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Escaping from a hang: |
| If you get hung up in win95 and the usual ctrl-alt-delete does
not respond, press ctrl-escape. This may bring up the START menu from which you
can shut down the system. [Thanks to Shawn St.Jacques for this tip!] Back to top of page.
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Expanding all Subfolders in Explorer: |
| To quickly expand the Explorer tree view to show all subfolders
for a highlighted drive or folder, simply press the asterisk (*) key on the
numeric keypad. Back to top of page.
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Quickly Closing Windows under My Computer: |
| If you've opened many windows under My Computer (control panel,
and windows under that), you can quickly close them all by holding the Shift
key while clicking the close window box. Back to top of page.
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Right-Clicking in Save File dialog boxes: |
| If you are saving a file, and right-click in the dialog box, you
can change your view, arrange the icons, or create new folders prior to saving
the file. This is great if you suddenly decide while saving that you want to
save the file in a folder that doesn't currently exist. Back to top of page.
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Typing full directory name at the DOS command prompt |
enclose them in quotes.
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Two Explorer Windows. |
| Open explorer more than once, resize the windows. Now you can
drag and drop between them as you could in Windows 3.1. Back to top of page.
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Use Windows Explorer to copy files |
| to & from Hard disk/ Floppy instead of the application.
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Restarting Windows 95 without a Warm Boot: |
| Select Shut down, and click the Restart Computer option. Then,
while holding down the Shift key, click YES. Windows 95 will now restart
without executing a complete warm boot. Back to top of page.
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Real Delete instead of Recycle Bin: |
| To immediately delete a file rather than send it to the Recycle
Bin, hold down the Shift key when you delete it. Back to top of page.
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What .DLL's are being used in a .EXE?: |
| Right-click on the application's name, and select Quick View.
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Interrupt settings (IRQs) -list of my settings? |
| Control Panel/System/Devices, in this area there is an option to
print a detailed or summary report. The detail report is huge (16 pages on my
system) The summary report is two pages, and contains a list of all the
interrupts currently assigned in the system, and what they are assigned for.
This report also lists DMA channel assignments and port addresses. Back to top of page.
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Refreshing the Registry without Rebooting: |
| Sometimes you may make a change to the Registry, and want it to
take effect without having to completely reboot Windows 95. Here's a tip on how
to do that! You can update the Registry without booting by pressing
ctrl-alt-del and then selecting Explorer and clicking End Task. When Windows
asks to shut down answer No. At the next dialog box (you have to wait a couple
of seconds) click End Task. This will refresh the Registry Back to top of page.
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Short on Disk Space ? |
| Look in your c:\Windows\Help folder for .AVI files. You could
have as much as 7MB of .AVI tutorials left over. Unless you are using Windows
95 for the first time, you don't need them. Back to top of page.
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Avoiding the Startup Programs: |
| Hold down the CTRL key while entering Windows. This will keep
items in the Startup folder from launching. Back to top of page.
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CD-ROM After a Win95 Break Down: |
| For non PnP CD-ROM drives. After Installing Windows95 copy in
the StartUp disk the MSCDEX.EXE file and any *.sys files supplied in you CD-ROM
Installation disk, then Copy the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files and delete
REM words in this two files related to CD-ROM. This Will keep you safe from
loosing you CD-ROM connection if your computer Breaks and be able to reinstall
Windows95 form its CD-ROM. Back to top of page.
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Changing File Associations: |
| To change the default application of a file type, simply select
the file, hold down SHIFT, and click the right mouse button. Select Open With,
and choose the program you want to use for this file type. Select "Always use
this program to open this type of file" at the bottom of the dialog box.
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Crash Avoidance: |
| Your computer is constantly creating new temporary files (.TMP)
to help with productivity. To help avoid crashes, delete all the .TMP files
that are not current. Using your find feature, search for *.TMP files, sort the
files by date, and delete all the .TMP files without today's date. Back to top of page.
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