WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

December 1st, 2003, 5:02 pm

To make the action of the "My Computer" icon explore rather than open.

Open explorer. Click Tools/ Folder Options/ File Types. Scroll down to Folder. Click Advanced and change the default to "explore" (much more useful!)

December 1st, 2003, 5:10 pm

To increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads in IE from the default of 3.

Run REGEDIT

Navigate to :[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

Add the following DWORDS:

Dword Name: "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"
Dword Value: 00000019

Dword Name: "MaxConnectionsPerServer"
Dword Value: 00000019

This increases the number of simultaneous downloads (per instance of IE) to 10,

[UNFLUX]

December 1st, 2003, 5:46 pm

oooh great one there! I always thought it was the ftp connections from
the server side!! excellent

[ATNO/TW]

December 1st, 2003, 5:51 pm

Lot's of good ones like that at Winguides, UNFLUX. That one's been around awhile:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

But it would probably be best to stick to simple tricks and shortcuts here and maybe start a new thread for registery hacks and tweaks with a clear warning that they better have a copy of their restore disk/OS handy if they start playing with them! (or more simply since winguides is dedicated to registery tweaks maybe just bookmark that one.)

[ATNO/TW]

December 1st, 2003, 6:03 pm

I've been saving this one and it's the all-time best keyboard shortcut - and I just reread through all five pages of this thread to make sure nobody has posted it yet. I'm sure this is the greatest keyboard shortcut of all time because it's such a secret...NOBODY seems to know about it or use it.

F1

Go ahead - try it - You'll like it!

December 1st, 2003, 6:42 pm

I don't like the windows manuals... but if I wanted too I should just macro f1 to launch google! that'd work really good then!

[ATNO/TW]

December 1st, 2003, 6:48 pm

I've recently thought that we at OZZU should all get together and just write a brand new operating system that actually works. I do like your macro idea though.

December 1st, 2003, 7:13 pm

heheh teach me how

[ATNO/TW]

December 1st, 2003, 7:21 pm

Actually, I'll have to think about it, but I don't think it would be a macro as much as a VB script change to do it. But it would be cool. I find almost all my answers on Google, but the help stuff is important for newbies to read and if they did, there would probably be a few less questions. (Most people I know don't even know where their owner's manual's are). Perhaps that's not a good thing for OZZU? Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut.

December 1st, 2003, 7:36 pm

I meant teach me how to make an OS

[ATNO/TW]

December 1st, 2003, 7:54 pm

b_heyer wrote:

I meant teach me how to make an OS

As if I wouldn't like to know that! Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs and others were ahead of our times. I'd like to be rich, too.

December 1st, 2003, 7:55 pm

ATNO/TW wrote:

Lot's of good ones like that at Winguides, UNFLUX. That one's been around awhile:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

But it would probably be best to stick to simple tricks and shortcuts here and maybe start a new thread for registery hacks and tweaks with a clear warning that they better have a copy of their restore disk/OS handy if they start playing with them! (or more simply since winguides is dedicated to registery tweaks maybe just bookmark that one.)

Another site I've found that seems to have a lot more reg. hacks than winguide is http://www.jsifaq.com/ The search isn't the friendliest in the world but it seems to cover just about every hack/tweak imaginable.

Fair comment about the registry warning - Not something I usually forget but it was very late here in the uk - sorry!

December 9th, 2003, 4:50 am

Heres How to find Netmeeting on windows xp

1. Click on the Start menu.

2. Select Run.

3. Type "conf" (without quotes) in the Open field and hit OK.

You'll have to go through the setup Wizard the first time you launch it

December 9th, 2003, 4:51 am

If you're having trouble running older programs originally developed for previous versions of Windows, it's alright Microsoft built Compatibility Mode into XP. Compatibility Mode allows you to run a program using the shell of the original program it was developed for. here we will show you how to access a program's Compatibility Mode in XP.


1. Find the executable or program shortcut icon you'd like to run

2. Right-click the icon and select Properties.

3. Click the Compatibility tab and place a checkmark next to the text labeled "Run this program in compatibility mode".

4. Select the operating system that the program was originally intended to run on.

5. You may need to fine-tune the three fields under "Display Settings" if an older program requires 640x480 resolution or 256 colors.

6. Click Apply.





Try starting the program after making these changes. If it still gives you trouble, try a different operating system. If the program was written for Win95 and worked fine in Win98, there's nothing that says it still won't work fine with Win98.

[ATNO/TW]

December 9th, 2003, 12:20 pm

CTRL + W closes full screen popup windows that have no other controls.