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Other events may be possible; it depends on the events the application generates. The ribbon buttons in Winword are NOT such events.
How can I get my pc speaker to work with win95.
Here's how to configure the speak.exe sound driver for Windows95:
And add a new section just like this
[speaker.drv] CPU Speed=32 Volume=1000 Version=774 Enhanced=1 Max seconds=0 Leave interrupts enabled=0
How to install PC Speaker with Win95.
Go to Control Panel, then "Add New Hardware", then "Sound, Video, Game
Controller."
Don't let Win95 search for new hardware. Select "Have Disk". Browse to
where you have your PC Speaker .drv file. Install !!!
Presto...your mute PC will now have sound.
To modify the settings for PC Speaker go to Control Panel, Multimedia, Advanced Tab, In Audio devices you will see PC Speaker.
For those of us who shelled out the extra $$ for the nice Wave sounds of the Creative Labs AWE32, there is an important setting that has to be made in order to hear those sounds instead of the default cheesy FM sounds! This setting is not made for you by Windows 95, at least not in build 490, anyway.
Go to Control Panel, Click on Multimedia, select the MIDI tab, under MIDI output - single instrument, choose: MIDI for Creative Advanced Wave Effects Synthesis for AWE32 and then click on OK.
You can check this by clicking on "Beethoven's Fur Elise" in the Media Folder under your Windows 95 folder (called Windows or whatever you called it).
If it is still using the FM, it will sound like a $29 toy; after switching to WAVE sounds, it sounds close to a real piano.... There are a bunch of cute musical pieces in that directory (if they aren't there, you may have to go to Multimedia in Windows Setup in Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel to install them from your Windows 95 disk).
Q. Since installing version win95, I've had the following problem: .wav files play with a really annoying crackling static. Audio CDs and the sounds in DOS games (Doom) sound great, but all the chimes and bells or any .wav played through Soundo'LE or GoldWave have this crackle. Any ideas?
A. I had the same problem. last Friday i change the setup of my sound blaster card in win95 and from then it is working fine. I am using only one DMA for high and low dma.
start\setting\control panel\system\device manager\multimedia\sound blaster...
Creating shortcuts on the Desktop
I find the easiest way for me is to go to Explorer, then go to the program you want to create the short cut for, and click on the .exe file for that program. Then go to "FILE", click on "Create Shortcut". A shortcut will then be added to the file group of the program you selected. Drag this shortcut to the "DESKTOP" directory. Shortcut should now be on your desktop screen. Hope this helps.
Easier still...drag the .exe file onto your desktop, and the shortcut is automatic. Also you can do this with dos apps, then right click on the icon and edit to suit. (that's how I run Doom][ and Descent, smooth and easy)
Explorer: create shortcut on Desktop
In Explorer go to Win95\Start\Programs\Main, h/lite Windows Explorer in the right pane and drag to the desktop. This Explorer is focused on Drive C: instead of on Win95.
Removing The Arrow Icon From Shortcuts
Ariel Nishri of Tel Aviv, Israel passes along the following method for removing the arrows from shortcut icons that some folks find so annoying. Do be aware, that if you use this tip, you will not be able to visually tell the difference between a shortcut and the underlying file. To remove the arrows fire up Regedit and search for the phrase IsShortcut. There are two, one marked lnkfile and the other piffile. Delete these entries in the Registry and restart Explorer.
Add Shortcuts to the Start Menu Quickly
To quickly add a shortcut to the top layer of the start menu, drag it from an open folder or from the explorer onto the start button, and it will be placed at the top of the start menu.
Make a shortcut to the Start Menu
To put the "Programs" from your Start menu onto your desktop do this:
This makes it a lot easier and quicker to get to the programs in your start menu faster.
HOT KEY IS SHORT FOR SHORTCUT
Is there a shortcut buried a few layers into your Start Menu that you use fairly frequently but not enough to add to your Desktop? Take all those System Tools, for instance. Way too many clicks to get to them, if you ask us. For a much shorter route, set up a hot key to that Start Menu shortcut. From then on, you'll be able to access that program with the press of a keyboard combination.
Click the Start Menu with the right mouse button and choose Open to display its contents. Navigate your way to the program to which you'd like hot-key access, click its shortcut with the right mouse button (it has to be a shortcut, not a folder), and choose Properties. Select the Shortcut tab, click anywhere on the Shortcut key line to place your cursor after the word None, and finally, type a letter that you'd like to be used in combination with Ctrl+Alt to access that program (such as D for Disk Defragmenter). When you do, the entire hot-key combination will appear on that line. Click OK, and from now on, pressing that keyboard combo will open the program.
Q. Hi, I use hotkeys all the time and have all my ctrl+alt+ letters filled. A while ago someone mentioned a way to use ctrl+letter only. I forgot how to do that. If you are using a hotkey combo other than ctrl+alt+letter could you enlighten me?
A. With your cursor on the shortcut key line:
This will give you 3 more choices for each key.
Clear the Recent Documents Menu Quickly
It seems as though everyone hates having to do all that clicking to clear the recent documents menu in the start menu. Here's a quick and dirty way to be able to clear them with a double-click:
Now just double click on the shortcut's icon to clear the document menu.
Send To:
Can create shortcuts to many things (Quikview.exe, Winzip32.exe etc) & put them in the Win95\SendTo folder so they'll appear in the menu when you R/click on a file or folder.
Shortcuts on the Desktop:
can put a shortcut to any prog, doc or printer on your desktop or in any Folder. eg. create shortcut to Printer: use R/mouse button to drag its icon to Desktop. Then, to print a file, just drag its icon onto the Printer icon.
Can create Shortcuts to the progs & files used often - A Shortcut icon does not change the doc's location, & deleting the shortcut does not delete the original.
A good way is to create first (R/click & select Shortcut), then use Browse to link it to the app'n or doc't. A shortcut allows you to combine the call to your windows app. with some of it's command line parameters.
Shortcuts to Dos Progs:
D/clicking the prog icon in Explorer will create a shortcut. Or R/click & choose "create shortcut". Can create multiple shortcuts to the same Dos prog, each with a difft. property.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Pane
Highlight Desktop. Right-click on the right-hand window pane and chose New- String Value. Give the new string value a label of MenuShowDelay. Now double-click on the new string and enter a value from 1 to 10. (0 is the fastest)
Speed up your old CD-ROM
Want to make your single or double speed drive perform like a quad+ speed
drive in Win '95 ? It's easy..
Go to My Computer / Properties / Performance / File System / CDROM
and set the supplemental cache speed to its maximum and the access pattern
to 'Quad speed or higher'. I was shocked to see my little one single
speed drive play the previously choppy avi's on a Bugs Bunny CDROM I
have.
Harddrive Performance and 32-bit mode (win95)?
Q. Since installing win95, I've noticed decreased performance.
A. If your motherboard's bios supported Block Mode or 32-bit disk access, turn it off. It seems to conflict with either your hard drive controller or Windows 95 itself. I was also on the phone with Microsoft, until they finally gave up. I decided to turn off those two items, plus LBA mode, and everything is now at 32 bit disk access... No problems...
Robert Grandidier lets us in on a little registry hack. It isn't commonly known, but Win95 has a delay in the Start Menu routines that make them open slower on the assumption that it is easier for new users to deal with. To make Start Menu more responsive tun the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ desktop. Click on the string named MenuShowDelay (or add it if it's not there by selecting New, String Value from the Edit menu) Specify the value 0 being the fastest. The higher the number the slower the menu opens. Close the Registry Editor when finished. You'll probably have to restart Windows for this change to take effect.
Add Shortcuts to the Start Menu Quickly
To quickly add a shortcut to the top layer of the start menu, drag it from an open folder or from the explorer onto the start button, and it will be placed at the top of the start menu.
Enhance the Start Menu
Create a new folder on your desktop.. Rename it - call it:
Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
Now it should look like a normal Control Panel icon you see in My Computer (not a shortcut). Now right click on the Start button, click on open. Move the new folder we just created to the start menu folder. Close the Start Menu folder. Now when you click on Start, you should see Control Panel on it. Click on it and it will expand to show all the items, fast! You can do the same thing with Printers and Dial-Up Networking - here's the names you need:
Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Dial Up Net.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
To adopt multiple *.grp files (Program Manager groups) to your start
menu:
start grpconf.exe (in your %windir%) with the parameter /m to select specific files with the upcoming dialog-box.
Fix Broken Start Menus
Sometimes people experience the problem of having a Start menu which is empty and cannot be modified. One possible cause: If the c:\windows\"Start Menu" directory is modified (particularly if anything is deleted) from the MSDOS prompt, Windows 95 will decide that the start menu is invalid. The Start Menu is empty, and if you try to add anything to it, you get "Unable to add to Start Menu" or a similar message.
Solution:
Start/Programs menu
Adding a new submenu:
Reorganize items:
Program menu : Add submenu
Start/ Programs Menu:
To Add programs:
The Startup folder is a great time-and-effort saver, but it has one
annoying quirk: Programs in that folder get launched according to an
arbitrary sort order, and there's no way to specify that you want one
program to load before another. There is a solution, though. Windows 95
lets you launch any application from the command line, so use Notepad or
any other text editor to create a batch file that loads those applications
in the right order, and save it in any folder. Next, create a Shortcut to
that batch file and place it in the Startup group. To ensure that the DOS
window closes after the batch file has run, right-click the Shortcut,
select Properties, and click the Program tab. Check the Close on exit
option, and you're done.
R/click Start/Open. D/click the Programs folder, click File
menu/New-Folder. Type the name for the new submenu,
R/click Start-Explore. Locate the Program folder in the left pane & click
it. File menu/New/Folder. Type a name. This name will appear in the
Programs menu. If too many items in Prog.menu, create a general catgory
that many progs can fit into. Click the plus (+) sign beside the Programs
folder. If necessary, scroll until you see the folder you named above. In
the left pane, click a folder whose contents you want to move into the new
folder. The folder's contents are displayed in the right pane. Drag the
icons from the right pane into the new folder or any other folder in the
left pane. To delete the folder you just emptied, click it, click the File
menu, and then click Delete.
Can group programs so they're easier to find: To add a new submenu to the
programs menu: R/click Start, click Open, D/click Programs folder. File
menu, point to New & click Folder, then type the name for the submenu,
press Enter, then D/click the folder just created. File menu, point to
New, click Shortcut. Use Create Shortcut Wizard to add items to the
submenu.
To customize it: Start/Settings/Taskbar (or R/click on blank area of
Taskbar, then Properties), Start menu programs, here can add or remove
items in the Start Menu Programs. Can also click the Clear button to
remove contents of the Document menu.
Start/Settings/Taskbar- Start Menu Program tab. Click Add, Browse, locate
the prog. & D/click it. Click Next, then D/click the menu on which you want
the prog. to appear. Type name desired, click Finish.
Start menu - Add programs
You can also add a program to the top of the Start menu by dragging the
program's icon onto the Start button.
Put First Things First