Tips for Windows 95, 98 and Windows 2000 #4 - Computers - http://maxpages.com/nanotechnology/Tips

31. Get more CPU Info from Win98

If you have an Intel Pentium, the General tab on the My Computer screen probably reports that your computer is a GenuineIntel (one word) Pentium ® Processor (or something close to that).

For more information, open this Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Hardware\Description\System\CentralProccessor\0

Double-click on VendorIdentifier and put a space (“modify”) between “Genuine” and “Intel” on this line.

Now reopen the Properties sheet. Underneath the Genuine Intel line, you’ll see that your CPU is displayed as coming from the “x86 Family X Model Y Stepping {version} Z,” where X,Y,Z, are the correct values in your system.

Close the Properties sheet, reopen the Registry key and the same information will be seen on the Identifier line.

Restart Windows 98 and the default information will be reinstated.

32. Windows 98/95 SETUP SWITCHES:

If you try to install Windows 95/98 from a Dos prompt, SETUP allows several command line switches, also available to their Windows counterpart.

Run:
Setup/?
“Setup Options:[/C] [/IL [batch] [/T:TMP] [/IM] [/ID] [/IS] [/IQ] [IN]
/C Instructs Setup not to load the SmartDrive disk cache.
/IL Loads the Logitech mouse driver instead of the Microsoft mouse driver. Use this option if you have a Logitech Series C mouse.
[batch] Specifies the name and location of the file that contains setup options.
/T: TMP Specifies the directory where Setup will copy its temporary files. If the directory doesn’t exist, it will be created.
WARNING: Any existing files in this directory will be deleted.
/IM Skips the memory check.
/ID Skips the disk-space check.
/IS Doesn’t run ScanDisk.
/IQ Skips the check for cross-linked files.
/IN Runs Setup without the Network Setup Module.
Note: The /a and /n are no longer valid. Use NETSETUP.EXE instead.”

NEW Setup Switches added by Windows98:
/ie Does not create an Emergency Boot Disk.
/ih Skips the registry check.
/iv Skips the Display of billboards during setup.

UPDATES: “Undocumented SETUP switch:
/IW Bypasses Microsoft EULA licensing screens/dialog boxes, [EULA=End User License Agreement].”
/NTLDR Bypasses an existing Operating System detection. By default
OEM/VAR Win95/NT full releases can be installed only on a new PC without ANY previous OS, but this switch allows SETUP to circumvent this “problem”.
/Pf Creates a NEW Win95 Registry from scratch, in the case of corrupted registry files [BACKUP your WORKING WIN98/95 REGISTRY FILES FIRST]!
Also read the “FRESH REGISTRY” topic (included for more “SETUP/Pf” details.
/nm bypassed the internal processor detection, to allow Win95/98 install on systems that do NOT meet Microsoft minimum requirements (i.e. 386, 486SX etc.) Also skips the check for the math coprocessor. Works especially for Windows98.

NOTICE: Also read these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles to learn everything about the “official” SETUP switches:
1. “Windows95 Setup Switches”:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q128/4/00.asp

2. “Description of the Windows 98 Setup Switches”:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q186/1/11.asp

33. Links bar is not just for URLs anymore

On high-resolution displays (i.e. 1600x1200), the QuickLaunch toolbar is always at some window edge and a fair distance from where your mouse usually is. This amounts to racking up some additional mileage on you mouse (and your wrist).

Unlike the QuickLaunch toolbar, the Links Bar also appears in the Browser and Explorer windows in addition to the Taskbar. If you drop your application shortcuts to Links instead of QuickLaunch, your apps are always a short-distant away from clicking menu items, a mouse move to launch an app amounts to just a short roll. Single-click and a tiny mouse roll—you can’t beat that for speed!

Put all Internet apps (ftp, telnet, irc, etc) in the Links Bar making the Browser one stop shopping for all Internet stuff.

34. Is your hardware Win98 compatible?

Windows 98 has now been added to the Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl/. Use the Advanced tab to uncheck other choices so you can search just the Win98 database.

35. Win98 tips its own tips:

Win98 includes a text file called TIPS.TXT containing several neat tips. To access it, click Start | Run, type in TIPS.TXT and press enter.

36. Restore deleted items in Outlook Express:

If you accidentally delete email in OE and empty the Deleted Folder, it seems that you’ve lost all pieces of email. No worry. You still have a rescue as long as you have not done a “Compact Folders” operation. Here is how:

Try to locate where your email is stored (default %windir%\ \Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Mail, OE will prompt where you want your data stored when you launch OE for the first time, delete the .idx file for the folder you want to restore, start OE and goto the folder you want to restore and now you will see all email items are back.

Note: you must not compact the folder or you will lose your mail permanently.

37. Thumbnails in Windows Explorer:

In addition to Web View, Windows98 includes a little known feature which makes it easy to preview images from Explorer. This is known as Thumbnail View.

To enable Thumbnail View, right-click a folder and choose Properties. Place a checkmark in the “Enable thumbnail view” box and click OK. Next, double-click the folder to open it. Click the view menu and choose Thumbnail (below “as Web Page”).

You will now see a thumbnail preview of all graphics files in that folder.

38. Change font in Notepad:

An updated version of Notepad is included with Windows 98.

One new feature on Notepad allows you to change the font used to display text files without having to fiddle with Desktop Properties. To set the font in Notepad, simply click the Edit menu and choose Set Font.

39. Rebuilding your hardware configuration:

This works for Win95, and should continue to work for Win98

This is for the times where you have scrambled the Plug n Play configuration or have added or removed hardware and the System settings in the control panel just isn’t right.

Control_Panel->system->Hardware_configuration tab

Normally you will see one setting of “original configuration” Click the Rename button and change it to “saved original configuration. Click the Copy button and make “copied original configuration”

Reboot the machine (it may not take if the machine crashed during shutdown)

At reboot, the machine will prompt to choose which hardware profile to use, select”none of the above” and it will rebuild the profile. (This will reboot your machine again.)

Later you may want to delete the other profiles.

40. Scrolling faster through favorites:

Lets say your favorites list is very long and you wish to scrod down the favorites faster.. Well all you have to do is click CTRL while selecting the down arrow on the bottom of favorites and there you have it. Favorites scroll at 3X the speed.

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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