Antidote to knowing too much. :)

Works for me:
In any 'details view' in any Explorer window, click on some file, then hold
CTRL and press the + key on the numeric keypad. I can't count the number of
times I needed this per DAY, or the number of years I remained in ignorance.

Huh? What is that supposed to do? I tried it here (on XP), and didn't
notice anything.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Works for me:
In any 'details view' in any Explorer window, click on some file, then
hold
CTRL and press the + key on the numeric keypad. I can't count the number
of
times I needed this per DAY, or the number of years I remained in
ignorance.

"Bill in Co" wrote in
m:

Huh? What is that supposed to do? I tried it here (on XP), and didn't
notice anything.


Really? Wow. Maybe another cool thing that got lost. Ctrl, and numeric +,
after clicking on some file, makes all the columns in detailed views adjust
to fit the widest string in each column. If WXP lacks that, I have to wonder
what other good ideas got lost before I or lots of other people ever knew
they existed in W9X.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in
m:

Huh? What is that supposed to do? I tried it here (on XP), and didn't
notice anything.


Really? Wow. Maybe another cool thing that got lost. Ctrl, and numeric +,
after clicking on some file, makes all the columns in detailed views adjust
to fit the widest string in each column. If WXP lacks that, I have to wonder
what other good ideas got lost before I or lots of other people ever knew
they existed in W9X.

Its in XP and I never knew about it.
What a handy thing!
Thanks.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in
m:

Huh? What is that supposed to do? I tried it here (on XP), and didn't
notice anything.


Really? Wow. Maybe another cool thing that got lost. Ctrl, and numeric +,
after clicking on some file, makes all the columns in detailed views
adjust
to fit the widest string in each column. If WXP lacks that, I have to
wonder
what other good ideas got lost before I or lots of other people ever knew
they existed in W9X.

You mean like running out of resources due to the 64K heaps? :-)

Paul in Houston TX wrote in
:

Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in
m:

Huh? What is that supposed to do? I tried it here (on XP), and
didn't notice anything.


Really? Wow. Maybe another cool thing that got lost. Ctrl, and numeric
+, after clicking on some file, makes all the columns in detailed views
adjust to fit the widest string in each column. If WXP lacks that, I
have to wonder what other good ideas got lost before I or lots of other
people ever knew they existed in W9X.

Its in XP and I never knew about it.
What a handy thing!
Thanks.

Yw. If anyone knows other good bits, post them, I'm sure I missed plenty.

"Bill in Co" wrote in
:

You mean like running out of resources due to the 64K heaps? :-)


Got to say I still don't know what that means. I never saw that come up in
all my time on W98. There's a Stacks thing we can increase in Config.sys but
that too is rarely called for. I had to do it once, and still can't remember
why.

Bill in Co wrote:

You mean like running out of resources due to the 64K heaps? :-)

The 32-bit User Window, User Menu, and User GDI heaps are 2 mb each, not
64 kb. It's only the 16-bit User heap and 16-bit GDI heaps that are 64
kb.

The fact that you continuously refer to these heaps as a bottleneck
indicates that your experience with Win-98 is probably with older
software that made more use of 16-bit code which might have been more
common 10 years ago. Or your experience is based on "buggy" software
circa 10 years ago (that maybe you still use) that suffers from GDI
leaks.

The error "Unable to create control" is frequently mentioned in
conjunction with running low (or even running out of) user resources on
win-9x systems, and that has me scratching my head because I don't
believe I've ever seen that error on any win-9x system I've ever
operated or managed.

Another one:
http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/samples/closewindow.txt

In batch files that won't close their windows when done, even when EXIT is
specified, make the last commands @CLS then @EXIT. (The @ hides the commands
so you don't have to see them when they run). I can't explain the rest any
better than the guy who wrote that page did, so go there.

98 Guy wrote:
Bill in Co wrote:

You mean like running out of resources due to the 64K heaps? :-)

The 32-bit User Window, User Menu, and User GDI heaps are 2 mb each, not
64 kb.

It's only the 16-bit User heap and 16-bit GDI heaps that are 64 kb.

Well, 64 KB (kilobyte) (b is for bits, B is for bytes in practice)

And that was "more than enough" (or perhaps I should more accurately say,
"less than enough", on a few occasions. :-)

The fact that you continuously refer to these heaps as a bottleneck

In *some* instances. Not everyday.
And it also depended greatly on the particular software app being run, of
course.

indicates that your experience with Win-98 is probably with older
software that made more use of 16-bit code which might have been more
common 10 years ago. Or your experience is based on "buggy" software
circa 10 years ago (that maybe you still use) that suffers from GDI
leaks.

The error "Unable to create control" is frequently mentioned in
conjunction with running low (or even running out of) user resources on

I never saw that message. What I *did* see was some serious warning note
and beep pop up near the bottom of the screen when the resources dropped
down to around 5 % or so (strongly suggesting I close down now or else, and
they were right). (At which point you would suggest get a different app,
and I'd reply, there wasn't any great affordable replacement for the one(s)
I was using (can't recall which ones were the most problematic now).

win-9x systems, and that has me scratching my head because I don't
believe I've ever seen that error on any win-9x system I've ever
operated or managed.

Well, I've done a fair amount of audio processing with a *multitude* of
various audio apps and a few other things, mostly as a hobby, so that's
probably why.