Smooth Running Windows ME
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at 9:59 am
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
ME is SO easy to keep stable! The problem is that hackers are targetting Windows.
NTFS is more secure, from all points of view.
The real problem with ME over '9x is System Restore, PCHealth, Find-Fast indexing
(which was also a problem in 9x), Active desktop, MS Defrag rearranging programs
with the APPLOG file, Windows "managed" swap-file [hanging] and index.dat bloat files.
Turn these ALL off and delete the APPLOG & C:\_RESTORE folders, use Delindex.bat
and Diskeeper Lite or, better still, Norton's SpeedDisk, neither of which use the
APPLOG files, put a fixed swap-file, and My Documents, on a second drive, and you
WILL have a fast computer, especially if you have 512Mb RAM.
Turn off *Statemgr, PCHealth, SSDPSRV, Power profiles x2, and Taskmonitor in MSCONFIG
and REMOVE these entries wih RegVac.
Many people, me too, simply cannot afford to "up-grade" to XP and loose both hardware
and software, upgrade the BIOS, add more RAM and buy new software as well.
Especially ... the "Average Joe" and the Housewife, student, etc.
With IE6 SP1, DirectX9.0a, WMP9, EZCDC 6.0 and the right MSHTML.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
, plus a FULL Drive Image copy of the fresh install as backup for only $69.95 , what
can go wrong? Lightning strike.
If you remove ALL file exclusions listed in your Anti-Virus program, Options panel,
before scanning. and ...
In Internet Explorer, Tools, IE Options, Advanced, Uncheck:
"Activate install on demand" [Other] , and, "Activate install on demand" [Internet
Explorer]
And then apply these three MS KB Article recommendations to your system:
HOW TO TROUBLESHOOT WINDOWS INTERNAL STACK OVERFLOW ERROR MESSAGES Q145799
ERROR MESSAGE: THERE ARE NO SPARE STACK PAGES Q149083
STOP FIND-FAST
And ... particularly ... put the AlwaysUnloadDLL entry (to help deal with "memory
leaks"), into the registry, as with '98se. AlwaysUnloadDll
9x/ME
...there is little else to do, except keep spybots, Trojans and bloat-files off
the system and maintain it virus free.
ME is user friendly, if you treat it well, and so are WE!;-)
All you have to do is to "turn ME over" and you have a modern OS which WILL work
on older machines with a reasonable processor and sufficient RAM.
Mac
FREEWARE
OPEN OFFICE
DICTIONARIES
UNICODE
'9x ME INFO
CLEAN-UP/TUNE-UP/ANTI-VIRUS KIT/IE6 SP1 ME/98
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS ME/98
JACK GULLEY's WINDOWS ME FIXES
SYSTEM CHECK
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