| Change
The Title And Scroll Bars |
| START --> SETTINGS-->CONTROL PANEL --> DISPLAY --> APPEARANCE. In the 'Items' drop-down box, select 'Active Title Bar' then increase or decrease the width using the Size field. Do the same for Inactive Title Bar, Scrollbar items, and Active and Inactive Window Border. |
| Changing
A Drive Letter |
| Right click MY COMPUTER.Select Properties-->Device Manager --> right click on drive name --> properties -->settings-->select another letter from the drop-down menus in the 'Reserved Drive Letters' .Click OK then reboot your computer for the changes to take affect. |
| Character
Map |
To Install Character Map, follow these steps:
- Insert your windows 98 CD-Rom
- Go to'Start->Settings\Control Panel'
- Double-Click on the 'Add/Remove' icon
- Click on the 'Windows Setup' tab
- Double-click on 'System Tool'
- . Check the 'Character Map' checkbox
- Click OK and follow the on-screen
instructions
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| Clean 98SE
Install |
Windows 98 Second Edition has the DOS setup disabled by default, so you can not do a clean install from a newly formatted hard drive. To get around this, follow these steps:
- Start your computer using a Windows 98 boot disk with
CD-Rom support
- At the command prompt, type 'A:\Fdisk' to create a
new hard drive partition
- Copy the Windows 98SE install files from the CD-Rom
to the new partition
- . Install Windows 98 original build friom the CD-Rom
- . Run the Windows 98SE setup and create a boot disk when
prompted
- Reboot to DOS using the Windows 98SE boot disk
- At the command prompt type 'A:\Format /S' to reformat
the "C:" partition and then copy the system files to
the "C:" directory
- . Remove the boot disk and boot back to DOS
- Run the DOS based Setup from the
"D:" partition
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| Enable
Hardware Acceleration |
- Right click My computer
- select properties
- select Performance
- select graphics
- set Hardware Acceleration to maximum using slider
- reboot the computer
|
| Sounds without
sound card |
Install a PC speaker driver for the computer without a
soundcard
- Get the Microsoft PC Speaker driver from
ftp://microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/speak.exe
- START --> Settings --> Control Panel -->Add New
Hardware -> No (If asked to search for new hardware)
-->Sound ,Video,Game controllers --> Have Disk
-->Locate the file 'Speak.exe' --> Install
customize the speaker settings
- START --> Settings --> Control Panel
-->Multimedia -->Advanced --> Audio device -->PC
speaker
|
| Screen Capture |
| Use the 'Print Screen' key on you keyboard
and then paste it into Paint or any other graphics
program. |
| To prevent them from lining up to the left side of your
screen |
- Right-click on an empty space on the
Desktop
- Select 'Arrange Icons'
- Uncheck 'Auto Arrange'
- Press the F5 key to refresh the
Desktop.
|
| System File
Checker |
| System File Checker is a Windows 98
utility. It scans critical system files for errors.It also
replaces any damaged files with original files. For
this go Start --> Programs-> Accessories->
System Tools-> System Information --> System Files
Checker (in tools menu) --> Scan For Altered Files -->
start. |
| The Registry
Checker |
| Registry Checker is a Windows 98 utility. It scans the
Registry for errors. To invoke the Registry Checker, go to
Start --> Programs-> Accessories-> System
Tools-> System
Information --> Registry Checker. |
| File and folder
comparison tool |
|
WinDiff is a Windows 98 utility
for File and folder comparison. This tool gives you a
graphical display of the differences found. To enable this
tool
- insert Windows cd
- go to the folder
\tools\reskit\file
- copy the files WINDIFF.EXE, GUTILS.DLL, and
WINDIFF.HLP to your computer.
- Double click on
Windiff.exe
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|
Rename The Recycle Bin
|
To add the "Rename" option to the Recycle Bin when right-clicking on it,
-
open Notepad and copy these lines into it:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
{654FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex50,01,00,20
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Name the file 'BIN.REG'
-
double-click on it to add it to the registry.
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|
Windows 98 Restore
|
We can restore Windows operating system by using the 'PCRESTOR.bat' file . It is available in the '\Tools\Sysrec' sub-folder of Windows 98 CD-Rom.
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Go to File Manager ('C:\Windows\Winfile.exe')
-
Double-click on 'Pcrestor.bat'.
-
This will create 'C:\Restor' folder contains 'Msbatch.inf'
-
run 'Setup.exe'
Reinstallation of your operating system starts to repair damages
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