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Aug 31, 2003, 1:46pm

I shut down all my machines (k6, p2, p3, p3, xp2000, p4) always by using
a power switch - takes ca. 0.1 seconds <g>.
On each power switch, all periphery belonging to this computer is
plugged in, and each power switch has a direct (integrated) or indirect
(external) surge protection - the mainboards are set to power
recovery:state-before, so switching the switch on will regularly reboot
the machines. Apart from the highly secure off state (physical
interruption of the power line), it also saves a good deal of energy
preventing any device from secret sucking when sleeping or hibernating.
:-)



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Aug 31, 2003, 1:50pm

I had it happening quite often that "security" and other "updates" of MS
programs changed windows settings, not only for this program, but also
for system settings and those of other programs. Especially the MSIE and
WMP like to crawl through the system and unfortunately, since the MSIE
settings and underlying files are also used by some other programs, it
has to be constantly updated even though I never use MSIE itself. It is
quite annyoing to always have to check manually which ones of the
settings have been changed this time.





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Aug 31, 2003, 1:56pm

I have a special RAM disc program running which creates a RD of
unlimited size which only uses as much space as the files in it. In the
configuration, I can state which folders will be automatically copied
into the ram disk at startup.
Unlike "normal" ram disks, it is not an extra drive, but consists only
of the folders I want. So to speak, the ram disk acts like the normal
folders, only everything that changed in it will be gone when the
computer is rebooted or switched off and the "original" content of the
folders will stay forever the same on the HD.
One of the most useful programs I ever had. :-)


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Aug 31, 2003, 2:02pm

I have my page drive and also the TMP (as well as SET TEMP!) redirected
to a "junk" partition. The advantage is that I can delete/format this
partition without pardon at any time <g>, even when windows should
forget it <g>.
However, some programs will even then create an absolute path
c:\windows\tmp by disregarding the registry, so you still need tmp and
temp in the c directory also (those two I have added to my ram disk),
however, I didn't have any large file in them yet, those incidents
probably only happen from old programs or "small programmer programs".


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