[CLUE-Cert] tid bit about Windows

Thu Mar 6 10:11:09 MST 2003

1st and 3rd Tuesdays and about 6:45-7:00 start times, at Batky-Howell.

We meet at Hoong's before the meeting to get something to eat and just
B.S.

http://clue.techangle.com/studygroup.html

Jef
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:07, daniel aguilar wrote:
> When is the  next meeting exactly and where?
> 
> Thanks, daniel
> 
> 303-239-3599 work
> 303-456-0421 home
> 
> 
> --- 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
> > 
> > >
> >
> ========================================================
> > > BRIAN LIVINGSTON:     "Window Manager"    
> > InfoWorld.com
> > >
> >
> ========================================================
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > - - -
> > > 
> > > 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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