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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
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I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. Does anyone know how? 2. BTW, I just discovered the most incredible taskbar-replacement tool ever - I have had it in my archives for ages, but I never got around to trying it. ****ing MAD! It's Windows PowerPro (yes, I know it sounds like ****). FWIW, "Windows PowerPro" was so buggy on my 98SEL machine that I thought the author was a retard. But I found what he replaced (we all know what THAT means) with Windows PowerPro - something called STILETTO. Stiletto works like a charm - AFAICT it does everything that WPP does, except it actually works: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...etto-Download- 77699.html (It's under 300KB...) Of course, WPP /may/ work on your machine: http://powerpro.webeddie.com/ (THIS is just under 4MB [sic]...) Take your pick, both S and WPP are free. This should be /especially/ popular with people who are too stupid to use Opera. (In case you can't ell, this is called sarcasm. It tales along time to st up, and it is on ongoing process until you just run out of things you need help with, but it is more than worth it.) I wonder what ELSE I have in my old archives that is another lifesaver... -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not forIE)
On 11/01/2011 11:07 PM, thanatoid wrote:
1. I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. Does anyone know how? Isn't that option in the control panel under power options? |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
philo wrote in
: On 11/01/2011 11:07 PM, thanatoid wrote: 1. I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. Does anyone know how? Isn't that option in the control panel under power options? Not on this machine. I have "power management" and this particular setting is nowhere to be found. Sigh. -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
thanatoid wrote in
: I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. It's on mine too but it won't do anything, no matter how many things are shut down first, it thinks that somethign is actively disallowing it. WHich is ok, I don't like it anyway, some things fail to wake up afterwards if it happens. Getting rid of the start menu entry might need a resource hack of User.exe or Explorer.exe. There may be some specific ClassID that can be removed from the registry to stop this thing too, but I doubt it, like the recycle bins, some things are too deeply embedded as a permanent part of the code to be easily or cleanly removed. If I find out more I'll post again, but don't hold your breath waiting... ----------- About the other thing, I'm ok with the standard taskbar but one thing I'd like if it exists, is an automatic restoration of systray icons after an Explorer shell restart, and a way to tell it certain programs to kill and relaunch, like the transparent icon text tool, etc. |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
Lostgallifreyan wrote in
: thanatoid wrote in : I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. It's on mine too but it won't do anything, no matter how many things are shut down first, it thinks that somethign is actively disallowing it. Hmm. Mine works, I clicked it once by accident, and it ****ed things up royally. Stupid MS. WHich is ok, I don't like it anyway, some things fail to wake up afterwards if it happens. Getting rid of the start menu entry might need a resource hack of User.exe or Explorer.exe. I have been hacking things recently with Resource Tuner - I prefer it to Res. Hacker. It drives me nuts that neither will hack 16bit exes. There may be some specific ClassID that can be removed from the registry to stop this thing too, but I doubt it, like the recycle bins, some things are too deeply embedded as a permanent part of the code to be easily or cleanly removed. I searched through the STUPID ****ING DOGDAMNED REGISTRY but didn't find anything. If I find out more I'll post again, but don't hold your breath waiting... I won't hold my breath but I'll be hoping. About the other thing, I'm ok with the standard taskbar but one thing I'd like if it exists, is an automatic restoration of systray icons after an Explorer shell restart, and a way to tell it certain programs to kill and relaunch, like the transparent icon text tool, etc. Do you have binaries access? I have the thing for you. I could just give you the URL, but the new version is - of course - bloated and costs money. It's not automatic, but two clicks (one right and one left) is not too much to ask to solve one of the most infuriating features of this **** OS. There are actually several programs that do it, but they are all very bloated and do a lot of other really stupid things. One job per program, please. You may get responses listing some of them. Don't bother. -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not forIE)
On 11/02/2011 02:49 AM, thanatoid wrote:
wrote in : On 11/01/2011 11:07 PM, thanatoid wrote: 1. I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. Does anyone know how? Isn't that option in the control panel under power options? Not on this machine. I have "power management" and this particular setting is nowhere to be found. Sigh. Than have a look in the bios under the power management settings |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
thanatoid wrote:
I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I've never seen "Suspend" in the start menu on any win-98 machine. I assume it's located near the very bottom of the start menu, next to Shut Down or Log Off (user). BTW, I just discovered the most incredible taskbar-replacement tool ever. It's Windows PowerPro What does it do that the regular taskbar doesn't do? |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
thanatoid wrote in
: I have been hacking things recently with Resource Tuner - I prefer it to Res. Hacker. It drives me nuts that neither will hack 16bit exes. Thanks, I'll try that. I know ResHack, and ExeScope, but no others except a small widget that auto-raids all resources and dumps them in a directory. Some tools let me change static attributes of dialog windows which is nice, but I haven't seen any that will let me do that to a frame, to override main window size, placement, etc. I don't know why they can do it for many dialogs even when the main window IS a dialog, but never the main frame for standard GUI programs. I do have binaries access.... |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
thanatoid wrote in
: I was playing around with my Win95B machine and I saw there is no more-than-useless "suspend" item on the stupid start menu. I can't remember how I got rid of it, I can't figure out how to do it, so I can't get rid of it on my 98SEL machine. About that, I've done some exploring on my X98 installs. It doesn't exist in Core. It exists in Inst (auto hardware install module), and actually works reliably in an install this clean. There are only 4 ClassID's in CLSID and I set those up manually so I know what they're for, it's not a ClassId thing unless some new one added in ACPI under CurrentControlSet and Enum parts of the registry during hardware setup. Nor does 'Suspend' appear in registry, but you already knew that, no doubt from a much bigger registry too.. It didn't have anythign to do with Powercfg.cpl, which I may leave out of Inst, instead using preset reg settings to override all auto-power off stuff. I wanted the power config stuff in the Inst module, and haven;t fully settled what goes in and what doesn't, nut current three files go in manually: POWERCFG.CPL PWRPROF.DLL (Not least because SYSTRAY.EXE needs it). VPOWERD.VXD (Statically loaded device driver to connect BIOS and Windows for power configs) Another file, POWER.DRV, is fetched from the W98 install files by Inst during hardware setup. I think it's a dynamically loaded couterpart to the VXD. For the moment, I'm not sure how the 'Suspend' menu entry and behaviour can be eliminated, but there doesn't seem to be any simple default omission, the moment you set up hardware, it's there, unless maybe the machine had ACPI stuff disabled in BIOS at install time. There may still be some ADDED registry switch to disable it specifically, but I don't know of one. Out of curiosity, on the machine where Suspend does NOT appear, what other aspects of standard power control do also not appear there? |
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1. how to get rid of "suspend" 2. a GREAT utility (no, not for IE)
philo wrote in
: On 11/02/2011 02:49 AM, thanatoid wrote: snip Not on this machine. I have "power management" and this particular setting is nowhere to be found. Sigh. Than have a look in the bios under the power management settings It's always been off in thanatoid world®, since 1995 - so "suspend" should not show up. But maybe it isn't off ;-) I'll check - thanks for your replies. -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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