Newbie Q's

[p linnane]

Hi,

I'm going to be putting Win2K through it's paces as a home OS for a couple
weeks. I'm formerly (and may be again) a stalwart WinME user (stop
laughing; a little chopping here and there and it's great . Anyways,
I've already just clean-installed it once (of a few times until I get
settled in to the config I want) and I already have a couple questions...


1)
When I installed it vanilla I ended up with Admin, <my name>, and Guest
accounts. Anyway to just tell it I'm the only user and not have to
backfill, delete, and put up with User directory crap, etc.?

2)
Even though I've *almost* resigned myself to duct-taping some hack with a
..bat file and pkunzip.exe into an OpenWith, is there any way of getting
native basic .ZIP functionality? (will throwing in the .dll from WinME
work?). Not really interested in third-party stuff unless it's free (of
course) and as seamless as WinME's implementation.

3)
Even though shutdown is really really fast, on startup, even after the
desktop screen & icons come up, my HD keeps chattering away for almost
another full minute...... wth?

4)
Anybody else wanna clout somebody at Mozilla over the head for further
stupidifying Firefox's Preferences/Options in 1.0 ? (I can't find the
program directories and I hate putting caches and user files on C



Thanks


Rick T

 

[Dave Patrick]

:
| Hi,
|
| I'm going to be putting Win2K through it's paces as a home OS for a couple
| weeks. I'm formerly (and may be again) a stalwart WinME user (stop
| laughing; a little chopping here and there and it's great . Anyways,
| I've already just clean-installed it once (of a few times until I get
| settled in to the config I want) and I already have a couple questions...
|
|
| 1)
| When I installed it vanilla I ended up with Admin, <my name>, and Guest
| accounts. Anyway to just tell it I'm the only user and not have to
| backfill, delete, and put up with User directory crap, etc.?
* Control Panel|Users and Passwords, then uncheck the box for "Users must
enter a user name and password to use this computer", restart for effect.

| 2)
| Even though I've *almost* resigned myself to duct-taping some hack with a
| .bat file and pkunzip.exe into an OpenWith, is there any way of getting
| native basic .ZIP functionality? (will throwing in the .dll from WinME
| work?). Not really interested in third-party stuff unless it's free (of
| course) and as seamless as WinME's implementation.
* Upgrade to Windows XP

| 3)
| Even though shutdown is really really fast, on startup, even after the
| desktop screen & icons come up, my HD keeps chattering away for almost
| another full minute...... wth?
* You probably need to buy more RAM


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

[p linnane]

:
| unless it's free (of course) and as seamless as WinME's
| implementation.
* Upgrade to Windows XP

tends to negate the "free" paramater, somewhat
(I'm only semi-evil... if I like it I'll buy a copy, if it sucks too much for
my usage habits, I'm back to WinMe)

| Even though shutdown is really really fast, on startup, even after
| the desktop screen & icons come up, my HD keeps chattering away for
| almost another full minute...... wth?

* You probably need to buy more RAM

512MB and I've got a 1G perm swapfile on another. OS partition has been
defragged... I'm looking into modifying all those startup services.


thx

Rick T

 

[Dave Patrick]

Be sure you've properly backed up the registry before hand.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
I'm looking into modifying all those startup services.
|
|
| thx
|
| Rick T

 

[Michael Bednarek]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:29:30 -0800, p linnane

[snip]

3)
Even though shutdown is really really fast, on startup, even after the
desktop screen & icons come up, my HD keeps chattering away for almost
another full minute...... wth?

Multitasking at work. Quite a few services are still starting while the
user is logging in.

 

[p linnane]

Be sure you've properly backed up the registry before hand.

Despite a usual "cowboy" attitude towards this stuff I might just take that
advice; thanks


Rick