Tip Tweak site

[snakefoot]

This is a site I have made to keep track of the tips and tweaks I stumble upon during my stay on the internet, both for DOS, Win9x and NT

http://snakefoot.homestead.com/files/tweak/default.html

Sorry about the white bar, I'm trying to find a place to move my site

Any comments would be great either by missing tips/tweaks or lousy layout

[rmancini]

Outstanding job! Just what I've been looking for.

[JetBlack69]

Thats a cool site. It would be even better if you had any win2000 tips on there because I don't know if I should use the tips on win98 or nt. I assume nt but you know what happens when you assume.....

Once again, cool site.

[snakefoot]

Well I haven't added any dedicated win2k section since I haven't found any special win2k tweaks besides ultra dma 66. And as Win2k user the only thing I have done is to install TweakUI and the right drivers. Some of the tweaks are somewhat dangerous and causing error when copying large files(those tweaks with file allocation size and such). You may ask why they are there then but they are for people who knows what they are doing and my explaination is not complete.

You might have noticed I have tried a little by adding the extra services for win2k in the service section

But I have thought of making a Windows sections for tips which works on all versions of windows.

And I guess when there is material enough I will expand into a win2k section.

But I'm not the most active person with my web page at the moment so it isn't updated that much(not seeking for tweaks myself, waiting for them to come to me). And the tweak guides on other web-sites are actually pretty non-interesting and contains nothing new(just applying old tweaks to new systems and one can easily doubt the gain of those tweaks).

Would like a place where one tried out each tweak and showed what the gain actually was(and not just doing one test since the preciseness of benchmark software isn't that accurate, and at the first time it seems faster and another time it is slower) But that is a fulltime job, and I leave that for some1 else.

Not sure all this answers any questions besides that I'm not working that much on my site anymore, just wanted to share my work with others.

[hackercarlos]

Yeah cool site.

[River~]

this is one I put together as I ran in to them, at least one of them will be one that you will bookmark and go to often, take a look at:

http://homepages.go.com/~riverofwar/Tweaking3.htm


River~

[VanMac]

Great site, but I have a question:

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4. Shift at restart
When installing programs you often get told in the end of the installation that it will have to reboot, which will lead to it booting from scratch. Instead choose "No" to the question about rebooting and do your restarting with "Shutdown..." in the Start Menu and select "Restart Windows" when selecting "Ok" with mouse while holding down Shift.
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What exactly does this do?

Thanks

[HAL9000]

It just restarts Windows (A little faster). If you don't do it, your machine boots right from the beginning (kinda like if you turned the system right off then on again).

[River~]

VanMac,

as Hal9000 said, and to expound on that, "if you are installing, and/or tweaking your system it usually calls for a "Restart," for the changes to take affect. these changes, (installation and/or tweaking)are ones that only affect Windows.

You do not need to do a "cold boot" (a full system restart) where you load everything and run system memory check.

This process accomplishes making the changes and does so in less time than a cold boot.

"start/shutdown/restart and hold down the "Shift" key then click "OK".........which reloads only Windows.