[aarhus2004]

The words 'POST' are links. And all other links given are revisions. In some instances, where the post is a brief one, I have given all the information contained in the original. I have also edited or even removed some posts as being no longer of interest. Post titles, tips and tweaks in RED are deemed significant or especially worthwhile.


POST 1... "For WinME Users Only"

Jack Gulley's web page on Windows Millennium which prompted this thread. Here.

POST 3... "More Millennium"

On System Restore - a link to an excellent thread in TSG. Here and a Google search here.

POST 16... "For the Faithful"

The Delindex Link (The best clean-up WinME freeware) & The RegSeeker link (tweaks and registry clean) New Version here & Old Version: here.

POST 17... "ME Talk"

Boot Log Examiner (How does your computer fare on Startup?) - Link.
Plus:
ScanDefrag (automated Disk Cleanup, Scan Disk and Disk Defragment freeware) - Link
MS Splash Screen - remove on Boot-up - Tip/Tweak
Shortcuts to Shutdown and Restart - Tip/Tweak
Enabling DMA - Tip/Tweak and a Link
Expanding Control Panel - Tip/Tweak
The second great WinME Tips/Tweaks website - Link.

POST 24... "In Post #17" above

ShellIconCache (remove/resize/restore). The link given in this post to the Microsoft Community Newsgroups is now obsolete. Do this: Go to Start > Search > enter: shelliconcache. If the folder returned is larger than is reasonable (say 1,000kb or more) delete it and re-start. Windows will recreate the folder and reduce its size. N.B. This is a hidden system folder so you will have to unhide those. Go to Start > Settings > Folder Options > View and scroll down to the appropriate settings (there are three of them). See flavallee's Sticky this forum here.

POST 30... "Some Useful Links"

Various links, including the excellent vb2java cleanie freeware - link and a revised link to HijackThis 1.99.1 Here. This is Merijin's version. For TrendMicro's one go here.

POST 35... "Where is My Product Key?"

Product Key: find it if it exists! - link
'Bills Way' - link to his (Bill's) visual basic freeware site especially his RegSrch.vbs registry search one. Use this after un-installing anything - you will be surprised & it's very simple to use. Here.

POST 43... "Problems with Symantec Norton Anti-Virus?"

Link to MS Newsgroups for WinME listing these categories... Applications. Display. Games. General. Hardware. Internet. Movie Maker. Multimedia. Networking. New User. Power Management. Printing. Setup. System Tools.

Also: About Norton A/V and McAfee A/V (as resource hogs and trouble-makers)

POST 46... "Perhaps of interest to WinME Users"

"Bare Essentials" (Some ideas on Security - mine).

POST 52... "Assorteds"

Tweaks:
Virtual Memory Management.
Active Scripting Disablement (One of the most interesting of the WinMe tweaks!).
DirectX check-out (Is yours working efficiently?)
Startup Axis (Don't burden your computer from the word 'Start').
Maintenance of software/hardware - routines. And a very good website on cleaning. Here.
Tweaks re resource excess usage.

POST 57... "Take Care When Applying Tags"

Take care when applying the TAGS in creating a post in TSG.

POST 65... "By Way of Information"

This forum and its original purpose (a nag). A Sun Java important update. and a revision - here to moderator dvk01's post on the need to update Java (re: Vundo infections).

POST 77... "Password Protection for WinME"

Desktop Locker v1.0 freeware (prevent easy access to your desktop) - here.

POST 82... "Security: A Personal View"

A final (well almost! ) word on my security thinking.

POST 83...

MenuShowDelay
Lightning fast menu display - your choice of lightning speed or less.

An intro. to jv16pt originally a freeware registry cleaner (and still one of the best). It is available here. Version 1.3.

POST 84... "Security Anyone???"

Search engine searching - risks disclosed - BBC Tech Article here re: Risky search engine terms.

POST 93... "Testing and Testers"

But see POST 333 below for the updates.

POST 94... "Rootkits - For the Security Conscious"

A review of Rootkit Detector Software (Based on TSG thread here).

POST 100... "Updates and a Caution. Removing those Index.dat files"

Windows Updates Catalog for use if you do a Format and Install of WinME. Here.

POST 108... "For those in fear and trembling"

Two quotes. Honest, I failed to use the quote tags on the second, which, while somewhat re-assuring, is a bit mixed-up! The quote I mean. I hope.
P.S. (In a whisper) - I think it maybe acredited to Noel P. MVP.

POST 109... "Rename Recycle Bin"

Renaming your Recycle Bin. Here.

POST 110... "Current List of Applied MS Hotfixes for WinME"

The Windows Millennium Complete list of Updates as in June '06.

POST 118... "A Rant known as "Threats - Known and Not So"

POST 134... "Stickies"

Re the Sticky here in this 'Tips and Tricks' forum. A clarification of which is given in this post (134).

POST 139... "The Resource Issue in Windows 9x"

The Resource Issue in Windows 9x. With links to expert opinion and guidance.

POST 151... "Illumination by Song and Dance"



POST 153... "A little of this and that"

The new RegSeeker. Link,
Uninstalling WMP9. Link,
More on Rootkits. Link,
AVG Free to remain available. Link.
Streaming Video. Suggestions. And this update: When logging-in to a stream make sure your I.E.6 settings under Security > Internet > Custom > Settings > Folder Options > View and scroll down to the appropriate settings (there are three of them). See flavallee's Sticky this forum here.

POST 158... "Prettier and prettier"

Two of the best and most useful freewares - from Mike Lin - StartUpCPL and StartUp Monitor here.

POST 161... "Don't update this video card!"

IF you don't have an ATI video card then skip this post. However if you do have one and it is an ATI Rage 128 GL SD AGP or the PRO version of that card or the Rage Fury, then this post may be of serious interest.

POST 172... "WordPad & its default font"

"As a comparatively confused novice in the more esoteric innards of WinME I have managed to find a way of getting a satisfactory outcome for myself. When I click on a Desktop shortcut to WordPad it opens to my preferred Font, Style and Size..."

POST 176... "Sun Java Updates - A revision"

On the Sun Java Runtime for Millennium - Links (lotsa).

Oh Sun Java... The third link in the post is incorrect now - just ignore it.

POST 183... "Threats to MS Word... "

"Triple threat targets Word users". Here.

POST 184... "Format and Install Windows Millennium"

On Formatting C: and Re-installing Millennium. And Links.

POST 185... "Partitioning a Hard Disk"

On Partitioning or Re-partitioning a Hard Drive. And lotsa Links.

POST 186... "Those Confounded Settings in Internet Explorer 6"

On the settings in I.E.6 and O.E.6. Link.

POST 191... "The most amusing and puzzling MS solution".

Yuk, why do I need "Shortcut to" as well as an arrow?

POST 192...Don't go to this post The link given below is the correct one.

Keep your computer clock set with the accuracy of the atomic clock from here.

POST 198... Some observations, tips and so forth...

POST 199... "Virus alert for Europeans & all of us"

Here and here.

POST 201... "Sizing the tree"

TreeSize
Another superb freeware. An earlier version (my preference) here. Current version here.

POST 202...

The best way to to stash the Windows Updates. Thanks ekim68 (Mike).

POST 209... "The whole world. A patch for all"

POST 217... "HijackThis x 2"

POST 218... "Treating your WinME machine to two probably needed specials"

Cleaning the CPU fan and replacing the CMOS battery.

POST 221... "Security and Mozilla Firefox"

Security. Mozilla Firefox the great one. The Beeb (BBC) and a con. The first link to the BBC is here revised.

POST 223... "Relationships - CMOS and Battery, BIOS and... "

POST 224... "The latest".

New version ScanDefrag. The 'walk the dog' and 'let it work and shutdown the rig' - no-problem super- efficient freeware. And a decision about which of two HijackThis' to use.

POST 225... "The learning never stops"

The APPLOG and its potential for causing problems.
I have, obviously, an interest in either voodoo or in birds of a different feather. Or both! It's a spell check for O.Express and a very good one.

POST 229... "More on the Applog"

The registry tweaks which prevent further logging. Links. But now see POST 231 below

POST 231... "Re-thinking the Applog, TaskMonitor and Defragmenting"

A mind changes.

POST 237...

ekim68 (Mike) shares some of the insights gained in his work as a Computer Technician and

POST 238...

Mike again.

POST 241...

J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update? Tips for installing it and subsequent ones too. These are still current (01-JAN-2008)

POST 243...

More Mike.

POST 251...

Stoner (Jack) looks at things to come... and

POST 252...

More Jack.

POST 253...

Mike joins in... and again.

POST 254... Here.

POST 261...

Mike shares more of his experience.

POST 264... "As promised"

The Power Supply. A Saga. Viruses !! Recovery Disks. Do not attempt to clean your optical scroll-wheel mouse!

POST 265...

Stoner (Jack) responds to the above post 264.

POST 266...

On a Router (quoted below). And a link to an interesting thread elsewhere in TSG.

"And as for the router question I mentioned here (scroll way down) I think it resolved. I now believe it safe to say that the settings/configs of a (working) router do not include any which render it useless and working. See this thread here"

POST 269... "Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File"

A Host's File Recommendation and a Link.

POST 277... "Acronis TrueImage 7"

My summation of the sort-out.

N.B. The free version of Acronis True Image 7 is no longer available. However Acronis are offering a trial (25days) download of version 11. See here. And I have learnt the owners of Seagate and Maxtor hard disks can use the Seagate Disc Wizard (d/load size 104MBs) see here, which uses Acronis technology (see here) to create a back-up of a drive. This update dated 01-JAN-2008.

POST 279...

In Memoriam - Marlene.

POST 280 and POST 281

Tributes from ekim68 and Skivvywaver respectively.

POST 282... "Another (and better) Spell Checker"

An excellent Spell Check from PalWare. The APSC 4.0 here. Thanks, BobJam. (BJ).

POST 286... "The magic and the mystery"

The vB Code is the magic. Firefox 2.0.0.5 (the latest version BTW) is, for me, still the mystery.

POST 291... "A freeware tool par excellence"

A website copy tool. Link.

Freeware and Open Source. Link.

POST 292... "Deleted files will not leave Recycle Bin"

A thread for the record, I think.

POST 293... "This is not a contradiction"

Some suggestions about security and a great freeware for that purpose.
And
POST 294... "The forgotten"

The gifs I forgot in the previous post!

POST 298... More on the mysterious fox named Mozilla Fire. Speeding it up. And more on images in posts using it.

POST 300... "Speeding-up Mozilla Firefox" More of the same.

POST 309... "Instant Lock - A change of heart."

POST 314... "Happy Halloween and Guy Fawkes nights..."

Those time changes and the way to fix them in compliance with the new allocations.

POST 316... "Sun Java Update" Java 1.5 Runtime 5.0. Update 14.

POST 321... "An unwanted icon change reversed"

I was pleased to be obliged to look further that I had previously done into File Types and the Icons associated with them.

POST 331... "WinMe: The Power Options"

This another of those "how on earth did I forget this one". It is probably the one thing I remember today that the techie, who worked for the local company, told me as he made some set-up changes to my new. and first-ever computer. "Always", he said, "always use these settings". And I always have.

N.B. It is not possible to have NO Power Scheme in Windows Millennium.

POST 332... "A certain unhappiness or Une certaine tristesse"

WinMe suffers another insult...

POST 333... "Testing your computer's memory and more"

1. Ram
2. Java
3. WD Hard Drives
4. Maxtor Hard Drives

This post is a complete update to this previous one.


POST 334... "A CPU: Loaded & Unloaded".

Keeping a weather eye on your CPU's health and well-being.

POST 335..."The tried and the true"

A complete list of freewares. Online scans. The entire list of Windows Millennium folder contents. Parts 1 - 10.

And not a post - these:

Jack Gulley: On Storing Windows Updates. Here

A tweak: In Control Panel > System > Performance > File System, in the drop-down box against "Typical role of this computer" select 'Network Server'. (This is whether or not your computer has that role). And see here for that and other tweaks for the File System.


And finally:

Java Update to Update 14?... NOT as on 01-JAN-2008


My thanks to all contributors to this thread.

With best wishes for this new year,

Ben. aarhus2004