At 09:04 on Nov 9, Janus combined all the right letters to say: > >Personally, I like the power to turn things OFF ;o) > > > > If you are using Win 9X, you can do a lot of customisation with TweakUI -- > an unsupported tool that MS programmers made on their own time to do a lot > of the things power users want to do -- like get rid of useless bells and > whistles. Yeah, TweakUI is one of my best friends when it comes to Windows... I wish that kind of thing was built into the OS, though, and not a separate entity you had to locate and install on your own if you knew what to look for. > But, for a lot of the other Win9X irritants, you gotta use msconfig or do > the Registry Hack -- my collected Registry Hack documentation now makes up > a manual of its own, but I no longer have menus full of items I don't need, > devices that load whether I want them or not, anything related to channels, > active desktop or....... ugh, registry hacking. ;o) Does it make a noticeable difference on speed of the GUI or just more comfortable/customized? > Try going to the MS Knowledge Base -- a lot of the Registry Hacks are there > if you are determined. And, If you have Win95 or 98 Gold (choke!) TweakUI > is in the Powertoys directory on the CD...... Ahh you can download it from microsoft.com/windows somewhere, too. They also have "kerneltoys" in there. -nicole ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
