http://www.bootdisk.com/ 231 August 2005
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Welcome to the 231st Edition of The BootLIST
INDEX
1) Can You Force Explorer To Ignore File Copy Errors?
2) Feedback Re: Win98 Network Browsing Problem
3) NTFS Quick Or Regular Format
4) Out Of Memory Message While Doing A Full Format
5) Put The TweakUI Icon In Control Panel
6) Edit The Right Click XP Menu
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1) Can You Force Explorer To Ignore File Copy Errors?
Tony posted - Not to ask too stupid a question, but is there a way to get Windows Explorer (the file manager, not Internet Explorer the Internet browser) to continue coping if it finds an error? In other words to act like xcopy's "/c" option?
stealth answered:
Unfortunately: NO
Patrick K. suggested:
I'll suggest instead using FileSync. Which will indeed keep copying, and keep track.
*** To save you time doing a xcopy /? to find out what the /c option is - it's just an option to keep on
copying files even if an error is encountered during the process.
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2) Feeback Re: Win98 Network Browsing Problem
Pradip S. wrote to comment regarding Issue 230 Item 4 - Problems Browsing Network On Windows 98 LAN
I have also found a problem of Win98 networking of a different type.
On many installations with Ethernet card & cables functioning properly forget about browsing the network even the local machine is invisible. To solve this problem I simply have to logoff + logon & the network neighborhood comes up nice & proper.
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3) NTFS Quick Or Regular Format
mhsmom asked - What's the difference between formatting "ntfs" or "ntfs quick" other than the obvious (speed)?
Carey F. answered:
Differences between a Quick format and a regular format during a "clean" installation of Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302686
pcbutts1 said:
A quick format creates the file system structure on the volume without verifying the integrity of every
sector in the volume, which increases the formatting speed. If the volume is already formatted and you
are sure the disk is not damaged, you can use this option. A full format identifies and tracks bad sectors
so that they are not used for storing data.
Anando added:
FAT & NTFS File Systems in Windows XP:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.php
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4) Out Of Memory Message While Doing A Full Format
James M. telephoned - I was having major problems with my computer so I decided to format it and start from scratch with my Windows 98 boot disk. I'm going to put XP on afterwards but I want a 60 gig FAT32 partition for XP so this is the only way to do it since XP will not allow greater than 32 gig FAT32 partitions unless you set them up first in Dos. My problem is that I get an "Out of memory" message while formatting and it stops.
*** The problem you are having is probably due to a bad hard drive. When using a bootdisk to format
you are limited to the the basic 640K of ram thereabouts. So, even tho format.com and the associated
running apps loaded with the bootdisk hardly use any ram, when you do a full format it tries to save
"bad sector" data in ram to write it to the drive after the format is complete. If you have a lot, or just too
many bad sectors than you run out of ram to temporarily save the data to.
In this case you can try a zero fill, or the hard drive repair utility from your hard drive maker to see if it can fix the problems with your hard drive. And then try format again.
Chances are tho, since James was having major problems before, he may have just uncovered the root of the problem.
As a review, the basic 640K or 655,360 Bytes of ram is called Conventional Memory. [640K X 1,024 Bytes per K = 655,360]. Anybody remember tweaking config.sys and/or autoexec.bat to get more free conventional ram to run those dos games?
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5) Put The TweakUI Icon In Control Panel
oldad inquired - Before XPS Pro (Win 95,98,98SE) I always had a TweakUI icon in Control Panel. Now I do not and have tried everything I could think of to add it. No luck. Dell Tech with Dell XPS Elite Support Group, now outsourced to India, says impossible. Is it possible to put one in control panel?
Carey F. answered:
Adds TweakUI for Windows XP to the Control Panel:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_addtweak.htm
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6) Edit The Right Click XP Menu
Mervian wants to know - (Win XP Home SP2) Right-click menu seems rather bloated - any way to delete [the] items I never use?
Rich B. wrote back:
See if this is any help:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm
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