Recent content by deltarho

Thanks for that. I use NBG Clean Registry, RegVac and RegSeeker and whichever order I use them in almost invariably the third one will find something! Each cleaner reflects the author's area of expertise and no one has written one making all others redundant. I have a reason for cleaning my...

I am manually cleaning my registry and noticed that a very large percentage of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Components keys are empty. From what I understand of the Intaller key, a subkey in Components which was empty would be redundant. Am I safe to...

Thanks Matt - done it! The flicker free version, BTW, is at the address originally posted and Win95 has been removed from the scope. There are a couple of exits which do not have message boxes - they are there to avoid a crash in the event of some functions not working. They are paths not...

Well, I've got the answer I wanted but should mention that the flicker you may have seen was due to my taking an easy way out on the redraw - this has been attended to and I've no flicker on my system now.

Thanks wolluf More confirmation that my friends FE rig is suspect. <nothing happens on 95> OK - I'll have to pull 95 out of the scope for the time being. Thank you.

Thanks micker377 The app is API based and I'm only using 9x/Me APIs. I've had one FE user come back to me who has it up and running so it may be a problem with my friends FE rig.

I've just finished a small app which should work on Win9x - it will pull out on NT based systems. It is nothing fancy - it simply displays Resources, VCache stats and Swapfile info. It writes nothing to disk or the registry - it is info gatherng only. It is similar to Sysmon, being real time...

Thanks dilettante I'm not surprised. I've lost count the number of times that I have moved from one stepping stone to another to get at something I couldn't do on the 'old' stone only to find that the 'new' stone will not do some things that I took for granted on the 'old' stone.

I have created a dll via PowerBasic which is easily implemeted via a Declaration in the 'calling program'. I have a feeling this not possible but will ask anyway. Is it possible to implement such a dll from Vbscript?

I've just finished a small project which in principle is similar to the System File Checker. Instead of using CRC32, as does SFC, I've implemented the MD5 hashing algorithm to create a signature for a pre-defined list of files. The file paths and signatures are held in the registry and on a...

Don't forget that system.ini and win.ini are backed up along with the registry in the rb0nn.cab files. You may get to the desktop with a simple 'scanreg /restore'.

Never allow Scandisk to automatically fix anything; otherwise most of the time you will get away with it - when you don't you'll probably lose everything. Lost count on the number of folks who have lost everything. What does Scandisk.log have to say for itself?

I've introduced this into my Win98SE reg and it works fine. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\AttribTree] @=&quot;Set attributes within %1&quot; [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\AttribTree\command] @=&quot;wscript.exe e:\\scripts\\attribtree\\AttribTree.vbs \&quot;%L\&quot;&quot; Is it...

If 99% of a program's time is spent on disc access the speed of the implemented code will be academic. If the code ran at light speed you'll never get below that 99%.

I doubt that Notepad got currupted during the crash - it was probably Notepad that caused the crash. Before doing anything I'd be inclined to run Scandisk in DOS and notlet it repair anything automatically.