[eidenk]

galahs, on Sep 19 2007, 09:53 AM, said:

I have to contribute the stability of most of my systems be in Windows 98 / 2000 or XP to the fact I have no startup items.


For example if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete my Win98SE system straight after bootup to the GUI, all that appears is "Explorer"

I have 16 programs running at startup, and believe it or not, I have no stability issues. And they run in the background all the time providing many enhancements to Windows.

[fastlanephil]

eidenk, on Sep 19 2007, 09:48 AM, said:

galahs, on Sep 19 2007, 09:53 AM, said:

I have to contribute the stability of most of my systems be in Windows 98 / 2000 or XP to the fact I have no startup items.


For example if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete my Win98SE system straight after bootup to the GUI, all that appears is "Explorer"

I have 16 programs running at startup, and believe it or not, I have no stability issues. And they run in the background all the time providing many enhancements to Windows.

You can see, and edit/remove if desired, most of these program startups, in the following Win 98 SE/ME registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

[eidenk]

fastlanephil, on Sep 19 2007, 11:47 PM, said:

eidenk, on Sep 19 2007, 09:48 AM, said:

galahs, on Sep 19 2007, 09:53 AM, said:

I have to contribute the stability of most of my systems be in Windows 98 / 2000 or XP to the fact I have no startup items.


For example if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete my Win98SE system straight after bootup to the GUI, all that appears is "Explorer"

I have 16 programs running at startup, and believe it or not, I have no stability issues. And they run in the background all the time providing many enhancements to Windows.

You can see, and edit/remove if desired, most of these program startups, in the following Win 98 SE/ME registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

Thanks fastlanephil but those proggies are not there against my will. I want them all to run.

BTW there are more, or rather can be, more run keys than that, Run, RunOnce, RunServices, RunServicesOnce, RunOnceEx both in HKLM and HKCU, and many other startup vectors for non .exe files.

[fastlanephil]

eidenk, on Sep 21 2007, 05:19 PM, said:

fastlanephil, on Sep 19 2007, 11:47 PM, said:

eidenk, on Sep 19 2007, 09:48 AM, said:

galahs, on Sep 19 2007, 09:53 AM, said:

I have to contribute the stability of most of my systems be in Windows 98 / 2000 or XP to the fact I have no startup items.


For example if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete my Win98SE system straight after bootup to the GUI, all that appears is "Explorer"

I have 16 programs running at startup, and believe it or not, I have no stability issues. And they run in the background all the time providing many enhancements to Windows.

You can see, and edit/remove if desired, most of these program startups, in the following Win 98 SE/ME registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

Thanks fastlanephil but those proggies are not there against my will. I want them all to run.

BTW there are more, or rather can be, more run keys than that, Run, RunOnce, RunServices, RunServicesOnce, RunOnceEx both in HKLM and HKCU, and many other startup vectors for non .exe files.

Thanks eidenk, but as you probably know, if your Windows 98 FE/SE/ME is functioning correctly, all of the RunServicesOnce registry key entries do just what their key-name identifies, they run one time then disappear, leaving these keys blank. Thus, most of the usual Win 98 FE/SE/ME startup programs' initialization strings are placed in the three keys that I mentioned earlier. I prefer to initialize a mere handful of programs in Win 98 SE2ME as I do not use this computer for extensive video editing or multi-tasking and like to keep the amount of free ram to a maximum. Then, during the course of a session, I monitor the free ram and free it up as necessary, ensuring that my lightly-loaded, optimized Win 982SE is quicker than most Win XP boxes for simple tasks like surfing the web, playing chess, Autocad, email, etc. Needless to say, each computer user has his or her own needs/tastes/requirements, and what is one person’s potion may be another's poison—what works great for one user-installation may spell disaster for another.

This post has been edited by fastlanephil: 22 September 2007 - 01:29 AM

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