... Windows Menu Part 1 ...
As he teaches, so he learns.

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Here's a large section, I think somewhat comprehensive, but with tips for both Windows95, and Windows98. Which apply to your system I'll leave to you. I wasn't sure how to set this up right in that this "menu" section was too long to put on one page. So the obvious solution was to make two pages.

But that led to another problem: How would you be able to use the "Edit, Find in Page" feature (or Ctrl + F) where you would type in one important word and click Find. This was discussed in the Introduction page; the word you might be looking for might be on the second page of this menu. So we have a problem.

Solution: Here I would again suggest either scrolling down "just looking" and then going to the next menu page, or use the Find in Page feature on both this and the next page. What can I say (I only put half the links on this page, there was no room).

The registry is a newspaper in Des Moines. No, that's "The Register." My mistake. Think of the registry as an informant, the kid we used to beat up in school, telling the teacher what's attached to your computer, what options have been set up, which applications will run at start up, etc. You know, kind of like the neighborhood know-it-all who tells everyone on your block that you play with dolls. Okay, maybe it's not quite the same thing, but you get the idea. You've most likely made changes to the registry without realizing it. Anytime you add or remove a proggie from your system, the registry is changed. Damage it directly and you'll probably have to reinstall Windows. On one hand we say only experts should play with the registry, but on the other hand how else will we learn?

Seriously: Many tips involve meddling with the Windows Registry which isn't child's play; you can righteously muck up your system if you don't know what you're doing. So above all, make sure to ... Back Up Your Registry ... before you begin. Consider yourself warned ... that's right, it's a link, so use it. It's not there to add color.

Activating A Window
Active Desktop In Win98
Adding "Open With" To The "Send To" Menu
Add/Remove Items - Deleting a Program Name
Alt + Esc - Using It To Rotate Among Windows
Alt + Tab - Using It To Switch Among Apps
Arrow Keys To Surf The Start Menu
Autoplay, Disabling
Backing Up Your Files
Back-Up Diskettes - Creating
Battery Meter For Portables
Beta Versions - What Are They
Bios - What Is It?
Bios - What Does It Do?
Bios - Accessing It
BMP And Thumbnails
BMP's - Changing To An Icon
Boot Disk - Preparing For Disaster
Booting - When You Need Help
BootUp Time Too Long - What To Do
Breaks - Important For Body And Soul
Briefcase - Where Is It - How To Use It
Buffers - What Are They?
Button That Offers Help
Buying A Computer Versus Upgrading
Bytes - What Are They?
CAB Files - How To Use Them
Cached Pages - Disable Its Mapping
Caching - Disabling Write
Calculate With Your Number Keypad
Calculator - Copying And Pasting
Calculator's Scientific View
Caps Lock Warning
CD Ejecting
CD-ROM Care
Character Map - The Way To Symbolville
Cleaning The Computer
Clicking - Single vs Double
Clipboard - What's On It
Clock, Clock, Clock - Where Have You Gone?
Clock Settings - Changing To A 24-Hour Clock
Closing A Program From The Taskbar
Closing An Application
Closing Programs And Folders
CMOS - Where Is It - What Is It
Colorize Your Title Bar
Compressing Folders To Save Space
Computer Hangs - Another Way Out
Computer/Monitor - Should I Turn It Off Or Leave It On?
Computer Is Running Slow - What To Do
Computer Windows - Quickly Closing Them
Config.Sys And Autoexec.Bat Files - How To Modify
Configuring Windows For Metric
Conserve Energy With Hard Disk Spin Down
Control Panel - Shortcut To
Control Panel - Cleaning It Up
Copying E-mail Or Web page Text To Your Processor
Copying URLs
Cut - Copy - Paste - Undo ... Three Basic Methods
Date And Time - Setting
Defragmenting - What's The Story
Delete Confirmation - Turning It Off
Delete - Wait Before You Do...
Deleting A File Or Folder
Deleting And Retrieving
Deleting A Stubborn File Using DOS
Desktop - A Quick View Of
Desktop - Creating A Hidden Program Bar
Desktop - Get It To Refresh And Load Faster
Desktop - Making More Room
Desktop - Refreshing It Without Restarting Windows
Desktop Settings - Locking Them Up
Device Drivers - How To Check On Them
Diacritical Characters - Inserting
Disconnections From Internet - Stopping
Discovering Hidden Images In Your Computer
Disk Drives - What Are They?
Disk-Space - Do You Need More?
Display Properties - A Suggested Configuration
Document Scraps
Documents Menu - Deleting Items Selectively
Document's Menu - Editing
DOS And Screen Savers
DOS Directory - Changing
DOS Formatting
DOS Path In Title Bar - Displaying
DOS Programs - Installing Them On Windows
DOS Prompt - Full Versus Windows Mode
Drives - How To Change Their Names
Drives - Not All Delete To The Recycle Bin - Be Careful
Drive Space - How Much Is Available
Duplicate Files - How To Handle Before Deleting Them
DVD Player Edit Trick
Economizing Your Power With Energy Star
Ending A Misbehaving Task
Exiting - How To Escape Out Of Windows
Explorer Window - Accessing Files Or Folders With It
Explorer Window - Browsing With It
Explorer Window - Expanding Your Folders
Explorer Window From The Start Menu
Explorer Window - Keystroke Shortcuts
Explorer Window - Making It The Default
Explorer Window Offers Back And Forward Buttons
Explorer Window - Opening Sub-Folders In It
Explorer Window - Opening To A Selected Folder
Explorer Window - Quick Access To
Explore Window - Spreading Out
Explorer Window- Size Columns To Fit Widest Entry
Extension For Particular File Type - How To Always Show It
Fast Path To Icons
Fat Files - Converting To Fat 32
Favorites In Start Menu - Removing
Favorites - More Than Just Url's
Fax - Annotating
Fax - Editing After Received
File Associations - How To Correct Them When Not To Your Liking
File Extensions - Hiding Some While Showing Some
File Is Out Of Place - What To Do
Filename In Windows
Filenames - Handling The Long Ones In DOS
Filename Extension - Changing
Filenames - What Are They?
Filenames - Why No Grammar Marks?
Files And Folders - Picking Up A Group
Files - How To Organize
Files - Opening Them Another Way
File Types And Helper Applications
File Types - Changing The File Association
Find Command - Adding It To Your Quick Launch Toolbar
Find - Finding Recently Added Files
Finding An Icon On Cluttered Desktop
Finding A Missing File
Find - Searching For A File By Keyword
Floppies - How To Protect The Information On Them
Floppy Can't Be Read - What To Do
Floppy Disk - How To Quick Erase
Floppy Disk Damaged? - Try To Fix
Floppy Do's And Doughnuts
Floppy - Fast Way To Look At The Files Within
Floppy Scan - Stopping
Folder Contents - Sorting In Details View
Folder - Creating A New One On Your Desktop
Folder Icon - Changing It
Folder Properties And Options
Folder Opening Style - Changing It
Folder's Size - Determining
Folders - Closing A Parent Folder
Folders - Displaying Them As Toolbars
Fonts - Delete What You Don't Need
Fonts - Eliminating Excess
Fonts - How To Install
Fonts - How To See Which Are In Your System
Fonts - How To Show Only True Type
Fonts - How To Simplify The List
Fonts - Previewing
Fonts - Who Needs 'Em? - Be Careful
Formatting - Careful, Don't Format Your C-Drive
Fraction Symbols
Free Space - Keeping Tabs On It
Freezes - Tweak Your Graphic Settings To Prevent
Frozen Computer Screen ... What To Do
FTP - What Does It Do?
Graphics Card - Making It Work Properly
Graphics - Speeding Them Up
Hard Drive - Checking For Free Space
Help - Not Too Far Away
Hidden Files - Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
Icons - Changing To Represent Any File Type
Icons - Finding And Changing
Icons - How to Change The Shortcuts
Icons In Your System - Locating
Icons - Making Them With MS Paint
Icons On Desktop Acting Weird? - What To Do
Icon On Left Corner Of Title Bar - Play With It
Icons On Your Active Desktop - Hiding Them
Icon Spacing On Your Desktop - Adjusting
Icons - Use Smaller Ones
Icons With No Name - Creating Them
Illegal Operation And Program Will Be Shut Down - What The Doctor Suggests
Internet - Quickly Access A Specific Site
Inverting Your Selection
IP Numerical Address - How To Trace
It Was Working And Now It Isn't - What To Do
JPEG Files And How To Open Them
JPG Image - Getting One As Your Background
Junk - Getting Rid Of It
Keeping Your System Fresh
Keyboard - Fixing A Touchy One
Keyboard - The Real Cleaning Job
Learning About Your System
Links Toolbar In Internet Explorer - Working With It
"List View" By Default - How To Arrange It
Logo Screen - Changing
Long File Names
Making Two Panes (Explorer Window) The Default View For Folders
Maximizing - Minimizing (An Easier Way)
Memory - Seeing How Much You Have
Microphone Feedback - How To Eliminate
Microsoft's Secret Coding - Taking A Peek
Modem And Connection Speed
Modem - Disabling The Dial-Up Sound
Modem Disconnects - How To Prevent
Modem - Downloading Gives A Corrupt File - What To Do
Modem - Getting It To Work Properly
Modem Status Icon
Modem - Windows Doesn't Detect It
Mouse - Attaching Pointer Trails
Mouse Buttons -…… Switching
Mouse Cleaning

Mouse Clicking - Left Or Right