Post #50,615
9/5/02 11:05:53 AM
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I got rid of it.
I finally got fed up enough to reload my crappy little laptop (P200, 48mb RAM) back down to Win98SE - the last Win9x series OS I'll ever run. When I bought it, it already had ME on it, but I didn't have a NIC for it, so I didn't want to bother redoing it. Bought a cheap PC Card NIC, tossed ME, and it's running about 2x fast.
By the way - disable System Restore to free up about 1gb of memory and double the speed of your ME machine. The 2x figure I quoted, though, was how much faster 98SE was over ME after undoing System Restore.
ME - the only Microsoft OS disparaged by hardcore Microsofties.
End of world rescheduled for day after tomorrow. Something should probably be done. Please advise.
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Post #50,696
9/5/02 7:48:11 PM
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Get to join you anon
in about a week - as 'we' nuke that POS on a large Dell. Can you imagine.. a "over $2K retail" Dimension 8100 machine, with otherwise beaucoup hardware, RAM etc. being delivered:
in Make Everything Look Like a Web-Page mode! and with Win MErde on it ?? Dell is beneath no-class and well down into.. slime-mold. But we knew that.
We shall have to suffer through the intentionally obtuse New Menus, necessary task disabling and general "site-map" of W2K/NT5.. that now also dinosaur hoped-for World Domination by creeping AD-conversion of Just Everyone\ufffd WHICH FAILED MISERABLY to coerce any but - the terminally deserving! of all which AD represents <<
(We'd have gone 98SE-lite, but - she wants to use an intensive video editing suite; 2K Does seem more 'M$-grade stable' once configured, so WTF...)
Nope, the suite don't come on Open-OS. Yet. Autodesk (!)
{sigh} And youse guys gotta do this crap every day, just to eat! :( My sincere condolences. Again. Anyway.. the hassle is worth it for the satisfaction of looking at that bundle of crapware + your mentioned Sys Restore + the spyware hooks, all-at-once.. cackling.. THEN typing
fdisk <cr>
Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle.. Cackle..
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Post #50,719
9/5/02 10:19:36 PM
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disable System Restore? Pray tell how?
Alex
"Resort is had to ridicule when reason is against us." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Post #50,746
9/5/02 11:20:55 PM
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Easy, I do it on every Me system I have to leave Me on.
Go to Control Panel / System / Performance / Filesystem. Note the check box to disable System Restore. Improves performance and stability considerably.
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Post #50,748
9/5/02 11:29:41 PM
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Thanks! Done!
Alex
"Resort is had to ridicule when reason is against us." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Post #50,750
9/5/02 11:52:13 PM
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Now you can delete . . .
. . the _Recover directory structure. This is usually small, but I encountered one case where it contained 86,000 files, and a virus checker took 3/4 hours to get through it.
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Post #50,863
9/6/02 2:50:23 PM
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Mine is 2 MB.
Alex
"Resort is had to ridicule when reason is against us." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Post #50,870
9/6/02 3:44:01 PM
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It cleans up a lotta stuff when you turn it off.
Prior to turning it off, that folder was 1 *GB* in size on my machine. After I turned it off, it was about 100mb.
End of world rescheduled for day after tomorrow. Something should probably be done. Please advise.
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Post #50,950
9/7/02 3:23:43 AM
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_Recover or _Restore?
I have the latter. It's currently 4Mb and I haven't touched it.
I have, though, turned off System Restore, as per your instructions. I think the PC boots a little faster, but I'm not sure I can tell. Nothing else has changed, but then, it has never been crashy, anyway.
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #50,769
9/6/02 2:50:43 AM
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Yes, I should go do that. Thanks!
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #50,765
9/6/02 2:07:41 AM
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Crappy laptop?
With Win ME, isn't that synonymous?
More seriously, I got myself (justifying, it wouldn't stand up on an expense report) a Toshiba. Graphics (can you spell SOF 2?) Damn, it's heavy. Damn it's worth it. I'm trying not to damage the keyboard by drooling too much.
Came with XP, nowdays that's an "of course" item. sigh.
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