It crashes, it drives you mad, but in the end you live with it — ladies and gentlemen: Windows 98!

This section will cover tips, secrets, and my list of essential utilities for Windows 95/98.

Some links point to text files stored on this site, others are links.

• local text files
• remote link

Essential web resources for Microsoft Windows 98/98se and solutions to common problems

Articles

How the Internet began

How PCs work

MS Motivation

BIOS

AMIBIOS Beep Codes

AMIBIOS ID strings

CD-ROM

CD-ROM in DOS mode

Default Audio CD icon

Default play CD

Control Panel

Applets

on START menu

Display

Display Stretch missing

Identify Video Card

Image Previews Missing

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DOS

MS-DOS Tips currently offline

Drivers

The Driver Zone

File Formats

File Extensions

Transparent GIFs

Fun

Easter Eggs

Egg: MS Campus

Easter Egg Collection

Smilies & Emoticons Dict.

Fun PC Programs

Irn-Bru Ultimate Wind-up site

Internet

Add HTML editor to IE

Anonymity on the web

FTP upload

IE Toolbar background

Optimizing.net

Newsgroups Guide

Internet Explorer Home

IE Web Accessories

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Microsoft

Microsoft Homepage

Microsoft Windows page

Microsoft Knowledge-Base

Modem

Speed up modem dialing

Optimizing.net

My Documents

Restoring My Documents

Network LAN

Diagnose MS netwk problems

Disable User Profiles

Networking Win3.11 & Win98

Prevent Logon Prompt

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Newsgroups

Make a Good Post

PDF

PDF Creator text

PDF Creator webpage

Why PDF suck on web

Personal Web Server 4.0

Configure ActivePerl for PWS

Start-up problems

Power Management

Enable ACPI support

PowerToys

PowerToys Guide (currently offline)

Download Win95 Shell Power Toys

Download Win95 Kernal Toys

Tweak UI Guide (currently offline)

Download TweakUI 2000 v.1.33

IE Web Accessories

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Printer

Print Directory listing

Printing PRN files

Problem Solving

Microsoft Knowledge-Base

How to e-mail KB (txt)

MVPs home page

Ron Badour MVP

List of fixes on Badour site

Bill James MVP (VBscript)

DB Knox MVP

MVPS User Tips

Psion

PsiWin 2.x Fix for SIBO

PsiWin plugin for MS Outlook

Real Audio

Create RealAudio

Recycle Bin

Corrupted Recycle Bin

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Registry

Extract registry key under DOS

Registry under MS-DOS

See registry.html on this website

Reinstallation

Reinstall Tip

More Tips

Reinstall over itself

Security

Gibson Research

Password Tips

Password Generator Software (20 Kb)

Privacy.net

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Data Protection (UK Govt.)

LavaSoft Ad-Aware

Start-up and Shutdown

Custom Start-up logo

Disable Start-up logo

Remove command echo

Shutdown shortcuts

System (General)

Blue Screen of Death no more

Customize My Pictures location

Default Installation Directory

Explorer CL switches

How to email Knowledge Base

Increase Icon Cache Size

My PC Specs (AMD K6-2 500)

Print Directory listing

Product Key

Right-click context menu (Add)

No right-click context in Start

Shortcuts to System Folders

System File Checker (Using)

System Tray (Remove)

Toolbar - create a new

Windows key shortcuts

Windows Version Nos.

Y2K Test

TweakUI

Tweak UI Guide (currently offline)

Download TweakUI 2000 v.1.33

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Virus

Symantec Virus List

Symantec Virus Hoax List

Windows tips

PC Plus

Windows 98 Tricks + Secrets

URLs to various sites

Win 98 tips from c:\windows

Windows key shortcuts

Windows 3.1x

Connecting to the Internet

Win 3.1x Tips

Win 3.1x Files (48Kb RTF)

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