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Speed-up the Start Menu!
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My city isn't on the time zone map!!!
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Editing the Windows TIPS at start-up
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Friendly "Short" Names
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3-D Objects: Highlights and Shadows
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Reappearing values in the Registry?
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Adding sounds to application events
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Printing a directory using the Registry...
Create a new string value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop (of the Registry) named MenuShowDelay and set it's value to a number from 1 to 10. (1 is the fastest). This is an undocumented feature!!
Highlight the section on the world map that contains your city. Write down the string of cities, or whatever other wording.
Example "Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney"
Open Registry Editor, and search for that string Edit that string. You have very easily edited a string that was not meant to be edited, but of course with Windows 95 you are given the option to edit nearly all strings.
You can edit those tips, and add you own tips.
It is under the H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Tips key of the Registry Editor.
Here's how to add new User Tips to the Welcome to Windows 95 Dialog Box that appears at Windows 95 system start-up:
Congratulations! You just customized Windows 95! Now, close the Registry Editor, and restart Windows 95. You will see your new Tips the next time the Welcome to Windows 95 dialog box appears!
| At the very beginning of your VALUE DATA, you might want to begin the Tip with something like "Kent's Win95 Tips:" This way, you'll remember which Tips you added to the originals! |
One of my favorite features of Windows 95 are the Long File Names. At last, we can leave eight-dot-three in the dust!!! One problem though. I have Microsoft Office Professional 4.3, which is the 16-bit short file name edition.
So, when I am in Explorer, I can save a file such as "1995 Income Tax Returns". But, when I return to Excel to open that file, I will find something like "1995In~1.xls". Now, if you wanted to save several files with the prefix "1995 Income Tax" you would have a mess on your hands in a hurry, not to mention that you wouldn't be able to decipher the short names.
Complete the following steps:
2. Open the following SubKey:
Now, this undocumented technique will assure that the short file names will resemble the long file names as much as it is possible. Windows 95 will make sure that no two files will have the same long or short name.
2. Go to the following SubKey:
4. The information is presented as RGB data, which means that each color is represented by three values to simulate the various colors that will be displayed on your screen. The three values are Red, Green, and Blue. Each of the three can have values between zero (0), which represents black, and 255, which represents white.
6. RGB values for the various colors can be found in the following place on your system:
If after several editing sessions in the Registry Editor, you suddenly discover that several entries and values that you deleted seem to be reappearing, it is NOT a problem with the Registry, the Editor, or your mind.
To keep that data from respawning, simply remove the offending items from your WIN.ini file!
By now you should all realize that you can add sounds to quite a few system events. Those can be located in the Control Panel Sounds dialog. If you haven't been there yet, I'll wait a minute while you return. But, did you realize that with the Registry, you can also add sounds to APPLICATION events?
2. Go to the following SubKey:
11. For each and every application on your system, you can add sounds to all these standard events:
8 Printing a directory using the Registry...
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 19:37:57 -0500 From: Steve Cauffiel <cauffiel@EROLS.COM> Subject: APPS: HARDWARE: Zip directory labels
Found this at the Windows Annoyances page - not sure if it will help or not...
Print Out a Directory Listing
Last Modified: 4/29/96
Although there is no built-in way to print a directory listing (all the filenames in a folder), there is a way to add this functionality to Windows95. Here's how you do it:
Open a text editor, such as Notepad, and type the following lines into a new document: (assuming the printer you wish to use is connected to printer port #1). See end of this section.
CD %1
DIR /S >LPT1
type 'ascii control code {form feed}' > LPT1
Save the two-line file into your Windows\Command folder, and call it PRINTDIR.BAT. Find the file in Explorer, right click on it, and select Properties. Click on the Program tab, turn on the Close on Exit option, choose Minimized from the Run list, and click Ok. Next, run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Open My Computer\ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Directory\ shell. Select New from the Edit menu, and then select Key. Type Print for the name of this new key, and press Enter. Highlight the new Print key, select New from the Edit menu, and then select Key again. Type command for the name of this new key, and press Enter. Double-click on the (default) value in the right pane, and type C:\Windows\Command\PRINTDIR.BAT (assuming that C:\Windows\ is your Windows95 directory). From now on, when you right-click on a folder icon, you can click Print to print its contents.
Note: this assumes that your printer is connected to the LPT1 port, which is true for most users. However, if your printer is connected over a network or you have more than one printer, you need to change LPT1 to the correct port.
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:11:35 -0700 From: Mark Dodge <markd@PRIMENET.COM> Subject: Re: APPS: HARDWARE: Zip directory labels
Mark:- I tried this, works great, except for two things. One: I have a HP 550C and I have to hit the Load\Eject button to get the page to finish. Two: This doesn't print the contents of the sub folders.
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:11:35 -0700 From: Hans Klarenbeek <hansie@wantree.com.au> Subject: Re: APPS: HARDWARE: Zip directory labels
I personally don't see any problems with this what is to stop you from adding to the basic batch file the commands to both scan subdirectories (see mods in blue) and feed at an ascii control code to feed the sheet (what is this anyone??)
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