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DOWNLOADS SUSPEND MANAGER Al
Testani's
Suspend
Manager program will allow you to close the lid on
your Inspiron or Latitude without going into Suspend or
Standby mode. Al's program works with Windows 95, Windows
98, and some versions of Windows NT. After downloading and
unzipping the program read the readme.txt file that is
included, prior to installing and running the program.
Do
not use Suspend Manager if you are going to close the lid and put your computer
in a case or bag as there is a very good chance that you will
overheat the unit. It is ok to close the lid with this
program if you are going to leave the computer out on a hard flat
surface. I leave the lid closed on mine every night and have Virus
Scan, Scan Disk, Defrag, and my backup program run during the
night while I sleep. I've been doing this for several months now
without encountering any problems at all. |
SCREEN SHRINKER or LCD UTILITY This program is for the Inspiron 3000 and Inspiron 3200 only. It is designed to sharpen and focus the screen image when the screen resolution is changed from 1024x768 to 800x600. It was never an Offical Dell patch, although it has been provided by Dell, on DellTalk, from time to time (which is where I got it), and therefore is not available for download from Dell's FTP site. After downloading the program double click lcdutil.exe and a diskette will be created with the necessary files to run the Screen Shrinker utility which you can copy to a folder on your HDD. Read the readme.txt file that is included, prior to using the Screen Shrinker utility. Although
the readme.txt file does not mention it, this utility does
work just fine in Windows 98 and I believe that it will
work Under Windows NT as well. |
This utility will help keep your system cool and extend battery life. It's
smaller than both Waterfall and CPUIdle and generally provides better
results. To install, simply download, unzip, run install.exe, and select
your processor--if you have a Pentium III, select Pentium II. When running,
Rain will appear in your system tray as a chip with three water droplets.
This utility is only useful under Win9x--NT's idle loop accomplishes the same
job in NT. |
| Fan.exe
beta by Dell Computer Corp.
This utility will allow you to override the BIOS thermal tables and turn on the fan in your Inspiron 3500, 7000, 7500, or 5000. Although this utility has been posted by Dell on DellTalk, it should be considered as beta software; in other words, it's not an official Dell program. Simply double-click on FAN.EXE to run the program. A WinDOS box will appear momentarily, and the fan should begin to run. To restore your fan to normal operation, suspend or shut down the computer. Notes:
Tom Arnett FanOn.zip by Doug McFadyen If FAN.EXE doesn't work on your system, or you want to turn the fan on in
DOS, try this utility written by DellTalk user Doug
McFadyen. Make sure to
read the FANON.TXT file, since it contains important information. As with FAN.EXE, this utility is unsupported, which is why the ZIP file has been
encoded with the password useatmyownrisk. (See above for a list of
compatible systems.) |
| Maestro-2 Sound Drivers v4.11.0293
These are the latest drivers for the ESS Maestro-2 soundcard in the Inspiron
7000. They're not a whole lot different than the ones on the Dell file library, but they
may help if you're having sound-related problems. |
These drivers will enable you to use your touchpad in
DOS mode. Extract the files to your root directory and add the line
c:\syntouch.com to your autoexec.bat
file. Syntouch.txt explains the various command-line switches you can use, but none of them are really necessary. |
The oem.zip
file contains oeminfo.ini, oemlogo.bmp, the Windows 98 splash screen
with the Dell Logo, the Windows 95 splash screen with the Dell Logo, two
Windows 98 Plus splash screens with the Dell Logo created by Steve
Smith, and
readme.htm which explains where to place each file. |
Copyright © 1999 - 2006 Dave Dykhuis Last Updated On 25 March 2006 |
