Windows 95/98 Tips

Written by Deborah V. Gardner

Backing up	This is probably the most important category of tips. Please, back up, back up, back up.
Desktop	Get rid of items on the "New" list, enlarge the Control buttons, create your own wallpaper.
Explorer	Change the focus, expand the view, refresh the list.
Icons	Make the icons for bitmaps thumbnails, remove the Network Neighborhood from the desktop.
Keyboard	Move around Explorer, use the keyboard in place of the mouse, press Enter for the default.
Mouse	Move around without a mouse.
Printing	Print a directory listing.
Save Space	Delete a lot of useful files to free up hard drive space.
Sounds	Assign sounds to events
Start Up	Hide programs at startup or minimize them.
Support and System Properties	Change the information in My Computer
Taskbar	Hide, move and enlarge the taskbar
Task Manager	Manage the programs running in the background
Tiling, Tips and Time	Tile windows, create your own startup tips and change the time format
Uninstalling	Get rid of some of those remnants in the Add/Remove programs
Version	What version of Windows are you running?

Many tips similar to these can be found on the Internet, in books, from a friend or by discovery (for example, clicking on an icon by mistake and discovering that some wonderful event occurred). The tip itself cannot be copyrighted but the writing can be. So if you copy a tip to use in an article or in a school paper, please give me credit. Thank you.

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