******************* THE UPDATE ******************** Dear Computer User, This newsletter has been sent to you as a complimentary issue. The Update Newsletter is a free monthly email newsletter that has the latest information about computing and software related issues as well as privacy and internet issues. Please note that if you wish to continue receiving The Update Newsletter after this you will need to subscribe by following the instructions given below. We hope that this information has been helpful to you. To subscribe to The Update Newsletter, just send an email to slcb@cnsinternet.com or hit reply and be sure to type UPDATE in the subject area and then mail. You will be added to The Update Newsletter mailing list. Windows 95 Tips: In Windows 3.x, pressing Ctrl-Esc brought up the Task List. It no longer does. It opens the Start menu as though you clicked on the Start button. Likewise double-clicking on the Desktop no fails to bring up the Task List. The only time you can get the Task List is when Explorer malfunctions and causes the Taskbar to cease functioning. At that point, double clicking on the Desktop will bring up an updated version of the Task List. You can then use that to switch tasks or to shut down. ------------------------------------------------------------- In Windows 3.x, pressing Ctrl-Esc brought up the Task List. It no longer does. It opens the Start menu as though you clicked on the Start button. Likewise double-clicking on the Desktop no fails to bring up the Task List. The only time you can get the Task List is when Explorer malfunctions and causes the Taskbar to cease functioning. At that point, double clicking on the Desktop will bring up an updated version of the Task List. You can then use that to switch tasks or to shut down. ------------------------------------------------------------- You can clear off the items in the Documents list and start fresh if you want to. Click on the Start button, choose Settings -->Taskbar-->Start Menu Programs, and click on the Clear button. ------------------------------------------------------------- How to dual boot windows 95 1) You must first install MSDOS 6.x 2) Next you install Windows 3.11 3) Make a new directory off the "C" root called OLDDOS 4) Xcopy c:\dos\*.* c:\olddos 5) Install the Windows 95 upgrade 6) When ased to create a new directory for Windows enter the name WIN95 7) Finish the install 8) Once windows installs drop down to the "C" prompt. 9) CD\ 10) ATTRIB -h -s -r MSDOS.sys 11) EDIT MSDOS.SYS 12) Add the following lines under [OPTIONS] BOOTMENU=1 BOOTMENUDEFAULT=7 BOOTMENUDELAY=5 13) Thats it the next time you boot Windows a menu will appear. Select 7 for old Windows or select option 1 for Windows 95 ------------------------------------------------------------- Want to know the FASTEST way to create a short cut on your desktop? Simply right-click your mouse button any where on the desktop once. A menu will appear. Choose "NEW". Then choose "SHORT CUT". Another menu will appear asking for the command to run the application. All you need to do is type in this command and click on the NEXT button at the bottom of the menu. Sure beats opening explorer, then searching for the directory, then searching for the application name! ------------------------------------------------------------- Having a problem getting your DOS program to run right under Windows 95? Did you know the equalavant of the Windows 3.x PIF editor in Windows 95 is actually the PROPERTIES menu option? YES! To get to this menu, simply right-click on the DOS application icon once. A menu will appear where you can choose PROPERTIES. Once in properties, just about everything you need to tweak your DOS program to run properly will be at you finger tips. (Screen size, memory, protected mode, ETC.) If this does not help, updating the Windows 95 Setver table may be in order. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of your Single or Double speed CD-Rom running slow? You can make the cd-rom run as if were a Quad+ speed drive: 1. Go to My Computer / System / Properties / File System / CDROM 2. Set the supplemental cache all the way to the right. (MAX.) 3. Set Access Pattern to QUAD Speed +. You'll have to restart Windows 95, WOW! What a difference! ------------------------------------------------------------- Did you know that shipped with version 490+ there is a file called TIPS.TXT located in the Windows directory? ------------------------------------------------------------- For maximum DOS memory in an MS-DOS session, add the line LocalLoadHigh=1 to the [386Enh] section of system.ini ------------------------------------------------------------- To get Explorer to show a two directory view similar to File Manager just open two instances of the Explorer, right-click on the Task bar, and select "Tile Vertically". Win95 will retain both if you leave them running when you shut down so that they're instantly available the next time you boot up/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Clearing the Desktop of Icons: Is your desktop messy because of too many icons that you do not want? Try clicking on the icon and draging the icon to the Recycle Bin. ------------------------------------------------------------- You can have the icon of all your BMP's a small picture of the actual bitmap. Open regedit Find Paint.Picture (or whichever program BMP's are registered to) Add a New Key under Paint.Picture DefaultIcon In the right pane, change the Default Value (by Double Clicking it) to %1. %1 tells windows the default icon for this file type is in the file itself-since there is no icon in a BMP file, Windows 95 makes a small preview image of the BMP for the icon. Makes sorting and viewing BMP's super easy. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of having the task bar always on the bottom part of the screen? Here's a way of moving it to the left, top, or right hand part of the screen. Click and hold the left mouse button on the taskbar in an empty space between the clock and current running applications, and drag the mouse to the edge of the screen where you want to place the task bar. ------------------------------------------------------------- If you happen to be adding a non-Plug-and-Play network card (or any other hardware, for that matter) after Windows 95 is already running on your system, first use Windows 95 to print out a current System Summary Report, then shut down your system. This report can be printed by going into My Computer then Control Pannel then System applet and clicking on the Device Manager tab. Click on the Print button, choose System Summary for report type, and click OK. This will give you a handy listing of all current IRQs, DMA channels, port I/O addresses, and upper memory the memory between 640K and 1024K) currently being used in your system. ------------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS 95 BOOTING ETC. REPLACE THE SYSTEM.INI FILE LOCATED IN THE WINDOWS DIRECTORY. LOCATE THE FILE SYSTEM.CB IN THE WINDOWS DIRECTORY THIS IS THE CLEAN BOOT FILE. SAVE THE SYSTEM.INI TO FLOPPY THEN RENAME SYSTEM.CB TO SYSTEM.INI THEN REBOOT THE MACHINE ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft is releasing OSR2 of Windows 95. I purchased a computer in November of 96 and I'd like to find out if it has OSR1 or OSR2. How do you do this? Solution:Bringing up your System Properties will show the version of Windows 95 you're running. You can do this either by right clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties, or selecting System from the Control Panel. If you're running OSR1, the version number will be 4.00.950, and if you have OSR2 it will be 4.00950 B. Typing VER at a DOS prompt will also tell you in by listing version 4.00.1111 for OSR2. ------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 95 allows you to boot your computer into MSDOS, but when I do, I can't access my CD-ROM drive. This bugs me because some DOS based games require the disk to run. Solution:There are two things you need in order to use a -ROM drive in DOS. One is a device specific driver loading in your config.sys file. The other is MSCDEX loading in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. When you install Windows 95, It REMs out the MSCDEX line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT and moves it to a file called DOSSTART.BAT that lives in your Windows directory. When you choose to restart in DOSmode from the Shut Down window it runs this batch file giving you access to your CD-ROM drive before it dumps you to a DOS prompt. Hopefully, your computer came with drives for your CD-ROM drive on floppy if not they might be on the web, which you can easily install. You should move the new MSCDEX line the installation program adds to the DOSSTART.BAT file so Windows 95 doesn't complain over the real-mode CD-ROM driver. ------------------------------------------------------------- How to display the Easter Egg in Windows 95: 1)Right click on the desktop Select "New Folder" and name the folder: and now, the moment you've all been waiting for 2)Right click the folder and rename it to: we proudly present for your viewing pleasure 3)Right click the folder and rename it again: The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team! Make sure that you type EXACTLY what is written above and this is case sensitive. If you are cutting and pasting this (which is the best way) make sure Open the folder and enjoy ------------------------------------------------------------- Do you miss: FILE MANAGER & PROGRAM MANAGER? You can bring them back Select F3 (find utility) from desktop. Search for WINFILE -- In the LOOK IN box type in C:\ or where every your WINDOWS DIR lives. Select search then drag icon to desktop. To find PROGRAM MANAGER, do same in search box type in TASKMAN. ------------------------------------------------------------- Msdos Tips: Normally the DIR command will not show you hidden or system files. To see a listing of all files type DIR /A. To find hidden files only, type DIR /AH for system files only, use DIR /AS. ------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to make your batch files (including AUTOEXEC.BAT) run a little faster, use a double colon instead of REM to remark out individual lines you don't want to run. The reason is that DOS reads REM as a command, so it has to process each remarked line. DOS treats lines beginning with colons as labels, which it doesn't have to process. And since real labels can't begin with colons, DOS won't confuse the double-colon lines for a real label. ------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with DOS 6.2, MOVE, COPY, and XCOPY ask you for confirmation before overwriting an existing file that has the same name. However, you don't get the confirmation prompt if you put these commands in a batch file. You can force DOS to ask you to confirm overwrites by adding SET COPYCMD=/-Y to AUTOEXEC.BAT to turn off all prompts, add the line SET COPYCMD=/Y. -------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever run into a 1(ONE)1.44 MB disk installation where the install program MUST be installed from floppy dive A:, but YOUR A: drive is a 1.2 MB? Try the below proceedure: 1.) Copy the contents of the 1.2 MB disk to an empty directory on your hard drive. For example...C:\FAKEOUT. If the directory doen't exist, create it: From the C:\ prompt, type MD FAKEOUT {ENTER}. To copy the 1.2 MB disk to the new directory, type (From any DOS prompt) XCOPY (A: or B:)\*.* c:\FAKEOUT /H /S /E {Enter} 2.) Then from any DOS prompt, type: SUBST A: C:\FAKEOUT {ENTER} >From this momment on, DOS will think the FAKEOUT directory is the A: drive. Simply change to A: as normal and run your install program. ------------------------------------------------------------- FACT: Did you know that DR DOS 6.0 from Digital Research came out with the below applets and functions years MS DOS 6.x did? 1. Disk compression program called SuperStor (SSTOR.EXE)(LIKE DRVSPACE or DBLSPACE) 2. Automactic memory configuration program called MemoryMax. (LIKE MEMMAKER) 3. Disk optimizer called DISKOPT. (Like DEFRAG) 4. The ability to rename a directory with one command called RENDIR (Easier then the Move command.) 5. Password protection of files AND directories. (Non-existant still in MS-DOS) 6. A utility called DOSBOOK which is a much more enhanced, to date, DOS-Help. Covers DOS basics, utilities, commands, and troubleshooting. 7. A utility called FILELINK, similiar to Interlink for transferring files from one computer to another. 8. A utility called LOCK, which freezes to computer system while you leave it un-attended. (Does not exist in Ms-DOS, to date.) 9. A utility that allows you to edit the time and date stamps of files called TOUCH. 10. 2 utilities similiar to DELTREE called XDEL and XDIR. ------------------------------------------------------------- Testing for a Modem If you are having problems with Windows or DOS communications, you should first check and make sure your modem is working under DOS. To do so shell out to the DOS prompt and type ECHO ATDT > COMx where x is the number of the serial port your modem is connected to. The modem should respond with a dial tone or some other signal to show that it received the command. To shut the dial tone off, type ECHO ATH0 > COMx ------------------------------------------------------------- Before installing any non standard or non PNP cards in your system, it would be a good idea to backup these two files; system.dat and user.dat. I have seen installs go bad and corrupt these files. Also, these are the files that get modified by the device manager if you make any changes. By the way, these files only exist while windows 95 is running. ------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to bring up the "find window" using the keyboard all you to do is press the F3 button. ------------------------------------------------------------- Do you hate it when you install something and you have to reboot your computer? Well there is a solution....give windows the "three-finger solute" by pressing ctrl-alt-del and then select explorer and click end task...you will then come up with the come up with the shutdown windows screen.... wait just a few seconds and it will say "This program is not responding..." etc...click end task and wala! this could also be used to refresh your desktop! ------------------------------------------------------------- This tip is a tip that isn't normally used but... if you have a HD that was formatted in an earlier version of DOS than Win95's DOS...and you have a problem with the HD...what you do is restart your computer in a DOS session and type this: fdisk /mbr C: where C: is your HD letter...this will rewrite the Master Boot Record for use with the newest version of DOS..and a note..you will not lose any information on the HD! ------------------------------------------------------------- Does your computer boot too slow? well try this! open the file msdos.sys in notepad and under the options heading...type BootDelay=0 and then save it. If msdos.sys is read-only...then select the file but don't double click and hold alt and press enter and you will see a properties window...deselect the Read-Only and click Ok..then try and save the file again....This little tip will speed up your bootup (if your impatient:) ------------------------------------------------------------- From - Mon Aug 25 14:32:05 1997 Return-Path: pukcab@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU Received: from names (names.wvu.edu [157.182.140.2]) by greta.teleport.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17650 forTop | ACSP Home |SuperAdaptoid Column; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) From: pukcab@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU Received: from jan.icdi.wvu.edu by names (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.0:JLF-19970113) id QAA28872; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:18:07 -0400 Received: from WVUJAN/SpoolDir by jan.icdi.wvu.edu (Mercury 1.21); 25 Aug 97 16:21:40 EST5EDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUJAN (Mercury 1.21); 25 Aug 97 16:16:10 EST5EDT Organization: Job Accommodation Network To: JAN@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU, Links@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU, Update@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU, Mailing@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU, List@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:15:57 EST5EDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Points of Interest Reply-to: webmaster@JAN.ICDI.WVU.EDU Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <64976D74EBC@jan.icdi.wvu.edu> X-UIDL: 123ccd1a0d04b69ccef0164368a589fd X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 9491 The Job Accommodation Network's JAN on the Web "Points of Interest" Page Mailing List At your request, we are sending this periodic notification of updates to our "Points of Interest" page. 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