Okay, I think there should be a thread for tips of how to tweak certain sections of your Operating system (Be it what ever) So I'm going to place one in here
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Deleting Temporary files on bootup - win9x
Quite simply, windows has a temporary folder that installations use and programs like Winzip. If you don't clean your temp folder then you can run out of hard-drive space and sometimes installations can suffer errors (Through using older files for installation) So it makes it a good idea to delete the files in your temp folders.
The next line though is Ideal for adding to your AUTOEXEC.BAT
@C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\
This will mean on boot the TEMP folder is emptied.
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Registery programs - Windows OS
I'm a gluton for playing in the registery, sometimes it's necessary to remove unwanted things in your Add/Remove programs registery and other times it's a good idea to clean up a key that some old uninstalled program left. (sometimes you can even spot trojan entries)
I always find it useful to have on the desktop REGEDIT.exe and SCANREG.exe, so you have to create a shortcut to them, they can both be found in your WINDOWS (or equivalent) Folder.
It's a very good idea to export your Registery to a .REG file, these can then be edited or used to restore your system if you should alter something at a later date.
(There is actually a method of writing .REG files by hand for adding keys , very useful for some manovres, for instance my movement of a Full install of Starcraft/Broodwar across a network to another PC. I had to then track down the starcraft/broodwar registers and write them to a .REG file, this means that I could then re-register the folders/files/game on the other computer, and can play with my Broodwar Cd. (because my mate has still to return Starcraft)
I'll think of some more (Possible find some too on my travels)
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Deleting Temporary files on bootup - win9x
Quite simply, windows has a temporary folder that installations use and programs like Winzip. If you don't clean your temp folder then you can run out of hard-drive space and sometimes installations can suffer errors (Through using older files for installation) So it makes it a good idea to delete the files in your temp folders.
The next line though is Ideal for adding to your AUTOEXEC.BAT
@C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\
This will mean on boot the TEMP folder is emptied.
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Registery programs - Windows OS
I'm a gluton for playing in the registery, sometimes it's necessary to remove unwanted things in your Add/Remove programs registery and other times it's a good idea to clean up a key that some old uninstalled program left. (sometimes you can even spot trojan entries)
I always find it useful to have on the desktop REGEDIT.exe and SCANREG.exe, so you have to create a shortcut to them, they can both be found in your WINDOWS (or equivalent) Folder.
It's a very good idea to export your Registery to a .REG file, these can then be edited or used to restore your system if you should alter something at a later date.
(There is actually a method of writing .REG files by hand for adding keys , very useful for some manovres, for instance my movement of a Full install of Starcraft/Broodwar across a network to another PC. I had to then track down the starcraft/broodwar registers and write them to a .REG file, this means that I could then re-register the folders/files/game on the other computer, and can play with my Broodwar Cd. (because my mate has still to return Starcraft)
I'll think of some more (Possible find some too on my travels)