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Technologies Tricks |
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Technologies Tricks |
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Operating System Tricks |
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Windows 95/98 If you ever want to reboot just Win98, and not
your whole machine, create a shortcut and use the following text
as your Target in the Properties of the shortcut:
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe, ExitwindowsExec All dropdown menus can be aligned to the right. This feature becomes useful when trying to access menus with submenus that appear directly to the right. Open the Registry editor ( e.g. regedit.exe ) Go to \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Create a string entry called "MenuDropAlignment". Set its value to 1. Reboot
Normally, the only options for displaying a background
bitmap are titled, centerd, or stretch to fit (with the Plus
Pack). You can edit the registry and have a third option, which
is to place the bitmap anywhere on your screen by specifying the
X and Y co-ordinates.
To Change the icon associated with a
folder, open Notepad and enter the two lines, [.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=filename, number (e.g.Iconfile=C:\Icon\CustomFolder.ico, 0) Save the file as
DESKTOP.INI in the folder you wish to Change. Click Start >
Run , type in the command line, ATTRIB +S "folder
name"
Here are some configuration settings
for the MSDOS.SYS file that might speedup your Win95/98 bootup
sequence:
You don't have to open every document
you want t to Print. Instead, add your favourite printer to the
Send To Menu accessed when you highlight a document in Windows
explorer or MY Computer.
Your Start Menu button need not
be restricted to the left bottom corner of your screen. To Move
it to another position on the Taskbar, follow these steps :
When you shut down Windows (95/98), the
graphical user interface is the first to close, files like DLLs,
VXDs and OCXs etc. Require some time to be unloaded
If ;you delete a program without using
the Uninstall utility, you will notice that the program name
still exist under the Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs
tab. To get rid of the names, follow these instructions :
Every time you install new software, or make alteration to the default settings you have to reboot your computer. Not any more. Press [Alt]+[Ctr]+[Del], select Explorer, and click End Task. When Windows asks 'Are you sure you want to...Shutdown your Computer?', click No, then click End Task at the next prompt. By default WordPad saves the file with a DOC extension and NotePad saves it with TXT extension. However, to accommodate long extension like october.chip in Notepad, you have to save the file using the File > Save as... dialog box. Even then you could land up with default extension "txt" being suffixed to the file name specified for example, october.chip.txt. To avoid this, enclose the file name that you want to save in quotation marks: "october.chip"
If you have two physical hard drives in your system, you can boost performance by placing your Windows swap file on the Second drive. Before you place Windows swap file on the second hard disk, ensure that it is completely empty. This places the swap file at the beginning of the disk and minimizes seek time. Defrag the drive using full optimisation to eliminate pockets of space that may fragment the swap file. Set the Swap file size to 2.5 times to the installed RAM. Right-click on My Computer and choose Properties. Click on Performance tab > Virtual Memory and select `Let me specify my own virtual memory settings'. Select the second hard disk. Restart the computer after the settings are completed.
Bored of the regular setup! Try the
variety of options available for Setup Want to rename your `Recycle bin'? Why not change it to trash or junk or even the name of your dushman? Launch the Registry Editor (Start > Run > Regedit). Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > CLSID > 645FF040-5081-101B9F08-00AA002F954E. On the right pane right click on the Default > Modify.Type your choice in the Edit String box. Restart your PC for changes to take effect.
Shadowing and highlighting of 3 D
objects (buttons, etc.) is set by default, independently of the
button face. You can change them by running REGEDIT.exe and
drilling down the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Colors. Remove the Clouds of Windows 9S start up screen by adding the line logo=0 to the Options section of the file MSDOS.SYS in your Boot drive's root directory. Remember, this is a RHS (read only, hidden, system) file. This parameter stops display of the logo screen. Create your own Windows 95 opening and closing screen (if you have nothing better to do! Just kidding ! ). These bitmap files are present in the hard disk under Windows folder as LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS (Check on show hidden files in view options in Explorer-these files are saved as RHS). You can make any bitmap file the opening or closing changing its name to LOGOS.SYS or LOGOW.SYS too. For animated startup screens ( Like the animated bar at the Windows95 Startup screen bottom ) you could use the shareware program BMP Wizard |
