Tips for Windows 95, 98 and Windows 2000 - Computers - http://maxpages.com/nanotechnology/Tips

1 Rename the Recycle Bin

To rename your Recycle Bin to some other name like Trash Can or that of your preference go to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{64FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder] and Modify 40 01 00 20 to 70 01 00 20

This allows renaming the Desktop Recycle Bin to your desire, but DO NOT rename the recycle bins DIRs in the Explorer because Windows will add a new Recycle Bin at next boot up. This will work only for your Desktop.

After renaming change it back to 40 01 00 20 for safety in not accidentally deleting your “Trashcan” or whatever you named it.

2. Outlook Express-email anywhere:

Create a new short cut, and paste in this info:

“C:\Program Files \ Outlook Express \MSIMN.EXE”/mailurl: %1

This will open a new OE email message windows, even if OE is not your default email program. Handy for when you want to post a quick note/message without loading all the overhead of your normal email program.

3. Restore the registry:

#1
Type “scanreg” in Run command line to prepare a backup of the windows registry.

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If Windows does not start and you need to restore settings form the “good” copy of the registry, start windows, press F8, select command Mode Only and type “scanreg” in DOS prompt-you will be able to select the backup registry file and restore it. It must be done in real mode (DOS).

4. Control Panel-short cuts

You can create shortcuts to start any Control Panel components.

For example type in Run line:
Control main.cpl@1
Control main.cpl@2
Control main.cpl@3
Control modem.cpl
Control joy.cpl

Control desk.cpl ext.any *Cpl. file in Windows\system directory

5. Start Menu- Organize, Organize and Organize:

It is always a good idea to keep your start menu trim. Each installed program likes to create its own sub folder, although each group will likely contain only one necessary icon. It is very useful to keep only a few active groups*, and move new icons into one of these. Win98 lets you delete items right from the start menu just by right clicking on them and selecting delete. If you turn off delete confirmation prompting in the properties of the recycle bin, you can delete items more easily because the start menu stays open after each deletion.
Good candidates for a concise start menu are:

Applications- office like apps
Communications- Internet and telephony
Control Panel- a cascading version
Games- how can you not have this?
Graphics & Sound- multimedia authoring tools
Main % Accessories- the built –in apps and similar applets
Multimedia & CD-ROM- all of your CD titles
StartUp-how can you not have_this_? (literally!) ;-)
System Tools-a all the built-in and third party utilities you need to tune the system

6. Quick Backup:

Here’s a tip for anyone upgrading to a larger hard disk.

Most modern PC’s have dual IDE channels. You usually put the hard disk as a master on channel one and the CD-ROM as master on channel two. After upgrading to a larger hard drive, put the old one as a slave on the first IDE channel.

Since the backup program that comes with Windows 98 can not only backup to a tape drive but also can backup to a FILE, use the backup program to make backup copies of key critical files form your main hard disk to a file on the old hard disk.

You can tag the items most valuable to you and save them as a JOB for later refreshes. It’s a quick and easy backup that can also be automated with the task scheduler in PLUS.

7. Multimonitor & whopping huge downloads:

If you’re accustomed to doing things like honkin’big downloads or insanely huge Zip files, or anything that can progress comfortably in the background, throw it on the secondary monitor and you can play a game on the primary to pass the time and still keep an eye on progress.

8. Networking desktop shortcuts:

Here is a tip if you are networking a couple of computers at home or a small office setup-up. Make a shortcut to the other computer’s desktop folder on your desktop. When you want to send a file to the other computer so that the user might notice it, just rights click drag and drag the file on the desktop shortcut and select copy here. The file will show up on the other computer’s desktop.

9. System properties shortcuts:

Create a new shortcut and in the command line type in C:\windows\control.exe sysdm.cpl,,1 8

Change the 1 to
1= device manager
2= hardware profile
3= performance then stick it on the quicklaunch bar or wherever.

10. System properties shortcut:

Create a shortcut on your desktop to device manager, bypassing the general tab:

C:\WINODWS\CONTROL.EXE SYSDM.CPL,SYSTEM,1

(Changing the number will display the corresponding tab)

These tips were downloaded from the internet by Gager: Do not sell this, It’s probably Copyrighted© . Please exercise caution and use at your own risk.

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