (where x is the number Kilobyte).To configure the maximum cache size, write the parameter
MaxFileCache = x. Do not forget to restart your computer.A few comments to table 1. A dash denotes those cases where nothing
Do not need to configure. So, in most cases it makes no sense to prescribe The MinFileCache = x parameter in the system.ini file.If you have 128 MB of memory or more, then you generally do not need to configure
Vcache parameters. With this amount of memory, Windows ME (and also 98) is quite It is able to independently manage the size of the cache, providing the largest performance.What, do not believe me? Well, then go here: http: // www .
Rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/Disk_ Cache_Optimization / Disk_Cache_ Optimization_01.htm. Here the author of the site conducts a series of tests with various Settings Vcache on 128 MB of RAM (Disk WinMark, Business Winstone, Turok, Half- Life, 3D Mark 99) and eventually comes to the conclusion that with this amount of RAM Configure yourself Vcache does not make sense.You can often find tips on setting up Chunksize - block size (in bytes),
To which Disk Cache is partitioned (everything is configured in the same vcache section File system.ini). Yes, indeed, this parameter affects Performance, although very little.All the salt is that the default value is 512 bytes - it's already
In many cases optimal, so that nothing to edit is not necessary. For details Go to http: // www . Rojakpot.com/ Speed_Demonz / Chunksize_Optimization / Chunksize_Optimization_01.htm.In Windows, you can also configure the number of files (referring to file names)
And directories that will be cached.In this regard, many advise to expose Typical Role of the computer as Network
Server. Well, the thought is sound, only in this case will only be cached 2729
Files and 64 directories, which will be allocated only 40 kilobytes of RAM. But we
Anybody and nothing prevents to increase productivity of the disk system even more
And set the size of the cache for file names and directories, say, 3 times more,
That is, 150 kilobytes. This will cause Windows to cache already
Simultaneously 6144 files and 200 directories! We open Regedit, we go in
HKEY_LOCAL_ MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ FS Templates \.
There will already be 3 keys responsible for the 3 main roles of your computer - Desktop, Server, Mobile. Create a new key by analogy, say, New cache, Assign it a name (double click on the word Default and type, for example, My Cool cache).Then in our key create two parameters (Binary) - NameCache and PathCache.
We assign the value Name: hex: 00,18,00,00, and the parameter PathCache - hex: c8.00,00,00. Next, go to Control Panel \ System \ Performance \ File System \ Hard Disk and select the drop-down list Typical role of this computer Our "My cool cache".You can experiment with other sizes of the cache. As far as I am concerned
It is known, the maximum possible value for NameCache is hex:00, ff, 00,00 (65280 files), and for PathCache - hex: ff, 00,00,00 (255 directories).
But note that in the latter case Windows will have to allocate 2.1 MB for the cache, so That set such large values only if you have at least 128 MB Memory.Perhaps this is the main thing that every user should do to get
The pleasure of working in the new OS from Microsoft.And therefore, allow me to bow out.
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