This section provides the most interesting tips for working with Windows, without using the system registry of the operating system. If you know any original advice about Windows , I'll be grateful for any useful information, the names of the authors who sent the best advice on working with a computer will be published on the site. Let's open all the secrets of Windows.

How to disable ScanDisk in Windows 98

Climb into ... Windows \ System and run MsConfig.exe. There you click on the Advanced button and turn off ScanDisk.

Fast Windows restart

If you hold the "Shift" button while pressing the "Restart computer" button, only Windows, and not the entire system, will be overloaded.

Autostart CD

If you have auto-play Audio CD, then you can avoid starting your disc if you keep the key pressed when you close the CD-ROM. The key should be depressed when the CD-ROM LED lights up again after closing the drive. So do not let her go ahead of time. The same method avoids running autorun when inserting a Data CD. A more radical way to refuse autorun starts is to disable automatic disk recognition in the CD-ROM drive settings (Control Panel - System - CD-ROM - Setup). As a result, Audio CDs will not automatically play when inserted into the drive.

Do not turn off the monitor without changing the settings.

If for some reason you do not want your monitor to go out after N minutes, and you can not turn this option off, then click the "Start" button, hover your mouse over one of the menu items, and leave it like that. In theory, the monitor should not shut down.

Undo actions performed on Windows

You can undo the actions performed in Windows (for example, deleting or moving a file) by pressing Ctrl + Z.

Deleting a file without putting it in the trash

If you hold the key while dragging a file to the trash (or selecting the "Delete" menu item), the file will be deleted and not placed in the trash.

Place the screen in the buffer

Pressing the PrintScreen key places the image of your screen in the buffer. It can then be inserted into any program that works with graphics - WinWord, PainBrush, PhotoShop, etc. Pressing the keyboard shortcut PrintScreen + Alt puts the buffer in the image from the active window.

Quickly open the Desktop folder and Windows

If you click the "Start" button, select "Run" and print a point in the line, the "Desktop" folder will open. And if you print two points, the Windows folder will open.

Viewing Notepad Files in Notepad

If in Windows 98 you opened a text file in the notebook, and it appeared in the DOS encoding, do not rush to swear and open another viewer. Select all the text and assign the font "Terminal" for it. And if you add a font with KOI-8 encoding, you can also read the texts written in this encoding in the same notebook.

"Send to"

This section can be configured to be able to send files to any directory or anywhere else. To do this, just enter the Windows \ SendTo directory and create shortcuts that point to folders, drives or applications. Now, by right-clicking on any file and selecting "Send to" in the pop-up menu, you will see your shortcuts in action.
Using the "Send to" menu presents another convenient and little known possibility: to erase files without confirmation, if you add a shortcut to the "Send to" menu to the basket.
Similarly, you can create a shortcut to the printer, then simply "send" the file to print. By the way, you can create a printer shortcut directly on the "Desktop" and, when you need to print a file, drag it to the icon with the printer.

Fighting blackened icons

If the icons on your desktop suddenly turn black, go off, or somehow deteriorate, you can repair them in two ways: reboot into DOS and delete the SHELLICONCACHE file from the Windows folder, or go to the screen settings, choose Appearance, find in Drop down the list of "icon", change its size, click OK, and then restore the size back.

Use the system speaker instead of a sound card.

If you do not have a sound card, then you can use the system speaker. Locate the driver speaker.drv Start Control Panel and select "Install Hardware". Do not let Windows search for it! Select "Audio Video and Game Controllers", click the "Install from Disk" button and specify your driver. It's that simple.