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Desktop
Restoring a Lost Desktop - Added 3/15/00
Making Desktop Changes Permanent - Added 10/16/98
Easy Shortcuts on the Desktop - Submitted 8/14/98
Unable to Create Shortcuts on the Desktop - Added 1/3/98
Repositioning a Background Bitmap - Added 4/6/97
Adding Shortcuts to Desktop Without "Shortcut To" text - Submitted 1/24/97
Removing Items from NEW on the Desktop - Added 7/28/96
Adding the Device Manager to your Desktop - Added 5/27/96
Changing Desktop Folders - With No Registry Changes - Submitted 12/14/95
Updating the Desktop - 11/28/95
Minimizing all windows - 9/24/95/95
Turning on AutoArrange - 9/13/95
Quick access to your Desktop - 9/3/95
Turning off Desktop Icons
Removing the Network Neighborhood icon
Changing the Startup and Logoff Bitmap screens
Icons
Creating Shutdown, Restart and Logoff Icons - Added 1/8/00
Increasing the Icon Cache - Submitted 10/30/99
Make Icons 256 Color 16-Bit - Submitted 7/19/99
Removing Shortcut Arrows - Submitted 3/28/99
Changing a Folder's Icon - Submitted 8/14/98
Fixing Corrupted Desktop Icons - Updated 5/25/98
Removing the InBox from the Desktop - Submitted 12/29/97
Customizing Individual Folder Icons - Submitted 11/22/97
Removing the Recycle Bin - Submitted 11/16/97
Having Icons with No Name - Updated 9/28/97
Changing Drive Icons - Added 4/6/97
Removing the InBox and Recycle Bin Icons from the Desktop - Added 9/8/96
Modifying Default Desktop Icons - Added 7/27/96
More Removing Shortcut Arrows - Submitted 3/12/96
Changing Application Icons - Submitted 1/21/96
Removing the shortcut arrows (potential problem) - 11/5/95
Removing the shortcut icon arrows - 9/18/95
Restoring corrupted icons
Renaming the Recycle Bin
Start Menu
Organizing the Start / Programs Listing - Added 5/29/01
Having your Favorites and Start Menus Sort Alphabetically - Added 11/9/99
Adding the Control Panel to the Start Menu - Added 10/17/98
Moving the Start Button - Submitted 7/4/97
Aligning Drop-Down Menus to the Right - Submitted 4/25/97
Removing the Start Button - Submitted 11/24/96
Customizing the Start Button's Name and Icon - Added 5/28/96
Adding Options to the Right-Click of the Start Menu - Submitted 5/20/96
Adding the Desktop to your Start Menu - 11/17/95
Getting rid of Click here to continue - 11/4/95
Changing or Removing the Start Menu Icons - Submitted 6/29/96
Adding the Control Panel icons to the Desktop - 10/2/95
Adding the Control Panel to the Start Menu - 10/2/95
Speeding up the Start Menu
Misc
Easy Access to Folders from the Toolbar - Added 9/9/01
Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut - Added 1/31/00
Creating 3D Window Effect - Added 1/8/00
Full Window Drag ( Without Plus! ) - Submitted 5/25/98
Getting Screen Shots - Submitted 4/12/98
Increasing the Size of the Scroll Bar - Submitted 1/11/98
Adding Send To the Recycle Bin - Submitted 10/11/97
Adding AnyFolder and Mail to SendTo - Submitted 3/7/97
Easier User Interface - Submitted 1/24/97
Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time - Added 10/20/96
Adding Drives to the SendTo List - Submitted 6/29/96
Adding a Protected Briefcase - Submitted 6/23/96
How to make the task bar autohide - Added 5/15/96
Closing Nested Folders - Added 2/28/96
Moving and Resizing the Taskbar - Submitted 1/21/96
Correcting Corrupted Fonts - 1/11/96
Creating document scraps - 9/13/95
Turing off Windows Animation
Using old Window's Groups
Changing the My Computer or Recycle Bin icons
Removing the Tildes in filenames
Easy Access to Folders from the Toolbar
Added 9/9/01
You can quickly access commonly used folders from your Toolbar
Added 5/29/01
As you add more and more programs, the listing of them in Start / Programs can get fairly
long.
One solution is to categorize your programs into several groups, create a folder for those
groups, and move the shortcuts to those folders.
For example:
This can greatly reduce clutter and make it a lot easier to find your programs.
Note: Windows2000 and WindowsXP Users will need to go to the C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs directory
Submitted 3/15/00
If you ever lose the Desktop but Explorer is still running with the Start Button,
you can do this to bring back your Desktop in a Windows box.
1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type a period " . "
4. Then press Enter
Submitted by
Added 1/31/00
To create a shortcut that will open your default e-mail program starting a new e-mail,
1/8/00
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Colors
3. Make sure the following setting are there:
Added 1/8/00
Added 11/9/99
If your Start Menu Program or Favorites are not sorting alphabetically, it is easy to fix
this:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explor
er/MenuOrder
3. Under here is are Favorites and Start Menu folders
4. In each there is a value called Order
5. Simply delete (or rename this) and restart Winodws
6. Your Favorites or Start Menus should now sort alphabetically
Submitted 10/30/99
1. Run Regedit
2. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explo
rer
3. Create a new string called Max Cached Icons
4. Give it a value of 10000
5. This will increase response time in windows and give the Shellicon cache file
more elbow room.
Submitted 7/19/99
Submitted by Wes
Submitted 3/28/99
An easy way to remove those irritating arrows from your desktop shortcut icons and not
change their properties
Added 10/17/98
Added 10/16/98
To make changes to the Desktop like window size, positon after rebooting:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policie
s\Explorer
3. Create a New Binary Value
4. Name it NoSaveSettings
5. Give it a value of 01 00 00 00
Submitted 8/14/98
Here is an easy way to put shortcuts on the Desktop where they can easily be moved to
other group icons.
1. Using the Explorer, move the folder from the Desktop directory to another
directory on the hard drive
2. Right click on the new folder and select "Create Shortcut"
3. Move the shortcut to the Desktop
4. Right click and select a new icon
1. Start Regedit
2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER /ControlPanel /Desktop /DragFullWindows
3. On "DragFullWindows" properties change 0 to 1
Updated 5/25/98
There's no need to exit Win95 and delete the SHELLICONCACHE file in order to reset
icons that you may have changed (like Network Neighborhood).
Submitted 2/28/98
If your Start Menu is slow or your icons are black for some reason, it means your
Shelliconcache file is corrupt and should be deleted.
Delete the hidden file C:\WINDOWS\SHELLICONCACHE
It will be recreated the next time you start Win95
Submitted 4/12/98
If you need to get a screen shot, and you do not have a screen capture program, try this:
• Hit the Print Screen key. This copies a bitmap of the full screen into the Windows
clipboard. Start up a graphics editor and paste it in.
• Alt + Print Screen will capture only the active window.
Submitted by V. Sahker
Submitted 1/11/98
Added 1/3/98
If you can't create shortcuts on your Desktop, you might have a corrupted registry.
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.lnk\ShellNew\Command
3. Make sure it has a value of:
4. RunDLL32 AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %1 if you don't have IE 4
5. or RunDLL32 AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %2 if you have IE 4.0 or IE 4.01
Submitted 12/29/97
Submitted 11/22/97
This tip only work Windows 95/NT 4.0 + IE 4.0 with shell integration, or Windows
98/NT 5.0.
Submitted 11/16/97
1. Run REGEDIT.
2. Find NAMESPACE key in left pane (HKEY_Local_Macine \ Software \
Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Explorer \ Desktop \ Namespace)
3. Expand NAMESPACE (click '+' box)
4. Delete the value RECYCLE BIN in right pane
Submitted 10/11/97
That way you can just right click on a file you want to delete, and send it to the recycle
bin without having to confirm each time.
Normally you have to have a name for an icon, just spaces are not allowed.
To create an icon with no name attached:
Submitted by John R
Submitted 7/4/97
Submitted 4/25/97
Added 4/6/97
Normally, you only options for displaying a background bitmap are tiled, centered, or
stretch to fit (with the Plus Pack).
You can edit the registry and have a third option which is to place the bitmap anywhere
on your screen by specifying the X and Y coordinates.
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Desktop
3. Create new Strings called WallpaperOriginX and WallpaperOriginY
4. Give them values to position them around your desktop
5. The bitmap must be smaller than your desktop size
Added 4/6/97
[autorun]
ICON=Name of the ICON file
For the name of the icon file you can either specify the path and name (e.g.
ICON=C:\WINDOWS\ICONS\MY_ICON.ICO) or
a specific icon in a library (e.g. ICON=ICONFILE.DLL,2)
Previous examples of adding items to the SendTo usually require editing the Registry.
An easy way around this is to use the following methods.
To add ANYFOLDER:
To add Mail:
Submitted 1/24/97
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to:HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ Explorer
3. Add binary value to Explorer:link="00,00,00,00"
4. Now You can make Shortcuts to desktop without Shortcut To" text.
Submitted 1/24/97
Add a menu item named "Open THIS folder!" to each of your cascading menus off of the
Start menu.
This makes it easier to put items wherever you want them!
It takes a little while, but when you are finished you have a much easier interface to work
with.
Submitted 11/24/96
1. Click on the start menu button twice, so there is a dashed line around the button
2. Press Alt and the minus sign
3. Choose Close to make the start button disappear, or move to move it to the right!
Note from Bob: - You have to re-boot to get it back again, or:
1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete
2. Highlight Explorer
3. Click on the End Task button
4. Select No to doing a full shutdown
5. Wait a few seconds and the click on the End Task button
Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time
Added 10/20/96
Removing the InBox and Recycle Bin Icons from the Desktop
Added 9/8/96
To remove the InBox from your desktop, without needing to run the Policy Editor:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Desktop \ NameSpace
3. Below that should be a few keys
4. Rename the key {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. I usually put
another character before or after the curly braces.
5. Restart Windows and the InBox icon should be gone
6. You can do the same for any other items you don't to show such as the Recycle
Bin or The Internet icons
Submitted 6/29/96
Submitted 6/29/96
• I have recently found that if you want to send something from A: drive or from
any where to any drive, you can just make a short cut of that drive in subdirectory
SENDTO.
• For example I have two hard drives, a Floppy Drive, and a CDROM
• After I have make a copy of each of my drive I will be able to send a whole
directory of E:\XXX from the CDROM drive to A: drive or any other drive that i
have had made the short c t in the SENDTO subdir of WINDOWS.
Submitted by Robo
tttran@acs.itd.uts.edu.au
Submitted 6/23/96
You can make your briefcase a shortcut on the on desktop so if you have multiple users
on your PC and you don't want to have a password for your briefcase, you can at least
protect it from inadvertent deletion by just making the briefcase a hidden file or in a
different location other than \Windows\Desktop\My Briefcase, then send a copy or
shortcut to the desktop.
Added 5/28/96
The same can be done with NT 4.0, just the offset will be different but the location to just
before "There was an internal error..." is the same.
Added 5/27/96
This allows you to quickly see all the devices attached to your computer.
I use it a lot to select Refresh when I add new external SCSI devices that were not
powered up at startup. This way you do not need to restart the computer. To add the
Device Manager Icon:
Submitted 5/20/96
Added 5/15/96
This will make the task bar slide off the screen when the cursor moves away from it,
and it will slide back on when the cursor is moved near it again.
The same can be done for the MS Office task bar. The "sliding" effect is nice, and can
free up some desktop space.
Submitted 3/12/96
Added 2/28/96
If you have several nested folders (folders within folders) and want to close them all,
simply, hold the Shift key while closing the last folder
This will close all previous ones as well.
Submitted 1/21/96
Submitted 1/21/96
You can move the taskbar by pointing on a corner panel and dragging it
It is easier to move if you close all your windows first
You can also resize it by moving the mouse to the edge and dragging it larger or smaller.
Submitted 1/11/96
If you have a problem with your non-true type fonts, here's what you do:
Submitted 12/14/95
1. From the Explorer, create a folder somewhere OTHER than the desktop, and call
it something like "Desktop Folders."
2. Move all your desktop folders into that folder.
3. Create shortcuts to all of those folders on your desktop.
4. Now, you are free to change the icons of each shortcut individually, to anything
you like!
Submitted 11/28/95
If you want to update the desktop, for example after you've been changing the registry.
jonas.almeling@frn.se
Submitted 11/17/95
Submitted 11/5/95
Submitted by KJ King
Added 11/4/95
Added 10/24/95
The following steps will change the icon that is displayed as the default Folder icon.
Note: I haven't experimented with too many of the other icon changes possible.
Added 10/2/95
Added 10/2/95
1. Click the Start Button once with your right mouse button. You should see a right-
button menu (called a context menu because it offers different choices in different
contexts).
2. You should see the items Open, Explore, and Find on the context menu. Click
Explore with your left mouse button.
3. An Explorer file management window should open. A directory tree should
appear in the left pane, with the right pane displaying the contents of the Start
Menu folder.
4. Right-click any empty space within the right pane. A context menu should appear.
Click New and then Folder.
5. The Explorer will create a highlighted icon called New Folder. Type in the
following string, all on one line, replacing the words New Folder with this new
line. You must type the period, the curly braces, all four hyphens, and the
hexadecimal numbers exactly as shown. After the closing curly brace, press Enter.
Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
• Dial-Up Networking.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
• Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
• Inbox.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
• Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
• Network Neighborhood.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
• Desktop.{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
• Briefcase.{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
• Fonts.{BD84B380-8CA2-1069-AB1D-08000948F534}
Added 9/24/95
This makes it a lot easier to minimize windows when all your open applications are full
screen.
With the Microsoft Keyboard, you can accomplish the same thing by pressing the
Window-M key.
Submitted 9/18/95
1. Open REGEDIT.EXE
2. Open the Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
3. Open the Key LNKFILE
4. Delete the value IsShortcut
5. Open the next Key PIFFILE
6. Delete the value IsShortcut
7. Restart the Win95
Added 9/13/95
This should allow you to create new folders that have AutoArrange selected by default.
You only need to specify by Name, Size, etc. if you want to change it from the default
you set above.
Note: I have only tested this on a few computers. Please give me feedback regarding any
problems.
Submitted 9/13/95
Submitted 9/3/95
How do you access your darn desktop when you have a ton of applications open?
Well you could right click on the taskbar and do a minimize all, but that can be slow.
Instead:
Additional Note from Bob: You can also drag the Desktop folder to the start menu.
Then you just press Ctrl-ESC and click on Desktop
• If you use a graphic Card and you change the resolution, sometimes the icons are
bad.
• End Win95 and restart. When you see the starting message press F8 then type
standard.
• After this start of Win95 exit and restart.
• Change back to your Resolution and restart.
• The icons should be corrected.
You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and maximize windows.
This tip makes navigating Windows 95 a lot faster especially for those that don't have
super fast video cards.
1. Open Regedit
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3. Control panel
4. Desktop
5. WindowMetrics
6. Right Mouse Click an empty space in the right pane.
7. Select new/string value.
8. Name the new value MinAnimate.
9. Doubleclick on the new string value (MinAnimate) and click on "Modify"
10. Enter a value of 0 for Off or 1 for On then hit
11. Close Regedit and all programs then reboot.
Note: One side effect is the your CD will no longer automatically play when it is
inserted.
If you are setup to dual boot between your old Win 3.x and want to add in the old groups,
just click on the *.GRP file in your old windows directory. The programs will be added to
your list under Programs in the task bar.
1. Open Regedit
2. Find My Computer or Recycle Bin
3. Tab to the left panel
4. Double click on the highlighted line
5. Double click on DefaultIcon in the left panel
6. Double click on DefaultIcon right panel
7. Type in the value for the new icon
8. Note: DLL files can be used. Specify the location of the new icon with the
filename,#
1. Open Regedit
2. Go to Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
3. Right Click on the Right pane
4. Select New / Hex
5. Add the value NameNumericTail= 0
Startup Screen
Logoff Screens
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