Tips n tricks win95/98

novax · 30 Μαρτίου 2001

to post ayto den einai diko moy to vrika alla einai telio. 1. Delete a Windows' Password [95/98]: In Windows 95 and 98, click on Start -> Find -> Files or Folders. In the "Named" box, type in: *.pwl It will bring up a list of files. At the top of the find window, click on Edit, then Select All. Click on File, then Delete. Restart your computer. You will be prompted for your windows password. If you do not want one, just click on "OK" If you do want one, enter in a password, and at the next dialogue box, confirm your password! 2. Access the boot-menu on Startup [95/98]: In Windows 95, hit the F5 key when you see STARTING WINDOWS 95... at the top of the DOS screen. In Windows 98, you don't have that message, so just hold the CTRL key down as the PC is booting. 3. Restart Windows quickly [95/98/NT4]: When you click Start\Shut Down\Restart Windows, hold down the Shift key while pressing OK. Windows will reload without going through the POST and real-mode load sequences. 4. Enable thumbnail view in Windows Explorer [98]: Traditionally, there have only been 4 ways to arrange icons in Windows Explorer: Large Icons, Small Icons, List or Details. It is possible in Win98 to enable a 5th option, Thunbnail View, which displays a miniature image of the file, be it a graphic, HTML file, Word doc, etc. Thumbnails can only be enabled on a folder by folder basis. To do so, right click the folder icon and select the "Enable Thumbnail View" checkbox. Once enabled, open the folder and select View from the main menu and enable the Thumbnail View option. Note that you cannot use the "View as Web Page" option when thumbnails are enabled. 5. Use single click everywhere [ 98]: Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Folder Options. Click Web style. If you want to have more control over the exact settings, click Custom, and then click Single click to open an item. 6. Change file associations quickly [95/98/NT4]: 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. 7. Prevent items in the Startup folder from launching [95]: Hold down the CTRL key while entering Windows. This will keep items in the Startup folder from launching. 8. Close all open windows quickly [95/98/NT4]: If you've opened several windows under My Computer or Network Neighborhood, quickly close them all at once by holding the key while clicking the close window box (small x in upper right corner of window). 9. Use .BMP files as Icons [95]: Rename any .BMP file to .ICO, to use it as an icon. Windows 95 resizes it to icon size, and changes it to 16 colors, but otherwise it works just fine. The PLUS! Pack allows these icons to be displayed at the maximum number of colors available. 10. Get rid of shortcut arrows [95]: Get the Microsoft PowerToy utility TWEAKUI - one of the items it allows you to change is the arrows on shortcuts. It will also allow you to do various other things with your desktop and icons. This program is available on the Microsoft website. There is a link to it in FixWindows.com's Shareware section. 11. Help avoid crashes [95/98/NT4]: To help avoid crashes, make sure that you have twice as much hard drive space available as you have RAM. For example, a system with 16MB of RAM should have 32MB of hard drive space available.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. 12. Switch between programs using Alt + Tab [95/98/NT4]: To flip from one application to another using only the keyboard, the old Window 3.1 trick of using Alt+Tab still works, in fact it works better than before. Now, instead of seeing one applications icon at a time, you see them all, along with an outline box highlighting the one you are about to select. Keep your thumb on the Alt key while tabbing. To select an application, release the Alt key. 13. Increase Windows Speed and Memory [95/98] [For experienced Windows users only]: FDISK will erase all data from your hard drive so Backup!!! Use the fdisk utility to repartition your hard drive into two logical drives. D: should be about 200 MB, while C: should claim all of the space left on the hard drive. Install windows to the C: partition. Once Windows is installed, go to CONTROL PANEL -> SYSTEM -> PERFORMANCE -> VIRTUAL MEMORY. Click on "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings" Set the hard disk to the newly created 200 mb partition on D:. Set the maximum to about 10mb less than the total disk space, with no minimum. 14. Hidden IP Utility: You can use a little-known utility called WinIPConfig to see information about your TCP/IP network settings. From the Start Menu, press Run, type WINIPCFG, and click OK. 15. Ping: While connected to the internet via dialup or in a networked environment, open a DOS window, and at the DOS prompt type "ping" and the internet address you wish to check. ie. ping <A HREF="http://www.windows95.com." TARGET=_blank>www.windows95.com.</A> Windows95 will tell you how fast the connection is to the address given. 16. Speedy CDs': From the System control panel applet, click the Performance Tab, then click the CD-ROM Tab. From here, you can adjust the memory cache size for your CD-ROM drive. 17. Watch Your Defrag: Avoid using a defragmentation program that isnt aware of long filenames. You can not only destroy your long filename space, you might end up corrupting the drive's data as well, especially on volumes that are 1GB to 2GB in size. 18. Cut and Copy Across Many Applications: You can use the keyboard shortcuts of CTRL-C to copy, CTRL-V to paste and CTRL-X to cut, across even programs that don't have the option in the menus. If you make any mistakes, you can also use CTRL-Z to undo. 19. Lock Warning: Do you ever accidentally hit the Caps Lock or the Num Lick button by mistake, only to realize a few words later that what you have written is not what you wanted? Windows 95 has an option to let you know when either of the buttons have been hit. Open the Control Panel, choose Accessibility Options and select Use Toggle Keys. Click OK, and now every time you hit Caps Lock or Num Lock, you will hear a warning tone. 20. Selecting All Files: To select all files in a folder press Ctrl+A 21. Checking your Memory: Type MEM from the command prompt to see current memory usage of your machine. 22. Quick Command: To access the Command Prompt quickly, simply press Start, Run, then type COMMAND and hit OK. 23. Run Extensions: An easy way to find out a file's DOS extension is to drag the file into the Run dialog. The entire path, including the file extension, will be visible. 24. Folder Icons: To change the icon for a folder, select Options from the folders view menu. In the Options dialog, select the File Types tab and scroll down the list to the Folder item. With the Folder item selected, click Edit, then click the Change Icon button. Select a new icon. 25. Get Rid of the Arrows on Icons: Right click on desktop, select properties, select appearance, in the item window select icon, change size to 30, click on apply and the arrows are gone. 26. Hidden Icons Available to Use: The first thing most peopl need to do is make sure they aren't hiding any files from view in their folders. So open a floder (any folder) an click on View in the menu and go down to Options.Then click on the View tab in the new dialog box that comes up and make sure the Show all Files bullet is marked. Click Apply, then Ok to engage the change. You must do this is order to target the file that contains hidden program icons. Now, just to test the process, right-click on your desktop and go to New, then Shortcut. You may get a dialog box that asks you to fill in a command line, but you can just hit Cancel since this is only a test. Now right-click on the New icon and go to Properties. Then click on the Shortcut tab in the dialog box that appears. Then click on Change icon...In this test case it brings up another dialog box which defaults to the icons we're used to. Click on Browse...and locate the file 'pifmgr.dll' in your Windows\System folder. Click on it, Click on Open, and it returns you to the previous dialog box, with your new choices of icons that were previously inaccessible. Find the one you like, click Ok. Then click Apply in the first dialog box, then Ok. You should have your new icon on your desktop. 27. Icon Property: One of the properties of a shortcut is its icon. You can change the icon of any shortcut by right-clicking, selecting "Properties", going to the "Shortcut" tab, and pressing the "Change Icon" button. 28. Icon Property, Part 2: If you want to change a shortcuts icon, and only a few application icons are available to you, simply hit the browse button and find SHELL32.DLL in your Windows System directory. It contains over 70 icons you can use instead. 29. Copying to Multipule Floppies: On the left side of the explorer window select the folder you wish to copy, from the Edit scroll click "select all", again from the Edit scroll click "copy", on the left side of the explorer window click on A:\, and from the Edit scroll, click on Paste. This copies the files to the A: disk and prompts for a new disk when it is needed. The files can then be copied onto a new machine without having to deal with splicing or spanning programs. 30. Quick Name Change: Press F2 to change the name of a selected file or folder. 31. Hidden Icons: When changing a shortcut's icon, you can find hidden icons at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PIFMGR.DLL. 32. Open With: If you want to open an already associated file with a different program than the one it is associated with, hold down the shift key and then right click the file. "Open with" should be added to the menu now so you can open the file with a different program. 33. Below are AMI and Award BIOS Passwords to override user, forgotten or lost BIOS Passwords. AMI Award bios setup cmos AMI_SW (case sensitive) AMI!SW/ AMI?SW/ On an Award BIOS, AWARD_SW (case sensitive) should override a password. If it doesn't, try j262. 34. If you forget your password how do you get into windows? If you can't Login to windows just boot into dos and delete the *.pwl file in the windows directory. 35. If you get an ERROW MESSAGE BOX Useing the Alt+print screen button copy the errow message into clipboard, then you can paste the BOX error message only to where ever like MS Word, Notepad, or even an email message. 36. If you *EVER* forget the password for a ZIP disk I finially figured out how to recover the data (not even Iomega claims to know how!) As far as I can tell, it ONLY works with the external version of the drive (internal IDE doesn't, at least under Windows 95--it keept locking up the system) Here's how: 0) Make sure you have the Tools installed that let you password enable/disable. 1) Take a new disk that is not password protected, give it a read/write password (and remember it!) 2) Turn the SLEEP mode of the drive down to 1 minute. 3) Leaving the newly password protected disk in the drive, choose to "Unprotect until eject". 4) Wait 1 minute until you hear the drive click and spin down (the light should flash as well).[make sure nothing on the computer is accessing the drive--e.g. any explorer windows, etc..] 5) Straighten out a paperclip, and insert it into the tiny hole in the back of the drive, just about the parallel printer port connection area. Press in lightly and the disk should pop out. (DO NOT press the electronic eject button on the front..this will reset the drive's memory) 6) Put in the disk that you have forgotten the password on. 7) Choose to "Remove Protection", and enter in the password of the new disk that you assigned the password to in step 1. 8) Electronically eject (normally) and reinsert the now unprotected disk. [if you don't do this, the files will appear corrupted and cannot be read]. From here on out, your disk is unprotected and can be accessed like a disk that never had protection! Congratulations! You have now totally removed the protection from the disk! If you have more disks to remove protection from, electronically eject (normally) the current disk, and re-insert the password protected disk and go back to step 3 and repeat until step 8. <IMG SRC="http://www.insomnia.gr/cpubb/smilies/cwm40.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://www.insomnia.gr/cpubb/smilies/cwm40.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://www.insomnia.gr/cpubb/smilies/cwm40.gif" border=0> ------------------

Blackman · 30 Μαρτίου 2001

kalh fash...poly ekpedeytika ola ayta

xlmk · 30 Μαρτίου 2001

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Sean · 30 Μαρτίου 2001

Οδηγός για να κάνετε επανεγκατάσταση των Windows 98. Ίσως κάποιος τον βρει χρήσιμο... Sorry που είναι στα Αγγλικά... Step 1 You'll need a full-install version of Windows. Upgrade versions work if you have a previously installed version of Windows; you do, of course, but you want to do a from-scratch reinstall and not just install over whatever broken mess your old installation has become. Upgrade versions also work if you have the original install media for some other version of Windows, which of course you ought to have handy, but if you for some reason can't lay your hands on that pile of Windows 3.1 floppies, you'll be stuck.Step 2 Stick your Windows files on the hard drive. Just copy the whole Win95 (or Win98) directory to your hard disk, by clicking and dragging its icon. You'll only need about 174Mb free, for Win98, and that's peanuts these days. Doing this allows you to reinstall Windows from that directory, rather than from the CD-ROM drive; it's faster, and it also frees you from sticking the CD back in every time you change a Windows system setting. Windows remembers where it was installed from, and that's where it'll look for its files.When you install a new piece of hardware, get in the habit of sticking its driver software on your hard drive, too. Don't worry about eating too much space with this; support software often comes on CDs these days, but the actual driver installation directory (generally called something handy like "Win95") is frequently quite small.Putting all of this stuff in, say, C:\DRIVERS\, turns the hardware re-detection and re-installation process into a no-brainer. Whenever Windows wants a driver, just tell it to "Search for a driver...", click Browse, and click through to the subdirectory in C:\DRIVERS\ (or wherever you choose) that contains the software you're after.If you're an organised sort of person then it may well be easy enough to find all of the driver CDs and floppies, but it's quite a lot faster if you don't have to. If you're a clutter victim, putting drivers on your hard drive can save your sanity.Step 3 Back up your data files. After reinstalling, you'll have to reinstall applications as well, and apps like e-mail clients often overwrite their old data files when you install them back into the same directory. You should be keeping regular backups anyway, of course.Make copies of everything you'll want to keep, whether it looks likely to be overwritten or not. Remember that this includes your Web browser bookmarks. Microsoft Internet Explorer, as an example, keeps its bookmarks in a subdirectory called Favorites in your WIndows directory, by default. In this case, and in many others, you can just reinstall the application and then copy the contents of the backup directory to the newly minted app or bookmark directory, and have everything back the way it was.Step 4 Prepare a boot disk. You can make a boot floppy with various DOS commands on it in Windows 95 or 98 by going to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Startup Disk and clicking the Create Disk button. Win98 makes a much better disk than Win95, because it puts one-size-fits-all CD-ROM drivers on the disk; on boot, the startup disk will ask you if you want to boot with or without "CD-ROM support". If you ask for CD access, it'll just try drivers one after another and, very likely, find one that works.To make a Win95 startup disk work with your CD-ROM drive, you'll need to add DOS CD-ROM drivers yourself, and it's quite possible that you didn't even get DOS drivers with the drive.Fortunately, if you've copied the Windows install directory to the hard drive, you won't need DOS CD-ROM access at all.Step 5 Stick the boot disk in the drive, and restart the computer. It'll boot from the floppy, unless your BIOS is set to disable floppy booting. If it's a Win98 boot disk, select the no-CD-ROM-support startup option.Step 6 Rename the old Windows directory. A perfectly good name for the old Windows directory is "oldwin"; type "c:" (and then press enter - in all of the things-to-type instructions on this page, press enter after each thing I've enclosed in quotes) to change disk from a: to your boot drive, and type "ren windows oldwin" (assuming your Windows directory had the default name beforehand) and it's done.The only reason not to do this is if you don't have enough room on your hard drive for a second Windows directory, at least for a little while. Depending on what options you pick, you may need as much as 255Mb for a full Windows 98 installation. That's a small price to pay for having everything from your old Windows install to hand in the oldwin directory after you've set up the new install.If you don't have the disk space to rename the old Windows directory, you can just delete it. Unless you've been deliberately saving data files in the Windows directory or its subdirectories, the only data of yours that should be living there is the contents of the desktop. The desktop directory is just a subdirectory in the Windows directory, by default; if you want to preserve its contents, you'll have to copy or move it before you delete the Windows directory.And if, against all sense and reason, you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express for e-mail and/or newsgroup access, you'll have mail and news data stored in the Windows directory as well. For Outlook Express, the data files will probably be in "\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express", or in "\Profiles\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express" if you're using user profiles. So you'd be wanting to copy that stuff somewhere else, too, before you deleted the Windows directory.But do not delete the Windows directory after starting up from an ordinary Windows boot disk!You can, if you like; all you have to do is type "del windows" . But if your boot disk hasn't loaded a disk cache program of some kind - and standard Win95/98 boot disks don't - then you'll be waiting for a really, really long time for that delete operation to finish. Seriously, you'll be amazed how long it takes.An older DOS boot disk that installs SmartDrive is what you want.The biggest single file in your Windows directory may be the swap file. Deleting it can give you a lot of space back quickly, without running a disk cache. It'll be sitting in (what's now called) C:\OLDWIN\; its file name is WIN386.SWP.When you're looking at a C:\> prompt in DOS, type "cd oldwin", then "del win386.swp" to kill it.If you're running Win95 set to its default swap file management, the file will be zero bytes in size, because 95 always shrinks it to nothing when it exits. If you're running Win98, or Win95 with a minimum swap file size setting, though, the file can be quite large. Deleting it can give you some breathing room.Another way to make more disk space is by deleting the Program Files directory. You're going to have to reinstall pretty much every application again after the Windows reinstall anyway, so killing the whole directory doesn't hurt.The only reason to keep the Program Files directory is that some programs will still work OK after the reinstall. Games and simpler applications commonly have no Registry entries that they rely on, so simply running the main program file (via a shortcut on the Desktop, for instance) will work even after Windows has been reborn.Also, when you reinstall some programs without deleting their old directory, they'll inherit their previous settings files and save you some configuration time. Other ones will overwrite their configuration, though; this is a particular concern for things like e-mail programs.After you reinstall Windows, you'll no longer be able to elegantly uninstall applications you don't need, and you'll thus have to delete their directories manually anyway if you need the disk space. If you don't, it doesn't hurt to leave the clutter of unused programs there.Step 7 Run the Windows setup program. To do that, first change directory to wherever your Windows files are. If you've copied them to C:\WIN98\, then type "cd win98" from the C:\> prompt; if you've copied them to a second hard disk called D: then type "d:" and then "cd win98". The setup program is, inventively, called SETUP.EXE, so just typing "setup" will run it.When the install starts, Windows will detect the previous install in the old, renamed Windows directory, and default to reinstalling Windows there. Don't let it. Change the directory name for the installation to C:\WINDOWS (or whatever you want your Windows directory to be called) instead.After you do that, Windows will forget about the old installation, and the installation will proceed like a fresh install, not like an upgrade. After the installation finishes and Windows restarts, you can delete the oldwin directory (after copying the contents of its Desktop directory to your new C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP, if you like). 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sh4dow · 1 Απριλίου 2001

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ZAMPAP · 3 Απριλίου 2001

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apokaliptis · 3 Απριλίου 2001

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Jedi_Master_Neo · 3 Απριλίου 2001

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