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A Bunch Of Cool Tips and Tricks |
Run regedit and go to HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft \Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Then add or change the key:
LegalNoticeCaption REG_SZ="(Title for Box)"
And the same for this key:
LegalNoticeText REG_SZ="(Message to be displayed in the box)"
The items that appear on the Start and Programs menus are arranged alphabetically. To specify a different order, rename menu items to include a number as their first character. Renaming menu items in this way also enables users to start an application by pressing the number at the beginning of the application’s name.
To specify the order in which items on the Start or Programs menu appear
1. Right-click the Start button, and then click Open.
2. To specify the order of items at the top of the Start menu, skip
to step 3.
To specify the order of items on the Programs menu, double-click the
Applications folder.
To specify the order of items on a submenu of the Programs menu, double-click
the Applications folder, and then double-click the folder that corresponds
to the submenu.
3. Right-click the item that you want to appear first on the menu, and
then click Rename.
4. Press HOME, type the number 1 followed by a space, and then press
ENTER.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 using consecutive numbers until all the
menu items that you want to arrange in a different order have been numbered.
For information about the following topics, see online Help:
Adding an application to the Start or Programs menu
Adding new submenus (or folders) to the Programs menu
Rearranging items on the Programs menu
Note Windows 95 adds your most recently used documents to the Documents menu or the Start menu. When you open a file in a Win32-based application, Windows 95 adds the data file to the Documents menu. Windows 95 does not add files to this list that were opened in a Win16-based application. However, if you double-click a document in Windows Explorer or My Computer, Windows 95 does add it to the list.
By default, Windows 95 orders all the items in the top portion of your Start menu (above Programs) alphabetically: pop-out folders first, then shortcuts. But this order isn't written in stone. You can specify any order you want by renaming these items with a number at the beginning of each.
Right-mouse-click the Start button and select Open. Inside, select the item you want to appear at the top of the Start menu, press F2 for Rename, then place the cursor at the beginning of the name and type the number 1. Press Enter to keep the change. Place a 2 in front of the item you want to appear next in the list, and so on.
Close the Start Menu window, click Start, and admire your reorganization.
Tip: Now you can open any custom Start menu item by pressing
Ctrl-Esc and then typing the number at the beginning of that item's name.
Previously, if multiple Start menu items started with the same letter,
there was no way to select them using the keyboard.)
Here's an easy way to view the properties for multiple hard drives simultaneously.
Open My Computer and select all your hard drives by holding down Ctrl and
clicking on each drive in turn. Next, right-click on any of the drives
and choose Properties. Windows creates a single dialog box with Properties
tabs for each drive. This also works for floppy disk, removable and mapped
network drives.
Why do some Windows 95 computers have a LOGO.SYS file in the root directory
and others do not? Background: The LOGO.SYS file is a bitmap that displays
the boot-up screen when you launch Win95. If you can’t find LOGO.SYS on
your system, then you probably don’t have one. Without the file, Windows
loads the opening logo screen from the IO.SYS file. If you want to change
the file, simple create a bitmap image (it can’t be larger than 256 Color
and 320 x 400---Windows stretches it to 640x480 for display, which is why
the startup screen looks so bad) and drop it in the root directory.
You can make a shortcut to any item in your Control Panel. In fact you can make a shortcut for all of them and put them all in a Desktop folder.
Here's an example for creating a shortcut to the Device Manager:
1. Right-click on the Desktop and choose New/Shortcut
2. Type C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL.EXE SYSDM.CPL in the Command Line
box and click on Next.
3. Name it Device Manager (or another name of your choice), then click
on the Finish button. Assign a new icon to the shortcut as you would any
other.
Here's a little ditty that may help those who don't want a formal word processor, but do what to save their page setup settings.
Here's the problem: Someone wanted to print a document from Notepad without the Page Header and Footer. Their document was running over into two pages and they wanted to keep it to one. Since they will be running this document regularly, going into Page Setup every time they wanted to print would be time-consuming. The Knowledge Base article Q64269 advises that you can't change the Default Page Setup. Here is the workaround I found.
Error
If you choose Page Setup from the File menu in Notepad, the settings are not saved when the file is saved. Example: you want to remove the header and footer from all notepad documents you print. When you go into page setup and remove the default header and footer, then exit notepad and re-start notepad, the header and footer re-appear.
Reason
ACCORDING TO MICROSOFT:
All accessory applications use a flat-file format and the formatting
information is not saved with the file; therefore, it is not shown with
its last settings when the file is opened.
Here is a work around.
Shut down all instances of notepad.exe (this will not work if notepad is not shut down).
Run Registry Editor (at your own risk), and find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad\ . Change the key/value "fSavePageSettings" from 0 to 1.
Run Notepad and make your changes in the Page Setup screen. Exit Notepad.
Notice the changes to the registry.
This should now keep any changes you make in the Notepad Page Setup
Screen.
Courtesy of Dennis Waldron, See, "Denny's Tips"