WINDOWS SECRETS CODES

WINDOWS SECRETS CODES Restoring a Lost Desktop

If you ever lose the Desktop but Explorer is still running with the Start Button, you can do this to bring back your Desktop in a Windows box. 1. Click Start 2. Click Run 3. Type a period " . " 4. Then press Enter  Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut

To create a shortcut that will open your default e-mail program starting a new e-mail, 1. Right click on an open area of the desktop 2. Select New Select New / Shortcut  3. For the Command Line, enter mailto: enter mailto: 4. For the title enter something like New like New E-Mail  5. When you click on this your default e-mail program should start with a new email form. Creating 3D Window Effect

You can create a nice 3D effect for your windows 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Co lors 3. Make sure the following setting are there: •

ButtonHilight=128 128 128

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ButtonShadow=255 255 255

Creating Shutdown, Restart and Logoff Icons

To create the icons, create a shortcut on the desktop. For Shutdown , the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

For Restart, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe, exit windows exec For Logoff , the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0 Having your Favorites and Start Menus Sort Alphabetically

If your Start Menu Program or Favorites are not sorting alphabetically, it is eas y to fix this: 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explor  er/MenuOrder  3. Under here is are Favorites and Start S tart Menu folders 4. In each there is a value called Order  5. Simply delete (or rename this) and restart Windows 6. Your Favorites or Start Menus should now sort a lphabetically Increasing the Icon Cache

1. Run Reg edit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explo rer  3. Create a new string called Max Cached Icons 4. Give it a value of 10000 5. This will increase response time in windows and give the Shellicon cache file more elbow room. Make Icons 256 Color 16-Bit

1. Open the Registry 2. Hit Ctrl+F 3. Type Shell Icon BPP 4. When found, right click the Shell Icon BPP icon 5. Click Modify 6. Change the value from 4 to 16

7. Click Ok  8. Close the registry 9. Restart your computer  Removing Shortcut Arrows

An easy way to remove those irritating arrows from your desktop shortcut icons and not change their properties 1. Right click the Desktop the Desktop / Properties / Appearance tab 2. Select Item Select Item 3. Scroll for Icon 4. The default size is 32 5. Change this to 30 6. Clicking Apply Clicking Apply Adding the Control Panel to the Start Menu

1. Open up the Explorer  2. Go to \WINDOWS\Start Menu 3. Right click in the right-hand panel 4. Add a new folder  5.  Name it Control Panel.{21ec2020-3aea-1069-a2dd-08002b30309d} 6. This makes getting to the Control Panel P anel items a little easier  Making Desktop Changes Permanent

To make changes to the Desktop like window size, positon after rebooting: 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policie s\Explorer  3. Create a New Binary Value 4.  Name it NoSaveSettings 5. Give it a value of 01 00 00 00 Easy Shortcuts on the Desktop

Here is an easy way to put shortcuts on the Desktop where they can easil y be moved to other group icons. 1. Using the Explorer, create a SHORTCUT to the \Windows\Desktop directory in your \Windows\SEND TO directory. 2.  Now whenever you want to make a shortcut and move it to the desktop: 3. Just make the shortcut you want using Explorer  Ex plorer  4. Right click on that shortcut 5. In the pop up menu select the Send To and Desktop shortcut. Changing a Folder's Icon

To change the icon of a Folder on desktop: 1. Using the Explorer, move the folder from the Desktop directory to another  directory on the hard drive 2. Right click on the new folder and select "Create Shortcut" 3. Move the shortcut to the Desktop 4. Right click and select a new icon Full Window Drag ( Without Plus! )

1. Start Regedit 2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER /ControlPanel /Desktop /DragFullWindows 3. On "DragFullWindows" properties change 0 to 1 Fixing Corrupted Desktop Icons

Easier way to reset icons then deleting SHELLICONCACHE. There's no need to exit Win95 and delete the SHELLICONCACHE SHE LLICONCACHE file in order to reset icons that you may have changed (like Network Neighborhood). 1. Go to Control Panel, Display, Appearance Tab. 2. Select Icon from the Item drop down list. 3. Change the Size up or down one and apply. 4. Change the Size back to your original and apply. If your Start Menu is slow or your icons are black for some reason, it means your  Shelliconcache file is corrupt and should be deleted.

Delete the hidden file C:\WINDOWS\SHELLICONCACHE It will be recreated the next time you start Win95 Getting Screen Shots

If you need to get a screen scree n shot, and you do not have a screen capture program, p rogram, try this: •

Hit the Print Screen key. This copies a bitmap of the full screen into the Windows clipboard. Start up a graphics editor and paste it in.

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Alt + Print Screen will capture only the active window.

Increasing the Size of the Scroll Bar

How to adjust the width of the scroll bar: 1. Right Click with Mouse on Desktop Area. 2. Select Properties 3. Select the Appearance tab 4. Go to the item list and find scrollbar. 5. Increasing the value in the Size S ize field will increase the scrollbar width. Unable to Create Shortcuts on the Desktop

If you can't create shortcuts on your Desktop, you might have a corrupted registry. 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew\Command 3. Make sure it has a value of: 4. RunDLL32 AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %1 if you don't have IE 4 5. or RunDLL32 AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %2 if you have IE 4.0 or IE 4.01 Removing the InBox from the Desktop

A faster way to remove "Inbox" from the Deskop is to 1. Right mouse click on "Inbox" 2. Select delete 3. It will then tell you "you cannot store the inbox in the recycle bin. . .etc" 4. Click "Yes" 5. Wait 2 secs and it's gone.

Customizing Individual Folder Icons

To change a folder's icon: 1. Open Notepad and enter two lines, [.ShellClassInfo] IconFile=file name,number  (e.g. IconFile=C:\Icon\CustomFolder.ico,0) 2. Save the file as DESKTOP.INI in the folder you wish to change. 3. Click Start -> Run, type in the command line, ATTRIB +S "folder name" (e.g. ATTRIB +S "C:\Custom Folder") 4. Open Explorer or My Computer and refresh (press F5 ke y). This tip only work Windows 95/NT 4.0 + IE 4.0 with shell integration, or Windows 98/NT 5.0. Removing the Recycle Bin

To remove Recycle Bin from the desktop: d esktop: 1. Run REGEDIT. 2. Find NAMESPACE key in left pane (HKEY_ Local_Macine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Explorer \ Desktop \ Namespace) 3. Expand NAMESPACE (click '+' box) 4. Delete the value RECYCLE BIN in right pane Adding Send To the Recycle Bin

Add a SHORTCUT TO THE RECYCLE REC YCLE BIN in your SEND TO folder. That way you can just right click on a file you want to delete, and send it to the recycle  bin without having to confirm each time. Having Icons with No Name

 Normally you have to have a name for an icon, just spaces are not allowed. To create an icon with no name attached:

1. Make sure NumLock is on 2. Highlight the Icon you want to change chan ge 3. Right-Mouse click and select Rename select Rename 4. While holding down the Alt  the Alt key, key, type 0160 5.  Now the icon will have no name below it. To Create Multiple Icons with No Name 1. Follow directions detailed above 2. With the second icon simply add one space-bar character AFTER the 0160 number. 3. Each successive icon gets an additional space-bar character at the end (to prevent a duplicate naming error). Moving the Start Button

How to move or close the start button! 1. Click on the Start button 2. Press the Esc key 3. Press the Alt and the - keys together  4. This will give you a menu, you can move or close 5. But if you move it you need to use the arrow keys and not the mouse. Aligning Drop-Down Menus to the Right

All dropdown menus can be aligned to the right. This features becomes useful when trying to access menus with submenus that appear directly to the right. 1. Open the Registory editor (e.g. regedit.exe) 2. Goto \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop 3. Create a string entry called "MenuDropAlignment" 4. Set its value to 1 5. Reboot  Note: Will not work under NT 4.0. Repositioning a Background Bitmap

 Normally, you only options for displaying a background bitmap are tiled, centered, or  stretch to fit (with the Plus Pack). You can edit the registry and have a third option which is to place the bitmap anywhere on your screen by specifying the X and Y coordinates. 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Desktop 3. Create new Strings called WallpaperOriginX and WallpaperOriginY 4. Give them values to position them around your desktop 5. The bitmap must be smaller than your desktop size Changing Drive Icons

To change a drive's icon when you open My Computer  1. Create a file called AUTORUN.INF on the root of your hard drive 2. Enter the lines [autorun] ICON=Name of the ICON file For the name of the icon file you can either specify the path and name (e.g. ICON=C:\WINDOWS\ICONS\MY_ICON.ICO) ICON=C:\WINDOWS\ICONS\ MY_ICON.ICO) or  a specific icon in a library (e.g. ICON=ICONFILE.DLL,2) Adding AnyFolder and Mail to SendTo

Previous examples of adding items to the SendTo usually require editing the Registry. An easy way around this is to use the following methods. To add ANYFOLDER: 1. Open the Explorer  2. Go to \Windows\SendTo 3. Right click in the right hand panel 4. Select New / Text Document 5.  Name it anything with a .otherfolder extension When you want to send files to another folder:

1. Select the files with Explorer  2. Right Click  3. Select Send to and the name you just created 4. You them have the option optio n of copying or moving the file to a folder of your choice To add Mail: 1. Open the Explorer  2. Go to \Windows\SendTo 3. Right click in the right hand panel 4. Select New / Text Document 5.  Name it anything with a .MapiMail extension (ignore any warnings about the file extension) When you want to Mail files as attachments: 1. Select the files with Explorer  2. Right Click  3. Select Send to and the Mail name you just created 4. This allows you to easily mail multiple files Adding Shortcuts to Desktop Without "Shortcut To" text

1. Start Regedit 2. Go to:HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer  3. Add binary value to Explorer:link="00,00,00,00" 4.  Now You can make Shortcuts to desktop without Shortcut To" text. Easier User Interface

Add a menu item named "Open THIS folder!" to each of your cascading menus off of the Start menu. This makes it easier to put items wherever you w ant them! 1. Go to Windows \ Start Menu \ Programs \ (etc.) in the Explorer  2. Start right click/dragging folders to the desktop, one by one. 3. Rename them and left click/drag them back to the same folder.

It takes a little while, but when you are finished you have a much easier interface to work  with. Removing the Start Button

1. Click on the start menu button twice, so there is a dashed line around the button 2. Press Alt and the minus sign 3. Choose Close to make the start button disappear, or move to move it to the right! Note : - You have to re-boot to get it back again, or:

1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete 2. Highlight Explorer  3. Click on the End Task button 4. Select No to doing a full shutdown 5. Wait a few seconds and the click on the End Task button Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time

1. To change the display of the clock on the taskbar to 24-hour format: 2. Open the Control Panel 3. Double-click on the Regional the Regional Settings icon 4. Click on the Time tab 5. In the Time style section select H:mm:ss select H:mm:ss Removing the InBox and Recycle Bin Icons from the Desktop

To remove the InBox from your desktop, without needing to run the P olicy Editor: 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Desktop \ NameSpace 3. Below that should be a few keys 4. Rename the key {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. I usually put another character before or after the curly curl y braces. 5. Restart Windows and the InBox icon should be gone 6. You can do the same for any other items you don't to show such as the Recycle Bin or The Internet icons

Changing or Removing the Start Menu Icons

1. Download Microangelo and install it. 2. Create a blank.ico file. 3. Put it in a directory (C:\Windows. Then double click on the Microangelo Engineer to run it. 4. When you get it up on the screen click on the "start" tab. You will see a list of all the icons in the start menu. 5. Highlight the first one (programs) and select "Change". It will bring up a dialog  box - select "browse". 6. Go to the directory that contains the blank icon and select it. Hit OK until you get  back to the main 7. Engineer window and do all the rest exactly the same way. 8. When you have finished changing chan ging them all to the blank icon, Hit "Apply". 9. Hit your start button and look to see if all the icons are invisible. (They should  be.) 10. Close out Micro Engineer and you're finished. Adding Drive to the SendTo List •

I have recently found that if you want to send something from A: drive or from any where to any drive, you can just make a short cut of that drive in subdirectory SENDTO.

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For example I have two hard drives, a Floppy Drive, and a CDROM

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After I have make a cop y of each of my drive I will be able to send a whole directory of E:\XXX from the CDROM drive to A: drive or an y other drive that i have had made the short c t in the SENDTO subdir of o f WINDOWS.

Adding a Protected Briefcase

You can make your briefcase a shortcut on the on desktop so if you have multiple users on your PC and you don't don 't want to have a password p assword for your briefcase, you can at least  protect it from inadvertent deletion by just making the briefcase a hidden file or in a different location other than \Windows\Desktop\My Briefcase, then send a cop y or  shortcut to the desktop. Customizing the  Start Button's Name and Icon

Start button: To change the name of the Start button:

1. Copy EXPLORER.EXE  Copy EXPLORER.EXE in in your Windows directory to another directory 2. Start a hex editor (I've been using Diskedit from Norton) 3. Edit EXPLORER.EXE  Edit EXPLORER.EXE  4. Search for the string 53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74 Start with the letters separated by a null character  5. This is the word Start with 6. The section you are in should also have the words "There was an internal error..." also separated with the null character immediately following 7.  Now just replace the Start letters Start letters with any of your choice (up to 5 characters only) 8. Exit Windows 9. Boot to DOS 10. Copy your new Explorer file over the original To change the Start button Start button icon: USER.EXE in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory to another directory 1. Copy USER.EXE in 2. Use an icon editor that can replace icons in executable files USER.EXE and replace the flag icons with the icon of your choice 3. Edit USER.EXE and 4. Boot to DOS 5. Copy the new USER.EXE The same can be done with NT 4.0, just the offset will be different but the location to just  before "There was an internal error..." is the same. Adding the Device Manager to your Desktop

This allows you to quickly see all the devices attached to your computer. I use it a lot to select Refresh select  Refresh when I add new external SCSI devices that were not  powered up at startup. This way you do not need to restart the computer. To add the Device Manager Icon: 1. Right click on an open area of your desktop 2. Select New Select New / Shortcut  3. Type in C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL SYSDM.CPL, SYSTEM, 1 4. Replace C:\WINDOWS with whatever directory you installed Windows95 5. Click on the Next  the Next box box 6. At the next dialog box type in Device in Device Manager  7. Click on the Finish the Finish when you are done  Note: Replacing the 1 with a 3 will bring up the Performance Status

Adding Options to the Right-Click of the Start Menu

To add an option to the Right-Click of the Start button: 1. Go to Control Panel, View, Options 2. Click on the File Types Tab 3. Scroll down until you see File Folder  4. Click on Edit 5. Click on New 6. Type in the Name you want to in the Action box 7. Type in the Application you want to use A good option to add is an MS-DOS Prompt: Try this c:\command.com /k cd %1 It also puts the shortcut on a regular folder. This command will open a DOS window with that folder as the current directory. How to make the task bar Auto Hide

1. Click the right button on a blank area of the task bar  2. Select Properties 3. Select Autohide 4. Click OK  This will make the task bar slide off the screen when the cursor moves away from it, and it will slide back on when the cursor is moved near it again. a gain. The same can be done don e for the MS Office task bar. The "sliding" effect is nice, and can free up some desktop space. More Removing Shortcut Arrows

'lnkfile', 'piffle' and 'internetshortcut' are the three places that I have seen the isshortcut arrow. The best way to deal with this is to rename the 'isshortcut' to 'isshortcutbak' by right clicking on the 'isshortcut' then select rename and add 'bak' to the end. Closing Nested Folders

If you have several nested folders (folders within folders) and want to close them all, Shift key while closing the last folder  simply, hold the Shift key This will close all previous ones as well. Changing Application Icons

To have a wider choice of application icons: 1. Right click on the icon shortcut 2. Chose Properties Chose Properties 3. Click on the Program the Program tab 4. Chose Change icon 5. Click on Browse on Browse 6. Select Files of type All type All Files 7. Browse to the directory where your icon files are kept 8. You can even use some bitmap files for you icons Moving and Resizing the Taskbar

You can move the taskbar by pointing on a corner panel and dragging it It is easier to move if you close all your windows first You can also resize it by moving the mouse to the edge and dragging it larger or smaller. Correcting Corrupted Fonts

If you have a problem with your non-true type fonts, here's what you do: 1. Open the Control Panel 2. Double click on Fonts 3. Search for the "Monotype Sorts" font 4. Delete this Font Changing Desktop Folders - With No Registry Changes

1. From the Explorer, create a folder somewhere OTHER than the desktop, and call it something like "Desktop Folders." 2. Move all your desktop folders into that folder. 3. Create shortcuts to all of those folders on your desktop.

4.  Now, you are free to change the icons of each shortcut individually, to anything you like! Updating the Desktop

If you want to update the desktop, for example after you've been changing the registry. 1. Right-Click anywhere on the desktop 2. Press F5 Adding the Desktop to your Start Menu Create a shortcut to the Explorer on your Desktop

1. Right click on the Start button 2. Choose Open 3. Go into the Programs the Programs Folder  4. Drag the Windows Explorer Icon on your Desktop using the RIGHT Mouse  button 5. Choose copy here Change the command line switch

1. Right click on the Shortcut you created 2. Choose Properties 3. Choose Shortcut  4. Type in following command line as target: o

C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n, /root,

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The last "," is vital!

5. If you want the two pane Explorer view ad the switch ,/e 6. Then rename the Shortcut to "Desktop" or whatever you choose and drag the icon onto the start button. Removing shortcut arrows

One problem when removing shortcut arrows is that if you delete a desktop item, it will remove it. If it is a shortcut it will just remove the icon.

If it is not a shortcut, then it will remove the program. Having the little icon arrow is one way wa y to tell the difference Getting rid of  Click Here to Continue

1. Start the Registry Editor  2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer  3. Create a binary value and call it NoStartBanner  it NoStartBanner  4. Double-click on it and give it a value of 01 00 00 00 5. You will need to repeat the same steps for HKEY_USERS / .Default / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer  Changing the Desktop and Explorer Folder Icons

The following steps will change the icon that is displayed as the default Folder icon. 1. Start the Registry Editor. 2. Search for "Shell Icons". 3. This will bring you to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / explorer / Shell Icons. 4. Double-click on the one has the value name of "3" in the right pane. 5. Type in the new icon you want to use. 6. If you have a DLL file specified, you need to count for the location of the  particular icon you want to use, starting at 0. 7. To reset the icon cache, use a program such as Tweak with comes with the PowerToys from Microsoft.  Note: I haven't experimented with too many of the other icon changes possible. Adding Control Panel Icons to the Desktop

This is an easy one.. 1. Simply open up the Control Panel. 2. Right Click and Drag the icon you want to your desktop or folder. 3. This will create a shortcut for that icon. 4. It could come in hand y if there are always certain items you need to g et to quickly.

Create a Control Panel menu directly below the Start Button

1. Click the Start Button once with your right mouse button. You should see a right button menu (called a context co ntext menu because it offers different choices in different contexts). 2. You should see the items Open, Explore, and Find on the context menu. Click  Explore with your left mouse button. 3. An Explorer file management window should open. A directory tree should appear in the left pane, with the right pane displaying the contents of the Start Menu folder. 4. Right-click any empty space within the right pane. A context menu should appear. Click New and then Folder. 5. The Explorer will create a highlighted icon called New Folder. Type in the following string, all on one line, replacing th e words New Folder with this new line. You must type the period, the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the hexadecimal numbers exactly as shown. After the closing curly brace, press Enter. Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} Other Folders can be added following the same instructions. •

Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}

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Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

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Inbox.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

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My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

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Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

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 Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

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Desktop.{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

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Briefcase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}

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Fonts.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}

Minimizing All Windows

To minimize all windows: ESC to bring up the Task Bar  1. Press Ctrl-ESC ESC to 2. Right Mouse Click on an open area of the Task Bar  3. Select Minimize all Windows

This makes it a lot easier to minimize windows when all your open applications are full screen. With the Microsoft Keyboard, you can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window-M key. Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows

1. Open REGEDIT.EXE  Open REGEDIT.EXE  2. Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT  Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT  3. Open the Key LNKFILE  Key LNKFILE  4. Delete the value IsShortcut  value IsShortcut  5. Open the next Key PIFFILE  Key PIFFILE  6. Delete the value IsShortcut  value IsShortcut  7. Restart the Win95 Turning on  AutoArrange for Folders

To make all folders keep AutoArrange turned on: 1. Open up an existing folder  2. Select View / Arrange 3. Arrange the Icons the way you would like, (e.g. Name, Size,etc.) 4. Select View / Arrange again 5. Select AutoArrange Select AutoArrange 6. Press the Ctrl -key -key while you close the window. 7. This folder should now have AutoArrange have AutoArrange always selected. This should allow you to create new folders that have AutoArrange have AutoArrange selected by default. You only need to specify by Name, Size, Siz e, etc. if you want to change chan ge it from the default you set above. Note: I have only tested this on a few computers. Please give me feedback regarding any

 problems. Creating Document  Scraps

If you are using Microsoft Word 7.0, you can highlight a section of the document then drag and drop the highlighted area to

your desktop. Windows will create a file for you with a name something like "Document Scrap From..." followed by the first few words you selected Quick Access to Your Desktop

How do you access your darn desktop when you have a ton of applications open? Well you could right click on the taskbar and do a minimize all, but that can be slow. Instead: 1. Open a browser window (double-click on "My Computer") 2. If there is no toolbar, select View from the men u and select Toolbar. 3. Then from the dropdown list-box in the toolbar select desktop. 4.  Now minimize it and forget about it. 5. The next time you want to access your desktop just click the desktop window on the taskbar. 6. As long as you don't close the window when you shutdown, it will reopen when you start windows again. Additional Note: You can also drag the Desktop the Desktop folder to the start menu.

Then you just press Ctrl-ESC and Ctrl-ESC and click on Desktop on Desktop Restoring Corrupted Icons •

If you use a graphic Card and you change the resolution, sometimes the icons are  bad.

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End Win95 and restart. When you see the starting message press F8 then t ype standard.

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After this start of Win95 exit and restart.

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Change back to your Resolution and restart.

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The icons should be corrected.

Turn Off Window Animation

You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize max imize windows. This tip makes navigating Windows 95 a lot faster especially for those that don't have super fast video cards. 1. Open Regedit 2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER 

3. Control panel 4. Desktop 5. WindowMetrics 6. Right Mouse Click an empty space in the right pane. 7. Select new/string value. 8.  Name the new value MinAnimate. 9. Doubleclick on the new string value (MinAnimate) and click on "Modify" 10. Enter a value of 0 for Off or 1 for On then hit 11. Close Regedit and all programs then reboot. Renaming the Recycle Bin

1. Start the Registry Editor  Ctrl-F to bring up the Find Menu 2. Type Ctrl-F to What box type Recycle 3. In the Find the Find What box type Recycle 4. Double click on the Recycle the Recycle Bin in the right pane 5. Type in the new name under Value under Value Data 6. Restart Win95 Turning off Desktop Icons

If you want to turn off all the icons on your desktop: 1. Start the System Policy Editor  2. Select File Select File / Open Registry 3. Select Local Select Local User  4. Select Shell / Restrictions 5. Select Hide Select Hide all items on Desktop All Icons will now be hidden. n o longer automatically play when it is Note: One side effect is the your CD will no inserted. Adding in Old Windows Groups

If you are setup to dual boot between your old Win 3.x and want to add in the old groups,  just click on the *.GRP file in your old windows directory. The programs will be added to your list under Programs in the task bar.

Note: Any DLL's the programs require will need to be copied. To speed up the Start Menu

1. Start the REGEDIT  the REGEDIT program program 2. Search for the word desktop 3. This should be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / C LSID / {00021400... 4. Right Click on the right panel  NEW / String Value. Value . 5. Pick  NEW 6.  Name it MenuShowDelay, MenuShowDelay, all one word. 7. Select a value from 1-10, 1 being the fastest. 8. Exit REGEDIT  Exit REGEDIT  9. Restart Windows To change the  My Computer or Recycle Bin icon

1. Open Regedit 2. Find My Computer or  Computer or  Recycle  Recycle Bin 3. Tab to the left panel 4. Double click on the highlighted line 5. Double click on DefaultIcon in the left panel 6. Double click on DefaultIcon right panel 7. Type in the value for the new icon 8.  Note: DLL files can be used. Specify the location of the new icon with the  filename,#  Remove the tildes in short filenames

1. Open Regedit 2. Go to Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Fi Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem leSystem 3. Right Click on the Right pane 4. Select New / Hex 5. Add the value NameNumericTail= 0 To remove the Network Neighborhood Icon

1. Start POLEDIT. It is on the CD in \Admin\Apptools\Poledit 2. Open Registry 3. Select LocalUser 

4. Select Shell 5. Select Restrictions 6. Select Hide Network Neighborhood To change the Startup and Logoff screens Startup Screen •

Create a 320x400 bitmap in the root directory and name it LOGO.SYS

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You can use LOGOW.SYS file in the Windows directory as a starter 

Logoff Screens

1. There are several files called LOGO X .SYS .SYS 2. They are actually bitmaps 320x400 that just have a different extension 3. The hidden one in the root directory LOGO.SYS  directory LOGO.SYS is is the startup logo. 4. There are two files in the Windows directory. 5. LOGOW.SYS is the Wait while Shutting down ... screen Reboot  screen 6. LOGOS.SYS is the You may now shut-off or Reboot screen 7. To edit them, rename them with a BMP extension and use your favorite graphic editor  8. You can edit these files or create you own 9. They just need to be the same size