Welcome Screen - Finding
Win95 - Keeping Running Fast
Win95 - Re-Install De-Hassler
Win95 - OSR-2 System Problems - Fixing
Win95 - Start without Start up Bitmap
Win95 - Stop Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive
Win95 - Turn off Start-up Logo
Windows Media Player Library File
Windows prompt
Finding the Welcome Screen
If you turned off the Welcome Screen and would like to see it again or make it pop up every time you start Windows, go to the Start, Run, and type WELCOME, and click OK.
Keeping Win95 Running Fast
Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
rem Check for TMP files and Remove them
rem if not exist %TEMP%\*.TMP goto EndTMP
attrib %TEMP%\*.TMP -r -a -s -h del %TEMP%\*.TMP :EndTMP
Each time your PC boots, the above lines will remove any files with TMP extension in your TEMP directory set by the TEMP environment variable. Windows 95 assigns C:\WINDOWS\TEMP to the TEMP directory on boot up, however, some machines have Windows on another drive, therefor instead of using C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, I use the %TEMP% to get all possible configurations. According to my evaluation of different PCs at my clients, I have seen PCs drop as much as 25% in performance with these files in the TEMP directory. Plus they take up needed disk space.
Win95 Re-Install De-Hassler
If a format is part of your installation scenario why not make C drive for Windows Only.
IE make C drive a relatively small partition - 200 MEGS and install only Win95 and perhaps a back-up directory on it and then have all your programs install to another partition/drive.
This way if things go awry and a complete erasure of C (Win95) would be advantageous you can DELETE C without a lot of hassle.
Assuming you have a usable back up of your Registry, you would simply reinstall Win95, replace the USER.DAT & SYSTEM.DAT files, re-boot and your in business. Wow - no messy transferring of files you want to save & a minimum hassle with your software and it's settings!
Fixing Win95 OSR-2 System Problems
Win95, Service Release 2 (OSR-2) on all new computers has a known problem of loading duplicate device drivers in Win95. If you're getting strange GPFs, etc. and Scandisk, deleting .tmp (temp) files, and Defrag do not solve the problem, go into Windows Safe Mode (hit F5 at Start-up). Go into Device Manager (in System-Control Panel) and go through each device listed. If any duplicates are found, delete both devices. Win95 will redetect at start-up. This will clear up a lot of problems. If you're having strange problems with a older release of Win95, checking for duplicates will sometimes solve the problem.
Start Windows95 without the Start up Bitmap
If you don't want to see the Windows95 Start up Logo anymore, you can edit the "msdos.sys" and add the following command-line: Logo=0
Stop Windows95 from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive
A strange bug has popped up in Windows-95, where the floppy drive (or drives) is searched every time an application is launched.
This problem is not confined to the use of Explorer, or necessarily on systems with Norton Navigator installed.
This problem is not caused by an initial access to the floppy, as rebooting does not solve the problem.
The following are possible solutions to this problem:
Clear the documents menu.
Clear Unwanted Entries from the Start Menu's Run Command.
Check for any viruses on your system (some users have reported the NEUVILLE virus)
Search your hard disk for all .PIF that point to programs on a floppy drive
Take out LocalLoadHigh=1 from your MSDOS.SYS file.
Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID in the Registry for any references to OCX's or DLL's referenced on the floppy.
Submitted by Joseph LeVasseur
If you're using Norton Navigator '95:
Clear Norton Navigator's Run history (or disable the Run history all together).
If you're noticing this behavior with only a particular applications, you must clear the History List for that application.
Download the bug fix from ftp.symantec.com.
Other programs known to cause this problem:
McAfee Antivirus '95 - try removing this program entirely, or just disabling the Access & Shutdown options in the Scan Disks On area in the Detection tab of the VShield Configuration Manager.
FirstAid '95 - try removing this program or disabling certain features.
Long Filenames for Windows95 - View Software has a patch that supposedly fixes this problem.
HiJack for Windows95 - turning off "Enable HiJaak shell extensions" in the HiJack Control Panel.
Konica Picture Show - try removing this program entirely.
Turn off the Windows 95 Start-up Logo
To remove the Windows 95 logo on start-up, you can do the following:
1. Open the file msdos.sys in the MS-DOS Editor.
2. Find the [Options] section.
3. Add the following line to the [Options] section: Logo=0
4. Reboot your computer, and there will be no logo on start-up!
The default setting here is: "Logo1" which adds the default animated Start-Up Logo.
Windows Media Player LIbrary File
Create a new library
Close Windows Media Player.
The library database file (CurrentDatabase_219.wmdb) is located in
systemdrive\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player
Rename the file by changing its file extension to .bak.
Open the player and new library database file is created.
Open the Add to Library F3.
Click the Browse button to locate a folder on your computer that contains digital media files. Specify the folder location in the Look in box.
Click the Search button.
The Player will search for digital media files and playlists in the folder that you specify and add them to your library. If you have your files and playlists stored in different folders on your computer, you may need to search for files several times, specifying a different folder each time.
You're In Windows prompt
Ever forget you're in a window's shell?
This little addition to your win.bat will make your prompt read like this when you drop to DOS thru Windows:
You're In Windows: C:\WINDOWS
All you do for this reminder is add the following line in your win.bat file: SET WINPMT=You're in Windows!$_$P$G.
This set's the first line of your DOS prompt to You're in Windows.