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re: Question about 'Change the Registered User Information'
Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 8:49 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Easton
(5183 messages posted)
I have read where people have made systems which boot the OS from a CD and run it
entirely in memory. Takes a lot of RAM but it can be done.
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:15 pm, The Doctor wrote:
>Ty Steve. That's new to me. Mine definitely has the ID as well, immediately after
>the strings "If you purchased Windows on floppy disks, click About on the Help menu.
> " and "0rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl ,-". (minus quotes). As
it
>seems the thing is recompiled live, I thought it best to assume other things vital
>to the current system might also be compiled in it, so I suggested starting with
>the clean, renumbered partition as a way to avoid upsetting that. It's especially
>interesting that one of M$'s own would replace a compiled USER.EXE with what seems
>to be a generic file. Thankyou. That is a good clue, and a good way to retain anonymity
>if it works in all cases. :)
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>Another note: If as well as assigning the path to the swap file to be on another
>drive, this USER.EXE need not be rewritten, and if all INI files and the two Registry
>files could all be set up for storage on another partition, it might even be possible
>to coax W95 to boot off read-only media, which is something a LOT of people would
>like in specialist cases in older PC's with dedicated functions like MP3 player,
>household control unit, etc.. You could have all the main OS files on a CD, possibly
>even the INI files and Registry files, with an HD for swap file and nothing else
>(except another partition for stored data..), if it doesn't mind not being able
to
>write to itself. I've not tried this, but it would be cool if it worked, turning
>a small 486 into dedicated hardware for whatever function was on the disk you start
>it with.
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