Shutting Down or Restarting Windows95 from an Icon ...(22/10/2000)
Yahoo pop3 Mail ...(21/11/1999)
Windows Chat Utility...(15/11/1999)
Resume by Alarm /RTC Alarm....(10/11/1999)
Power on PC by Keyboard ...(6/11/1999)
Watch Server on  win98 networks ...(6/11/1999)
Remote Administrate other pc on win98 networks ...(6/11/1999)
Selection in ms word ...(30/10/1999)
Put Your Desktop On The Start Menu ...(1/5/1998)
Free E-Mail Site ...(1/5/1998)
Watermark It ...(1/5/1998)
Freeze Header ...(1/5/1998)
Removing Programs from the Control Panel ...(20/6/9/1998)
Deleting Files Without Sending Them to the Recycle Bin...(20/6/9/1998)
Quickly Opening Text Files...(20/6/9/1998)
Using FIND to Search Across Multiple Drives...(20/6/9/1998)
Automatically Refresh The Screen...(22/6/1998)
add my own information to General tab of the System Control Panel applet....(22/6/1998)
Closing Nested Folders...(23/6/1998)
Create a Control Panel menu directly below the Start Button...(23/6/1998)
Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows...(23/6/1998)
Quick Access to Your Desktop...(23/6/1998)
Opening a Files for Editing...(23/6/1998)
Adding NOTEPAD to SENDTO...(23/6/1998)
Lock icons in their place...(23/6/1998)
The Simplest Multi-Boot...(1/7/1998)
Easily Opening a File with Notepad...(2/7/1998)
Fixing Corrupt Registry...(2/7/1998)
Show a thumbnail icon of bitmaps by default...(2/7/1998)
Copying Graphics...(8/8/1998)
Save Your Documents (24/7/1999)
Power on PC by double click button (29/7/1999)
TIPS.TXT...(20/6/9/1998)/

To Shutdown Windows9x, create a shortcut to:
rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

To Restart Windows9x, create a shortcut to:
rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec

Submitted by Jeff Pilch  on  bob site

Note from Ziad
*   write all the command including the dot and the comma (to be sure, you can make
copy and paste)
*   Note:  you can but this command (shutdown) in task schedule , so you can shut
down the computer automatically by specify the time to shutdown (example 10:00pm )
*   on my PC i make the tow  tips that one power on my pc at 8:30AM and the shutdown my pc at 1:00AM
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If you are registered for yahoo web E-mail and get poring to browsing the yahoo site to see your email, and would like to receive your E-mail on your E-mail program like outlook express, Netscape messenger, Eudora…etc.
To do this you should configure you program to receive messages from yahoo mail server
Using Netscape
1 select from preferences the edit menu
2- select from category mail and news group
3- under identity insert your real name and your yahoo e-mail such as
John David
john@yahoo.com
4- select mail server, and click on add button
On server name insert pop.mail.yahoo.com
On server type select pop3 server
On user name insert your yahoo id in our example john
Click ok
5-To select outgoing mail (SMTP) server, insert your ISP mail server and your user name on your ISP because Yahoo! Does not provide outgoing mail services
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Use this utility to conduct "chat" sessions with others over a network on win95 or win98.
To install this tool on your local hard disk, (you should have original CD-ROM of windows95)
use the Add/Remove Programs option in Control Panel, select the Windows Setup tab, click the Have Disk button, and install from the D:\COMMON\OTHER\CHAT directory.
By this utility you can call any client logon the LAN (you should install it on every client) and add any client to a call while only the person who initiates the call can add a  person to the call
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This feature is very grate to whom that wont to turn his pc on specific time like before he came to his office by 5 minute every day
How this feature activated
1. Restart your computer, when [press Del to enter setup message] appear press Del key
2. Select Integrated Peripherals From Main Menu [you can find this feature in power management setup in some Bios]
3. If Resume by Alarm /RTC Alarm disabled, activate it by press page up/ down key it will became enabled
4. Tow option will appear
    Date (of mouth) :0-31  [chose 0 so it will turn pc every day] else it will power on only in that date you specify
    Time (hh:mm:ss) alarm: specify the specific time you wont to start up you pc
5. Press Esc key to exit
6. Press F10 to save and exit

Power off your PC
Now if the time you specify is event the pc will turn on by it self

Note:
Don’t change any thing else may corrupt the computer setting that make your PC not work properly.
If you make any change that you are not sure of it just get out the setup Bios without saving by pressing Esc key, when ask you to exit without saving press y key.
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If you have
ATX main board, ATX case, Award Bios or any Bios support (keyboard power on) then You can power on your PC, by pressing enter key or multi key
How to activate this feature:
 Restart your computer, when [press Del to enter setup] message appear press Del key
Select Integrated Peripherals From Main Menu
If KB power on disabled, activate it by press page up/ down key it will became multi key
Another option will appear to choose enter key or multi key
If you chose multi key the computer will ask you to enter your word and reenter it to be confirmed
Press Esc key to exit
Press F10 to save and exit
Power off your PC
Now you can power on your system by entering the keyboard power on password, Your PC will turn on
If your password consists of more than one character, you have to press the enter key after entering the password.
Note:
Don’t change any thing else may corrupt the computer setting that make your PC not work properly.
If you make any change that you are not sure of it just get out the setup Bios without saving by pressing Esc key, when ask you to exit without saving press y key.
If your pc did not turned on you have to check you MB, there is a jumper Placed near the KB connection you have to make it enable.

Tip: you can disconnect the power on cable from inside the PC and activate the keyboard power on , in that case no one can power on your PC.
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    on the computer you wont to watch it
    1. go to control panel
    2. double click on passwords icon
    3. select remote administration tab
    4. enable remote administration of this server and enter your password
    5. click ok

    on administrator pc
    1. double click the network neighborhood
    2. select computer that you wont to watch it
    3. right click on its icon
    4. from menu select  properties
    5. select tools tab
    6. from tools tab select net watcher
    7. insert the password that you insert it in remote administration .

now you will be surprised that you can see every user connect to that clint, you can disconnect any user on that client  you can do it for every pc on the network.

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remote administrate other pc on win98 networks

on the computer you wont to remote administrate it
1. go to control panel
2. double click on passwords icon
3. select remote administration tab
4. enable remote administration of this server and enter your password
5. click ok

on administrator pc
1. double click the network neighborhood
2. select computer that you wont to administrate
3. right click on its icon
4. from menu select  properties
5. select tools tab
6. from tools tab select administrator
7. insert the password that you insert it in remote administration .

now you will be surprised that you can see every thing on remote pc
you can do it for every pc on the network.

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Selection in MS Word is just lines or paragraphs but how can we select some columns across lines or blocks?.
To make a selection for column across lines or blocks just press Alt key and make your selection using the mouse as usual.
You can see that the selection did not select all the line it just selects the block or the aria that mouse over it.

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Put Your Desktop On The Start Menu

Step 1:
Right click on the desktop and choose new, shortcut. Type the command explorer /root, including the final comma, and the space before slash. Name the shortcut desktop.
Step 2:
After you drag the shortcut and drop it on start button, the desktop icon appears at the top.
Step 3:
Click on start and choose the desktop shortcut to open a window containing all the files, shortcuts, and system objects on your desktop.

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FREE E-MAIL SITE

Before, creating a watermark image in the background of each page was something only certified Microsoft word
Experts would attempt. Now, in tree easy steps, you too can look like a pro.

Step 1:
Insert graphic select view, header and footer, select insert picture. Select the image and choose format, picture. In the position tab select float over text. on the picture tab pick watermark from the color drop-down list . On the wrapping tab click none.
Step 2:
Insert text to add text, choose insert, then text box. Drag a box with the crosshairs, then type your text.
Change the font color to gray 25% you can size and position the text box by dragging the size handles. To rotate the text, choose format, then text direction, and select the option you want.
Step 3:
See your mark when you're finished, click on close on the header and footer toolbar. to see a watermark as it will appear on the printed page, switch to page lay out view .

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1. Go to second row under the row you want to make it as header and select a single cell (e.g. a2)
2. From menu par select window, select split, now you can see horizontal 3d bar above the selected cell
3. From menu par select window, select freeze panes, now if you scrolled down or up the header will always appear.
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Removing Programs from the Control Panel

1.You can remove seected icons in your Control Panel by simply moving, deleting or renaming the *.cpl file in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSETM directory.
2.The icon or file will still work even if it is not on the control panel screen.
At list of the CPL files can be found in this section at Control Panel CPL Files
Submitted by Dennis Riddick
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Deleting Files Without Sending Them to the Recycle Bin

You can delete your files without sending them to the recycle bin Just shift-right click the file icon and choose delete from the menu that comes up. The file when deleted will not go to the recycle bin. BEWARE: The deleted file can not be restored
Submitted by Sudip Kumar Bhattacharya
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Quickly Opening Text Files

To speed up opening files, if you know the file contains text, but it it has an extension that isn't recognized, here's what you do:

1.Open up Windows Explorer
2.Change directories to C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO
3.Create a shortcut to Notepad or drag its shortcut to this directory.
Now you'll have an easy way to open documents! Another helpful thing to do is to do the same thing with the recycle bin.
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Using FIND to Search Across Multiple Drives

When you use Find from the desktop (F3), you can normally only search on one drive. To search across multiple drives and directories, separate your searches with a semicolon (;) For example, to search from the root of C: and the root of D:, you would enter C:\;D:\ as your look in location
To search from different directories, you can enter them as well
Submitted by Bob cerelli@halcyon.com
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Automatically Refresh the Screen

A. Usually when you delete a file, create a new folder etc the screen does not update until you press F5 (for refresh), however you can automate this

1.Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
2.Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update
3.Double click on UpdateMode and change the value to 0, press OK
4.Close the registry editor
This change is immediate and the next time you start Explorer the new auto update will be in effect.
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Add my own information to General tab of the System Control Panel applet.

When you receive a PC from a manufacturer you may see extra lines of description text and a company logo in the General tab of a System Control Panel applet, and this can be changed or added as follows:

1.Create a bitmap you want with dimensions 180 by 114. Save the picture in the %systemroot%/system32 folder (e.g. d:\winnt\system32) with a name of OEMLOGO.BMP. If the picture is greater than this size then it will be clipped from the top left corner. If it is smaller then a black border will be added.
2.Create the file %systemroot%/system32/OEMINFO.INI (e.g. d:\winnt\system32\oeminfo.ini) with the following format:
[general]
Manufacturer=Dabash Tech Ltd
Model=SuperDuper 1
[Support Information]
Line1=" "
Line2="For support ...."
Line3=" "
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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 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 the 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.

Removing the Shortcut Icon Arrows

1.Open REGEDIT.EXE
2.Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
3.Open the Key LNKFILE
4.Delete the value IsShortcut
5.Open the next Key PIFFILE
6.Delete the value IsShortcut
7.Restart the Win95
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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 menu 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 folder to the start menu. Then you just press Ctrl-ESC and click on Desktop
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Opening a Files for Editing

Adding an 'Edit' option to HTML Documents Options Menu.

When I double click my *.htm files it always fires up my browser. Well sometimes I want to edit that document instead. I can put Notepad in the Send To Folder to ease this problem. Here is another way to deal with this that is a bit slicker:

1.From Windows Explorer, select View then Options
2.Click the File Types Tab.
3.Select the type you want to add edit for (in my example this would be 'Netscape Hypertext Document' or *.HTM
4.Click the Edit Button.
5.From the Edit File Type panel click the New button.
6.Action is: &Edit, Application used to.... is: c:\windows\notepad.exe %1
7.Click OK, then Close, then Close.

Now when you secondary (right) click an HTML Document select Edit from the menu (or press E) and you are now looking at the source in Notepad.

You can use a similar process for Graphic files (JPG, GIF, etc) to send them to your favorite Graphics program.
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Adding NOTEPAD to SENDTO

Create a shortcut to notepad.exe in the C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO directory. Then, you'll have the option to view a files contents by right-clicking it and "sending" to the notepad. Immensely useful for deciphering old set-up files (or .DOC files that aren't Word files, READ.ME etc.)
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Lock icons in their place

Here's how to make Windows95 remember your Desktop settings, even if someone comes along and changes everything. The first thing to do is to set up everything the way you want it. Next, select Run from the Start menu, type in REGEDIT and press the Enter key. In the Registry Editor, find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\currentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Right-click in the right pane and select New/DWORD. Rename the value NoSaveSettings and press the Enter key. Right-click on the new NoSaveSettings item and select Modify. Enter the number 1 in the Value data box. Click on OK and Exit. Now, whenever you restart Windows, your settings will return to their current state.
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The Simplest Multi-Boot

Forget about "restart in ms-dos mode"
Use DOS=SINGLE
In your CONFIG.SYS put:

[menu]
menuitem WIN95, Windows 95
menuitem NORMAL, DOS -Normal
menudefault WIN95, 3

[WIN95]

[NORMAL]
DOS=SINGLE
[common]
Submitted by Adam flot@geocities.com
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Easily Opening a File with Notepad

This will enable you to right click on any file and have the option to open it with notepad. Also if a file has no association and you try to open it it will open with notepad

1.Run 'regedit.exe'
2.Expand "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT"
3.Inside "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT", expand "*"
4.Inside "*", create a key called "shell"
5.Inside "shell" create a key called "open"
6.Inside "open" edit the string "(default)" to say "open (notepad)"
7.Inside "open" create a key called "command"
8.Inside "command" edit the string "(default)" to say "C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE %1"
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Fixing Corrupt Registry

If your registry has gotten corrupted, and re-installing Windows95 over your existing version does not fix the problem,
there is a hidden, read-only, system file on the root of your boot drive called SYSTEM.1ST. This is the initial system registry created when you first installed Windows95.

To use this file:

1.Go to your Windows directory
2.Un-Attrib your current SYSTEM.DAT file (attrib -r -s -h system.dat)
3.Copy your current SYSTEM.DAT to something like SYSTEM.BAD file (just in case) 4.Move to your root directory
5.Un-Attrib the SYSTEM.1ST file
6.Copy SYSTEM.1ST to \WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT
7.Re-start your system

You will need to install your 32-bit apps and any other programs or changes that modified your system registry but you will not need to go through a new again. Your 16-bit apps should not need to be re-installed since they do not modify the registry. You will also retain your current desktop configuration.

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Show a thumbnail icon of bitmaps by default:

Using RegEdit, change the following value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PAINT\PICTURE\DefaultIcon "%1"
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TIPS.TXT

There is a file TIPS.TXT in the directory where Win95 is installed. There are a lot if little hints and shortcuts there.
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Closing Nested Folders

If you have several nested folders (folders within folders) and want to close them all, simply, hold the Shift key while closing the last folder This will close all previous ones as well.
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You can power on your system by entering the keyboard power on password. If your password consists of more than one character, you have to press the enter key after entering the password.

Note :
don't change any thing else may corrupt the computer siting that make your PC not work properly.
If you make any change that you are not sure of it just get out the bios setup without saving by pressing Esc key ,when ask to exit without saving press y key.
If your pc did not turned on you have to check you MB, there is a jumper placed near the KB connection you have to make it Enable.

Tip: you can disconnect the power on cable from inside the PC and activate the keyboard power on , in that case no one can power on your PC.
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Alt-Enter to make a DOS window
Click on the upper left hand corner
Select Edit/Mark
Select a region with the mouse
Select Edit/Copy or press the Enter key
You can then paste it into another program
Submitted by Thomas Kadlec tmk1@ra.msstate.edu
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If you would like to add your Tips, please either fill out the following Form or e-mail me.
Be sure to include your name and e-mail address so credit can be given.

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