Tips for Windows 95, 98 and Windows 2000 #2 - Computers - http://maxpages.com/nanotechnology/Tips

11. Use the new my documents:

Windows 98 makes using the My Documents folder even easier to organize and find your data files.

1. It’s on the desktop.
2. It’s in start/ Documents at the top if you can’t get to desktop.
3. When opening or saving files in an application, if the “Current Directory” is somewhere else, don’t Navigate, use the drop down list box and it’s right there.
4. Use your own folder name/location by right clicking on the desktop My Documents icon and setting the location.
5. If you remove My Documents form the desktop, right click New on the desktop to create it again. (This only shows up if you’ve removed the desktop shortcut.
6. My Documents folder shows up with a unique folder icon when viewing the C:\ drive so it’s easy to spot.

12. Put your own links on the folder info side.

If you have any web page editing or making tool, you can put your own links on the folder info side of any folder, just open notepad, and then open folder.htt in the web dir, of your windows 98 dir.

Do a find for “” and once it finds it change it to what ever you, like. Windows 98 web Page.

You can add more then the 2 sample links that are all ready there too, just copy the sample link to under your links so it looks like this.

Windows 98 Web Page
Windows98 Web Page
Windows98 Web Page

13. Programs in favorites:

You can place links to a DUN dialup, a telnet app, an MSMail remote mail dial-in, (and an FTP shortcut inIE5) along with some regular Internet shortcuts in a “Work” sub folder of the Favorites folder for convenient access off the Start Menu Favorites menu, as well as the other locations Favorites appear of course. It is not just for URLs any more!

14. IE4 keyboard shortcuts:

Alt+D jumps to the Address Bar
Alt+Left Arrow Back.
Alt+Right Arrow Forward.
Backspace Back, or up one level when using folders.
Ctrl+D adds the current page to your favorites.
Ctrl+F Brings up the “Find on this page” dialogue box.
Ctrl+N opens a new window.
Ctrl+O brings up the “Open” dialogue box.
Ctrl+P brings up the “Print” dialogue box.
Ctrl+R Refreshes the current page.
Ctrl+S saves the current page.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab Move backwards among frames.
Ctrl+Tab Move forwards among frames.
F4 Displays the address Bar history.
F5 Refreshes current page.
F6 Jumps to the Address bar.
F11 Toggles Full Screen mode.
Page Down Scrolls down, one page at a time.
Page Up Scrolls up, one page at a time.
Space Scrolls down, one page at a time.

You can find more keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer by going to the Help menu, choosing Contents and Index and then looking in the Accessibility section.

15. Outlook express keyboard shortcuts

Alt+Left Arrow Selects the next message up in the headers list.
Alt+Right Arrow selects the next message down in the headers list.
F5 Refreshes current view.
Tab Cycles through the folder view, headers view and preview panel ext.
Ctrl+A select all.
Ctrl+F Forwards the selected message.
Ctrl+I Takes you to the Inbox.
Ctrl+L Toggle the folders view on or off.
Ctrl+N Composes a new message
Ctrl+O Brings up the “Open” dialogue box.
Ctrl+Q Mark selected header(s) as read.
Ctrl+R Replies to the selected message.
Ctrl+Shrift+B opens the Address Book.
Ctrl+Shift+ M Downloads all.
Ctrl+Shift+R Replies to the author and group of the selected message.
Backspace Back, or up one level when using folders.

16. Choose default folder for download.

After backing up your Registry, browse your way to this branch in Regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

Right click the Download Directory value and choose Modify. Enter the path for the folder you want to use as your deflate download folder.

17. Outlook Express-Multiple email accounts:

If you have more than one email account, and want to be able to check them all in one shot, do the following:

Tools/Accounts/Mail-For each mail account, make sure you choose
“Connect using Internet Explorers or a 3rd party dialer” on the Connection Tab.

This will force you to manually call one of your ISPs each time you start OE, but at least OE will not complain while getting your email from your other accounts in the same session.

No more need to hang up and dial in the other ISPs.

18. Move the desktop:

If you are like me, you use your desktop as a work area. It gets cluttered with both important stuff and lots of junk that you go through occasionally to organize. That important stuff will need to be moved normally to save it if you decide to delete the Windows directory.

I have found a better solution though that adds a bit of insurance. Windows 98 now allows you to use explorer to cut and paste the desktop from its deflate location of C:\Window\Desktop to another location.

For example D:\Desktop would also save that data to a completely remote location from both the Windows folder and the boot drive. I simply move the directory to my D: drive, which includes all the data I backup to CD’s regularly. Then I do not need to concern myself with it each time I reinstall Windows.

19. Favorites on the start menu

Are you sick of having the favorites and documents menus on the start menu slow you down? There is a very easy way to get rid of them!

Windows 98 comes with a new version of tweak UI on the Windows 98 CD-ROM. Just Go to the \tools\reskit\powertoy\ and right click on the tweakui.inf file then click install, that will install tweak UI, then just restart, and Go to the IE4 tab, and uncheck “show favorites on start menu” and the show documents on start menu”, and restart, and the annoying menus won’t be there.

20. PC not found-peer to peer networking:

Many times do I get the message “PC NOT FOUND” when trying to access another computer over a peer to peer network.

The Solution:

Assign each PC an IP address.

1) Right-Click on Network Neighborhood and pick Properties.
2) Make sure you have TCP/IP installed and pick Properties.
3) Double click on TCP/IP for your network adapter.
4) Click on the IP Address tab.
5) Select “Specify and IP address”
6) Enter an IP address in the input boxes (can be 192.168.x.x where x is any number between 1 and 255)
7) Enter 255.255.255.0 in the subnet Mask.
8) Press OK to all dialogs and reboot your system

Now repeat this for all machines on the peer to peer network but make sure that they all have a different IP address or a conflict will arise.

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