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Do you ever accidentally hit the Caps Lock or the Num Lick key by mistake, only to realize a few words later that what you have written is not what you wanted? Windows 95 has an option to let you know when either of these keys has been hit. To activate it, open the Control Panel, choose Accessibility Options, and select Use Toggle Keys. Click OK. Now, every time you hit Caps Lock or Num Lock, you will hear a warning tone.

Just hold down the Win key and press Pause/Break. This is much faster than going to My Computer, Control Panel, System, etc.

To add an icon to the Start Menu in Windows 95, 98, or NT, simply click and drag any object from the desktop and drop it on the Start button.

Avoid using a defragmentation program that isn’t aware of long filenames. You can not only destroy your long filename space, but you might also end up corrupting the drive's data as well, especially on volumes that are 1GB to 2GB in size.

01. Have Netscape Communicator email message window open
02. Go through Format Menu
03. Click on Page Color & Properties tab
04. Click on use image as background
05. Click on Choose file (then pick image file you want to use)
06. Click Save these settings for new pages
07. Click O.K..............That should work.......:-)

To quickly restart Windows 95 without having to go to a warm boot, click Shut Down on theStart Menu, and click Restart the computer in the Shut Down Windows dialog. Now hold theShift key and click Yes. Continue holding Shift until the 'Windows is now restarting...' message appears!

go to ICQ preferences on the main ICQ window,go to server tab,
youll see the add button,you have to add each one of these indiviually,
all of these servers have a port # of 4000......

1)icq.mirabilis.com....... 2)icq1.mirabilis.com
3)icq2.mirabilis.com...... 4)icq3.mirabilis.com
5)icq4.mirabilis.com...... 6)icq5.mirabilis.com
7)105.99.113.49........... 8)202.68. 84.41
9)207.95.232.2 .......... 10)204.91.242.35
11)208.202.84.41.......... 12)204.91.242.44
13)208.215.43.50.......... 14)204.91.242.112
15)38.161.231.49.......... 16)208.202.84.11
17)38.161.231.45.......... 18)208.202.84.21
19)38.161.231.44.......... 20)208.215.43.41
21)38.161.231.40.......... 22)208.215.43.77
23)208.215.43.90.......... 24)208.21.43.50
25)208.61.231.40.......... 26)208.204.84.41
27)209.91.242.25.......... 28)209.91.242.35
29)209.83.180.44.......... 30)209.83.180.45

8)Sending Bookmarks to remote Puters
You can avoid being left high and dry without your favorite
bookmarks when relocating to another computer. Simply e-mail your
bookmark file to your new location.
Open your hard drive and locate the boomark.htm file in the
folder where your browser is installed. Go into your mail program
and compose a new mail message addressing it to your new
location. Select "Attach" or "Attachment." A window will open and
ask you which file you want to send. Proceed down to your program
files, then browser files (usually found on your C:\ drive) until
you locate your bookmark.htm file. Double click the file and it
will be inserted into your mail message. folder, left click on the file and hold down the left mouse
button and drag the file to the attachment area of the message
composition window. Drop the file there and send.

9)First time Password When Windows 95, 98, or NT boots for the first time and asks you for a login name and password, leave both fields blank or only enter a login name and skip entering a password. This way, you'll never be bothered by this dialog box again. Entering a password in this box won't protect any of the files on your local machine--it's only useful when logging onto a LAN.

10)Windows TearDrop Bug The Windows TearDrop bug is a security hole that allows malicious users to crash any Windows 95 and Windows NT machines that are connected to a network. The attack occurs most commonly over the Internet by exploiting an overlapping IP fragment bug present in Windows 95 and NT. When a Windows machine receives this attack, it is unable to handle the data and exhibits behavior ranging from a lost Internet connection to the infamous blue screen of death. This bug has not been shown to cause any significant damage to systems, and a simple reboot is the preferred remedy. However, although non-destructive, this bug can possibly cause problems if you have unsaved data in an open application when attacked. Download the fix from the WinFiles URL below.

Teardrop Bug

11)Dial-up networking ........ Save Password

In the no-Password mode, the dial-up networking is unable to save the password and remember it. You can get around this by going to settings, control panel and then to passwords. Then, set it so that you can personalise the desktop. Now, when you shut down windows, there will be another option, Log on as another user. In this mode, you will be able to remember Passwords, so the Dial-up networking will be rememberd. Enter your password in and save password. Once it's been saved, go back to Passwords and change the configuration to anyone can use the same settings of the desktop, and don't use any password at all. Windows will now switch back to the normal mode, but somehow, the Dial-up networking save password is unchanged. So, your password is now saved and you won't have to type it in again.

12)Keep win95 running fast

Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT. rem rem Check for TMP files and Remove them rem if not exist %TEMP%\*.TMP goto EndTMP attrib %TEMP%\*.TMP -r -a -s -h del %TEMP%\*.TMP :EndTMP Each time you PC boots, the above lines will remove any files with TMP extension in your TEMP directory set by the TEMP environment variable. Windows 95 assigns C:\WINDOWS\TEMP to the TEMP directory on boot up, however, some machines have Windows on another drive, therefor instead of using C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, I use the %TEMP% to get all possible configurations. According to my evaluation of different PCs at my clients, I have seen PCs drop as much as 25% in performance with these files in the TEMP directory. Plus they take up needed disk space.

13)Upper Memory

Click the Start button, then Settings, then, Control Panel. In the Control Panel, click on the System Icon. Once in System, select the Performance tab. Click on the File System button. Change the machine role to Network Server. This will drastically enhances the use of upper memory especially in machines with more than 32MB of RAM.

14)Speed up Windows Speed up Windows by reducing the amount of time it fools around with virtual memory. Go to Start, Settings, and click on Control Panel. Double click on System. Note the amount of RAM in your computer. This can be found on the General tab. Click on the Performance tab and then on the Virtual Memory button. Windows 95 runs optimally with 16 megs of RAM. If you have 16 megs or more click on "Let me specify my own virtual memory settings:". Put a zero in the minimum box. Put the amount of RAM you have in the Maximum box. For instance, if I have 32MB of RAM, I would put "32" in the Maximum box. For those with less than 16MB, you can speed up your machine by specifying 2 1/2 times your RAM in the Maximum box (8MB would be 20MB). Click on OK. When the warning is displayed click on YES. Click on OK and then OK again to restart your machine

15)Windows FIBS Yup! It does! When you go to defrag and Windows says that you only have 4% fragmentation and that you don't need to defrag now, DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT. Even 2% fragmentation can affect system performance and anything above 5% will have a definite affect. Think...4% of 2 GB (2048 mb)=81.92 MEGAbytes (More than an ENTIRE PC/XT hard drive(20-30 meg) of 6 or 7 years ago.) AND... Know that most of that fragmentation is going to be in files and programs that you use the most. So your harddrive is going to be thrashing around the whole disk just to load the stuff that you normally use. Do yourself and your system a favor, run Scandisk and Defrag on a regular basis and don't go over 2% fragmentation. Also.. Check your fragmentation after coming off of the internet. Bet you its around 1-3%!

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