[CLUE-Cert] tid bit about Windows

[Mark Harvey]

I mentioned this last night.  I think you'll find this column
interesting & useful.  Particularly the bit about the critical IE
patch!  

See ya all next Tuesday.

Mark

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> BRIAN LIVINGSTON:     "Window Manager"     InfoWorld.com
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> 
> SPEED CLEANING
> 
> By Brian Livingston
> 
> Posted February 28, 2003 12:00 Pacific Time
> 
> Any time I can help you do something faster and better in
> Windows, it makes my day. Today's tip is an undocumented
> feature that can help you save disk space and save time,
> too.
> 
> Reader Norman Vance likes to clean temporary files off his
> disk periodically. But he hates the long, unnecessary wait
> while Windows' own tools calculate various compression ratios
> that might apply to his hard drive.
> 
> "Since moving to Windows 2000, and now Windows XP, I've found
> the Disk Cleanup button on the General tab of my hard drive's
> Properties sheet a pain instead of a plus," Vance says. "Even
> though I've never turned on the 'Compress drive to save disk
> space' option, I still must wait long, agonizing minutes
> while my drive is scanned for potential space savings. This
> may have been appropriate default behavior when drives were
> small and rapidly filling. But in the modern age of
> dollar-per-gigabyte hard drives, why assume I want to save a
> few megabytes by compressing files?"
> 
> The secret, if you don't wish to compress space but you do
> want to delete temporary files, is to eliminate Disk
> Cleanup's lengthy calculation of the possible savings from
> compression. This involves changing a value in the Registry.
> 
> Step 1. Click Start, Run. In Windows 2000 or XP, type
> Regedt32.exe and click OK.
> 
> Step 2. In Regedt32, select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE pane, then
> select the Software folder. Pull down the Registry menu, and
> then click Save Key to back up this folder for safekeeping.
> 
> Step 3. Double-click each folder to open the following key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
> CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress
> old files.
> 
> Step 4. In the right pane, double-click the REG_SZ key to edit
> it. Save the value in case you wish to restore it later. It
> reads B50F5260-0C21-11D2-AB56-00A0C9082678. Press Delete to
> remove the value, then click OK. Close Regedt32.
> 
> Now, right-click a hard drive in My Computer or Windows
> Explorer. Click Properties, then Disk Cleanup. The utility
> will zoom along, skipping the usual analysis of how much your
> old files could be compressed. You'll hardly have time for
> coffee!
> 
> Pick a peck of problem patches. I've written before about
> Microsoft patches that have side effects, but reader Michael
> Dworkin found a doozy.
> 
> Installing the patch Microsoft last month labeled "critical"
> for Internet Explorer 5 and 6 has the nasty habit of
> preventing you from logging on to some sites that require a
> username and password -- even when you've entered valid
> data.
> 
> In a delicious irony, this prevents people who installed the
> IE patch from accessing the e-mail in their MSN accounts. I
> guess no one at Microsoft uses MSN or tested it with the
> patch.
> 
> The company has an explanation and a patch for the patch (at
> least for IE 6) at
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;813951.
> 
> Readers Vance and Dworkin will receive a gift certificate for
> a free book, CD, or DVD of their choice for sending me tips I
> printed.
> 
> Brian Livingston is publisher of BriansBuzz.com. Send tips to
> him at brian at briansbuzz.com. Subscribe to Window Manager and
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>
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> 
> QUOTE OF THE DAY:
> "The raw computing power of an individual server node is
> now far less important than the speed and latency of
> connections between nodes. That's great news for makers of
> optical networking equipment but lousy news for CPU makers.
> The megahertz race that has defined the industry for so
> long has come to an unpredictably abrupt end."
> 
> --"Ahead of the Curve" columnist Tom Yager
> 
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/28/09curve_1.html


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