Miscellaneous Tips

                            Last Updated 10/28/95

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Booting to DOS

Added 10/28/95

I have a phone controled switch I use to turn on my computer and have
it
boot a DOS version of qmodem in host mode.
The switch shuts the computer off 5 mins after I hang up.
When I moved into Win95 I need a way to do this without going into
Winows.
Answer, The MSDOS.SYS in Win95 is a text file.
Change the BootGUI=0 to BootGUI=1 and you boot into DOS.
You can always type WIN to start Win95 from there.

Submitted by Jim Crosson
a064@amug.org

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Fixing the Grayed out Save Password Box

Added 10/11/95

If when you start a Dial-Up connection, the Save Password is Grayed
out:
Make sure that Client for Microsoft Networks is installed as part of
your
Network Setup.

You need to have it installed, as well as the Dial-Up Adapter and the
TCP/IP
protocol.

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Turning off Numlock

Added 9/13/95

By default, Win95 has the Numlock key turned ON
To have it be OFF, simply add the line:
numlock=off
to the CONFIG.SYS file.

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Restarting Windows 95 without a Warm Boot

Added 9/12/95

  1. Select Shutdown
  2. Click the Restart Computer option
  3. While holding down the SHIFT key, click YES
  4. Windows 95 will now restart without executing a complete warm
boot

Submitted by Jim Blazevski
jim.blazevski@icacomp.com

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S3 Video and COM 4

Added 9/9/95

If you are using a S3 video accelerator card, I believe the Windows
95
documentation says
DO NOT INSTALL YOUR MODEM ON COM PORT 4.
The modem will appear to work fine in DOS mode but will not respond
in
Windows.
The only two solutions are to change the COM port and IRQ for the
modem or
get a new video card.

Submitted by Robert Frenz
rfrenz@alaska.net

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Potential problems leaving 16-bit winsock.dll's

Submitted 9/1/95

If you re having problems getting some of your winsock applications
to work under Win95, make sure you delete any old 16-bit
winsock.dll's.

If this file is in the directory were the application resides, it
could
cause problems. Programs that could have problems like this are:

   * Ewan.exe (Telnet app)
   * WSIRC.exe (IRC app)
   * WSGopher.exe (Gopher app)
   * NX.Exe (NewsXpress)
   * Netscape v.1.0

We found that if the software listed above is in the same directory
as the
Trumpet Winsock.dll file, then they will NOT work under the MS-TCP/IP
stack.

Submitted by Ken D. Walters
support@sunbelt.net

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Speed up your Double Speed CD ROM

Submitted 8/31/95

  1. Go into control panel
  2. Click on System
  3. Go to Performance tab
  4. Under Advanced settings click on the File System button
  5. Click on the CD-ROM tab
  6. Set the Cache to max
  7. Set Optimize Access pattern for Quad-speed or higher

   * Your CD ROM reacts much faster.
   * You can now play the high quality video clips on your Win95
CD-ROM
     without interruptions in video and sound.
   * Used on 486DX40 Vesa with 8 mb ram and normal IDE hard drive.

Submitted by John Knappers
j_knappers@pi.net

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Copying Graphics

You can copy graphics from a DOS box as well as you can text. For
example,
while running a graphics game, you can press

  1. Alt-Enter to make a DOS window
  2. Click on the upper left hand corner
  3. Select Edit/Mark
  4. Select a region with the mouse
  5. Select Edit/Copy or press the Enter key
  6. You can then paste it into another program

Thomas tried it on Heretic. I tried in on DOOM2. Everything worked
fine

Submitted by Thomas Kadlec
tmk1@ra.msstate.edu

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TIPS.TXT

There is a file TIPS.TXT in the directory where Win95 is installed.
There
are a lot if little hints and shortcuts there.

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