Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Rich Cloutier wrote: ME is supposed to boot faster than 98 It doesn't. (More accurately, it can boot just as slowly as another other version of Windows ever did.) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote: (More accurately, it can boot just as slowly as another other version of Windows ever did.) s/another/any/ (Gotta stop posting before coffee.) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Rich Cloutier wrote: ME is supposed to boot faster than 98 It doesn't. (More accurately, it can boot just as slowly as [any] other version of Windows ever did.) I just got a Gateway Solo 3350 notebook with Windows ME on it. Sometimes it seems to boot pretty quickly. However, it shows a returning to windows message which makes me think it is not really bootstrapping from nothing, but is instead saving some data structures from the previous execution. Sort of partial hibernation, even though I had selected shutdown. Which may have something to do with the frequent boot failures. (Which apparently leave the CPU running but the fan off - it can get alarmingly hot. Power button doesn't help, either. I've taken to finding the bent paper clip *before* trying to boot Windows.) Linux seems pretty reliable on it, though. Exactly one unexplained crash so far. - Jim Van Zandt ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
- Original Message - From: Karl J. Runge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 2:38 AM Subject: Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog??? [snip] How fast do you think you could get a VMware boot under Linux to be? I really don't know. I DO know that one thing that really slows down any new Windows install that I do is adding network support. ME is supposed to boot faster than 98; I don't know if it's faster than a stripped copy of 95 SR2 though. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote: Does anyone know how to disable that stupid boottime Daylight Savings Time dialog in Win95 or Win98? Start - Settings - Control Panel - Date Time, then uncheck the option Automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
- Original Message - From: Karl J. Runge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:59 PM Subject: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog??? Does anyone know how to disable that stupid boottime Daylight Savings Time dialog in Win95 or Win98? You know, when DST switches over it tries to show off how smart it is that it caught it and then asks you to please check if the setting is correct in a dialog box with a clock. Did you uncheck the Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving time changes in the Date/Time Properties dialog? Some of you may recall that I wrote a script that launches a sandboxed VMware session on Linux to view *.EXE files security unconscious people email me or I download from the web. I don't trust the *.EXE's, so I run them in an isolated VMware session: when the session ends the whole Windows virtual disk is wiped and replaced with a backup. This is fine, except that for 6 months now I have to go thru this silly DST dialog each time it starts up! G. Neat idea. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
Rich C wrote: Did you uncheck the Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving time changes in the Date/Time Properties dialog? I suspect the two responses that suggested this were missing the point. I really think Karl *wants* the change, he just does not want to have to hold Windows' hand and approve it. In other words, to have the change happen silently. You know, like on Linux. :-) -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/ Apache Server for Dummieshttp://Apache-Server.Com/ Apache Server Unleashed http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/ ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
- Original Message - From: Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog??? Rich C wrote: Did you uncheck the Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving time changes in the Date/Time Properties dialog? I suspect the two responses that suggested this were missing the point. I really think Karl *wants* the change, he just does not want to have to hold Windows' hand and approve it. In other words, to have the change happen silently. You know, like on Linux. :-) That would be nicebut for a session that starts up briefly and goes away, who really CARES what time it is? It's not like he's running scheduled tasks or an appointment calendar with it. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/ Apache Server for Dummieshttp://Apache-Server.Com/ Apache Server Unleashed http://ApacheUnleashed.Com/ ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: I suspect the two responses that suggested this were missing the point. I really think Karl *wants* the change, he just does not want to have to hold Windows' hand and approve it. The DST auto-adjust option in Windows simply tries to guess when DST starts and ends, and sets the system clock appropriately. This is a *virtual* machine. The VM's clock comes from the host's clock. Presumably the host clock is correct, so all Windows is doing is *incorrectly* adjusting the system clock. Normally, this would only be slightly annoying, since it would only happen twice a year, and Windows would record the fact that the change was made. But since the OP is also discarding changes to his VM after every session, that change is never recorded. By disabling the option in Windows, everybody should be happy. In other words, to have the change happen silently. You know, like on Linux. :-) Linux keeps track of time internally as UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, also called GMT or Zulu). It also knows about time zones and DST, and calculates the local different from UTC automatically. It never needs to adjust the system clock. Windows assumes the system clock has the correct local time, and the time zone settings are largely ignored. Hope this helps, -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Disable Windoze daylight savings time dialog???
Does anyone know how to disable that stupid boottime Daylight Savings Time dialog in Win95 or Win98? You know, when DST switches over it tries to show off how smart it is that it caught it and then asks you to please check if the setting is correct in a dialog box with a clock. Some of you may recall that I wrote a script that launches a sandboxed VMware session on Linux to view *.EXE files security unconscious people email me or I download from the web. I don't trust the *.EXE's, so I run them in an isolated VMware session: when the session ends the whole Windows virtual disk is wiped and replaced with a backup. This is fine, except that for 6 months now I have to go thru this silly DST dialog each time it starts up! G. Thanks! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
