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System Resource Monitors?
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Stop START taskbar placing everything on desktop?
4 Startup Files?
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Creating Shortcuts & Scraps to other files and programs?
6 Find files or directories using a Text String?
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Micro$oft Plus Pack?
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Full Window Drag (i.e. ILoveBunny)?
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Reduce swap file (virtual memory on the hard-drive)?
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What is Quickview?
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Restore DESKTOP settings?
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Turn off auto cd-rom play?
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The basics: MY COMPUTER, Desktop, Start menu?
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1. Animated Cursors?
Ok folks, this is how you get animated cursors to work. First pick the cursors that have the green top and bottom. These are animated and will be a good test to see if they work on your system. You monitor must be at least 800X600 Resolution with 256 Colors.Then you select the green hourglasses and pick apply from 'file manager'.Click, ok. They should (ducking) work! I went through the above procedure.If you are not sure where to select the cursors, There in the control panel, then double click on the mouse. Update animated cursors in the Pointers Tab (screen)! My Computer\Control Panel\Mouse\Pointers tab Good luck. Where can I find more animated cursors? Try this: ftp://www.process.com/ftp/pub/win95/anicurs.zip it's big, but has ALOT of cursors....
Does anyone know why various animated Icons move when I select them in the properties "New Icon" window, but fail to animate on by desktop after I click on "Okay" to close the window??? You have something hooked up to your system, probably a hard drive, still in"real mode" dos compatability. Its not being driven by 32 bit drivers. Look in your Control Panel, Click on System, and click on the performance tab.
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The Systems Monitor must be installed from the CD-ROM: MyComputer\Control Panel\Add.Remove Programs\Windows Setup\Disk Tools. on the CD: There is also a Resources Monitor that displays FREE (available) System Resources, User Resources and GDI Resources. System Resources Definitions from the Micro$oft Windows©95 Resource Kit
Buffers number of buffers used by the server. Bytes ReadThe total number of bytes read from a disk.
Bytes Written The total number of bytes written to a disk. Memory The total memory used by the server.
NBs Server network buffers. Server Threads The current number of threads used by the server. Bytes/Second The total number of bytes read from, and written to a disk.
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This is the result of deleting the startup folder (subdirectory). Look for the {windows}\desktop\programs\startup directory. If it is not there, Win95 goes nuts, so add it back. The problem is a deleted StartUp folder. When this happens the system defaults to using the root of the c: drive as the StartUp Folder. This I know because I have been experiencing the same problem. The problem comes in with trying to create a new StartUp folder that Win95 will recognize as a StartUp folder.
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:46:19 -0400 To: Multiple recipients of list WIN95-L
I wrote the following for my own use but decided to share it withthis list. Some you may object that this is to lengthy (200lines) to be posted to the list. My feeling is that if I announced the existence of the document without including the text there would have been more traffic on the list with members saying please send or please post. I do not have ready access to an FTP host on which to place this file. I have posted in plain text to reduce the size.
Windows 95 -- What happens at boot-time Bill Wilder: Last-updated: 16-Aug-95 (W.D.W.)
Introduction & important disclaimers
These are my guesses as to the start behaviour of Windows 95 based on observation, experimentation (primarily with Preview build 490) and some perusing of the W95 resource- kit. I have no special information sources. I do welcome any politely offered criticisms, corrections and suggested improvements to this document. Users that need additional detail should refer to Microsoft or other materials. The intent of this document is to describe normal startup as well as special cases -- previous DOS or single MS-DOS mode.
Startup
Installation of W95 rewrites the boot sector of the active partition so W95 gets control on startup -- it also renames DOS startup files: IO.SYS becomes IO.DOS and MSDOS.SYS becomes MSDOS.DOS. CONFIG.SYS becomes CONFIG.DOS and AUTOEXEC.BAT becomes AUTOEXEC.DOS. A new binary file IO.SYS becomes the boot file and the file MSDOS.SYS is rewritten as a hidden/system text file that can be edited to control W95 boot behaviour.
In the absence of any special options, a reboot of your machine does a normal W95 startup which includes the startup of the GUI environment. The details of the startup are typically hidden behind a logo screen. If you press the ESCAPE key when the logo is displayed, W95 will switch back to a text screen which shows some startup details. Setting option Logo=0 in MSDOS.SYS will prevent the logo display.
A normal W95 startup does process CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT if present. There is an implicit start to the GUI environment after AUTOEXEC.BAT has been processed. MSDOS.SYS option BootGUI=0 will prevent the GUI startup and leave you at the command prompt (where the command WIN will then start the GUI).
N.B. If you set BootGUI=0, you will load the real- mode portions of W95 and the W95 command processor -- this is similar to but not the same as booting the previous DOS version (more on old DOS later). Note also that it is necessary to load the GUI in order to use all the protected mode drivers W95 provides (e.g. 32-bit caching, 32-bit network access etc.).
W95 loads some device drivers whether specified in CONFIG.SYS or not (e.g. HIMEM, IFSHLP, DRVSPACE and SETVER). The user may edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT as before to increase environment space or load additional real-mode device drivers or TSRs from AUTOEXEC.BAT. You may also add entries to CONFIG.SYS to specify parameters for the drivers that W95 will load in any case. There is an implicit DOS=HIGH but EMM386 is not loaded implicitly and hence DOS will not automatically have access to Upper Memory Blocks. W95 will productively use those UMB's for it's own purposes. Depending on the number of real-mode drivers/TSR's you need, you may wish to add EMM386 to CONFIG.SYS, use upper memory blocks for your purposes and leave W95 to allocate needed buffers elsewhere.
Intervention at Startup
The user can intervene at startup using special keystrokes. After the message Starting Windows 95 is displayed, a user can press F8 to display a menu of startup options. If you would always like to see this menu, set MSDOS.SYS option BootMenu to 1. Menu choices include Normal Startup, Command Prompt only, Step-by-step confirmation, various safe startup options and an option to load the previous DOS version (the last option will only be present when option BootMulti=1 is also present).
Keystroke Shift-F8 automatically selects step-by-step confirmation. I recommend you use that option a few times to get a clearer view of the startup process -- you may also wish to invoke the option "Logged" which creates a BOOTLOG.TXT file in the root directory containing lots of interesting status.
Keystroke F4 will automatically boot the previous DOS version. QEMM Note.
If you use QEMM's DOS-UP facility, QEMM does a mini-reboot that will force you to press F4 twice to complete a boot of your previous DOS version.
Recall that BootMulti must be set to one. Booting the previous DOS version will allow you run your previous Windows version provided that W95 was not installed on top of that Windows version. If you press F4 during startup, or otherwise select previous DOS from the startup menu, W95 startup will rename files as needed to complete a boot of the previous DOS version. Specifically (the order of renaming is not as listed, but the effect becomes):
The system then boots DOS as before. Note that there is no form of DOS shutdown. Hence when the system next reboots (Control-Alt-Delete or reset) the file renaming will still be in effect. Since the boot sector always starts up W95 initially, W95 must be able to undo the file renames above to accomplish a W95 startup.
MS-DOS mode:
There are two forms of MS-DOS mode which are distinct from loading a previous DOS version. In one you can specify a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT -- invoking this mode will cause a reboot as described below. You can also specify an MS-DOS mode that uses the current configuration (described in following section). W95 allows you to launch DOS applications in a DOS box (separate virtual machine) just as previous versions of Win 3.x configured for 386 enhanced mode did. In addition, you can now create PIF files that allow you to run applications in MS-DOS mode. You no longer use PIFEDIT to edit these files -- when you edit the properties of a DOS application (right-click), W95 will create/update the PIF file as needed. You may specify an advanced property called MS-DOS mode. Within each such PIF you can custom configure a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so W95 becomes a means to launch various custom real-mode environments. Double-clicking such an MS- DOS mode icon will rename bootup files (CONFIG.SYS becomes CONFIG.WOS, AUTOEXEC.BAT becomes AUTOEXEC.WOS and new CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files are written from contents of the PIF file). The system then reboots and processes these files. Note that you do not invoke your previous DOS version in this case -- you continue to boot W95 but the real-mode portion only.
W95 prefixes a DOS=SINGLE to the CONFIG.SYS you create (meaning reasonably obvious, but I've found no documentation) and also adds a special command to the end of AUTOEXEC.BAT. which is "WIN /W". I've found no documentation for the /W switch but the effect is to undo the file renames setup for MS-DOS mode so that a subsequent reboot will continue to load W95 normally. If you abort/reboot your DOS session prior to the WIN /W command, then you will continue to bootup in your MS-DOS mode.
N.B. If you have BootMenu=1 in MSDOS.SYS then take care to request a Normal startup when the menu is displayed upon the reboot done for MS-DOS mode -- that will process the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT placed there from the PIF file.MS-DOS Mode with current configuration.
In this mode you do not specify CONFIG.SYS nor AUTOEXEC.BAT within the PIF file. This mode causes a Windows GUI shutdown with W95 retreating to real-mode. W95 does leave a stub in memory so that an EXIT command will cause a W95 GUI restart. In retreating to real-mode, W95 will run DOSSTART.BAT if found in the W95 directory. Launching this form of PIF file is the same as selecting Shutdown from the Start button and specifying "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" but the term "Restart" here does not imply a reboot.
Summary
I hope you've found this information helpful. I do not guarantee the accuracy and certainly appreciate any corrections. Please see my e-mail address at the beginning of the document.
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How do you create a shortcut to a specific file or folder to the desktop icons? Open the Desktop OBJECT (double click)Select the application ICON\Right Mouse Click\Create Shortcut Drag Shortcut to desktop or another desktop folder To make a shortcut to a document My Computer\... to the document\Right Mouse Click\Creat Shortcut Drag Shortcut ICON to where ever you would like.
Any OLE 2.0 compatible application, that lets you drag text or other objects, will let you drag onto the Windows 95 desktop. These shortcuts appear as icons on the desktop.
Shortcuts also call scraps, can be dragged back into any OLE 2.0 application. The result is another way of cutting and pasting that is very easy, and very handy. You can have as many shortcuts on the desktop as you like.
You can have shortcuts to files, folders, disk drives, printers, help files, programs, just to name a few brief examples.
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START taskbar \ FIND \ Folders/Files \ enter text string \FindNow button EXPLORER \ TOOLS \ FIND \ ...
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When resizing windows, instead of seeing an outline of the frame, the whole thing sizes in real-time. This is called Visual Enhancements in the PlusPack.
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From time to time Win95 comes up with the following message: "Not enough space on your C drive. So I start up in "command prompt" and delete the swp. file. When I reboot, everything is fine, until a few days later the problem is back again.
My solution came from a newsgroup answer. Click:My Computer \ Control Panel \ System \ Performance tab \ Virtual Memory tab \ Click "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings." \ Set the maximum.\ Close
The formula given was subtract the amount of RAM from the 32 or 30. (For instance 32 - 8 meg = 24). Set maximum to 24.The formula's author rationale was if your desktop applications need more than 30 meg of ram something else is seriously wrong.
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Simply an app that can view many types of files. You can therefore view documents quickly before wasting the time to open the app that created it, just to find that that document wasn't the correct one. --- Glenn
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Save the layout of your desktop?
Control Panel:Passwords:check box for seperate users
Right mouse button (on desktop), properties, appearance, Item ---> choose Icon spacing... ----Le Bel
Restore layout? Thanks to every body who give a solution about the way to get the desk back. IN short, 3 solution has been provided.----Nicolas
(1)----Seth: Right click on the start button in the taskbar, select explorer and the item explorer will be displayed with icons like on the desk. Ilike very much this solution
(2)---JB Peterson,Jim Good: Right click on taskbar (between icons) and "Minimize all windows"
(3)----Kermit: Add a shortcut on the Desktop folder to the start menu
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1. Open My computer 2. Select Options/View/File Types 3. Select Audio CD from list 4. Select edit to edit Audio CD 5. From list of actions, Remove open --- Glenn
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Actually, the Start menu is an actual series of directories and files. In Explorer, go to Windows/Start Menu and you'll find a hirearchy of folders and shortcuts (.LNK files) which exactly matches the hirearchy of cascading menus found under the Start button, minus a few system supplied features like the help, find file, settings, and documents commands. If you wanted to, you could actually put an .EXE on the start menu instead of a shortcut, and if you deleted it you would lose the .EXE. So here the difference between Win 3.1 is that Program Manager kept track of icons with entries in binary .GRP files, while Win95 uses actual files and directories (its just that the actual files are really pointers to the real app, like a Macintosh alias or a UNIX symbolic link).
> -Do directories appear as folders?
Yes, and the New Folder command is the same as MD from a DOS prompt.
> -Does a deletion under My Computer actully delete it from the hard drive, or just the My Computer Icon?
Yes, but it won't get deleted until you empty the Recycle Bin, unless you disabled the Recycle Bin.
> -Does every file on my hard drive show up under the My Computer Structure?
Yes, every single one of them. The "My Computer" shell is a very direct link to your hard drive, just another representation of the Explorer. It's more similar to File Manager than Program Manager, so don't delete anything you mean to keep. The Star Menu is merely a collection of links or PIFs, but everything in your drives under "My Computer" is very real.
> -Does a deletion under My Computer actully delete it from the hard
YES.
What you see is what you get (no pun on WYSIWYG intended - okay slightly) My Computer is exactly that!!! Your desktop is actually a directory under Windows (which houses My computer). Microsoft has had a great attempt at making a bit of symbolism. You have a desk. What sits on that desk? (physically in real life as well): 1. Your computer 2. Your unfiled papers (and in my case a stack of unfinished work) 3. A rubbish bin (that sits on the floor my in a simple model like this I will shove it onto the desk). Your desktop in Windows 95 is supposed to be like this, and is. In you computer physically is a floppy, an HDD and CDROM etc In your My computer in Windows 95, the same can be found with additions. Control panels, printers etc are also there. Now hopefully, after you realise this, you can guess that inside you HDD both physically and in the Windows 95 metaphor, are files. And you don't need a prize to work out that if you delete the files using the Windows 95 metaphor (which is well worn off after you get the general idea) you DO DELETE THEM.
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