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To: wily who wrote (1506)	1/9/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: The Devil Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hello to the thread,this is my 1st time posting on the thread. I have just started reading from the begining and learned a couple of things I didn't know(just when I thought I knew every, thing NOT) just kidding. There was mention at the begining of the thread on how to change your MTU setting in your Windows Registry. It was suggested the number be changed from 1500 to 576, and this is supposed to speed up access and loading of web pages. I have looked all through my " REGEDIT.EXE " to change that value. Is that the right place to make the change or should I be looking somewhere else? Thanking you all in advance. Best Regards WB

To: wily who wrote (1506)	1/9/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

great to see all this participation on the computer learning thread! been following the posts where people are having probs with locking up, and slowness, etc. wily mentioned a trump card he uses with severe windows problems. here is a trump card i have used on 2 different pc's, both with equal success. i installed a good utilities suite. i chose symantec's norton's utilities 3.0. i strongly recommend the software. the very first time i ran norton windoctor to solve windows problems, it found 54 errors! it was an education in itself just reading the detailed description of each error, let alone selecting the repair. i usually let norton's decide automatically which repair to make, and presto!, things really improved dramatically. the most noticeable change on my systems was the almost total disappearance of general protection faults and invalid page faults (crashes!). i use this feature of the utility frequently to keep win95 humming on my pc's. i know that there are other utility suites available, probably equally good. nuts and bolts comes to mind. then there's something called oil change. do some homework, then pick one up and install it and see how much better things can be! good luck, mark

To: wily who wrote (1506)	1/10/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

If you have the unused disk space, ZIP the whole think once it's running correctly. Makes later messes easy to fix -- just UNZIP your stable, (and working) system. PW.

To: wily who wrote (1506)	1/13/1999 8:10:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

wily, monitor problems: I connected a 6 year old Goldstar monitor to my old PC. Am using the newer pnp monitor with my new HP Pavilion. The old PC boots and displays the Win95 logo ok, then after initialization is complete, the display picture breaks up and is unreadable. When I start the machine in safe mode the display is fine, but some programs don't work. I tried setting the display characteristics to Goldstar - no success. My guess is Win95 sets monitor properties to those for the previously connected pnp monitor. Since the Goldstar monitor displays properly before Win95 completes its initialization, it has to be a software setting. Any ideas? Regards Gottfried PS: another topic - the HP Pavilion came with a rescue CD. If the software gets corrupted just run the CD and it restores the factory software installation.