Changing the clock to 24-Hour Time
1. To change the display of the clock on the taskbar to 24-hour format:
2. Open the Control Panel
3. Double-click on the Regional Settings icon
4. Click on the Time tab
5. In the Time style section select H:mm:ss
Removing the InBox and Recycle Bin Icons from the Desktop
To remove the InBox from your desktop, without needing to run the Policy Editor:
1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Desktop \ NameSpace
3. Below that should be a few keys
4. Rename the key {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. I usually put another character before or after the curly braces.
5. Restart Windows and the InBox icon should be gone
6. You can do the same for any other items you don't to show such as the Recycle Bin or The Internet icons
Changing or Removing the Start Menu Icons
1. Download Microangelo and install it.
2. Create a blank.ico file.
3. Put it in a directory (C:\Windows. Then double click on the Microangelo Engineer to run it.
4. When you get it up on the screen click on the "start" tab. You will see a list of all the icons in the start menu.
5. Highlight the first one (programs) and select "Change". It will bring up a dialog box - select "browse".
6. Go to the directory that contains the blank icon and select it. Hit OK until you get back to the main
7. Engineer window and do all the rest exactly the same way.
8. When you have finished changing them all to the blank icon, Hit "Apply".
9. Hit your start button and look to see if all the icons are invisible. (They should be.)
10. Close out Micro Engineer and you're finished.
Adding Drive to the SendTo List
* I have recently found that if you want to send something from A: drive or from any where to any drive, you can just make a short cut of that drive in subdirectory SENDTO.
* For example I have two hard drives, a Floppy Drive, and a CDROM
* After I have make a copy of each of my drive I will be able to send a whole directory of E:\XXX from the CDROM drive to A: drive or any other drive that i have had made the short c t in the SENDTO subdir of WINDOWS.
Adding a Protected Briefcase
You can make your briefcase a shortcut on the on desktop so if you have multiple users on your PC and you don't want to have a password for your briefcase, you can at least protect it from inadvertent deletion by just making the briefcase a hidden file or in a different location other than \Windows\Desktop\My Briefcase, then send a copy or shortcut to the desktop.
Customizing the Start Button's Name and Icon
To change the name of the Start button:
1. Copy EXPLORER.EXE in your Windows directory to another directory
2. Start a hex editor (I've been using Diskedit from Norton)
3. Edit EXPLORER.EXE
4. Search for the string 53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74
5. This is the word Start with the letters separated by a null character
6. The section you are in should also have the words "There was an internal error..." also separated with the null character immediately following
7. Now just replace the Start letters with any of your choice (up to 5 characters only)
8. Exit Windows
9. Boot to DOS
10. Copy your new Explorer file over the original
To change the Start button icon:
1. Copy USER.EXE in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory to another directory
2. Use an icon editor that can replace icons in executable files
3. Edit USER.EXE and replace the flag icons with the icon of your choice
4. Boot to DOS
5. Copy the new USER.EXE
The same can be done with NT 4.0, just the offset will be different but the location to just before "There was an internal error..." is the same.
Adding the Device Manager to your Desktop
This allows you to quickly see all the devices attached to your computer.
I use it a lot to select Refresh when I add new external SCSI devices that were not
powered up at startup. This way you do not need to restart the computer. To add the Device Manager Icon:
1. Right click on an open area of your desktop
2. Select New / Shortcut
3. Type in C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL SYSDM.CPL, SYSTEM, 1
4. Replace C:\WINDOWS with whatever directory you installed Windows95
5. Click on the Next box
6. At the next dialog box type in Device Manager
7. Click on the Finish when you are done
Note: Replacing the 1 with a 3 will bring up the Performance Status
Adding Options to the Right-Click of the Start Menu
To add an option to the Right-Click of the Start button:
1. Go to Control Panel, View, Options
2. Click on the File Types Tab
3. Scroll down until you see File Folder
4. Click on Edit
5. Click on New
6. Type in the Name you want to in the Action box
7. Type in the Application you want to use
A good option to add is an MS-DOS Prompt:
Try this c:\command.com /k cd %1
It also puts the shortcut on a regular folder.
This command will open a DOS window with that folder as the current directory.
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