1. Backup content in "Receiver Assistant"
Click HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOKEXPRESS\ MAIL\INBOXRULES, select the "INBOXRULES" subkey, select the "Export Registry File" in the "Edit" menu, select the "Selected" branch in the export scope box, and give the backup file a name. If necessary, you can restore the "Mailbox Assistant" through this file.
2. Automatic refresh
After adding a folder or deleting an object in the window, press F5 to refresh the window, which is very troublesome. Automatic refresh can be achieved by modifying the registry.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\UPDATE and change the value of "UPDATEMODE" from "1" to "0".
3. Delete redundant options in the run window
Click HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\ CURRENTVERSION\EXPLOER\RUNMRU. In its right window, there are some garbage options left after using the Run or Find command multiple times. Right-click these string values and delete them.
4. Clear excess records found
Click HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\OFTW ARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\ EXPLORER\DocFindSpecMru, in the window to its right, the files entered in the "Search" dialog box are saved. Right-click the string values and delete them.
5. Modify copyright information
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\DEVEOPER\SETUP. All copyright information generated when installing Windows 98 is saved in the right window. Right-click these string value keys to modify it at will. In this way, you can modify the copyright information without reinstalling Windows 98.
6. Speed up the display of hierarchical menus
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP, right-click the right column of the window, select the "String Value" command in the "Add" menu, and name it "MenuShowDelay". Double-click it to display the dialog box, enter the value "1~10", and "1" means the fastest. Restart Windows 98 and see if the menu display speed is faster.
7. Speed up window display
When recovering a program from the taskbar to the desktop, or minimizing the application window to the taskbar, this process has a certain delay dynamic effect. If you don't like this effect, you can revert to the window directly by modifying the registration expression to achieve a faster feeling.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\DESKTOP\WINDOWSMETRICS, in the blank window on the right side of the item, right-click and select the "String Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "MINANIMATE", and modify its value to "0".
8. Speed up Windows 98 startup
Windows 98 can automatically load some programs to run when starting. Some programs are stored in the startup group in the "Start" menu, and some important system programs that do not require user interference are stored in the registry. If you want to speed up Windows 98 startup, you can delete these programs appropriately. Programs in the startup group can be easily deleted through the taskbar. If the program is not in the startup group, it needs to be deleted by modifying the registry.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\ CURRENTVERSION\Run, select the program that automatically executes when starting the computer appears in the right window, and delete it.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\ CURRENTVERSION\RunServices, click the program that automatically executes when starting the computer appears in the right window to delete it.
The difference between Run and RunServices is that the programs in Run are run after Windows is initialized, while the programs in RunService start running when the operating system starts, which means that the programs in RunServices run before the programs in Run, such as the power management program.
9. Delete Favorites in the Start menu
Favorites are designed to facilitate access to the homepage and are of little use to users who do not surf the Internet, so you can delete it.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER, right-click the mouse in the right window, select the "DWORD" command in the "New" menu, name it NoFavoritesMenu, and set its value to "1".
10. Delete Login from the Start menu
Login is designed to facilitate login operations in different identities on the network. It is not very useful for stand-alone users, so you can delete it.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER, click the right mouse button in the right window, select the "Binary DWORD" command in the "New" menu, name it "NoLogOff", and set the value to "01 00 00 00".
?1. Disable modification of saving
Although the Windows 98 system allows users to make personalized settings, because the system structure is too complex, modifying the system configuration casually will cause great trouble, especially for beginners. In view of this situation, the system will automatically restore the original settings by modifying the registration expression to not saving the changes made by the user, mainly including taskbar properties, resource manager properties, desktop configuration, etc. Once restarted, the system will automatically restore the original settings.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER, right-click the mouse in the right window, select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it NoSave Settings, and set its value to "1".
12. Set the default email program
For useWindows 98For users，Not necessarily willing to use itOutlook ExpressAs an email program。 I personally think FoxMail may be more suitable for domestic users, so for this you can specify it as the default email program.
Click HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MAIL TO\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND, modify its value to "C:\FOXMAIL\ %1", that is, enter the full path of the email program you want to use, and then type "%1" in one blank space.
13. Configure personalized sending function
Windows 98 allows multiple users to log in to the system, each using its own desktop icon configuration, and the sending function can also be personalized and matched with the icons owned by each user.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\ CURRENTVERSION\ EXPLORER\SHELL FOLDERS and modify the key value with the key name SEND TO, such as "C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES\***\SEND TO". Then select USER SHELL FOLDERS under this path, right-click the blank space of the window, select the "String Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "SEND TO", and modify its value to "C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES\***\SEND TO".
14. Clean up the information left after accessing "Online Neighbors"
When users on the LAN access online neighbors, they leave some information in the registry, including accessing host name, application name, etc. This information is basically useless and can be cleaned up.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\NETWORK\ RECENT and delete all the sub-items under the primary key RECENT.
15. Expand the "Recycle Bin" right-click function
The Recycle Bin is a system-level desktop icon in Windows 98. Because its right-click menu function is not powerful enough, such as the right-click menu of the Recycle Bin does not have the delete and rename functions, which brings certain inconvenience to actual applications. For this reason, we can expand its functions by modifying the registry.
Click HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\[645FF040-5081-10113-9F08-00AA002F954E]\ShellFolder to modify the ATTRIBUTES value of the right-click window, because each file usually has four attributes: read-only, implicit, system, and document. Each attribute corresponds to a specific number. If you want the file to have multiple attributes, you just need to add and combine the numbers.
01: Copy, 02: Clip, 03: Copy and Clip, 10: Rename, 20: Delete, 30: Rename and Delete, 40: Properties, 50: Rename and Attributes, 60: Delete and Attributes, 53: Copy, Cut, Rename, Attributes, 63: Delete, Attributes, Copy, Clip, 73: Rename, Delete, Attributes, Copy, Clip.
16. Delete the system-level desktop icon
System-level desktop icons refer to icons that are automatically created by the system when installing Windows 98, such as Recycle Bin, Inbox, Online Neighbor, etc., which cannot be deleted with the DELETE command. If you want to delete them, you can modify the registration expression to the purpose.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SO FTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRNETVERSION\E XPLORER\DESKTOP\NAMESPACE, find the branch keywords under it and the string value of the window on the right of the item, and then delete it.
17. Hide desktop icons
If you want to hide the desktop icons completely, although it can be solved by deleting the system-level icons and user-defined icons on the desktop, there is a faster and easier way to modify the registry.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRN ETVERSION\POLICIES\EXPLORER. In the blank space of the window on the right of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "NoDesktop", and modify the value to "1".
18. Improve optical drive reading and writing capabilities
Adding cache to optical drives is an effective way to improve the read and write speed of optical drives. Since Windows 98 recommends using a four-speed or higher optical drive access method, it does not match the currently popular optical drives. In order to adapt to the popular optical drives with a speed of 16 times higher than today, we can accelerate the operation speed of the optical drive by modifying the registry to improve the optical drive cache size and pre-read performance, and put the optical drive performance to the limit.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\ FILESYSTEM\CDFS, and find the two items CACHESIZE and PREFETCH in the window on the right of this item. If you choose the four-speed or higher-speed optical drive access method recommended by Windows 98, the values of these two items are "6B020000" and "E4000000" respectively. At this time, it can be modified based on the actual usage of the optical drive. If the optical drive is often used for multimedia playback, the CACHESIZE value can be modified to "D6040000", and "AC090000" is the maximum value of the optical drive cache. In order to ensure the consistent speed of high-speed optical drives, the PREFETCH value can be modified, such as the 8-speed speed is "C0010000", the 16-speed speed is "80030000", the 24-speed speed is "40050000", and the 32-speed speed is "00070000".
Note that if the two key values are modified, the optical drive cannot work normally. If the VCD cannot be played normally, please lower the value of one level.
19. Delete the history of the Document menu
Because the system records all documents browsed by users in the document menu by default, and will not be automatically cleared. Modify the registry to enable the system to automatically clear history in the document menu every time it exits, or to prohibit the recent browsed or edited documents from appearing in the document menu history.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRN ETVERSION\POLICIES\EXPLORER. In the blank space of the window on the right of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "NoRecentDocsHistory", and modify the value to "1". In the blank space in the window on the right side of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "ClearRecent DocsOnExit", and modify the value to "1".
20. Delete the Control Panel and Printer in the Settings menu
The control panel is an important part of Windows 98 system configuration. If you allow others to modify it casually, it is likely to cause the system to crash. To avoid this, you can delete the Control Panel and Printer Items options in the Settings menu.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRNETVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER. In the blank space of the window on the right of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "NoSet Folders", and modify the value to "1".
twenty one. Optimize file allocation
In order to effectively save disk space, Windows 98 introduced the FAT32 file system. Since a large number of application software currently do not support the FAT32 system, the advantages of FAT32 are not greatly reflected in actual applications. Therefore, the file system can be optimized by modifying the registry to make the file allocation more reasonable. Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\FILESYSTEM, in the blank space of the window on the right of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "ContigFileAllocsize", and modify the value to "00000F14".
twenty two. Improve floppy drive performance
Among the drives configured by the machine, floppy disk drives have the slowest reading and writing speed. In addition to being determined by physical properties, it is also related to the default use of FIFO in Windows 98 system to manage drives. It does not have background storage management functions, so the performance of floppy disk drives can be optimized by modifying the registry.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\CLASS\FDC000. In the blank space of the window on the right of this item, right-click and select the "DWORD Value" command in the "New" menu, name it "ForeFifo", and modify the value to "0".
twenty three. Disable automatic CD-ROM operation function
Most of the CDs nowadays have automatic operation functions, which are very convenient to install and run, but there are also very annoying times. For example, if you want to browse the contents of the CD, the CD will start to run automatically as soon as it is put into the CD. Although you can press the SHIFT key to prohibit automatic operation, the CD will start to run as soon as the CD is not careful. At this time, the CD needs to be disabled.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRNETVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER, and find the "NoDriveTypeAutoRun" subkey in the window on the right. Its original value is "950000000", and it is modified to "BD0000000".
twenty four. Document Relationship
Not all documents can be found in Windows 98 systems, especially for those who are accustomed to DOS, because in the DOS state, many people do not create file names strictly according to the commonly used extension definitions. For example, file names are generally not suffixed. Documents like this cannot be associated under Windows 98, and the most commonly used association under Windows 98 is to view its content. Therefore, by modifying the registry, you can enable all documents that are not associated to be opened in Notepad.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\UNKNOWN\SHELL and change its default value to "NotePAD".
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\UNKNOWN\SHELL, right-click the "SHELL" primary key, select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "NotePAD", and change its default value to "&NOTEPAD".
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S OFTWARE\CLASSES\UNKNOWN\SHELL\NOTEPAD, right-click the "NotePAD" primary key, select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "COMMAND", and change its default value to "%1".
25. Add information prompt box
If you want to add prompts to users like Windows friendly login provided by Windows 98 system before entering Windows 98 system, you can add some interest to starting Windows 98.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\S OFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\WINLOGON, right-click the blank space in the right window, select the "String Value" command in the "New" menu, add two key values and name them "LegalNoticeCaption" and "LegalNoticeText" respectively, and modify the values to "Warning" and "Illegal Intruder". The content of the key value can be customized.
26. Hide drive
If you want to protect your machine from external interference, reduce the chance of virus transmission, and prevent others from using a partition of your hard drive, or optical drive or floppy drive, you can hide them.
Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRNETVERSION\ POLICIES\EXPLORER, and find the "NoDrive" item in the window on the right. Its original value is "00000000", which means that no drives are hidden. The value of the hidden disk A is "01000000", the value of the disk B is "02000000", the A and disk B are "03000000", the C is "040000000", and all drives are "FFFFFFFFF".
27. Expand the "Start" menu right-click function
The right-click function of the mouse is very powerful in the Windows 98 system, and the "Start" menu is the core of the system, adding two functions to quickly start and shut down the system to improve its right-click function.
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\DIRECTORY\SHELL, right-click SHELL, select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "Quick Start System", and modify the default value to "Quick Start System".
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\DIRECTORY\SHELL\Quick Start System, right-click "Quick Start System", select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "COMMAND", and modify the default value to "C:\WINDOWS\, EXITWINDOWSEXEC"
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\DIRECTORY\SHELL, right-click SHELL, select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "Quick shutdown computer", and modify the default value to "Quick shutdown computer".
Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\CLASSES\DIRECTORY\SHELL\Quickly shut down the computer, right-click "Quickly shut down the computer", select the "Primary Key" command in the "New" menu, name it "COMMAND", and modify the default value to "C:\WINDOWS\, EXITWINDOWS".