MY favourite Windows95 Tip

most tip are from www.winmag.com

1. Before you mess with the Registry, make sure you have a good backup. The Windows 95 CD comes with a free Registry backup utility. Create a folder on your hard drive called Registry Backup, select and copy CFGBACK.EXE (and its help file) from the OTHER\MISC\CFGBACK\ folder from the Win95 CD, then paste it into the new folder. Create a shortcut to the file for easy access.

2. Copying all the CAB (Windows 95 installation files) from the Win95 CD to your hard disk is a great way to save time when re-installing components or the whole shebang. You can make this even quicker by modifying the Registry to point to the CAB files during installation. Open the Registry Editor, drill down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Setup and single-click on the SETUP folder. Right-click on the SourcePath item and select Modify from the context menu. Enter the path of the folder that contains your CAB files.

3.Want to make your own icons for your desktop. You can rename any .BMP file to .ICO, and then use it as an icon! Windows 95 resizes it to icon size, then changes it to 16 colors,and it works just fine.

4. If you want to open a sub-folder and have the parent folder automatically close, hold the ctrl key down as you double-click to open the new folder.

5. Win95 pauses for about two seconds during boot-up to give you the opportunity to press a start-up key such as F8. To remove the pause and make boot-up faster, open the MSDOS.SYS file in Notepad and add the entry BootDelay=0 to the [Options] section.

6. When tiling open windows on your desktop (right-click on the taskbar and select either Tile horizontally or Tile Vertically), Win95 decides which windows go where. Here's how you decide: If you're tiling horizontally, whichever window is selected will go on top. When tiling vertically, whichever window is selected goes on the right. Click once on the title bar to select a window.

7. Installing a new application places it on your Start menu's cascading menu and loads it with a bunch of junk. Eventually, the menu gets out of hand. To clean it up, right-click on your Start button, select Open from the context menu and double-click on the Programs folder. Create new folders for your streamlined categories. Move all the program shortcuts you want to keep into the new folders by right-clicking on each in turn and selecting Cut, then right-clicking on the appropriate new folder and selecting Paste. Delete the rest.

 8. If you're always launching Control Panel to fiddle with your system settings, make your life a little easier by putting Control Panel on your Start menu. Drag CONTROL.EXE from your WINDOWS folder and drop it on the Start button. Another way to do this is to right-click on the Start button and select Open. Create a new folder and give it the following name: Control Panel. {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

9. Assign hotkeys to your most frequently used programs. Right-click on a program and select Properties. Click on the Shortcut tab; in the Shortcut Key field type in the hotkey combination you want to assign, then click on OK. Assigning a hotkey this way will allow you to switch to the program if it's already running on your Desktop. A shortcut's hotkey combination will launch a program only if it's on the Start menu or the Desktop.

SEND TO:

www.winfiles.com is a good place to get utilities

1.When you use Win95's Send To feature (right-click on the item, then select Send To from the Context menu) to place something on a floppy disk or on a drive other than your C: drive, the file is copied. To move it, hold down the Shift key while clicking on the Send To item.

2.Make it easy to beef up your Send To menu by creating a shortcut on your Desktop to the C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO folder. You can then drag and drop folders and applications to the shortcut, which puts them on your Send To menu.

3.If you use the Send To menu a lot, put a shortcut to the SendTo folder in the SendTo folder. Whenever you want to put a Send To destination on your context menu, just use the Send To function.