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Miscellaneous Tips


  1. Determining Your Processor's Speed 
  2. While initializing device vkd error 
  3. Swapping the Mouse Buttons for Left Hand from the Command Line 
  4. Using the Wheel Mouse to Control the Font Size 
  5. Creating a Directory That is Not Accessible From Windows
  6. Creating Custom Boot Floppies 
  7. Deleting the TEMP Directory at Bootup 
  8. Saving File Searches 
  9. Searching for Files In All Drives 
  10. Renaming CD ROM Drive Letter 
  11. Changing the Colors of the Blue Screen of Death 
  12. Powering on the Computer With Your Mouse 
  13. Removing Programs from the Control Panel 
  14. Not Loading DriveSpace or DoubleSpace Drivers 
  15. Increasing Performance 
  16. Increasing Disk Performance 
  17. Clearing the Documents Folder 
  18. Opening a File with Application that is Different than its Registered One 
  19. Fixing VMM32 Memory Leak 
  20. Removing One Document File from START / DOCUMENTS 
  21. Finding Files with Specific Text in Them 
  22. Creating a Support Information Button 
  23. Create (or replace) the Manufacturer's logo in System Properties 
  24. Adding printers to the Add Printer Dialog Box 
  25. Device Problems with Removable Hard Drives 
  26. Deleting Files Without Sending Them to the Recycle Bin 
  27. Changing the Recycle Bin Size 
  28. Displaying Last File Searches 
  29. Associating Several File Extensions to the Same Program 
  30. Fast Open of the Start Menu 
  31. Getting Item Properties 
  32. Starting Win95 Without Running Apps in the Startup Folder 
  33. Removing a program from the Control Panel 
  34. Using FIND to Search Across Multiple Drives 
  35. RUNDLL Error Message 
  36. Automatically Delete Files Sent to Recycle Bin 
  37. The Simplest Multi-Boot 
  38. Enabling Telephony Controls 
  39. Disabling CDs AutoRun 
  40. Control Panel CPL Files 
  41. Reserving Resources from Plug and Play Devices 
  42. Viewing System IRQ, I/O, Memory and DMA Utilization 
  43. Installing with an INF File 
  44. Automatically Deleting Files in the Recycle Bin 
  45. Increasing your Sound Card's Bass and Treble 
  46. ATI Video Card and COM4 conflicts 
  47. System Policies when logging on to an NT Domain 
  48. Changing to Win 3.x Shell 
  49. Quickly Opening Text Files 
  50. Changing your Modem's Initialization String 
  51. Saving memory by adjusting your CD Cache 
  52. Easy File Deletes 
  53. Update to DTC 2278 D Controller and CD ROMs 
  54. HP Print Failures 
  55. Eliminate banner page from printing when running HP 4 & 5 printer 
  56. Designating Drive Letter for CD ROMs and other removable media 
  57. Upgrading with Pro Audio Spectrum Cards 
  58. Bypass starting Windows95 
  59. Quick Format a Floppy Disk 
  60. Creating a Boot Menu 
  61. Selecting non-recognized modems 
  62. Creating PRN File Types 
  63. Refresh SCSI Devices 
  64. DTC Controller I/O Problems 
  65. Removing programs listed in Control Panel's Remove Programs 
  66. Drivespace and Memory 
  67. Booting to DOS 
  68. Turning off Numlock 
  69. Quickly Restarting Win95 
  70. S3 Video and COM 4 
  71. Potential problems with 16-bit WINSOCK.DLL's 
  72. Speeding up your double-speed CD-ROM 
  73. Copying Graphicss
  74. Read the TIPS.TXT File
  75. Keep Multiple Text Items on Your Clipboard with FlashPaste

  76. Find Your Windows 2000/2003/XP Installation Key With the Magic Jellybean Keyfinder

  77. Reboot Your Computer Remotely Using Poweroff

  78. Create an ISO Image File Using Roxio Easy CD Creator


Easy way to open up DOS prompt in a specific directory

 

With the advent of long directory names, it can be difficult to open up a DOS box and CD to the directory you want
particularly if it is several layers of long names deep.

An easy way is to:

  1. Open up Explorer and highlight the directory you want to be in
  2. Select Run / Command from the Start Menu
  3. Your DOS prompt will now be in the directory you highlighted in Explorer

Pro Audio Spectrum Cards

When upgrading from Win 3.1, remove or rename all .386 and .drv's related to the sound card BEFORE installing Win 95.
Leaving the drivers in place will prevent he new drivers from running properly.

The drivers are:

  • vpasd.386
    mvproadu.drv
    mvmixer.drv
    mscdex.exe