Welcome to Greg's help
Welcome to Greg's help
Welcome to my text file. I will make a new one
every chance I get so keep your eyes open for new ones.
A Basic Overview:
1) New things
2) the 50 grand tips
3) A few last words
Note: You are to distribute it in any way, but please don't alter
information for reproduction. You may copy it, but please, make
it a read-only file. If you don't understand this please Email me
at GREGH555@AOL.COM
1) New things:
Everything! First thing after you've installed Windows 95 is that you
should RIGHT click on "My Computer", and pick "Properties".
Go to the device manager tab, check and make sure all your
devices are O.K., if one of the icons has a mark on it like a international
"no" symbol, or an exclamation point over it, something is probably wrong.
Next goto the Performance tab. Make sure that Virtual Memory, File system,
disk compression, PCMCIA(if you have the last two) say 32-bit.
If any don't, go browsing the file IOS.LOC for answers.
50 Grand tips
1. Get used to the "Start" button, it replaces Program Manager.
2. Customize your desktop, put shortcuts on it, get used to not having
to work in Program Manager.
3. To change all your settings, click on the start button, Settings,
and then goto Control Panel. Most of the applets are about the same as in
Windows 3.11.
4. To get help, goto the start menu, help.
5. From the taskbar, all opened folders and
windows are accessible from. It is as easy as a channel changer to switch
between open windows.
6. In the right hand corner there are now three buttons all the time.
The one with two windows that overlap is to restore the window to normal
size, the one with the line on the bottom of the little icon is to minimize
and the full window button is to maximize the window. The "x" is to close
the window.
7. To get the properties of any object, select the object, right click and
choose "properties", or highlight the object and press ALT+ENTER
8. To Format a disk, double click on "My computer", then right click the
drive icon, and choose format.
9. Get used to Windows Explorer, under the start menu under programs.
It's the new buffed up File Manager.
10. To add or delete objects in the start menu, right click on the taskbar
and choose "Properties", then choose the "Start Menu" tab, and choose
"Advanced". To add an item, click on the folder that you want to put it
under. Right click on the window, not on an object, with the files in it,
choose "new", Shortcuts When it asks you, put in the path of the file that
you want a shortcut for. If you don't know what the path is, pick browse.
To delete an object, click on the item, and press the DELete key and when
it prompts you "Are you sure you want to send this object to the
"Recycle Bin", choose "yes". You can also right click on the object in the
window, and choose the Properties to modify them.
11. Put shortcuts on your desktop, that you can drop things on.
For example, put your floppy drive on your desktop so that you can
drag and drop files onto the drive to copy files, or put your printer
on the desktop so that you can drag and drop a document onto it to print
it automatically.
12. To free up space, make sure that you are not using smartdrive anymore,
you'll gain about 2 megs of RAM. To do this right click on your Autoexec.bat
file, usually under your root directory, and choose edit. Go through the
lines, and make sure that the smartdrive command doesn't exist, and if it
does, that it has the words "rem" in front of them.
13. Customize your desktop, colors, etc. by right clicking on the "Desktop",
and choosing "Properties".
14. To change the name of "My Computer" to your own personal name,
click on the text and type in your new name.
15. To change the name of "Recycle Bin" to your own personal name,
go into registry by choosing "run" on the start menu and type in Regedit and
choose the menu "find", type in "Recycle Bin" and choose find. Before that
you change the object, make sure that you're in the folder
"My computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
If you're not, go to it, in there there should be one object, click on
the object and choose "edit", "Modify", and change the data set to the name
you want. When you're all done, restart your computer.
16. If you use a application that is Windows 95 based, you can find
documents by choosing the documents under "start", and you can quickly
access files that you've already used.
17. Clean out old drivers from Autoexec.bat, it will free up space. Goto the
Autoexec.bat, right click on it, and choose edit. Make sure that you don't
see any files that you might have seen, when you used DOS.
WARNING: THIS SHOULD NOT BE TRIED IF YOU DON'T HAVE EXPERIENCE IN EDITING
YOUR STARTUP FILES.
18. Just like in Win 3.1x, make sure your fonts directory isn't full of
fonts. To get to the Fonts Directory from the Control Panel, or goto through
"My Computer" to C:\windows\fonts. Remove them, don't delete them, do this
by moving them to the c:\windows\system directory, or into a new folder to
tidy up your system folder.
19. Keep a folder on the desktop that holds all your common program
shortcuts. To do this, right click on the desktop goto "new" and choose
"folder".
20. If you're low on disk space, in the c:\windows\help directory, there
are some video files, for help. If you don't use them, this can free up a
few Megabytes.
21. If you have plenty of space, you can goto the "add/remove programs"
applet in Control Panel, under settings in the "start" button.
Then click the "windows setup" tab. Under the Components groups look at the
bottom of the window, there should be something that's says something like
"5 of 6 objects". Click details and it will bring up a list of applications,
or tools, that you can use, that Windows didn't install on setup.
22. After a while, you could have a huge list under Document in the start
menu. To clear this menu, right click on the taskbar, and choose
"Properties". Select the "start menu" tab and at the bottom end of the
window, select "clear".
23. Don't forget to clean out the "Recycle Bin" once in a while,
but don't empty out the Bin unless you're sure, because once you delete
them from the Recycle bin, they are gone for good.
24. To bypass the logo at the beginning of Windows startup, hit ESCape key
when the Screen says "Starting Windows 95".
25. Don't move any programs that have shortcuts, or you will have to
re-create all of the shortcuts for that program.
26. To find a file, goto the start menu, and choose find, files or folders.
27. Make it easier to get to a control panel applet. Right click on the
taskbar, choose properties, goto the start menu tab and click "advanced".
Goto the root folder, named "Start menu", and right click a free
area by the programs and choose "new", "Folder". Name it "control panel".
Then from the start menu, click settings, control panel. In here
highlight all the applets, or objects. Drag them onto the start menu,
and drop them there. Then right click the taskbar, click properties,
and goto the start menu tab, and choose the button advanced,
then drag and drop all the applet from the start menu folder to the
"Control panel folder you made. Now you have a quick way of getting to
your control panel applets. (Hint: If you have a lot of printer drivers you
could do that also for the printers settings).
28. Just like in Windows 3.xx, you're going to want to go through win.ini
and tidy up the file, and take out unnecessary text.
29. To quickly access the system applet window, right click on
"My Computer", and choose properties.
30. To get quick access to the display applet window, right click on the
screen and choose "properties".
31. Paintbrush in Windows 95 is Paint.
32. Write is now Wordpad, (Write on steroids.)
33. Terminal is now Hyper Terminal in Windows 95.
34. Under Programs, Accessories, System Tools in the start menu; you can
find the Windows 95 version of Drivespace, Defrag, Scandisk, Backup, and
System Monitor (if you have installed it).
35. Windows 95 now comes with a CD player application, this application
will automatically start the CD when it is put in. To disable this function,
goto the systems applet, and choose the "Device Manager" tab then choose
your device controller for this CD-ROM, choose the "properties" button and
uncheck the mark by the text that says "auto insert notification". Click
OK, and then OK again.
36. Use the CTRL+ESCape keys to access the Start menu.
37. You can still use ALT+ESCape to switch between open windows.
40. To have only one window when using the "My Computer" or whatever you
have named it, goto View options, and choose the folder tab and choose the
setting for one window, instead of multiple windows.
41. To run an application once, like a setup utility, choose run from the
start menu, and type in the path.
42. Run most DOS games from the MS-DOS mode. To do this, on the shutdown
menu, choose the "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" option. To return to
Windows type in WIN or EXIT.
43. If you didn't create a Emergency startup disk at installation time,
then go to the add/remove programs, click on the startup tab and press the
"make Emergency disk" button.
44. To see the right click menu of the selected item, press Shift+F10.
45. If you use the "find" tool in the "start" menu, and you are looking for
something you were looking for before your last shutdown, or restart,
you can probably find it under the scroll bar.
46. To diskcopy in Windows 95, right click on the drive after you have
the disk in it, then choose "copy disk".
47. If you are a big control freak, put a shortcut of the control
panel on your desktop. To do this, goto "My Computer"
and drag "control panel" to the desktop.
48. To get to the audio properties quickly, on the taskbar there should be a
a little horn by the time, right click on it and choose adjust audio
properties.
49. If you want to save screen space, bring up the properties of the
taskbar. Choose the taskbar option tab, and then look down at the options
and choose the "auto hide" option. Once this is chosen, the taskbar is hidden
until the pointer is at the bottom of the screen.
50. The best way to learn more is to learn things for yourself. Spend some
time getting used to this new operating system.
A few last words:
In this document, I try to get you used to the interface. If you have any
questions, based on doing something in Windows 95, I will answer it.
If it is a error you are having, or a device problem, I will try to answer
it, although I can't promise it is a problem I will be able to answer, I
will try, and if I can answer it, I'm pretty quick about it. If you have any
questions Email me at GREGH555@AOL.COM. Thank you for reading Greg's help
file.
Welcome to my text file. I will make a new one
every chance I get so keep your eyes open for new ones.
A Basic Overview:
1) New things
2) the 50 grand tips
3) A few last words
Note: You are to distribute it in any way, but please don't alter
information for reproduction. You may copy it, but please, make
it a read-only file. If you don't understand this please Email me
at GREGH555@AOL.COM
1) New things:
Everything! First thing after you've installed Windows 95 is that you
should RIGHT click on "My Computer", and pick "Properties".
Go to the device manager tab, check and make sure all your
devices are O.K., if one of the icons has a mark on it like a international
"no" symbol, or an exclamation point over it, something is probably wrong.
Next goto the Performance tab. Make sure that Virtual Memory, File system,
disk compression, PCMCIA(if you have the last two) say 32-bit.
If any don't, go browsing the file IOS.LOC for answers.
50 Grand tips
1. Get used to the "Start" button, it replaces Program Manager.
2. Customize your desktop, put shortcuts on it, get used to not having
to work in Program Manager.
3. To change all your settings, click on the start button, Settings,
and then goto Control Panel. Most of the applets are about the same as in
Windows 3.11.
4. To get help, goto the start menu, help.
5. From the taskbar, all opened folders and
windows are accessible from. It is as easy as a channel changer to switch
between open windows.
6. In the right hand corner there are now three buttons all the time.
The one with two windows that overlap is to restore the window to normal
size, the one with the line on the bottom of the little icon is to minimize
and the full window button is to maximize the window. The "x" is to close
the window.
7. To get the properties of any object, select the object, right click and
choose "properties", or highlight the object and press ALT+ENTER
8. To Format a disk, double click on "My computer", then right click the
drive icon, and choose format.
9. Get used to Windows Explorer, under the start menu under programs.
It's the new buffed up File Manager.
10. To add or delete objects in the start menu, right click on the taskbar
and choose "Properties", then choose the "Start Menu" tab, and choose
"Advanced". To add an item, click on the folder that you want to put it
under. Right click on the window, not on an object, with the files in it,
choose "new", Shortcuts When it asks you, put in the path of the file that
you want a shortcut for. If you don't know what the path is, pick browse.
To delete an object, click on the item, and press the DELete key and when
it prompts you "Are you sure you want to send this object to the
"Recycle Bin", choose "yes". You can also right click on the object in the
window, and choose the Properties to modify them.
11. Put shortcuts on your desktop, that you can drop things on.
For example, put your floppy drive on your desktop so that you can
drag and drop files onto the drive to copy files, or put your printer
on the desktop so that you can drag and drop a document onto it to print
it automatically.
12. To free up space, make sure that you are not using smartdrive anymore,
you'll gain about 2 megs of RAM. To do this right click on your Autoexec.bat
file, usually under your root directory, and choose edit. Go through the
lines, and make sure that the smartdrive command doesn't exist, and if it
does, that it has the words "rem" in front of them.
13. Customize your desktop, colors, etc. by right clicking on the "Desktop",
and choosing "Properties".
14. To change the name of "My Computer" to your own personal name,
click on the text and type in your new name.
15. To change the name of "Recycle Bin" to your own personal name,
go into registry by choosing "run" on the start menu and type in Regedit and
choose the menu "find", type in "Recycle Bin" and choose find. Before that
you change the object, make sure that you're in the folder
"My computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
If you're not, go to it, in there there should be one object, click on
the object and choose "edit", "Modify", and change the data set to the name
you want. When you're all done, restart your computer.
16. If you use a application that is Windows 95 based, you can find
documents by choosing the documents under "start", and you can quickly
access files that you've already used.
17. Clean out old drivers from Autoexec.bat, it will free up space. Goto the
Autoexec.bat, right click on it, and choose edit. Make sure that you don't
see any files that you might have seen, when you used DOS.
WARNING: THIS SHOULD NOT BE TRIED IF YOU DON'T HAVE EXPERIENCE IN EDITING
YOUR STARTUP FILES.
18. Just like in Win 3.1x, make sure your fonts directory isn't full of
fonts. To get to the Fonts Directory from the Control Panel, or goto through
"My Computer" to C:\windows\fonts. Remove them, don't delete them, do this
by moving them to the c:\windows\system directory, or into a new folder to
tidy up your system folder.
19. Keep a folder on the desktop that holds all your common program
shortcuts. To do this, right click on the desktop goto "new" and choose
"folder".
20. If you're low on disk space, in the c:\windows\help directory, there
are some video files, for help. If you don't use them, this can free up a
few Megabytes.
21. If you have plenty of space, you can goto the "add/remove programs"
applet in Control Panel, under settings in the "start" button.
Then click the "windows setup" tab. Under the Components groups look at the
bottom of the window, there should be something that's says something like
"5 of 6 objects". Click details and it will bring up a list of applications,
or tools, that you can use, that Windows didn't install on setup.
22. After a while, you could have a huge list under Document in the start
menu. To clear this menu, right click on the taskbar, and choose
"Properties". Select the "start menu" tab and at the bottom end of the
window, select "clear".
23. Don't forget to clean out the "Recycle Bin" once in a while,
but don't empty out the Bin unless you're sure, because once you delete
them from the Recycle bin, they are gone for good.
24. To bypass the logo at the beginning of Windows startup, hit ESCape key
when the Screen says "Starting Windows 95".
25. Don't move any programs that have shortcuts, or you will have to
re-create all of the shortcuts for that program.
26. To find a file, goto the start menu, and choose find, files or folders.
27. Make it easier to get to a control panel applet. Right click on the
taskbar, choose properties, goto the start menu tab and click "advanced".
Goto the root folder, named "Start menu", and right click a free
area by the programs and choose "new", "Folder". Name it "control panel".
Then from the start menu, click settings, control panel. In here
highlight all the applets, or objects. Drag them onto the start menu,
and drop them there. Then right click the taskbar, click properties,
and goto the start menu tab, and choose the button advanced,
then drag and drop all the applet from the start menu folder to the
"Control panel folder you made. Now you have a quick way of getting to
your control panel applets. (Hint: If you have a lot of printer drivers you
could do that also for the printers settings).
28. Just like in Windows 3.xx, you're going to want to go through win.ini
and tidy up the file, and take out unnecessary text.
29. To quickly access the system applet window, right click on
"My Computer", and choose properties.
30. To get quick access to the display applet window, right click on the
screen and choose "properties".
31. Paintbrush in Windows 95 is Paint.
32. Write is now Wordpad, (Write on steroids.)
33. Terminal is now Hyper Terminal in Windows 95.
34. Under Programs, Accessories, System Tools in the start menu; you can
find the Windows 95 version of Drivespace, Defrag, Scandisk, Backup, and
System Monitor (if you have installed it).
35. Windows 95 now comes with a CD player application, this application
will automatically start the CD when it is put in. To disable this function,
goto the systems applet, and choose the "Device Manager" tab then choose
your device controller for this CD-ROM, choose the "properties" button and
uncheck the mark by the text that says "auto insert notification". Click
OK, and then OK again.
36. Use the CTRL+ESCape keys to access the Start menu.
37. You can still use ALT+ESCape to switch between open windows.
40. To have only one window when using the "My Computer" or whatever you
have named it, goto View options, and choose the folder tab and choose the
setting for one window, instead of multiple windows.
41. To run an application once, like a setup utility, choose run from the
start menu, and type in the path.
42. Run most DOS games from the MS-DOS mode. To do this, on the shutdown
menu, choose the "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" option. To return to
Windows type in WIN or EXIT.
43. If you didn't create a Emergency startup disk at installation time,
then go to the add/remove programs, click on the startup tab and press the
"make Emergency disk" button.
44. To see the right click menu of the selected item, press Shift+F10.
45. If you use the "find" tool in the "start" menu, and you are looking for
something you were looking for before your last shutdown, or restart,
you can probably find it under the scroll bar.
46. To diskcopy in Windows 95, right click on the drive after you have
the disk in it, then choose "copy disk".
47. If you are a big control freak, put a shortcut of the control
panel on your desktop. To do this, goto "My Computer"
and drag "control panel" to the desktop.
48. To get to the audio properties quickly, on the taskbar there should be a
a little horn by the time, right click on it and choose adjust audio
properties.
49. If you want to save screen space, bring up the properties of the
taskbar. Choose the taskbar option tab, and then look down at the options
and choose the "auto hide" option. Once this is chosen, the taskbar is hidden
until the pointer is at the bottom of the screen.
50. The best way to learn more is to learn things for yourself. Spend some
time getting used to this new operating system.
A few last words:
In this document, I try to get you used to the interface. If you have any
questions, based on doing something in Windows 95, I will answer it.
If it is a error you are having, or a device problem, I will try to answer
it, although I can't promise it is a problem I will be able to answer, I
will try, and if I can answer it, I'm pretty quick about it. If you have any
questions Email me at GREGH555@AOL.COM. Thank you for reading Greg's help
file.
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