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Disabling Drives in My Computer To turn off the display of local or networked drives when you click on My Computer: 1.Open RegEdit 2.Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer 3.Add a New DWORD item and name it NoDrives 4.Give it a value of 3FFFFFF 5.Now when you click on My Computer, none of …

Multiple Columns For the Windows 98 Start Menu To give your Windows 98 Start Menu Windows 95 Menu Columns instead of a single scrolling column: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 3. Create a string value “StartMenuScrollPrograms” 4. Right click the new string value and select modify …

Automatically Backup and Compress your Windows 98 Registry A little known fact, Windows 98 compresses the system registry automatically when it has more than 500k of “wasted space” in it. If you want to compress your registry manually, boot to an MS-DOS prompt (you must not be in Windows when …

Disable Password Caching in Windows To disable password caching, allowing for the single Network login and eliminates the secondary Windows logon screen. Either use the same password or: 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network 3. Add a Dword value “DisablePwdCaching” and set the value to 1

Resetting RegEdit32 in Windows 2000 to work correctly Unlike Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0, when you open RegEdit in Windows 2000 it always opens to the last key you were at when you last used it or even to the last key in the registry, instead of at …

Changing Your Windows’ Icons You can change the Icons Windows uses for folders, the Start Menu, opened and closed folder in the Explorer, and many more. 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIcons 3. Add a string value for each Icon you wish to change. Example: “3” =”C:\Windows\Icons\MyIcon.ico,0″ This will …

Disable the Start Menu’s Shut Down Option At times you may not want Windows to be easy to shut down. In those cases, you can disable the Start menu’s Shut Down option. (Note: It will still be visible – it just won’t work.) Open RegEdit and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. …

Problems Connecting at High Speeds with US Robotics 56K WinModem This applies to: Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Microsoft Windows 98 When you try and connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) using a US Robotics 56K WinModem, an “LT Winmodem” or an “HSP Winmodem” you may experience the following problems …

Registering or Re-registering Windows 98 For some unknown reason Windows 98, at times, loses the user registration, thereby preventing the user from accessing Windows Update. The following registry edit solves this problem in most cases. Open Regedit by clicking Start, Run and typing in “Regedit” without the quotes. Search for …

Using Windows Explorer The manner in which Windows Explorer displays its information depends on the method you use to start it. As an example, if you right-click on My Computer and select “Explore” the Windows Explorer window will open with “My Computer” highlighted. The same will happen if you use …