Put Dial-up Networking on the
Start Menu
To put a cascading Dial-up Networking Folder on your Start Menu, right-click
the Start Menu,
select Open, then create a new folder named:
Dial Up Net.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
Put the Control Panel on the Start Menu
To put a cascading Control Panel on your Start Menu, right-click the Start
Menu,
select Open, then create a new folder named:
Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
Remove the Shortcut Arrows
Many people seem to be annoyed by the little
arrows that Windows 95 puts in the
lower-left corner of icons that represent
shortcuts. Well, now you can get rid of
them! To do this, use the Registry Editor
(regedit.exe) to search for these keys:
Within each of these keys is the string,
"IsShortcut". If you remove (or more safely
rename) both of these strings, the arrows
will be gone when you restart Windows 95. To
restore them, go back into regedit and
rename the strings to their previous values.
Screen saver corners
You can make your screen saver use activation/deactivation corners.
* open regedit
* open HKEY_CURRENT_USER
* open software
* open microsoft
* open windows
* open current version
* click on Screen savers
* add a new string value
* name it Mouse Corners
* edit value to equal "-Y-N" (no quotes)
Now when you position your mouse cursor in the upper right hand corner of
the screen, the screen saver will immediately activate, likewise, if you
position the mouse in the lower left hand corner of the screen, the screen
saver will not activate, even after it has been sitting for longer than the
time specified. This is very useful to keep your screen saver from
activating when doing disk utilities like defragment, and scan disk.
Clean your Startup files
Some existing entries in your autoexec.bat
and config.sys may be superfluous,
especially when having setup WIN95 over the
old system. The following commands are now
executed by Io.sys by default.