Windows Secrets

    Windows contains many hidden features that can optimise windws or just make it look better.. I'd definitley recomend an app called Win Boost to make things more user friendly. I've also included some problems and other cool shit that i've encountered

- Can I seperate a Hard Drive?

    Yes you can use a program called partition magic and you can divide it into as many partitions as you want. This will make defragging easier and also your drive will perform better, and you can also create a dual boot so you can have Win98 on one drive and Linux on the other. But be carefull and don't assume you know what your doing a lot of people i know go through hell when they mess up their drive.

- How Do I remove the Windows 95 Logo on startup?

To remove the Windows 95 logo on start-up, you can do the following:

  1. Open the file msdos.sys in the MS-DOS Editor.
  2. Find the [Options] section.
  3. Add the following line to the [Options] section:Logo=0
  4. Reboot your computer, and there will be no logo on start-up!
  5. The default setting here is: "Logo1" which adds the default animated Start-Up Logo

- Any ideas on how to keep my drive clean and running nice?

    Check out Norton Utilities 2000. It contains Norton Antivirus which you need anyways and also has lots of other stuff to keep your drive clean. Tells you your drive fragmentation and free space. Incidently make sure you have Norton Antivirus or Antiviral ToolKit Pro don't d/l warez without an antivirus warez is crawling with virus'es. Imagine how many computers it's been through.

    Also, it is a known fact that after a few months your computer will run slow. Because of the programs that've been installed and uninstalled, lost clusters and the hundreds of operations it goes through every second. The only way to aid this is to pereodically format you HD. And yet another reason to buy a CD burner, my cousin told me that with an app called Win Image you can create a drive image sort of like an ISO and store it on a CD. So think of it this way, you format your drive, reinstall windows and install the required standard software such as burning software and any net stuff u might have, after that u use Win Image and create and image of the drive at that time. A few months go by your computer starts to run slow, just use the CD and restore it to the way it was.

- Removing Programs listed in the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs Section

If you remove an installed program and its files by deleting the files, it may still be listed in the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. To remove it from the list:

     

  1. Start the Registry Editor
  2. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall
  3. Delete the program entry here
  4. Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows

- Free Long Distance Phone Calls nice and legal

    Yep yep there is a way. I think the app is called Net Meeting or something but if u can make a call to someone over buddy phone then in theory couldn't you talk to them through another output device? Think of your phone as an output device no as a phone. Then in theory couldn't a modem (another output device) be used like a telephone? Yea so I think you make the call over Net Meeting or Buddy Phone and use some special setting to change something. I dunno I shouldn't be talking about this cause I've never done it but still I think you should know that yea it is possible.

- Any way to safley hide Windows folders?

    I suggest an app called Magic Folder it hides folders that require a password to be opened. You need to enter the password in the first place just to see it. It's a good app but be carefull and don't forget your password. Sorry, I forgot where i saw it but i'm sure you'll stumble over it somewhere.

- Remote connections to your own computer (not hacking)

    It is possible to connect remotley and saftley to yours or anyone's computer. Using appz such as Pc Anywhere, Tim Buk Tu, or Remotley Possible you can connect to say your frineds computer and fix it up from your own giving you full access to it. Consider the possibilities but don't mess around by doing something like downloading it into the schools computer, setting up the account and going home and finishing your homework off if your teacher allows it stuff like that u know

- Editing a scanned image

With an app called an OCR which converts text out of graphic images, you can edit a scan. Say you scanned a page on Viruses, the OCR will detect the 'rus' and asks if it is 'rus' and translates the image to rich text. Which then allows you to edit the scan.

- Some important and common start / run commands that you should   know

    regedit - pulls up windows registry. You don't need to know anything about registry just know it's there and what it does to help you understand the scene better. Please don't screw with it unless u sure u know wut your doing

    winipcfg - voia la!! There's your ip# please know this one unless you have one of those appz such as IP watcher that monitors your IP# for you. IP watcher's cool cause I think it has a build in function that publishes it on a web page so ppl can see your IP and connect to your server. Your IP# is also needed for playing gamez online.