WINDOWS 95, A Few Tips

                     From Alex van Kaam

It is a good idea to also add your soundcard lines to the
Dosstart.bat file, this way your soundcard will be reset once
you're back in DOS. Sometimes Windows can have changed stuff on
your card (like the volume or CD music input) and you will have
very soft sound in a game, resetting your card like this will
prevent that problem.

There is also a way from preventing Windows 95 from starting up
automatically.  Doing the following is at your own risk!!!!
Shut down to DOS
Type >Attrib -s -h -r msdos.sys
Type >Edit msdos.sys
Change 'BOOTGUI=1' to 'BOOTGUI=0', be sure to overwrite the line
and not to add any extra characters, even not a space
Save the file
Type>Attrib +s +h +r msdos.sys
If you have done this correctly you will be returned to the DOS
prompt as soon as your Autoexec.bat file is loaded.

Also try different things when you try to load a DOS game, I could
not load Stonekeep through the task bar or from the desktop and
not leaving Windows 95, each time I got an out of memory error and
was returned to Windows 95.  If however I ran ran Stonekeep using
the Explorer (file manager) it ran beautifully.

Check to see if Windows 95 has set the speed of your CD-ROM right:
Press 'Start' ----> 'Settings' ----> 'Control Panel' ---->
'System' ----> 'Performance' ----> 'File system' ----> 'CD-ROM'
select the right speed and select 'OK'

Use the right mouse key, it brings up a lot of new options.

Try getting the powertoys file, it has several utilities that are
very handy. They are made by the Windows 95 team so they fit in
perfectly.
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