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LockerGnome Topics

There are several topics that come up in the LockerGnome Newsgroups that are of continued interest to many people. I'd like to post several of these topics (questions along with solutions) here for everybody to access whenever they wish.

° Optimize Your Windows Registry

° Kill the Ad Banner in Outlook Express

° CompuServe E-Mail Clients

Optimize Your Windows Registry

What do you know about your Windows registry? Probably just as much as the next person: almost nothing. Don't worry, you're not alone.

Those of you who used Workgroup for Windows 3.11 were among the last to use an untainted version of Windows. Windows NT, in all of it's varieties, introduced the registry and Windows 95 brought the registry to the rest of the public's awareness.

Once upon a time software and hardware settings were only stored in various .ini files. No longer. Now the settings are stored in the system.dat and user.dat files which, together, make up the Windows registry. (For those die-hard nerds, yes, I am oversimplifing by not mentioning the few programs that still do create their own .ini files. They're just not relavent to the topic of this discussion.) With the addition and removal of software and hardware, your registry has a tendancy to become bloated. Registry files of five or six megs are common among people that love to try out software and hardware. This slows your computer down quite a bit when you start up. How about bringing back that "freshly installed" feeling by cleaning out the registry? Hmmm? Sounds good, right? It's easier said than done. Words of warning though, this involves mucking about with your registry in ways Gates never intended, which means you should back up your registry before you do anything to it. Go to Ask Jeeves and type in the query "How do I back up my registry?" You'll get more info than you may want.

So, on with the topic at hand.... Here's a series of posts detailing exactly how to optimize your registry. I'm sure you find it easy to follow. Well, ok, after reading and re-reading the postings, it's kind of tough to follow. So..... To summarize:

1. John wants to know how to optimize the registry.

2. Phil says do it from the DOS prompt using two commands. First run "scanreg /fix". When that finishes run "scanreg /opt".

3. CptSiskoX recommends the Axcel216 site at for more information and freeware registry cleaners.

5. Master Davie takes exception with that idea and points to the MicroSoft knowledgebase file Q184023 Command-Line Switches for the Registry Checker Tool. Confirmation of this information can be found at the Windows-Help.Net site.

6. Tom Koch (an awesome dude, IMNSHO, check his site out at www.tomsterdam.com) chimes in that while he was at an MVP training session one of the MS tech engineers leading a workshop on Win98 Setup issues said to use "scanreg /opt /fix" from the DOS prompt. Run that 4 times and you'll be squeeky clean (my words).

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Kill the Ad Banner in Outlook Express

Does the Outlook Express ad banner drive you nuts? Here are two methods of getting rid of it; one for the beginner and one for the advanced. Please note: always back up your system registry before you edit it. I nor those that provided the solutions below are responsible if your registry goes south and you didn't make a back up copy.

Easy Solution

CPEMMA provided a solution that I, for some reason, am unable to use. Take a look, it may work for you.

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James M Wasiura wrote in message news:93hrah$55a@force.daze.net...

Does anyone know how to get rid of the annoying add in outlook express.

Thanks

From: "cpemma"
Subject: Re: Outlook Express
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:30 PM

Or if you mean the Infopane, View/Layout, uncheck.

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Advanced Solution

This solution came from Renate, one of the Gnomies that tends to be a bit more "hands-on" in his approach.

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Hi reprinting something from MSNG
Renate

The following was supplied by Jason Delgarno:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress

run regedit, under
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\ Internet Account Manager\Accounts\ some numbered folders,
find which of these relates to your hotmail account(s), remove: ShowAdBar and AdBarUrl

Load inetcomm.dll (from c:\windows\system, probably) into a hex editor, search for adbar (lower case) and replace it with something else
(keep it the same length, eg noads)

i.e.
offset: 0002D418
61 64 62 61 72
change to
6e 6f 61 64 73

*******
MY NOTE: If you don't have a hex editor, try AXE. It's freeware available
at http://www.kahei.com/

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CompuServe E-Mail Clients

This is a repost of a message from the LockerGnome Newsgroups. In an effort to help my cousin configure Outlook Express for use on CompuServe I posted the initial request for help. The most authoritative response came from 8=)*.* (AKA SmileyManDan).

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Let me kill a few birds with one post here.
Both Compuserve Classic and Compuserve 2000 allow using external programs to
get mail, i.e. outlook express. So if compuserves dialups in your area
really suck like they do in mine, or if, like me, you think the CS2000
software is crap, then you can use OE.
(Tony Sutton told me about this a long time ago)
for Classic compuserve, you can use regular POP and SMTP servers, i believe
the addresses are exactly that-- pop.compuserve.com and smtp.compuserve.com
in any case, they're on the www.compuserve.com website and on some GO word.
For CS2K, you need to set up the IMAP servers (ernest can tell you more
about their merits). Actually, i'm just going to OCR tony's message to me.

CS2000 IMAP Configuration (OE4) (if you use OE5, it should be similar)

Q. How do I configure my Outlook Express client to use IMAP? Steps:

1. Click on Tools, followed by Accounts. on the menu bar of the main window.
2. Click on the Add button followed by Mail. in the Internet Accounts window.
3. Enter your name in the Display name: box.
4. Enter your email address (i.e. JohnDoe cs.com) in the E-mail address: box.
5. Set the "My incoming mail server is a server." to "IMAP".
6. Specify the name of the IMAP server (imap.cs.com) in the "Incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server:" box.
7. Specify the name of the SMTP mail server (smtp.cs.com) in the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:" box.
8. In the Internet Mail Logon window select the first box, which indicates that you want to log on using an IMAP account.
9. Enter your CS2000 member name in the "IMAP account name:" box, (it should be populated by default).
10. Enter the password for your CS2000 account in the "Password:" box if you choose to store your password, rather than having to supply each time you access your mailbox.
11. Update the "Internet mail account name:" box to supply a friendly name by which you'll recognize this account in the future.
12. Select your Connection Type.
13. Click the Finish button.
14. Click the Yes button at the "Would you like to download the folder list for the IMAP account you just created?" prompt.
15. Select the IMAP account you just created from the accounts listed under the Mail tab in the Internet Accounts window and click the Properties button.
16. Activate the Servers tab.
17. Click the "My server requires authentication" at the bottom under Outgoing Mail Server and then click the Settings button.
18. Make sure that the "Use same settings as my Incoming mail server" radio button is selected in the Logon Information.
19. Click the OK button to exit Settings.
20. If you are using OE5 then select the IMAP tab ; UNmark > Store special folders on IMAP server.
21. Click the Apply button, followed by OK to exit the Account Properties window

Hope that helps. If you've got any CS questions, please ask them...i've
pretty much got it covered...in fact it was my first internet
connection...back when Compuserve was one of the best..version 2.5 or
so...on a Gateway 486-66...anyway...
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__ Daniel Hoffman
"Newfie astronauts do nothing but take up space in school"
>I may not agree with your bumper sticker but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it.<

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