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Customization Tweaking

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Sorting Start Menu Automatically

td911

This bothers the hell out of me. My PROGRAMS menu and FAVORITES continually need to be sorted manually. Does anyone have any idea how to automaticaly perform this? I used the following procedure on Win98, don't think it will work on 2K, but who knows? I'm to gutless to try it.

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Last reply by Ekstreme, 2000-04-20 06:26

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Version on desktop

eric-marques-net

I have just installed Windows 2000 How do I remove the Windows 2000 Professional Build 2195 from my desktop I know this is in the registry somewhere but I cant find it If anyone knows please email me at ericmarques@email.

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Last reply by eric-marques-net, 2000-04-17 23:26

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Scheduled Tasks?

Napalm

Hey, Is there a way to run defrag from 'schedule tasks'? Not just to turn the program on, but to run it (i. e. at 5 in the morning, my computer defrags one of my partitions and then another) without my intervention? Is there a way? Otherwise, what is the whole point of 'scheduled tasks'? - Napalm.

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Last reply by Napalm, 2000-04-17 06:09

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LS 120? What happens now?

c5rlh

I have recently installed an LS-120 drive in my W2K machine. Finally deciding it was worth keeping, I removed my normal floppy, but cannot get the LS120 to read as drive A:, only as B: Does anyone out there have any ideas?.

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Last reply by Allanv, 2000-04-16 18:36

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Coolbits and 5.13

prum555

I don't know if you guys have experienced this. I installed W2K and 5. 13 and ran for a week with no problem. I put in Coolbits last weekend and tweaked my Core and Memory to 150/180 since I am using Diamond V770 only.

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Last reply by Turbo Grunkamoj, 2000-04-16 03:30

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TNT Overlocking program for Win 2000?

Guido

Does anyone know of a TNT overclocker program? I had a good one with W98, but it is incompatible with Win2000. .

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Last reply by Andy_25, 2000-04-14 09:59

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Realtek card & hibernation

bullshot

I have a realtek ethernet nic. I had the microsoft drivers for win2k pro and it told me hibernation would not work because of these drivers. I now have the realtek 8029 drivers for win2k installed and still get the same message.

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Last reply by AdslBoy, 2000-04-10 02:54

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changing win2k partition

killasmurf

I have a scsi drive with 2 partitions. . . windows 98 on the 1st active and win2k on the second and using win2k's integrated boot manager. now I want to ghost my win2k partition to an ide drive blow out the scsi repartition it one large volume and blast win2k on it.

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Last reply by PseudoMan, 2000-04-05 02:49

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Win2000 / GeForce Refresh Rates

AlBiro

I've got a GeForce DDR installed on my windows 2000 professional setup, however, when I run Quake II, it defaults to 60fps (60Hz) - I have tried PowerStrip, but that's completely screwed my display. Does anyone know of any programs to alter the refresh rate (85Hz if pos) in win2k / geforce?.

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Last reply by deckard, 2000-04-05 01:24

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coolbits in w2k 5.13

Samy

How to enable coolbits in w2k? sideband,agp. . . . . . ? the W98 registry settings are not working. It should be possible with the 5. 13.

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Last reply by prum555, 2000-04-04 18:00

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Net Optimizer for Win2000

Totok

Net Optimizer (first program to tweak your Win2000) has released. This program you lets you explore the many hidden settings in Windows 2000. Just try it by your self !.

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Last reply by Totok, 2000-04-03 15:49

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Plenty of Tweaks Here...

spacey

a good read. .

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2000-04-03 08:58

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Removing collapsing menus from Win2000?

Madox

I have Windows 2000 Professional installed and have also installed Office 2000. Office has that new annoying feature which collapses menu items not often used. I can disable it in my Office programs, but now my Favorite menus in IE and Start Menu Programs are collapsed for the shortcuts and folders placed I haven't ...

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Last reply by Madox, 2000-04-03 07:32

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Multiboot programs ?

bizou

Hi everyone ! I have W2000, w98 and linux installed on my computer (each one on a primary partition) but i can't succeed in chosing one of them from the boot : W2000 has installed NT loader on my w98 partition ( choice between w98 and w2000 but not linux) and lilo is not really fine.

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Last reply by bizou, 2000-04-02 19:52

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Error message after tweaking my system (Win2k Pro)

veldhuis

I read about some tweaks at I set the services Server, Computer Browser and Messenger to manual. All other services that are mentioned were already set to manual by default. Since I did this, I get an error in my Windows 2000 error logbook, which I'm 100% sure was not there before.

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Last reply by veldhuis, 2000-04-01 21:54

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Check Disk (Scan Disk)

crc

Hi. I'm a nwebie and need some help. I had Win2K crash on my compuer and I had to power off and back on. Ever since hen during startup it wants to do an automatic scan disk for errors and I have to press a key to cancel otherwise it takes for ever.

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Last reply by SHS, 2000-04-01 21:44

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Question about Paging file!?

Turbo Grunkamoj

Got a question regarding the paging file in win2k. Under performance options you can set the initial and the maximum size of it. I have set mine to the following: Initial size: 192mb Maximum size: 384mb I also have 128mb ram.

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Last reply by Andy_25, 2000-03-31 16:48

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dual boot menu?

allvtec21m

is there a way to edit the menu for the dual boot that shows when you first turn on your computer when you go to select microsoft windows 2000 or microsoft windows i would like to change it to microsoft windows 2000 and microsoft windows 98 when my mom or someone elese uses the computer 98% of the time they go into ...

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Last reply by lrthomps, 2000-03-30 15:03

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pLUS ICONS

Snoop

hI 1 How can i get plus pack Icons in Win2k. . . c ya Snoop.

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Last reply by rbarbier, 2000-03-30 11:13

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Tips & Tricks : Add your own!

Rudy

Here's a few random tricks that I found here and there, please add to the list The quotes are because I just copied and pasted from wherever I found them. Autoplay OFF: Registry setting can be changed to disable autorun: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom change autorun to 0 (zero) Command l ...

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Last reply by Rudy, 2000-03-29 21:03