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http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/file-sync.html
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Configuring Explorer For Another Drive In Left Panel View
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
Many of you have large HDD and have partitioned it to many logical drives.
Starting Windows Explorer you can see only see the contence of drive C: at the left panel.
How about viewing the contents of the D: drive at start. How can you do this ?
Right click Start button and select Explore command, search for your Windows
Explorer shortcut in Programs and holding [Alt] key double click on the shortcut.
Select the Shortcut Tab and at the Target text box type after the /e switch the /select switch,
whitch it should look like this:
C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e, /select, C:\
Change C:\ to D:\ Click OK and that was it!
Now when you open Windows Explorer you will see all the contents AND the D: drive
selected in the left panel.
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Easy Icons
Platform: Windows 95
You create an icon in Win95, simply select a *.bmp-file that you find suitable.
Change the extension from .BMP to .ICO. That is all there is to it.
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Fresh Wallpaper
Platform: Windows 95
If you see an image while in your browser that you want as Wallpaper, right click the image
and select "set as Wallpaper".
Viola! New Wallpaper for your desktop! This works in both IExplorer and Netscape.
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Put the Control Panel on the Start Menu
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
To put a cascading Control Panel on your Start Menu, right-click the Start Menu, select Open,
and create a new folder named:
Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
To put Control Panal on your Desk Top, right click the Desk Top, choose New and create new
shortcut. Holding the [Alt] key and double clicking on the shortcut the adress will look like this
C:\Windows\Desktop\Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
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Put your Printers on the Start Menu
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
To put a cascading Printers Folder on your Start Menu, right-click the Start Menu, select Open,
then create a new folder named:
Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
(see above Control Panal for more)
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Put Dial-up Networking on the Start Menu
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
To put a cascading Dial-up Networking Folder on your Start Menu, right-click the Start Menu,
select Open, then create a new folder named:
Dial Up Net.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
(see above Control Panal for more)
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Putting Your Own Items in SendTo
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
There's a folder in the WINDOWS directory called SEND TO. As an example:
Create a shortcut to your favourite mail program, rename the shortcut to My Email, and move
the shortcut into the SEND TO folder.
By creating shortcuts in this folder to your favorites applications, you can right click files,
select Send To, and send the file to any of the applications on the list.
This is a great way to send unknown file types to a default text editor, like Notepad.
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Custom Startup Screens
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
Ever get sick of the Windows95 startup and shut down screens? They are just standard
bitmaps that can be modified by any graphics program. The wait screen while booting
is LOGO.SYS, the wait screen while you shut down is LOGOW.SYS and the
"It's now safe to turn off your computer" screen is LOGOS.SYS.
These can be found in the root of the Windows Directory, the Windows folder or
click Start, Find or press F3 for the standard Windows Find command returning
the Find dialog window and do a search.
Change any BMP file to LOGO.SYS by first renaming the original to LOGO-OLD.SYS.
Then move by right clicking on the file and click on Cut and Paste to the Windows folder.
Be creative, and make your system your own.
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Icon Property
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT
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.
If you want to change a shortcut’s 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. Also more are in the MORICONS.DLL file
usualy stored in the Windows folder.
To change the icon for a folder, select Options from the folder’s 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.
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Altering the Tip List
Platform: Windows 95
Click on the Start Button then Run and then type in Regedit. Click on
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then SOFTWARE then Microsoft then Windows then
CurrentVersion then explorer and finally Tips.
Here you can modify the tips that are displayed when Windows95 starts. If these tips are
no longer displayed when you start up your computer, you can right click the Start Button and
then Programs then Accessories and then click on Tips and Tours. You can then place a
check mark in the box telling it show the Welcome Screen next time you start up Windows95!
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