Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:37:32 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Lib 100CT / Win2000
>Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:18:04 -0500 >From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Does W2000 have a utility like MSCONFIG in W98? I've used that a lot to >disable all the many applications that insist on setting themselves to load >at boot. You end up with dozens of little icons in the system tray on the >right end of the status bar that suck the life out of the system >resources.< < > >Nope. The thing I mentioned are services that usually does not display >anything and you need to use Service Control Panel to disable them. > > > Also, there must be a place in W2000 where the system resources are >displayed immediately following a boot to the desktop. IN W98, you can >right click My Computer, and go to the Performance tab.< < > > > >Much easier than Win98. Just right click on task bar bring up the Task >Manager. It shows all the information there. 100 times more useful than >anyhting you can find in Win98. So it sounds like W2000 has similar features like MSCONFIG, and the System Properties as W98, but with more useful menus and controls, no? >Win98 also suffers from the 64 KB limit on system GDI resource and USER >resource (64KB for GDI and 64KB for USER in Win98. Win95 only have 64KB >total for both USER and GDI). A buggy software can easily cause these >resource to leak and when all the 64KB are used up, system crashed without >warning. WinNT/2000 does not have these limitations. As a result, there is >no way in NT/2000 to check how much GDI and USER resource is used or how >much is free. I'm not versed in the terms 'GDI' and 'USER resource'. Are you saying that there no way to check/monitor any kind of system resources at all, or just specific ones? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
