Tips & Tricks

A collection of tips on using the utilities that come with Windows 95/98.

A collection of tips to help you solve and avoid common hardware problems in Windows 95/98.

A collection of tips for using your modem in Windows 3.1, 95/98.

A collection of tips on creating and using Windows 95/98 help files.

You are entitled to create a backup copy of the entire set of installation disks for any software you purchase--that's not piracy, it's common sense.

You can change those lovely screens you see as you exit windows95! Simply start up paintbrush and load up the files LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS and change them to whatever you want...they're just bitmaps with a different extension!

Tired of the eight-line help message that appears every time you start a DOS session in Windows? Turn it off by adding the line DOSPromptExitInstruc=Off to the [386Enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file.

Compressed hard disks and diskettes must be mounted before they can be accessed. Hard disks mount automatically when Windows 95 boots, and compressed diskettes are mounted as soon as Windows 95 detects them. But if you aren't running Windows, compressed diskettes aren't automatically mounted.

Character Map is a useful utility in Windows which allow you to easily find the symbols you use in everyday words. Character map allows you to see the whole font, copy individual symbols or combinations, and see the keyboard shortcut available.

Have you ever needed a file on your computer that you never thought you would use again? Maybe you wrote a letter to someone, and need to see exactly what you said.