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
First class information - and exactly what I needed right now! No wonder I haven't been able to uninstall/reinstall dial-up networking! Thanks, Pete!
You're quite welcome, Checkout! lol! Man, you were all over that one in a heartbeat! Very glad it helped. Pete
