See Win95rk.hlp: type Convert, then select: "Converting Windows 3.x Programs Group" - See: "To manually convert existing Windows groups to Windows 95 format."
Make Windows 3.1 Programs Behave
There's a magical little program that is automatically installed by Win95 that you can use to make Win 3.x programs more compatible under 95.It is called MKCOMPAT.EXE and is in the Windows\System directory. - Just run MKCOMPAT.EXE - Select File/Open - Open the EXE file that you are having problems with - Start highlighting things that seem like they may make a difference. - Select File/Advanced for more control options - Select File/Save to save the new configuration There is no online help - so some trial and error is in order until you find the optimal settings.
By default, WordPad displays its standard toolbar and its format bar as two separate bars stacked at the top of the window. But if your screen resolution can handle it, you can save some real estate by making the toolbar and format bar a single long bar. Just position your pointer over an edge of one of the bars and drag it on top (and a little to the side) of the other bar.
If you want more vertical space and don't mind giving up some of the horizontal, you can also drag the toolbar to the left or right edge (this doesn't work with the format bar). Or you can make either bar float freely by dropping it anywhere other than on an edge of WordPad's window.
Relocate Paint Tools
If you don't like the locations of the tool box or color box in Microsoft Paint, just drag the box away from the edge of the window. The box becomes a floating palette that you can reposition anywhere on your screen. You can also make the color box snap to the top or bottom edges of the window and make the tool box snap to the left or right edges by dropping each on the appropriate edge.
Open Media Player From Any .avi Window
Any time you double-click an .avi file, Windows plays the movie for you in a window that has only minimal controls. For more control over your entertainment, double-click the window's title bar for the full Windows Media Player.
Track Calls With Phone Dialer
Ever wonder how much time you're spending on the phone? Want to track just how long that technical support department is keeping you on hold? You can find out - if you make your calls with the Windows
Phone Dialer (Start/Programs/Accessories/Phone Dialer):
All you have to do is leave Phone Dialer's Active call window open while you talk; when you hang up the phone, click Hang Up in the Active call window. Whenever you want to check your calls, just choose Tools/Show Log.
Crash-Proofing Windows 95
Q. I know that Windows 95 comes with its own version of ScanDisk, which repairs minor hard disk problems. Does Windows 95 have any hidden tools that can help me recover from total hard disk crashes?
A. Well, Microsoft had to leave something for third-party companies to do. My favorite all-purpose hard disk recovery package will sound familiar: Norton Utilities for Windows 95. To begin with, this update of the ever-popular utility library comes with Norton Disk Doctor, a program that works much like ScanDisk. It searches for cross-linked files, lost clusters, corrupt FATs (file allocation tables), and other problems and fixes them on the spot.
Run regularly, Norton Disk Doctor (or even ScanDisk) can prevent major problems. But if your hard disk won't boot, you may not recover anything unless you have a floppy disk to boot from. You can create your own Windows 95 boot floppy with the Startup Disk tab found in Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs dialog box--and then, for emergency hard disk repair, copying ScanDisk to the floppy. But on installation, Norton does better: It creates bootable rescue disks containing Disk Doctor plus FAT, boot record, and root directory information to help restore the contents of a hard disk that has been accidentally formatted or badly damaged.
The Rescue Disk program even copies over Windows 95's Registry, the hidden database containing vital hardware configuration information (if the Registry is corrupted, Windows 95 generally resorts to its semidisabled Safe Mode). The program also backs up the contents of your system's CMOS memory--the small, battery-backed memory chip portion that contains your hard disk parameters, memory configuration, and other specs. In my experience, when a system won't boot, either a cable has loosened, or the hard disk parameters have been lost from CMOS memory due to a bad battery. The Rescue Disk restores those parameters so you don't have to enter them manually (and you can do that only if you remembered to write them down).
The Rescue Disk is Norton's most important feature, but it's only part of the package. You also get an enhanced Recycle Bin with undeletion, a disk defragmentation program, a Space Wizard to help clean out unnecessary files, and a dashboardlike readout of Win 95 resources called System Doctor. My favorite extra is System Information, which, among other things, graphically shows how much memory each active program occupies. For more information, see the sidebar "Why You Still Need Norton" in "Windows 95 at Warp Speed."
Want to "Explore" a folder instead of it's icon view? You could open
Explorer, click here, click there, finally get to where you want. A quick
solution: Hold down the shift key and double click on the folder/drive.
This will bring up an Explorer window of that folder.
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Quit Windows in a flash!
Because of the Registry, Windows 95 is extremely methodical about shutting itself down. To make sure that it is done right, the GODS of GUI have even included the "soon to be infamous" Shut Down on the Start Menu. You have to click on the Start button and select Shut Down from the menu.
A dialog box appears, giving the user the choice of either; shutting down completely, restarting the PC, exiting to MS-DOS "mode" or, if you have a network configured, to log on as a different user.
The "restart your PC" option cycles completely through the boot process; self test, memory countdown, anti-virus scanning, CD-ROM drive configuration, well, you get the idea. You may as well go get a cup of coffee, with some systems you actually may have enough time to do so.
Well, fortunately, we have discovered some shortcuts for shutting down Windows quickly:
Hold down the SHIFT key when selecting the OK button to restart your PC, when selecting that choice from the Shut Down dialog.
This next one works even better (and FASTER!):
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to bring up the Close Program dialog box. In this dialog, select "Explorer" and click on End Task. Explorer is the Windows 95 "Shell" so the system assumes you are trying to quit and displays the Shut Down dialog. Click on NO. Then, another box will pop up, and there you select End Task. This will shut down the Explorer "Shell". But, what actually will happen is you will see your Desktop rebuild itself in a matter of a handful of seconds (literally). Windows 95 cannot properly run without Explorer, so it automatically restarts Explorer, rereading the entire Registry in the process.
So, this last "quickie" you may use especially if you are in the middle of
a hot n' heavy Registry editing session, and would rather not waste an
eternity waiting for the changes to take effect during all those endless
reboots.
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Windows lets you customize the color of almost every item on screen--from buttons to title bars. Just open the Control Panel, double-click Color (Windows 3.x) or Display (Windows 95), and click the Appearance tab. If your display supports thousands or millions of colors, you can use the color palette to create a seemingly infinite number of custom shades for use in your color schemes. In Windows 3.x, just click Color Palette to expand the dialog box. In Windows 95, click the item's drop-down list to select it, click the Appearance tab, click the Color drop-down list, then click Other.
After you've created your custom color scheme, click Save Scheme in Windows 3.x. In Windows 95, click Save As.
But what if you want to be able to share your creative flair with others or transfer the color schemes you use at home to your office? No problem.
In Windows 3.x, first make a backup of the control.ini files in your
Windows directory. In Program Manager or File Manager, choose File*Run,
type control.ini, and press
In Windows 95, by far the simplest approach is to transfer your complete
collection of color schemes from the Registry. But as a precaution, first
make backups of the user.dat, user.da0, system.dat, and system.da0 files in
your Windows folder.
Choose Start*Run, type regedit, and press
Now when you open the Display Properties sheet in the Control Panel, you'll
see all the color schemes from the originating computer. One warning:
Importing color schemes this way will overwrite any existing color schemes
of the same name on the destination computer.
DO YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE HARD DRIVE?
Don't daisy chain your hard disk/drives to your CD-ROM drive. Doing so will
force the hard disks to operate at the speed of the slower CD-ROM drive.
To highlight a long passage:
SPEED UP YOUR SPELLING CHECK
A SHIFTY WAY TO CUT AND PASTE
FILE RESTORATIONS
ONE WINDOW, PLEASE
USING BOOKSHELF IN WORD
LINK A WORKSHEET TO A DOCUMENT
MAN, THAT IS ONE 'BOSS EFFECT
HEY, GETCHER FREE PHOTOS HERE!
SEE FOR YOURSELF
GAME CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF PAGE FAULT
1. Change the display adapter to VGA. IMPORTANT: Under Show All Devices,
note the manufacturer and model.
FORMAT FOLLOWS FUNCTION
PINBALL WIZARDS, TAKE NOTE
ADD UP YOUR PROPERTIES
BATTING 2000
CHECK YOUR RESOURCES
A PICTURE'S WORTH A THOUSAND FILENAMES
NEW LOOKS FOR TRASH
SHORTCUT TO YOUR OWN DEVICES
DOS BOOTS
ORGANIZE YOUR CLIPPINGS
RESTRICTED ACCESS
Suppose you want to keep people from messing with the settings in your
Display Properties dialog box. Inside the Policy Editor, double-click the
Control Panel book, then the Display book; and select "Restrict Display
Control Panel." In the list that appears at the bottom of the dialog box,
select Disable Display Control Panel. (You could also select any of the
individual options there.) Click OK, select Save under the File menu, and
the restriction is set. From now on, anyone who attempts to open the
Display Properties dialog box will see an error message. (If you've
restricted access to individual tabs, they simply won't appear in the
Display Properties dialog box).
To restrict the programs to which people have access from the start menu,
use the Policy Editor to replace the Programs folder. First, create a new
folder that includes the items you'd like in the Programs folder. Inside
the Policy Editor, double-click Shell and then Custom Folders. Select
Custom Programs Folder, and at the bottom of the dialog box, type the path
of the folder you just created. Finally, select "Hide Start Menu
subfolders."
If you don't want anyone messing with your Registry, disable the Registry
editing tools. Inside the Policy Editor, double-click the System book, then
Restrictions. Select Disable Registry editing tools, click OK, then select
Save under File.
(To undo this restriction, deselect it and save your change.)
Let's say you're going on vacation and want the temp using your computer to
have access to only specific applications. Inside the Policy Editor,
double-click the System book, then double-click Restrictions and select
Only Run Allowed Windows Applications. Click on Show, then select Add and
type the executable file name (not the entire path) of the application
you'd like to allow. An example is POLEDIT.EXE. Click on OK, and repeat
these steps until all allowed applications are on the list. Click on OK
again, then select Save under the Policy Editor's File menu to save your
changes.
(To undo this restriction, deselect it and save your change.)
HOVER-CRAFTINESS
DON'T GO BREAKIN' MY SPACE
FRAMED
TWO PRINTERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
How do I find out which version of UNIX an ISP is using?
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Click at the beginning of the text you want to copy. Press and hold down
the SHIFT key, and then click at the end of the text you want to copy.
The following tips were sent to me by my friend Donnell Williams,
thanks Donno! ;)
Word's spelling checker will run faster if you don't ask it for
suggestions. The theory is that when Word tags a word as incorrectly
spelled, we'll recognize that it's right and know how to correct the
spelling. We just need to watch a little closer when no words are
suggested. If you'd like to try this out, choose Tools|Options and click
the Spelling tab when the Options dialog box opens. Deselect the Always
Suggest check box, then click OK. Now when you run the spelling checker,
Word will tag misspellings but won't make any suggestions.
Here's another way to cut and paste inside a Word document. Highlight the
text you want to move and then press Shift+Delete. Now move the insertion
point to where you want to place the text and press Shift+Insert.
(Note: Some keyboards use Del and Ins rather than Insert and Delete.)
When you install Internet Explorer 3.0, you will replace some Windows 95
system files. If you find that the newer versions of these files cause
problems with some other applications, you can restore the original
versions. The files, and their original versions, are:
ADVAPI32.DLL in the Wind95_11.cab file on the CD-ROM and floppy.
COMCT132.DLL in the Win95_10.cab file on the CD-ROM and floppy.
OLEAUT32.DLL in the Win95_09.cab file on the CD-ROM and floppy.
If you need to restore these files, place them in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM
folder.
Shane writes, "When I open multiple DOC files from the desktop, they all
open in the same Microsoft Word 7.0 window. But when I try the same thing
with RTF files, each one opens in its own Word window, even if Word is
already open! How do I get it to open the files in the same window?"
In any Windows 95 window, choose Options under the View menu and select the
File types tab. Select Rich Text Format in the Registered file types list,
click the Edit button, select Open under Actions, and click Edit again. In
the resulting dialog box, select Use DDE, then type the following on the
DDE Message line:
[FileOpen("%1")]
Click OK, click Close twice, and from now on, those RTF files will open in
a single (or already-open) Word window.
You can open Bookshelf from the Start button and use it as a reference
source while you work in Word. But did you know that Word will open it for
you? If you have Bookshelf loaded in your CD-ROM drive, select the phrase
you'd like to check and then choose Tools|Look Up Reference.
You have three choices: Keyword, Full Text, or None. Keyword uses your
selection to search through keywords in all the books in Bookshelf, Full
Text searches for occurrences of the entered text, and None opens Bookshelf
without performing a search.
You're creating the annual stockholders report in your word processor. The
pages are laid out beautifully, you've found just the right font, and your
prose is witty and upbeat. But you need something else: the FY96 Market
Share chart from the Budget worksheet, inserted right into the middle of
your text. You could simply cut and paste the information from one program
to another, but then your document will be out-of-date the next time
someone changes the worksheet.
The trick is to link your worksheet to your document. A link is like a
window into your word processing file created by another program.
1. Because cell addresses can change, you should name the Excel range
that you want your Word document to display. Open the worksheet and
highlight that range. Select Insert*Name*Define, enter a name like
ToWord, and press .
2. Select Edit*Copy.
3. Enter Word and open your document. Place the cursor where you want
the view of your worksheet to appear.
4. Select Edit*Paste Special.
5. In the resulting dialog box, click the Paste Link option, and in the
As list, choose Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object to insert a graphic
object, or Formatted Text (RTF) to create a Word table containing the
data. Click OK to complete the link. The Worksheet Object will look
like a piece of your spreadsheet stuck in a resizable box inside your
document, while the Formatted Text will look like (and actually become)
a part of the document itself.
When you apply the emboss effect to PowerPoint 7.0 and 97 text you'll find
that the effect varies, depending on the type of fill you decide to use.
Here's what you can expect.
One-color (shaded) = Text gets the selected shading color
Two-color (shaded) = Text gets the first of the selected shading colors
Shaded preset = Text gets the last solid color selected, or the fill color
from the slide color scheme (this depends on how you formatted the text
previously)
Patterned fill = Text gets the Pattern Fill dialog box background color
Other Color fill = Text gets the new fill color
No Fill = Text gets the slide color scheme background color
Background fill = Text gets the slide background color (based on the
background formatting)
Textured fill = Text gets the background color from the slide color scheme
Well, maybe not really free because you paid for them when you bought
Microsoft Office 95. To see the photos, insert the installation CD in the
CD-ROM drive. Open the disc, or use Windows Explorer, to read the contents.
Open Valupack, then locate the Photos folder. When you open Photos, you'll
see that there's quite a collection of folders from which to choose. Check
them out and then copy the ones you like to your hard disk.
Version 4.3, 95
If you work with .RTF files in Word 6 or Word 7, you'll find that always
having to tell Word to look for .RTF files in the Open dialog box is a bit
of a pain. A simple macro will take care of the problem for you. Actually,
you don't even have to add a macro--all you have to do is modify an
existing one. Choose Tools|Macro. When the Macro dialog box opens, type in
the Macro Name text box
FileOpen
Now click Create and the FileOpen macro will appear. Modify it to match the
macro shown here.
Sub MAIN
Dim dlg As FileOpen
GetCurValues dlg
dlg.Name = "*.rtf;*.doc"
On Error Goto OhNo
Dialog dlg
FileOpen dlg
OhNo:
End Sub
Now when you choose File|Open you'll see both .DOC and .RTF files.
When installing DirectDraw drivers in several Microsoft games, you may get
an error message regarding an invalid page fault in Kernel 32.dll. The
games involved: Deadly Tide 1.0; Flight Simulator for Windows 95,6.0; GEX
1.0; Golf 3.0; Hellbender 1.0; Monster Truck Madness 1.0; NBA Full Court
Press 1.0; Soccer 1.0. Unfortunately, the fix is no fun:
2. Run DirectX Setup off the program's compact disc.
3. Change back to your original display adapter, selecting the manufacturer
and model you noted before.
4. Reinstall the program.
Versions 4.x, 95
Here's a cool trick that many Word for Windows users overlook -- format
pasting. If there's a format in your document that you'd like to apply in
some other part of the document, don't bother with a lot of fancy
manipulations. All you have to do is click on a line that contains the
format you want to use and then click the Format Painter button (it looks
like a paint brush) in the toolbar. Clicking the Format Painter button will
change the icon to a brush. Move to the text to which you want to apply the
format and use the mouse to 'paint' over the text. That's all you have to
do. Word will reformat your text.
If you have the Windows 95 Plus! CD, you've surely tried out 3D Pinball.
Wish you knew a little more about mastering the Space Cadet table? The Help
file offers some assistance, but for more extensive information, there are
two hidden sources.
Navigate your way to the Program Files\Plus!\Pinball folder and open
PINBALL.DOC for the "Space Cadet table Rules and Game Strategy." Then,
check out TABLE.BMP in the same folder for the name of every nook and
cranny on the table (you may need it to follow along with the
instructions). Who knew?
Want to know how much space a selection of folders and/or files takes up on
your hard drive? (Knowing this would come in handy if, for example, you've
selected items to copy to a floppy disk.)
In an Explorer or My Computer window, hold down Ctrl as you select each
item you'd like to tally. Then right-mouse click on any selected item and
choose Properties. The resulting dialog box will display the total size of
all selected items, including a count of each item type (files or folders).
Versions 4.x, 95
Here's a test to see how Excel deals with the year 2000: try a calculation
that goes past January 1, 2000; say you want to see how many days there are
between two dates. Select cells A1 and A2 and then choose Format|Cells.
Select date (the form doesn't matter) and click OK. Now click on cell A4
and leave the format set to the default.
To check what happens when you make a calculation that crosses from 1999 to
2000, type into cell A2 12/25/99. Next, go to cell A1 and type 1/1/00. Move
to cell A4 and type =A1- A2. The result should be seven days.
If you're itching to get into the meat and potatoes of Windows 95 -- we're
talking the nerdiest of nerdy stuff, mostly for administrators -- then you
need the Windows 95 Resource Kit. If you have the Windows 95 installation
CD, you already have this technical resource. If not, you can download the
Resource Kit from Microsoft's Web site, or purchase it in your local
bookstore.
Pop the installation CD into your CD-ROM drive and navigate your way to
D:\ADMIN\RESKIT\HELPFILE. To view the Help files right off the CD,
double-click WIN95RK.HLP. To access the Resource Kit from your hard drive,
copy the WIN95RK.HLP and WIN95RK.CNT files to your C:\WINDOWS\HELP folder,
then create a shortcut to WIN95RK.HLP. Either way, the Resource Kit's
contents appear in a Help Topics window, complete with Contents, Index and
Find tabs.
(If you don't have the Windows 95 installation CD, you can download the
Complete Windows 95 Resource Kit Help File from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/reskit.htm.
Or you can purchase the Resource Kit in stores or by calling (800)
MS-PRESS.)
You can turn the icons that represent bitmap files into the bitmaps
themselves. Then, even if you can't tell a bitmap's identity by its name,
you can certainly tell it by its icon. (This tip involves editing the
Windows 95 Registry. As always, we recommend making a backup before
proceeding.)
Open the Registry Editor (click Start, select Run, type "regedit," and
click OK) and navigate your way to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon. In the right pane, right-mouse
click Default (under Name) and select Modify. Replace all of the text on
the Value data line with "%1" (with no quotes). Click OK and close the
Registry Editor.
There's no need to restart Windows 95. Open a folder that includes bitmap
file icons, and you'll see that each icon looks like the bitmap file it
represents. (Note: The quality of the icons will vary depending on your
color palette setting, but at least you'll have an idea of what's what.)
You can change the icons that Windows 95 uses to represent the Recycle Bin
when it's full or empty. All it takes is a quick trip to the Registry. (As
always, we recommend backing up the Registry first)
Open the Registry Editor (select Start, Run, type "regedit," and click OK)
and navigate your way to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ DefaultIcon. Right-mouse click
"empty" in the right pane; select Modify; and on the Value data line, type
the path and number of the icon you want to use for an empty Recycle Bin
using the following format: "path, ##." For example, if you were using the
seventeenth icon in the c:\Windows\System\Pifmgr.dll file (the red crayon
and paper), you would type:
c:\Windows\System\Pifmgr.dll, 16
(Why 16? Because the numbering in an icon file always starts with 0.) Click
OK and repeat these steps for the "Full" string value, assuming you want to
change that icon as well. Close the Registry Editor.
To see your icon changes in effect, send any item to the Recycle Bin (to
display the Full icon). Then empty the Recycle Bin (to display the Empty
icon).
If you frequently open the Device Manager, place a shortcut to it right on
your Start menu for one-click access. It beats having to open the Control
Panel, double-click System and select the Device Manager tab every time.
Right-mouse click the Start button and select Open to open the Start Menu
folder. Right-mouse click inside the window, select New, then select
Shortcut.
Next to Command Line, type exactly:
C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL.EXE Sysdm.cpl, System,1
where c:\Windows is your Windows 95 directory. Click the Next button, name
the shortcut Device Manager, and click Finish. The next time you want to
open the Device Manager, click Start and select your new shortcut.
You can boot directly to MS-DOS every time you start your computer. All it
takes is a simple change to the MSDOS.SYS file. (You'll need to remove
MSDOS.SYS's Hidden and Read-only attributes first. In an Explorer window,
find MSDOS.SYS [right on your hard drive]; right-mouse click it and select
Properties; deselect Hidden and Read-only; and click OK. (And of course,
use the reverse technique to reapply these attributes when you're done.)
Open MSDOS.SYS in Notepad. Find the line that reads BootGUI=1, and change
it to BootGUI=0. Select Save under the File menu, reboot your computer, and
it's DOS-ville all the way. To start Windows 95, just type WIN.
The Windows 95 installation CD holds a handy little program--ClipBook --
that allows you to store cut or copied items, such as text or graphics.
From there, you can easily paste these items into other documents.
On the installation CD, navigate your way to Other\Clipbook. Double-click
Clipbrd.EXE to open the ClipBook Viewer, made up of two windows--Clipboard,
which displays the last item you cut or copied, and Local ClipBook, which
acts as a storage area for previously cut or copied items.
Once you've cut or copied an item to the Clipboard, it's easy to add it to
the Local Clipbook. In the ClipBook Viewer, select the Local ClipBook
window and click the Paste icon. Enter a name for the new item and click
OK. To paste a ClipBook page into a new location, select it in the Local
ClipBook window and click the Copy icon. Then simply Paste the item
wherever you'd like it.
If you find the program useful, you won't want to access it off the install
CD every time you want it. It's much easier to install it on your hard
drive.
With the installation CD in your CD-ROM drive, click Add/Remove Software
(or open the Control Panel and double-click Add/Remove Programs). Click
Have Disk, then click Browse and navigate your way to D:\Other\Clipbook.
The Clipbook.INF file will appear in the box under File name. Click OK
twice, select ClipBook Viewer under Components, and click Install. Click OK
when the installation is complete, and from now on, you'll be able to
launch ClipBook by clicking Start, Programs, Accessories, ClipBook Viewer.
Tired of other people messing with your computer? The System Policy Editor,
located on the Windows 95 installation CD, allows you to set up
restrictions, such as locking people out of the Display Properties dialog
box or your Registry. While designed for network administrators, the Policy
Editor works on non-networked systems as well.
To access the System Policy Editor, navigate your way to
ADMIN\APPTOOLS\POLEDIT (on the Windows 95 installation CD) and double-click
POLEDIT.EXE. Select Open Registry under the File menu, then double-click
the Local User icon.
You'll need to access this tool off the installation CD every time you want
to set or deselect restrictions -- that is, unless you install the System
Policy Editor on your hard drive. (Note: You'll only want to do this if the
people you're protecting yourself against won't know how to undo your
restrictions!) To install the System Policy Editor, with the Windows 95
installation CD in your CD-ROM drive, Open the Control Panel and
double-click Add/Remove Programs. On the Windows Setup tab, click the Have
Disk button, then click Browse and navigate your way to
X:\ADMIN\APPTOOLS\POLEDIT, where X is your CD-ROM drive. Click OK twice,
then in the Have Disk dialog box, select Group policies and System Policy
Editor. Click Install, and finally click OK.
To run the System Policy Editor, select Start, Programs, Accessories,
System Tools, and System Policy Editor. If you see the Open Template dialog
box the first time you open the Policy Editor, navigate your way to the
ADMIN.ADM file -- ours was in C:\WINDOWS\INF -- and double-click it.
(To undo this restriction, deselect it and save your change.)
Click OK, and as always, save your changes by selecting Save under the
Policy Editor's File menu. Restart Windows 95, select Programs under Start,
and you'll find only those items you placed in the new Programs folder.
(To undo this setting, deselect it and save your change.)
Are you addicted to the Hover game included on the Windows 95 installation
CD? Then add it to your hard drive, so you won't have to fumble with that
disk. Surely, you have an extra 1.87MB of space to spare.
The Add/Remove Programs option doesn't provide you with a check box for
installing Hover, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. To install this
game on your system, with the CD in your CD-ROM drive, open Windows
Explorer. Navigate your way to X:\FUNSTUFF, where X is your CD-ROM drive,
and you'll see a Hover folder. Copy this folder to your hard drive.
To start the game, double-click on HOVER.EXE. For even easier access, place
a shortcut to this file on your desktop, or in your personal Games folder.
You do have a Games folder, no?
As you create a Word document, you may encounter phrases of two or three
words that you'd rather not have split between lines. For example, you may
prefer to keep the phrase "The Supreme Court" on a single line. You can use
Ctrl+Shift+Space to add a non-breaking space. So, you'd type
The[Ctrl+Shift+Space]Supreme[Ctrl+Shift+Space]Court[Space]
When typed this way, the phrase will stay together as though it was a
single word.
Version 4.x, 95
Although Word 6 and Word 7 won't let you create a circular frame, you can
place text so it will fit a circular picture. Try this: Choose
Insert|Frame and use the mouse to draw the frame. Now click inside the
frame and insert the picture you want to use. Size the picture and then
right-click on the frame and choose Format Frame. Set Width and Height to
Exactly and then use the spin boxes to make the frame as small as possible,
while still large enough for the picture. Set Distance from text to zero
and click on OK. You may have to repeat the sizing several times to get
exactly the right settings.
Now choose View|Toolbars, select Drawing, and click on OK. From the Drawing
toolbar, click on the Oval button and draw a circle around the framed
picture. (This is to provide you with a guide; you can make it disappear
later.)
Using the circle as a guide, place spaces in the text to make it fit the
circle as closely as possible. Once all your text is in place, right-click
on the circle and choose Format Drawing Object. Click on the Lines tab,
select the None radio button, and click on OK. This will make the circle
invisible without making any other changes.
Do you frequently print using two different settings? For example, you
might print a color document one minute, then a black-and-white,
landscape-oriented page the next. Rather than changing these settings each
time you print, trick Windows into thinking you have two printers, each
with different Properties settings.
Select Start, Settings, Printers; double-click on Add Printer; and then
follow the instructions to reinstall your printer the same way you did the
first time. When asked, opt to keep the existing driver, and then make sure
to give this "new" printer a new name, such as "Landscape B/W."
When the setup is finished, the Printers window will display two different
items representing the same printer. Adjust their Properties to the
settings you need (right-mouse click on the icon, select Properties, and so
on) and, if you wish, create shortcuts to each on the desktop for easy
access. From now on, just click and drag the document you want to print to
your "printer" of choice. (Or, use an application's Print command, and then
select the printer you want to use in the resulting dialog box.)
telnet into the server you're using, type uname -a and you will know the
name, version and some other information you might need.