Quick Restart of Windows 98
Click on Start, then choose Shut Down. Select Restart. Hold down the Shift key while you click OK. Windows will now restart without executing a complete warm boot.
Fonts
To see samples of all the fonts in Windows, open the fonts folder located in C/Windows/Fonts. Double-click on any of the fonts to view them or print them out.
Graphic Settings
To a adjust your graphic settings to reach optimal performance, click System in the Control Panel. On the Performance tab, click the Graphics button and drag the slider to different positions until you find the one that works best for you.
If Windows98 does not detect your Monitor
To select your monitor: Right-click on a blank portion of your Desktop, then choose Properties. On the Settings tab of the Display Properties dialog box, click Advanced. On the Monitor tab, if your monitor is not listed correctly, click Change and select your monitor from the list or select Have Disk if you have the driver disk for your monitor. Click Apply and follow the instruction on the screen.
Norton Crashes
If you are using a Symantec application and experience occasional crashes involving symevnt, you can download the latest version of that file from the Symantec Library.
Bitmap Icons
If you want your bitmaps represented by small versions of themselves instead of the generic bitmap icon, click Start, choose run, then type in Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_Root/Paint.Picture/Default-Icon and highlight it. An entry will appear in the right pane. Double-click on (Default) in the right pane and change the value of Default-Icon to %1. Now all of your bitmaps' icons will be small versions of themselves.
No Second Chance on Delete
Consider very carefully before deleting from floppys or other external drives like Zip drives, because the files you delete do not go to the Recyle bin but are deleted permanently instead.
Viewing Properties of any Disk
Right-click on any drive and choose Properties. This will allow you to label the disk, determine it's size and free space, and run system optimization tools.
Old Style File Manager
For those of you who don't like Windows Explorer and prefer the old Windows File Manager, you can still access it from your Start Menu. Click Start, then Run, then type winfile in the text box and click OK.
Old Style Program Manager
If you like the old Windows Program Manager, you can still access it from your Start Menu. Click Start, then Run, then type progman in the text box and click OK.
Reducing the Size of your Recycle Bin
By default, your Recycle Bin can occupy up to 10% of each hard drive on your system. On a PC with a 4 gigabyte hard drive, this amounts to 400 MEGS of disk space. If you want to reduce the size allocated for the recycle bin, right-click on its icon and select properties. Use the slider bar to adjust the Maximum Size of Recycle Bin to something more reasonable, say 2%. On that same 4 gig drive, this still lets you keep 80 megabytes of deleted objects available for recovery. Bear in mind that if you delete often and don't empty your recyble bin, this may not be for you. Once your recycle bin is full, any items you delete will not be stored there, but will be permanently deleted and not recoverable.
Stop Programs From Loading at Startup
If you have programs that want to load at startup, even though they are not in your startup group, click Start, then Run, then type in msconfig and press Enter. On the Startup tab, remove the checkmark from any item you don't want to run at startup. If you change your mind, just go back and re-check the item.
Custom Startup Screens
If you want to change you startup, wait or shutdown screens, first edit the image you'd like to use and make it exactly 320 x 400 pixels with 256 colors. Then rename your current Windows startup, shutdown and wait screens so you will have them to revert back to. The Wait while windows boots screen is called Logo.sys; the Windows is now shutting down screen is called Logow.sys and the It's now safe to turn off your computer screen is called Logos.sys. Logos.sys and Logow.sys are in C:\Windows and Logo.sys is probably in C:\Windows\Options\Cabs. Rename the old ones to something like LogoOld.sys, etc. Then replace the old images with the new ones.
Windows Explorer Shortcut Keys
F2 Rename (selected folder or file)
F3 Find
F4 Displays the Combo Box
F5 Refresh the Display
F6 Switch the highlight bar between panes
F10 Activates the Menu bar
Shift+F10 Equivalent to right-click
Alt+Enter Show Properties
Ctrl+A Selects all files in a folder
Ctrl+C Copy selection or item
Ctrl+G Go to a specific directory
Ctrl+V Paste selection or item
Ctrl+Z Undo last action
Backspace Go to the parent folder
NumLock (and) * Expands everything under selection
NumLock (and) - (or Left arrow) Collapses selection
NumLock (and) + (or Right arrow) Expands selection
