spy1
March 19th, 2002, 10:30 AM
Got this from the latest LangaList:
"Reader Michael Santo was on a roll, and sent in two separate and
interesting tips on the same day:
* * 1) You may have noticed when you go to Add/Remove programs and
* * try to delete extra Windows components (like Messenger, which
* * I don't want), you only a few items. If you want all possible
* * Windows components you can uninstall, go into the \Windows\Inf
* * directory, edit SYSOC.INF and remove the word "hide" and
* * replace it with, well nothing. [I.E. replace instances of * * ",HIDE," with ",,"] You can then add/install all the Windows
* * components possible, including Windows Messenger.
* * 2) re NTFS, there's one thing you can do to increase
* * performance. The OS marks the timestamps a folder when you
* * access it. You can turn this off by Opening the registry and
* * Changing
* * \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
* * to 1. Naturally if the key does not exist you should create it ..."
(These may have been covered elsewhere here - if so, my apologies). Pete
"Reader Michael Santo was on a roll, and sent in two separate and
interesting tips on the same day:
* * 1) You may have noticed when you go to Add/Remove programs and
* * try to delete extra Windows components (like Messenger, which
* * I don't want), you only a few items. If you want all possible
* * Windows components you can uninstall, go into the \Windows\Inf
* * directory, edit SYSOC.INF and remove the word "hide" and
* * replace it with, well nothing. [I.E. replace instances of * * ",HIDE," with ",,"] You can then add/install all the Windows
* * components possible, including Windows Messenger.
* * 2) re NTFS, there's one thing you can do to increase
* * performance. The OS marks the timestamps a folder when you
* * access it. You can turn this off by Opening the registry and
* * Changing
* * \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
* * to 1. Naturally if the key does not exist you should create it ..."
(These may have been covered elsewhere here - if so, my apologies). Pete