Tips for Windows 95, 98 and Windows 2000 #8 - Computers - http://maxpages.com/nanotechnology/Tips

71. Rename Items in the Start Menu:

If you right click on an item in the start menu/toolbar and there is no ‘rename’ options, you can rename the item:

1. Left-click drag the item in question to the desktop.
2. Rename the new item on the desktop whatever you want
3. Right-click drag the newly-renamed item back to its previous location and choose ‘Move here’

72. Nuke the AOL Instant Mssenger splash screen from Netscape Navigator:

Click ontstart, run, type msconfig, and hit enter. Then you can click on the tab fathest to he right and check/uncheck things you do or don’t want to laod at startup. Find the AOL Instant Messenger item and uncheck it’s box. Presto! Gone for good!

73. Add rename option to the rightclick menu for Recycle Bin:

To add the rename option to the rightclick menu for the recycle bin create a new text file and add the following:

REGEDIT 4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}ShellFolder]
“Attributes”= hex:50,01,00,50

Rename the file extention to .reb rather then text then run the file and it will add the above registry key.

74. Bypassing the Recycle Bin

Holding down shift while clicking delete will permanently delete it and keep it from going to the recycle bin.

75. [Speed up Modem] STAC over analog:

OK, this one isn’t well known, but here goes, MS has built in STAC compression for use over analog connection. This means that those of you who have ISP’s that support STAC for analog (this is particularly evident in ISP’s whose use Livingston PM3 units and support 56K access, but not always) can get STAC compression on your call to your ISP drastically increasing performance.

Click on start, settings, control panel, modems, select your modem and hit properties, then click connection, then advanced. Uncheck the box that says compress data under error control. Click OK until you are back to the control panel and reboot. (Some of you may have to disable error control completely, YMMV)

Call your ISP to see if they support it first and if they do when you connect, you should be able to click on the little flashing lights next to your clock in the taskbar and then click the details button. It will tell you is STAC is currently running. If it’s no there, then it probably isn’t supported by your ISP.

76. Get to Conrol Panel in One Click:

First oepn my computer drag the conrol panel icon down to the quick launch bar, this will create a shortcut to conrol panel from then on you can access control panel in 1 click.

77. Keep from rebooting when you cahnge monior properties:

To keep from rebooting when you change monitor properties, do the following.

Right click a blank area of you desktop. Choose properties, click settings, click advanced properties, click performance, check the box labeld apply the changes without restarting. Click OK until you’re back at your desktop. You MAY have to reboot just this once, but never again.

Most older monitors (analog particulary) do not support this function but most new monitors do!

78. In DOS, Quickly enter a file name using drag and drop:

Here’s the situation: You’re in a windows DOS box about to run a DOS command that takesa file name as a parameter. If you’re lazy like me and don’t want to type in the fill path name, drag the file from an Explorer windows into DOS bx and Windows will automatically type the fill filename and path onto the command line for you.

79. Drag a file to the desktop or another application:

Here’s how to drag a file to the desktop from Explorer without minimizing all the open windows.

Click on th efile in Explorer. Drag the mouse (while holder down the mouse button) over an empty part of the taskbar (or even over the time display if your taskbar is full) and wait for a second. All of the windows will be minimized and you can now move the mouse up onto the desktop to complete the operation.

You an also do the same thing with data from one application to another. For example, you can run both Word and Excel maximized. Select a range of data in Excel and drag it onto the word icon on the taskbar. Wait for a second and Word wil be brought to the fron allowing you to drop the data into your document.

80. Cannot save password, in log on network:

Here’s how to fix the inability to sav a password for dial-up login (this does not apply to apply to connection manager settings, just to manual connection).

Right click on network neighborhood and choose properties. Click add. Choose client, click add, choose microsoft, click client for MS networks, click OK until you are asked for your Win9x disks. (You may not be asked depending on how your system was installed). DO NOT REBOOT when asked to. Click on start, find, files or folders and type *.pwl in the box. Click Find Now. Delete any items it brings up. Reboot.

When asked for your windows username password, put in the same password you login to your ISP with and no password. Just leave it blank and click OK. When it asks to confirm the password, leave it blank again and just click OK. You should now be able to manually establish a dial-up connection and click the save password box.

81. Open a web page in one single click:

If you right-click your taskbar, choose the “toolbars” option, and select “Address” you will get a new item on the taskbar that allows you to type in any URL (on the Internet, your hard drive, or a network share) and automatically open that page or folder.

This saves the steps of having to open your web browser, then type the address in. It’s a timesaver.
88. System Properties Dialog box in one keystroke:

If you have a Windows95 keyboard with the special “Windows Key” on it, you can hit the WinKey + Pause/Break to instantly open the sytem properties dialog box. This saves you the extral step of going to the Start Menu and opening the Control Panel, then clicking on the System Icon.

82. Minimize Windows from the taskbar:

With Win98 or IE 4.x you can minimize almost any winodw by simply clicking on its depressed button in the taskbar.

83. Reboot Windows, not the machine:

If you ever want to reboot just Windows98, and not your whole machine, create a shortcut and use the following text as your Target:

C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,ExitWindowsExec

This taskes the place of having to go throught a whole reboot of your system when you only want o restart Windows.

84. Command Line Window/Full Screen:

If you are working at a Dos Prompt (command line) from withing Windows you can easily switch betwwen full-screen and Windows mode by simply pressing Alt+Enter at the same time.

85.Internet Explorer Full-Screen:

Using IE 4.X, you can easily tobble between full-screen mode, and a normal window by pressing the F11 key. This will give you much more screen area on which to view thing from within IE.

86. Add you favorite icon app to the quick launch bar:

1. Right click and drag an existing shortcut from the desktop to the area next to the start button and release it, or, using explorer, right click and drag the icon for a program file (exe) in the same manner and release.

2. Then select create shortcut here

3. If you are always looking for “my computer” to explorer or check something. It’s a good chance to drag on down to the quick launch bar for instant access at any time!

87. Instant Tool Bars:

Drag any folder or any item from the desktop (e.g. My computer, recycle Bin, Network Neighborhood, Conrol Panel icon etc.) to the edge of the screen and release. You get a Single Click Quick Launch Toolbar with all the con inside it! Work, if Intellimouse” move mouse to other side of screen” is turned on.

88.Quicker Access to Control Panel | Networks:

Instead of going through Start | Settings | Control Panel | Networks, you can shorten the keystroke by clicking on Network Neighborhood and selecting Properties.

89. The infamouse Cascading Conrol Panel- Start Menu Hack:

To cascade the Conrol Panel applets off your Start Menu:

1. Right-click on the Start Button and select Open.
2. Create a new folder and call it Conrol Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B3039D}

YOU CAN ALSO DO THIS WITH Printers by createing a floder called Printers. {227A280-3SRS-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D

Don’t forget the period in the folder name.

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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