On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 9, 2013 11:06 AM, "dmccunney" <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At the moment, I'm posting from an Acer netbook that has 1.5GB RAM, so > I created a 128MB RAMdrive, and just run Aurora from it. > > The Acer runs XP Home, which doesn't have Group Policy Manager, but I > found an old freeware utility that could hook the shutdown event, and > use it to trigger that batch file. The startup batch file is simply > an entry in the All Users StartUp area. > > One minor annoyance: the old freeware utility doesn't distinguish > between Shutdown and Logoff, and makes Shutdown/Restart a two step > process, because it logs me off and I must shutdown/restart from > there. > > I found another utility that may address that, but haven't played with it yet.
And I just did, and it does what I want. It's newgina, from http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/newgina_pre09/readme.html The software was intended to address annoyances with NT4: "This GINA brings new functionality to Windows NT which many users complained is missing: get rid of Ctrl-Alt-Del prior to logging on prevent password protected screen savers run a script at system shutdown run a script at logoff" Item 3 was my use case. It serves as a wrapper around Winlogon. The docs are paranoid about what can happen if there's a problem, so I created a Restore Point and held off till a project I was doing on the machine was complete. The software is 14 years old, intended for NT4, and it wasn't clear it would work as desired under XP Home. As it happens, it works fine, and lets me hook and run a script on shutdown, which is distinguishes from logoff. In this case, the script zips the Firefox instance from the ramdisk back to the hard drive if I shutdown/restart. The other utility is now out of the loop, for a <2MB save in resident programs. The ramdisk software, by the was, is Romex V-Suite: http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/vsuite-ramdisk/ I use the freeware version, which does everything I need, but more powerful payware versions are available. They also offer a beta of a smart cache utility that can extend Windows RAM cache, and use the memory between 3.2 and 4GB 32bit Windows can't address to hold it. Alas, it can't be used *with* the ramdisk, though the website claims that a future goal. Under Win9X, I had a commercial package including a dynamic ramdisk that could grow/shrink as usage demanded. Something like that that could share memory with a cache and use the memory Windows can't might be sweet. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
