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Is it possible to remove the – Log Off icon and text – from my start menu

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If you have TweakUI installed, you can turn this off there.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Thanks Dave.

I’ll amend the registry. Still like to know source of the Tweak-Up program.

Regards

Ed Harding.

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Hi Ed:

In case you don’t have TweakUI (Dave’s suggestion is best), go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer.
Right-click in the white area of the right window and select New, DWORD Value. Name this value NoLogOff and press Enter. Then double-click this entry and enter 1 under Value. Exit RegEdit and restart Windows. Log Off User will be gone.

Hope this helps.

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Before tinkering with the registry make a backup.

Open a MS-DOS box then the following
cd
c:
cd windows
attrib user.dat -s -h -r
attrib system.dat -s -h -r
copy *.dat *.ok
exit

You can use scanreg to recover a bad registry but it is cumbersome to use. With this if you ever make a mistake in the registry or a program trashes it you have a backup. Just boot in DOS, rename the old registry and copy *.ok to *.dat.

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Thanks for adding that, Paul. I should remember to add something about the backup whenever I mention editing the registry.

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Good Point. Did consider looking at registry. I always do a back-up before tinkering.

Regards.

Ed

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If you use xcopy, you don’t need to change the attributes. If you picture doing this more than once, you can create a batch file for it at the DOS prompt. Starting in your Windows folder (probably c:windows):

copy con myRegBk.bat
xcopy system.dat system.ok /h/r
xcopy user.dat user.ok /h/r
^Z pressing the F6 key inserts the control code ^Z

Then, if you type myregbk at the c:windows prompt, it will make the copies. The second time you do it, it will ask you to confirm the overwrite.

To restore over system.dat and user.dat, you can (carefully) reverse the process.

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Hi Jefferson:

Thanks for the information. Question, since I don’t know how to write a batch file. How do you restore using a batch file?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Phil

Just noted Jefferson hasn’t replied.

Follow his steps above just reverse the xcopy source and destinations, so:
xcopy system.ok system.dat /h/r
xcopy user.ok user.dat /h/r.

However, I would be doing this manually as, hopefully you won’t really need this. It would more time consuming writing the batch file than doing it manually.

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Hi Granville:

Thanks for the information. So far, the only way I’ve restored the registry is using scanreg/restore. In Win95, I used to have a batch file for backup & restore that I believe I got from PC Magazine, a regbackup.bat & regrestore.bat. They didn’t work in Win98 because Win98 doesn’t create a backup with a .da0 extension. Anyway, thanks again.

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Edited by Phil Rabichow on 01/03/19 03:27.

Hi Granville:

I still haven’t gotten around to making the batch file, but I wanted to make sure I had it correct. If I understand your instructions for restoring the registry by batch file, you:

copy con myRegRestore.bat
xcopy system.ok system.dat /h/r
xcopy user.ok user.dat /h/r
^Z where pressing the F6 key inserts the control code ^Z

Isn’t there something about resetting the attributes to hidden & system? And does this mean that my batch file is named “myRegRestore.bat”?

Whoops! One more thing. I just made a sample batch file (copying text.txt to text.old) & it keeps prompting me as to whether text.old is a directory or a file. Is there a way to suppress the prompt?

Thanks again.

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Hi Phil
This is the batch file I used to use to save my Registry in Win98SE. I no longer do this, as I find Scanreg extremely useful and not in the least, as a previous poster feels, cumbersome. (You will need to change the paths of your Windows directory and the drive to which you want to save).

CD
C:
CD Win001

attrib user.dat -s -h -r

copy user.dat G:Saved

attrib system.dat -s -h -r
copy system.dat G:Saved

attrib user.dat +s +h +r
attrib system.dat +s +h +r

CLS

CD

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Hi Phil
Since you’re now into writing batch files, you can add one to your command.pif (which you use in Win 98 to drop out into DOS) by using the /k switch on the command line. I clean out my Windows temp folder of all *.tmp or *.~mp every time I shut down. (If you simply type del *.* in a batch file the process stops and asks you if you really want to do it, then clears out everything – including the folder.htt and desktop.ini you might have in there on purpose).
Whilst we’re on the subject : rename dosstart.bat : it’s the loading of a DOS mouse driver as you shutdown that stops you re-entering Windows the quick way. (The sound driver may aslo have the same effect). You simply do not need dosstart.bat. If you need to work in DOS, you want to load MSCDex.exe, your DOS sound drivers and a mouse driver.
btw when you need useful Windows Freeware, you could do worse than to try my website (see sig). I definitely have TweakUI available in its latest version TweakUI 2000 (far more options than the standard form).

Cheers

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>btw when you need useful Windows Freeware, you could do worse than to try my website (see sig)<

Hi Mel:

WOW! You are so right. (Just what I need. Another great website with more things than I can ever test ). Between you, Chris Greaves, & Charles Kenyon, I’ll never get off the computer.

And thanks for the useful information. Before, I try a batch file to exit windows, I’m going to try the shift+shutdown & dropping into DOS, followed by exit, now that I’ve renamed dosstart.bat to dosstart.bak. I’ll let you know what happens.

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Hi Phil

It appears you’re sorted with batch files. Sorry I didn’t follow through but our engineers turned off the power supply on the server side of the UPS twice yesterday.

Best thing about this place is there are plenty of people happy to assist.

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Long time since I wrote a batch file. Was pretty good at it before Windows put in an appearance. Still have and old 8086 computer.

Thanks.

Ed Harding

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Thanks Phil.

Where could I get this tweaking-up program?

Ed Harding

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It is on the Windows 98 First Edition cd or you can down load a updated version from MS at
http://www.microsoft.com/NTWorkstation/dow…g/NTTweakUI.asp%5B/url%5D

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Thanks a million. Will shoot off to the given URL.

Regards.

Ed.

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Your welcome

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Thanks Phil and Dave.

Problem now fixed. Registry amend, but also downloaded TweakUI.

Regards.

Ed Harding

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For an excellent alternative tweaking program see XTeq X-Setup in Software Finds.

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Hi Michael…

Thanks for the information. Will check it out.

Regards.

Ed Harding

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