Microsoft
PowerToys Set
is a set of 15 very useful utilities that improve Windows 95.  Desktop Menu opens items on your desktop from a convenient menu on the
taskbar.
CabView treats .CAB files like folders, letting you look inside, then drag files in and
out with ease.
CD AutoPlay Extender makes autoplay work on any non-audio CD so that you get speedy
access to the programs you want to use.
Contents Menu lets you get to your files without even opening their folders.
Desktop Menu lets you open items on your desktop from a convenient menu on the Taskbar.
Explore From Here lets you right click to open the Windows Explorer, rooted anywhere
you want.
Find X lets you customize your Find menu with drag-and-drop.
FlexiCD provides quick, convenient audio CD control from the Taskbar.
HTML Printer Driver allows you to save and print HTML documents from many applications.
QuickRes lets you change the screen's resolution and bit depth right from the taskbar
without rebooting.
Send To X lets you use Send To with any target folder.
Round Clock is round analog clock.
Shortcut Target Menu shows you the properties for a shortcut's target just by
right-clicking the shortcut.
Tweak UI lets you change menu speed, mouse sensitivity, window animation and sound,
document templates, shortcut appearance, desktop icons, and much more.
XMouse makes the window with the focus follow your mouse without clicking, just like X
Windows.
DOS Prompt Here lets you start an MS-DOS prompt in the folder of your choice with the
click of a button.
Telephony Location Selector allows mobile computer users to change their dialing
location with ease from a handy icon on the taskbar.
Many of the PowerTools also work with Windows NT.
"This should have been shipped with Windows 95. These tools are great. Let us
see more like this Microsoft." - - Stefan
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Installing Utilities:
Without this update, running a Windows Sockets
application over a long period of time, especially one which opens and closes a large
number of sockets, will result in a significant resource drain. This can cause the Windows
swapfile to grow very large, overall deterioration of performance, and over time, possible
system instability. This update allows users to better run such applications for long
periods of time without loss of system performance and stability, and without requiring
users to reboot their computers periodically to free system resources. 
Includes a keyboard remapping utility, a utility to
disable the Windows 95 logo key when you are running games, a CPU process watcher which
helps determine which programs are using how much of your CPU, a wizard for configuring
your MS-DOS mode (so you don't have to play around with CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT
anymore), a time zone editor that's great for laptop users and a conventional memory
tracker.
The Registry is the central database for Windows 95. Note: RegClean will
not function if you have installed Internet Explorer 4.0. 
