Thread: I need some help

easy ones here..... im sure a bit more searching would have found em...

1. unless you installed winamp in the root directory of "c:\program files", that execution will not work... it should read
"shell=c:\program files\winamp\winamp.exe" also you may wanna replace "program files" with the DOS equilivent (usually "progra~1")

2. this has been covered, and should work. could it be your remote plug-in needs a full path the the exe? it would not supprise me in the slighetest.... so try "c:\windows\rundll.exe....." you get the idea.

3. 98 works fine for me... but give 98lite a shot to 'trim the fat'...

I got the whole thing working... but the computer says that it needs to close the program before it shuts down the computer and gives me a Yes/No Dialog box. I can't have this because I'm gonna just be running a 4x20 LCD.

Are you forcing a shutdown with rundll?

RUNDLL32 SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 13

Nevermind... I figured that out... I was just dumb for a minute.

My box takes a 1 min and 20 secs to boot up. How can I speed it up. I have everything disable in win.ini. Almost everything in System.ini. I have the shell set to Winamp.exe. What else can I do.

Try uninstalling all the unused fonts. leaving only the basic ones used by windows. Windows loads all the fonts up on startup.

The computer is quite old, you may not be able to get much faster boot times. You can try adding more RAM if possible, disabling your network card (if any) when not in use, Windows 95 should boot up faster than Win98 (it always has), and try Microsoft's TweakUI.

yep, i have to agree with maveric that his pc is OLD

Originally posted by Maveric
The computer is quite old, you may not be able to get much faster boot times. You can try adding more RAM if possible, disabling your network card (if any) when not in use, Windows 95 should boot up faster than Win98 (it always has), and try Microsoft's TweakUI.

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Adding more memory to an old box will likely increase boot times as it sits there checking the memory during post

Originally posted by ShinkunoNamida
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Adding more memory to an old box will likely increase boot times as it sits there checking the memory during post

Ha, yeah, it might add like .5seconds to the boot time and could take quite abit from teh loading windows process due to less HD writing and reading for virtual memory purposes...