Hi there,

This thread was inspired by the one started by Problemchyld but I thought it prudent to start another as I plan to maintain the pack and provide regular updates.

[See below for the change log]

Here is the list of tweaks contained in the attachment:

ADV_IE.REG ---- The 'Advanced Internet Options' tweak from Auto-Patcher for Windows 98SE. Adds many more options to the Advanced Internet Options tab.
ADV_WE.REG ---- The 'Advanced Windows Explorer Options' tweak from Auto-Patcher. Adds many more options to 'Folder Options' in Windows Explorer.
AR_DIS.reg ---- Disable CD autorun
AR_ENA.reg ---- Enable CD autorun
COPYMOVE.reg -- adds Copy to... and Move to... menus to explorer shell
DEL_MSN.reg --- deletes the MSN icon from the desktop after first boot to desktop (useful for unattended boot CDs)
DMA_ON.INF ---- The 'Turn on DMA access to hard disks and CD/DVD drives' tweak from Auto-Patcher. It turns on DMA access for hard drives and for all future drive additions.
DOSHERE.INF --- adds 'Command Prompt Here' to Right-Click Menu when clicking on a folder
EditReg.reg --- changes the default behaviour of registry files from MERGE to EDIT --- useful for coders who open .reg files more often than installing them
EnabMenu.INF --- Enables the Boot Menu (you can alternatively use TweakUI)
Fast_Web.reg --- increases the number of simultaneous internet connections per server from 2 to 8
FixAttrb.reg --- In a clean install of Windows 98 Second Edition, the Attrib column is lost in Windows Explorer’s “Details” view. Use this tweak to restore it.
IconCach.reg --- fixes very common problems of icons not refreshing and displaying properly, by increasing your icons cache size
NoSsaver.reg --- Stops screen savers from forcing restarts of interrupted Defrag operations
Perform.inf ---- adds high performance tweaks to system.ini (adjust settings to suit your computer!)
Rest_New.reg --- Fix for missing "NEW" command in Windows Explorer, or in right-click menu
StopLogo.inf --- Disables the Boot Logo (you can alternatively use TweakUI)
ThumNail.reg --- fix to restore Windows Explorer’s thumbnail preview capability for a dozen different image types. See info folder for more info.
Win2k_scheme.reg -- adds the Windows 2000 style theme to the list of available themes in Windows 98 SE systems

Other files inside the pack:

InstTwk.bat --- a sample batch file that can be modified to install the INF tweaks
Info (Folder) -- all the documents i've come across that may help you tweak your computer

Change Log:
v1.30
- added 4 new tweaks: ADV_IE.REG, ADV_WE.REG, DMA_ON.INF, Win2k_scheme.reg
- added new file "How to increase system resources in Windows 95/98" to info folder.

I found some info for the PageOverCommit setting -- but what does it all mean? It seems to be saying that DON'T apply this tweak if you don't have much memory but apart from that I'm stumped. Any info much appreciated ...



And while I'm whining, why does microsoft provide excellent information about SYSTEM.INI settings for Windows 3.1 (!!!) but I can't even find a mention of even one setting for the Windows 98 SYSTEM.INI --- (actually I lie, I can find references to ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 but that is it !!)

the M-Z of the options for Windows 3.1 SYSTEM.INI can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/83436

Hello, i installed performance.ini but it is associated with hard driver thrashing.

There was no difference in speeds infact slower when i installed all those tweaks. (I did modified them according to my needs after reading MDGX link)

The tweaks which were present previously were MaxFileCache, fixed swap file size and conservativeswapfileusage=1. These gave me the best possible performance.

I did not tested each setting 1 by 1, i might do that in future, sorry for that.

From what I can gather it alters the maximum multiplication of your ram for your swapfile, i.e if you have 64meg ram then swapfile default maximum=256meg,
It probably is best left at the default level being that most people have higher available ram these days and barely use the swapfile after tweaking. It causes problems with dos if set to high, I remember reading about errors with it, when messing around with a diskless win98 network boot.
Hope it is of some help

It may be useful for you to post the version of SYSTEM.INI you used that caused the hard disk thrashing, and also the specs of the hardware. All info would be useful. And if you have the time, going thru the settings one by one may find the culprit and help improve the tweaks pack.


Thanks for this ...

soporific:

Thanks for your Tweak Pack.
Cool.

BTW...

1. PERFORM.INF = DirectoryCache setting is invalid:
http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=80800...st&p=585038

2. COPYMOVE.REG = contains only partial "Copy To"/"Move To"/"Send To" registry keys.
Here are the complete ones:
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip22.htm#FCMST
Just cut + paste.

3. FAST_WEB.REG = MaxConnectionsPerServer is not the only setting.
Here is the other one [MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server]:
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip14.htm#HTSERE

HTH

Wow, as always. You are a living treasure.

Change log:

v1.10
* Improved code in COPYMOVE.reg, Fast_Web.reg, and Perform.inf (thanks to MDGx)
* Added new settings to perform.inf
* improved pack files layout

v1.20 - added 8 new tweaks:

* Increase your default icon cache size (to 4096)
* Change the default behaviour of .reg files from MERGE to EDIT
* fix for missing Attrib column in Windows Explorer’s "Details" view
* Fix for missing "NEW" command in Windows Explorer, or in right-click menu
* Disable CD autorun
* Enable CD autorun
* fix to restore Windows Explorer’s thumbnail preview capability for most popular image types.
* Stop screen savers from forcing restarts of interrupted Defrag operations

Tried to download the v.1.20 zip files but all I'm getting is the file called index.php or a reference to http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=at...st&id=16361 !

Disable FlashGet on that host, it won't work - it's a tricky download system. There's no need for it anyway, the file is a few kB.

I've now managed to download the v.1.20 zip

My suggestion is to "grab" tweaks from WinBoost and TweakNow PowerPack 2006 (old versions).

Maybe you'll find yet more tweaks in there :

What i did was take all reg tweaks from MDGx site and exported the files
and used a batch file to install them all on a clean install,i thought this might help in your Tweak Pack.
Another thing is you should have all tweaks optional because 1 might only want certain tweaks
and its a beautiful thing to have the options you desire.

My web site should have most all those tweaks:
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip.htm
If one cares to read thru, it may be easier to read them offline, just install W95-11D.EXE or W95-11D.ZIP:
http://www.mdgx.com/95.htm
and then open the text files in Notepad.

HTH

How do i get all of my exe files to show up in the run box.
this is how i will run my programs.

Hi soporific,

Thanks for your Tweak Pack. Great Job!
After I Re-install my Original Windows'98 CD,I Process to install the Unoffical Windows 98SE Service Pack(sesp21a-en) follow by RPLite5-Full,then RPLite6PP (Try to install after this is Rp7mm but can't process because it need ME cd??)
So,I install your Tweaks120.zip.
Everything go Well.... until i "Try Out" my New toy in Control Panel called Tweak.UI (this is something new to me,i like it)
After open Tweak UI,i click on Control Panel,there are two blank row with only a dot,without any file?
Only third row onward show "acess cpl-Windows Acessibility Control Panel"...
("All the list down is OK with Name")

First Question:What actually on the Two Blank space?
Second Question:Under My Computer,should i Check only Drive A and C and D ?
Third Question:I made a mistake to change the Program File and Program to other location...Original Program File should be located where & Progam should be located where?
Example:c:\Windows\???

THANK-YOU VERY MUCH!

Umm, i think i need to get v1.3 out the door - but in the meantime, let me try to help:

1) can you post a screenshot? I don't know what you are seeing here

2) It doesn't matter what you click in My Computer -- if, for example, you unchecked the C drive, this would hide the c drive from the computer (it wouldn't see it in any save menus). If this is what you want, then do it. Just leave them all checked unless you have a reason to uncheck.

3) to fix your folders do this:
- set Program Files to "C:\Program Files" (without the quotes)
- set Programs to "C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" (without the quotes)

4) look before you leap next time!

Hi soporific,
You really have your hands in too many pies! But they're good pies though!

I found an interesting performance tuning article from Symantec in the middle of the year.
It really helped some resource and stability issues I had.

The article is here: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgen...&view=docid

The key settings are in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. I used to have an empty CONFIG.SYS file since I figured that Windows 9x no longer needed anything here... But in fact, Windows 9x is still dependant on CONFIG.SYS and the defaults are often not sufficient...
See Part 2 of the article, in particular the following settings:

AUTOEXEC.BAT
Add entries to increase the environment variables:
Add the following line:

SET DOS16M=2

This line should be added as the first line before any other lines in the Autoexec.bat file. It's function is to extend memory in DOS for strings of information that more than 64 characters in length.

CONFIG.SYS
Add entries to increase the environment variables:
Add the following line:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /M:1

The /M:1 switch commands HIMEM.SYS to identify the processor.

Add the following lines or, if they already exist, modify them to read as follows:

FILES=150
BUFFERS=80
STACKS=12,256

If the computer is connected to a network, use a value of 200 instead of 150. The default value for files is 60, for buffers is 30, and for stacks is 9,256.

Man, a year ago, I really thought Windows 9x was doomed!
Then I came across MSFN and you guys!
I know what it's like trying to find time in a busy schedule!
How can one say thanks enough!
soporific, MDGx, the_guy, Tihiy, Maximus Decim, Gape, Xeno86, and many more that I have not mentioned (and least we forget the valuable contributions of LLXX - even though she got the pip and went to Linux land...).
We love you guys! (In a purely technical sense that is!)

aw shucks ... there's nothing like a bit of flattery to get me to shift my ar*e on the new pack. So here it is!

Change Log:
v1.30
- added 4 new tweaks: ADV_IE.REG, ADV_WE.REG, DMA_ON.INF, Win2k_scheme.reg
- added new file "How to increase system resources in Windows 95/98" to info folder

see the first post for the download link.