My Little Helpers Page

Hi all,

The time has come where i want my Comp to be faster and i think i could do a lot by adding more memory. However, it's a notebook and there's only one 64MB on board and a *single* slot where i can put 128MB at max. So i have 192MB for some weeks now and while it's an improvement over 128, it's not as great as i thought. So i thought how about freeing up some memory and i went to look at how much memory my apps need.
Coming to think of it, i found out that i can even have many of my tools resident and still use less memory than before - if only i use the right tools.

So here's a list of my little helpers. With the emphasis on *little* this time:

recent additions - not yet included in the details below are:
Robin Keir's IP2 and Neutron as well as
bloatbusters' dns2ip (is free but on the other hand does not contain as many features as e.g. xpt's spike, CyberKit (also free) or SamSpade (also free)...

Tools and their Resources

General Bloat "Research"

Tips & Tricks

Print a listing of all files contained within a directory.

1. Make a Batch file "printdir.bat" with the following contents: (z.B. C:\WIN95) eine Batch-Datei"printdir.bat", die folgendem Inhalt hat: @echo off Dir "%1" > %2 and save it in the windows directory.
2. In Explorer (View | Options) search for the "folder" or "directory" entry and open it with a double-click.
3. Click on "New..." Now make a new entry and call it like "Directory as Txt" or so, in application enter c:\win95\printdir.bat %1 c:\win95\dirlist.txt then click ok.
4. Repeat the previous step, but call the entry like "Directory to Printer" or so and in the application-field enter c:\win95\printdir.bat %1 LPT1 .
5. That was it, now you can right-click on folders and select the above functions. The folder's contents will be either printed or written to the file "dirlist.txt" in the windows directory.

Symbolic links to special entities

• InBox.{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
• NetworkNeighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• MyComputer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
• ControlPanel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
• PrinterFolder.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
• MyFiles.{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
• RecycleBin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
• BriefCase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
• Dial-UpNetworking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
• TaskPlanner.{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

Right click menu entries

Entries in the New... Menu

1. Open Regedit, and using the Find function (Ctrl+F) search for any values of 'ShellNew'.
2. Several should be found under the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] hive, if you do not want them to be displayed rename 'ShellNew' to 'ShellNewOld'.

Execute system commands from a commandline/link

Dial a Dial-Up Connection

RUNDLL32.EXE rnaui.dll,RnaDial ConnectionName

Open a URL in your default browser

RUNDLL32.EXE url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://www.basicworld.com

Open a telnet connection to a spec. server

RUNDLL32.EXE url.dll,TelnetProtocolHandler 194.45.127.79

Open your default mailer with a mail to a spec. adress

RUNDLL32.EXE url.dll,MailToProtocolHandler Service@www.basicworld.com

Shutdown windows

RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

Restart windows

RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindowsexec

Restart windows after a 15 second delay

runonce.exe -q

Actually there is a more sophisticated way to handle logging on/off or shutting down etc:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx n where n is one, or a combination of, the following numbers:

• 0 - LOGOFF - Shuts down all running processes, then logs the user off.
• 1 - SHUTDOWN - Shuts down the system to a point at which it is safe to turn off the power. All file buffers have been flushed to disk, and all running processes have stopped.
• 2 - REBOOT - Shuts down the system and then restarts the system.
• 4 - FORCE - Forces processes to terminate. When this flag is set, Windows does not query running applications to inform them that Windows is shutting down. This can cause the applications to lose data, therefore, you should only use this flag in an emergency.
• 8 - POWEROFF - Shuts down the system and turns off the power. The system must support the power-off feature.

The above options can be combined into one value to achieve different results. For example, to restart Windows forcefully, without querying any running programs, use the following command line: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 6

Start menu order

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