Hints and Tips for Windows 95 and Programs.
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Program

Hint or Tip.

Printer

Tips to keep your Printing Costs down:

  • Check the document on screen before you print. Use the Print Preview to check for layout errors.
  • Recycle draft pages. Keep wasted printouts for other drafts or note or drawing paper.
  • Keep a record of your total expenditure for your printer.
  • Use draft mode on your printer. This uses a lot less ink. Save it for those important documents.
  • Shop around for new cartridges. Not only do prices vary from shop to shop, but also you may find a multipack that saves you even more.
  • If you are a heavy user, consider refilling your cartridges.

General

When buying software always check on the box to ensure it will run on your system (Minimum requirements). As an example: - Microsoft Office 97 will not run properly, if at all, on a Windows 3.xx system.

Word
(Most Versions)

If you often need to open more than one Word document when you start a work session, here's an easy way to do it.
Chose File, Open. When the Open dialog box appears, click a file you need, but don't open it just yet. Instead, hold down the Ctrl key and click another file you'd like to open. Holding the Ctrl key down you can click on as many files as you want to open. Now click Open, and all the files will load.

Word
(Most Versions)

Following on from above, when you are working with more than one file, you'll find you have a 'Save All' command if you hold down the Shift key and chose File.
Using this option can save a lot of time especially if you have a large number of named documents. Any unnamed documents that haven't been saved before will prompt you for a name.

Office 97

Want to know all about your system? Simply open one of the Office 97 applications and choose Help, About.... dialog box opens, just click on System Info.
Now you can select any of the items listed in the left pane of the System Info window and find out more than you're ever likely to want to know on the topic.

WINDOWS

The Explorer, folder windows and several applications share a common set of Keyboard shortcuts. Some are more specific but are still used widely enough to warrant inclusion here. Click anywhere in this panel to see a list of them.

Windows 95

Looking for Different Icons? Try these: -

  • Shell32.dll (\Windows\System)
  • Moricons.dll (\Windows)
  • cool.dll (with MS Plus! only)(\Windows\System)

REMEMBER : Most .EXE files have there own Icons. Check for variants there.

Windows 95

To stop programs in the Startup directory automatically running when you start Windows 95, hold down the [Ctrl] key during start up.

General

Holding down [Ctrl] and [End] will scroll you down to the end of a document, and [Ctrl] and [Home] will whizz you back to the top.

Windows 95

Typing the word 'Command' into the Run box in the Start menu takes you straight to an MS-DOS session.

General

Most modern Graphics cards run faster at higher colour depths. Try running Windows 95 in 24-bit or 32-bit colour if you can.

Portables

PCMCIA cards draw power even if you are not using them. Eject them to save battery power.

Windows 95

To stop your screensaver from activating when you are running ScanDisk or Defrag, click on the Start button to bring up the Start menu. Whilst this is up, your screensaver will not launch.

Windows 95
(maybe 3.xx)

Instead of continually opening and closing a window, especially with the Floppy drive, pressing F5 will refresh the active window. (Change a Floppy in the drive and check it out yourself, It works!).

Windows 95 (OS/2)

Right click on the desktop to bring up the 'Properties' box, select the Screensaver' tab and then the 3D Text. Where it says 'OpenGL' type 'Volcano', when run or previewed it will start naming the world's volcanoes..

Windows NT.

In the Screensaver as in the above, type 'Not Evil'. It will then display the NT production team on preview or run.

Windows.

Pressing 'Esc' in the middle of a drag aborts it.

Windows 95.

Hold down the shift key when you drag and drop something with the left mouse button and you get the same context menu as if you used the right mouse button.

Windows 95.

If you don't like Windows 95's Explorer and prefer the old windows file manager, click on start, run and type 'winfile'..

Windows 95.

To search for files on several drives simultaneously with Find Files or Folders, type the filename in the Named field and type the drive letters on the Look in field but seperate each drive with a semi-colon as 'C:\;D:\;E:\ and you will find files fitting your criteria on each of these drives.

ATGuard Firewall/
Web Browsers.

With ATGuard, to get rid of the pop-up windows that sites force upon users when visiting them using your browser, click on the ATGuard icon and select Settings. Then click the Web tab, then the Active Content Tab, make sure the 'Block only windows pop-up script' is checked. Voila! No more POP-up windows.

DOS and Windows

There is a hidden program on the Windows 95 CD-Rom for creating an emergency boot disk that can restore your system to the way you have configured it. Before running the program, format a floppy, making sure to check the Copy System Files option in the Format dialogue box. Then place the CD-Rom in your drive, browse to the D:\Other\Misc\ERU folder (where d is your CD-Rom drive), and double-click ERU.EXE. Just follow the directions from there. In case of disaster, reboot your system with the ERU-created floppy, and it will automatically restore most of your Windows 95 settings.

If you use the Emergency Recovery Utility found on the Windows 95 to create an emergency boot disk, be aware that some of the configuration files can be huge, making it impossible to fit them all on a floppy (and ERU cannot handle multiple floppies). When ERU shows the files it will back up, click Custom to see the files it will skip. You can choose to skip other files, or alternatively you can make a note of the ones not being copied and back them up manually.

(from Windows 95 Utilities No.5)

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