Good ideas to increase performance in Win95/98/ME is to

#1 (first make sure you don't need any dos mode drivers), get rid of all files in the c:\ root except msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com

#2 Get rid of stuff that puts itself in the start menu that you never use, or you only load occassionally (C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

#3 Run Regedit, and go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and then travel to \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, RunOnce, RunOnceEx, RunServices, RunServicesOnce and in each of those, remove everything except things that you want to run every time (it is a good idea to leave systray and tweakui, but loadpowerprofile, scanreg, taskmon, etc are just useless. Also the webcheck key is useless garbage, kill it

After doing those things, windows should boot MUCH faster (specially if you have a major-OEM-loaded Windows with 10 million useless things loading every boot)

Some things are also useful not to have loading every time, like ICQ's little taskbar thing, the realplayer icon, etc .. you can still use the programs when you need to, but they're not dragging your system down when you don't

-Memnoch[GT-MaD]

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