-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 RJT> That's plenty of room for an older distro.  Newer ones seem to
 RJT> load you up on more "stuff"...

 WC> Well I could always haul out the manual and check ;-)  This distro
 WC> of Slackware was a CD in a sleeve in the back of the book.

 RJT> That's how I got my first copy of Slackware,  in the back of a book.
 RJT> What book was it?  :-)  
 
Special Edition Using Linux, Que Books, Tackett, Gunter and Brown 
authors copyright 1995 861 pages, it's thicker than my phone book.

 RJT> Mine never did get opened,  as this turned out
 RJT> to be a real early version and people in the echo kept on saying that I
 RJT> shouldn't bother with it and then I ended up with the 4-disc set of
 RJT> 4.0,  and went on from there...
 
 RJT> There oughta be a way to fix that.  I can't remember now what it was
 RJT> that OS/2 used in place of a registry file,  but I remember
 RJT> encountering some cleanup utilities for that.  Anything out there
 RJT> like that for windoze that you know of?

 WC> Yup, have some of it on my system.
 WC> There's a clean system freeware utility for 3.1 which moves unused
 WC> DLL's to a holding directory until you're sure you really and
 WC> truely don't need them than you can delete and there's syntax
 WC> available right off MickySoft's web site to re-establish the
 WC> original registry but of course than it's up to you to link up any
 WC> software that had been added since than.  The .ini files you need
 WC> you can _mostly_ figure out without help.

 RJT> Sometimes.  

 Most of the time here but some of the authors of software have
 some weird ideas of naming ini files though you can alway
 open them and have a look around as sometimes that helps.

 WC> I tired of it after a time, now with the monitor sleep feature
 WC> enabled in CMOS it's a non-issue. I rather suspect the CRT will
 WC> last longer in sleep mode as the heater won't get the thermal shock
 WC> from constant switching on and off, similar for transients and
 WC> semiconductors.

 RJT> Yeah,  probably.  Though lately I'm beginning to think that most
 RJT> monitor problems are bad caps or marginal semiconductors,  operated to
 RJT> close to their limits.  Been a *long* time since I've seen a bad CRT.

Most monitor problems I've seen are caps.
 
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