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Creating Hot Keys As an alternative to activate an application using the Start Menu, you can create hot keys. To create a hot key, right-click an application shortcut and choose Properties, Next, click the short-cut tab and then type a letter in the Shortcut key box (for example W for Word). Automatically, Windows ’98 will use the Ctrl + Alt + W keys as the hot keys. Know about packager Object Packager is a hidden application in the Windows ’98 folder that has no icon in the programs menu. You can activate this application by typing "packager" (without quotation mark) in the Run dialog box. You can use Object Packager to create a package (a group of objects that can be included into a document). There are two small panes inside the Object packager. Appearance-pane is used to show the icon that you want to use and Contents-pane used to show the information such as text, sound, picture, animation, etc. You can find more details about Object packager on the Help menu. Smart way to print From My Computer or Windows Explorer, select the documents you want to print. Drag and drop the document icon into the Printer icon on the Windows Explorer left-pane. Quick file transfer A quicker way to move or copy files to a folder of your choice (say My Files) is to create an entry for it in the ‘Send To’ option that appears whenever you right-click on a file or folder. To do this — create a shortcut to the folder in this case My Files and move it to the ‘Send To’ sub-folder in C:\ Windows. So the next time you want to transfer some file to the My Files folder, simply right-click on it and choose My Files from the Send To context Menu. Website speed Is the Website that you are trying to access taking time to load? Probably the problem is on the server used by that site. To make sure that is the problem, use Windows 98’s Ping facility. Ping is a small program, which sends a 32-bit signal to the Website server. To activate Ping
If "Request timed out" message appears on the screen that means the Website server is not responding in one second. Perhaps it happens because the server is too slow or designed on purpose not to respond to the Ping test. One shortcut, three applications It is possible to create a shortcut that opens three applications in the same time. For this,
Note: If your path includes long file or folder names, you must either enclose the path with quotation marks (for example, "c:\ programfiles\ accessories\ notepad.exe") or use shortened versions of the long names (for example, c:\ progra~1\ access~1\ notepad.exe). Menu cleaner A hidden utility SMTIDY.EXE (stored in C:\ Windows folder) enables you to unclutter the Start Menu. It locates any non-working Start Menu shortcuts, as well as any folders that may only contain a single object. In the case of broken shortcuts it will simply remove them. As for folders containing only one item, it will offer to move them up one level to cut down on the number of folders. Simply uncheck any items you don’t want to change and click ok. Note: Only available if the Plus! 98’s Maintenance Wizard is installed in your computer. If it isn’t installed, then you can install it from Add/Remove Programs-ŕ Windows Setup in the Control Panel. Find files If you want to find files of various extensions at the same time, just press the Spacebar once to separate the extensions, for examples *.doc *.xls *.txt. The same method can be used to find files in several drives at a time. For example, if you want to find files in drive C:, D:, and E: then type C: D: E: in the Look In box. You may also use commas. Move to top You would be having a special folder for saving the most important documents, say C:\ My Files. If you want it to appear at the top of the folder list, you can rename it by inserting a _ character, so the new name will be C:\ _My Files. New day, new sound Try this tip if you are bored with the same welcome sound every day and want to use a different sound every time you start Windows ’98. Create a new folder, for example C:\ Windows\ Sound. Put .wav files in this folder, change their names to sound01.wav, sound02.wav, sound03.wav, etc. Open Control Panel, double-click on the Sounds icon, select Start Windows option from the Events list, and then click the Browse button. Choose a .wav file that you want to play, for exampleC:\ Windows\ Media\ Welcome.wav. Click OK. Now open Notepad and key in the following commands into it. Make sure that you type them correctly. cd c:\ windows\ sound ren sound01.wav soundxx.wav ren sound02.wav sound01.wav ren sound03.wav sound02.wav ren sound04.wav sound03.wav ren soundxx.wav sound04.wav copy sound01.wav c:\ windows\ media\ welcome.wav Now save the file as change.bat in the C:\ Windows\ Sound folder. Next open Autoexec.bat file using Notepad and add the following command: runC:\ windows\ sound\ change.bat. From now on, you will hear a different Windows ’98 welcome sound every time you start your computer. Connection Log You can create a file log that is useful to record all connections to the Internet. This log is useful to check if any problem happened when you connected to your ISP:
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BORED
with the way you use Windows or is it the other way round! Most of the
users simply follow the known path and do not try to ‘discover’ what
Windows actually has in store for them. Here are a few instructions that
besides giving you a fresh perspective on Windows will leave you begging
for more.