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Zeppo:
Ok, figured out that I needed to uncheck the box in msconfig for /noguiboot.
I must have just brain farted and didn't put 2 and 2 together when the first section said to disable the boot screen altogether, and the second section was how to make it look like something else.
But, that's a newb for ya. Not quite understanding things.

Anyways, still can't get mamewah to exit and run explorer yet.
Have tried everything I can think of.

markb:
Not sure if this is really on topic but there are some easy ways of reducing the amount of hardrive space that XP takes up as well, this is especially useful if you have an old hardrive of under 10gb that you want to use.

The recycle bin
By default its set to 10%, either reduce it 2-3% or turn it off completely

Virtual Memory
Go Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Advanced
Click on the settings box next to performance then advanced tab.
This will show the virtual memory used and there are several schools of thought on what size this should be however it defaults to a min of x1.5 installed ram and max of x3. I always set both to the lower value and have had no problems, however I suggest experimenting.

Internet Explorer
Internet explorer has a cache reserved for temporary files, open IE and go Tools-Internet Options-general, click on the settings tab next to temporary files then reduce the size to whatever you require.

System restore (Already covered)
System restore size can be reduced or turned off.
Go Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-System restore-Settings
You can move the slider to whatever size you wish, however make sure you have enough to run a restore in the event of a system failure.

By doing all these I estimate on a small harddrive of about 6gb you can save 1 - 1.5gb in space and thats one hell of a lot of games.

loadman:

I just formatted my hard-drive for an exercise
(Don't ask) :dizzy:
anyway ....... I did have most of this info but not in any neat format. It consisted of highlighted bits from web printouts and mags.

Thanks for taking the time to collate this in a logical order :cheers:

RTSDaddy2:
I haven't had an opportunity to try this yet, but this is truly well written. Thanks for taking the time to do this for those of us who - more oft than not - tend to be a little clueless about how the "behind the scenes" stuff works. Hooray!! :applaud:

holdennut:
Zeppo, I had the same problem, had to edit mamewah.ini and set app_to_run_on_exit to c:\windows\explorer.exe. For some reason it needed the full path!

Hope this works for you.

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