[CLUE-Cert] tid bit about Windows

[daniel aguilar]

When is the  next meeting exactly and where?

Thanks, daniel

303-239-3599 work
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--- Mark Harvey <markgharvey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> > E-Business Secrets at
> www.iwsubscribe.com/newsletters.
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> > 
> > MORE WINDOW MANAGER
> > 
> > For a complete archive of his InfoWorld columns
> visit
> >
>
http://www2.infoworld.com/cgi/component/columnarchive.wbs?column=window
> > 
> > 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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