Tips & 

Windows 95 

Tricks

A Good registry hack
 

REGEDIT4

 Add the 'Open DOS Box' option, for folders and files

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\Shell\Open_DOS_Box]
@=3D"Open DOS &Box"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\Shell\Open_DOS_Box\command]
@=3D"COMMAND.COM /K CD %1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell\Open_DOS_Box]
@=3D"Open DOS &Box"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell\Open_DOS_Box\command]
@=3D"COMMAND.COM"

 Add the 'Edit with Notepad' option for files

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell\Edit_with_Notepad]
@=3D"Edit &with Notepad"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell\Edit_with_Notepad\command]
@=3D"notepad.exe %1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\Shell]
@=3D"Edit_with_Notepad"
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This adds one command to the shortcut menu when clicking folders (or
folder shortcuts!)
- Open DOS Box ... opens an MS-DOS box, set to the directory/folder you
clicked on!

And it adds two commands to the shortcut menu when clicking files:

- Edit with Notepad ... does as it says
- Open DOS Box ... opens an MS-DOS box set to the directory the file is in.

'Edit with Notepad' is also set to the default option for unknown
extensions. So if you have a file like "blah.rmn" you can double click
it and it will open in notepad for examination.

I find these to be real handy extensions to Windows 95 and initiating
them just requires a double click of the REG file.

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