Keyboard Shortcuts for WINDOWS 95/98
Open START MENU : [CTRL] + [ESC] Find a FILE or FOLDER : Windows Key + F Minimise all windows : [CTRL] + [ESC] and [ALT] + [M] Find a file in Explorer or folder window : F3 Open drop-down folder/drive list, if visible(with no other list box active) : F5 Move up one level in Explorer/Folder window : Backspace Refresh or Update a window : F5 Select Multiple consecutive items or space : [SHIFT] + Cursor Keys Select Multiple non-consecutive items or space : [CTRL] + Cursor Keys See shortcut menu for selected item : [SHIFT] + F10 Delete selected items without sending it to the Recycle Bin : [SHIFT] + [DEL] Open Properties for a selected item : [ALT] + ENTER Rename selected item : [F2], Change Name, ENTER While Windows GUI loads don't launch executables from startup folder : Hold Left-[SHIFT] Key
If you don't have a windows key on your
keyboard but you need one, the remap existing keys.
All you need to complete the operation is the keyboard remap kernel toy and your Right
Ctrl
or Right Alt key.
You can download the kernel toy for keyboard remaping at www.microsoft.com/windows95/
info/kerneltoys.htm. Just clicl the windows 95 keyboard remap link. Download the file to
any
location of your choice, and then open keyremap.exe to extract its contents.
Right-click the keyremap.inf file and select install. Next, open the control panel, open
keyboard
properties, and select the remap tab. Under Right-hand side, select the key you want to
use
-such as Right Alt-in the left-hand box.
In the right-hand box (still under Right-hand side), select windows. Click OK, and you now
have
a windows key. To test it press the key you used once and the start menu pops up.
If you face floppy drive problems with
win98, even when the floppy drives worked perfectly under win95 or previous versions of
windows and MS-DOS, right click on My Computer on the desktop.Click on the properties,
then performance. Then click on the File system. Click on Floppy Disk: If there is a check
in "Search for New Floppy Drives Each Time Your Computer Starts" remove it.Then
click on Removable Disk and make sure wrire-back caching is not checked. This may also
help with Zip Drives and other removable media such as tape backup, jazz and other
non-hard drives and CD-ROM/DVD drives.
To change the icon associated witha folder,
open notepad and enter the two lines, [.ShellClassinfo] IconFile=filename, number(e.g
IconFile=C:\Icon\CustomFolder.ico,0). Save the file as DESKTOP.INI in the folder you wish
to change. Click Start > Run, Type in the command line, ATTRIB + S "folder
name" (e.g ATTRIB + S "C:\Custom Folder"). Open Explorer or My computer.
Refresh(press F5) the display
the effect of your change.
Your Start menu button need not be srestriced to the left-bottom corner of your screen. To move to another position on the Taskbar, follow these steps:
Hold down the [Ctrl] Key and press [Esc]. This will bring up the start menu. Press[ESC] to make the start menu disappear, but keep it selected. Press [Alt] [+] [-] and M (in this order).
Press any of the four arrow keysand left-click your mouse anywhere on your taskbar. In case you would like to move it back to its original location, just left click anywhere on your taskbar once, or drag/resize the taskbar.
Note: This trick will work with windows 95, without the IE4 update
You can cop contents displayed in the MS-DOS prompt window and paste them in the word processor. First display the toolbar in the DOS window. Click the mark button on the MS-DOS toolbar. A cursor will start blinking. Drag the cursor to highlight the area you want to copy. Click copy and paste in your word processor.
Bring your pointer to My Computer, Recycle
Bin, or Network Neighborhood and you get a long, boring tool
tip with information you don't really need. IE4 calls these Infotips. To replace them with
your own messages,
you will need to make some changes to the Registry. Click on the start menu, select Run,
and type Regedit.
When the registry editor opens, press [CTRL] + F and type infotip. This will take you to
the first occurrence
of a tool tip.
Check out the open folder in the left pane to see which one it is, double-click the
infotip icon, and type up to
255 characters of text. For instance, if you have replaced the My Computer icon with some
funky cartoons
and have renamed it something totally obscure, the infotip may say something like "
This icon was formerly
known as My Computer. "
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