Removing Log Off Username from the
Start Menu
Link Wizard
Restoring Your Registry
Power Management Troubleshooter
Bypassing the Need to Register Win98 to get the Automatic Upgrades
Using Windows98's Disk Cleanup
Hiding the Windows98 Version on the Desktop
Disabling the Active Desktop
Running the Windows Update Manager
Disabling the Windows Update Manager
Disabling Automatic IP Addressing
Adding Shortcuts to the Desktop
Adding Shortcuts to Menus
Gradient Fill Title Bars
Installing the OEM Version Over Win95
Adding Microsoft Fax and Windows Messaging
Right Mouse Click and the Start Menu Programs
Changing the Names of the Programs on the Quick
Launch Toolbar
ScanReg
Installing the Resource Kit
Increasing Drive Performance
Configuring for Single Click
Running the System File Checker
System Information Utility with Win98
System Configuration Utility with Win98
Putting the Desktop Back on the Quick Launch
Bar
Adding Programs to Windows98 Quick Launch Bar
Installing Pinball with Win98
To remove the Log Off line on your Start menu
Start RegEdit
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
Create a new DWORD Value
Name it NoLogOff
Give this entry and add the value 1
Logoff and back on again to reset the registry
The Link Wizard scans all of the link files on your system. If the associated
program is not found, the Link Wizard will give you the option of removing it.
You can find the Link Wizard in the RESKIT / DESKTOP directory of your Win98 CD.
The file name is CHKLNKS.EXE
Has your registry recently been damaged?
To determine whether your registry was recently damaged, restore the registry from the previous day's backup.
To restore the registry from the previous day's backup:
Note: If you restore a previous registry, you may need to reinstall any programs that were installed after the registry backup was made.
If you are having a problem with setting your power management, there Power Management Troubleshooter tool available either on the Win98 CD or on the web. This a program that can help you determine the device or driver that might be interfering.
It is on the CD at \Tools\Mtsutil\Pmtshoot\Pmtshoot.Exe or the web at Power Management Trouble Shooter (158 K)
See Microsoft's site for More Information.
There talk about hacking the Windows 98 Registry to bypass the obligation of register them into Microsoft, in order to be eligible to get Automatic upgrades.
Windows98 has a built-in utility called Disk Cleanup.
You can run it from either the Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Disk
Cleanup or directly run CLEANMGR.EXE
Select the drive you want to clean
From here you can delete:
You can also view the files before they are deleted
If you have the Plus Pack for Windows98, you can install the Disk Cleanup addition.
It will build a index of several other file-types.
They are:
You can then delete any individual files you want. You can also sort by name, type, size, date or location.
Note: If you want to run this last program directory, it is \
PROGRAM FILE \ PLUS! \ CLEANUP \ FILECLN.EXE
This program will also run on Win95, NT 4 and NT 5 without the Plus Pack being installed.
To run the Windows Update Manger, connect to the Internet and run WUPDMGR.EXE
To disable the Windows Update Manager, make the following registry edit
A Windows98 computer on a LAN and configured for DHCP will first try to
obtain an IP address from a DHCP server.
If that fails they will assign themselves an IP address from the 169.254.x.x range. This
range is only for small, private networks.
This is a advantage for those users setting up a small local LAN. They don't need to worry
about assigning IP addresses for their computers.
However, there are situations where you might want to disable this feature. For example, a
laptop user that has a network adapter installed but is not connected to their local LAN.
If you don't want this feature, you can disable it by:
Starting Regedit
Go to Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ VxD \ DHCP
Add a DWORD entry with the name IPAutoconfigurationEnabled
Give it a value of 0x0
Restart the computer
This will disable Automatic Private IP Addressing but not DHCP
An easy way to add a shortcut of a program to the desktop is to:
Right click on the icon
Select Send To / Desktop as Shortcut
If you drag a shortcut to the Start Menu and drop it, you will get a
shortcut on your Start Menu.
To add it to a Program group below the Start Menu, hover it there for a second or two and
the group will expand.
You can then insert the shortcut into that Program Group.
A divider line will be displayed to let you know where you will be placing the shortcut.
To move a shortcut, left-click on it and move it to the new location.
If you have Win98 and are using at least 16 bit color, you can have a
gradient fill for your title bars.
The effect is that your title bar gradually changes color from left to right.
To enable this:
Right click on an open area of the Desktop
Right-Click
Select Properties
Click on the Appearance tab
Pull down the Item list
Select Active or Inactive Title Bar
You can select Color and Color2 (only if you have 16 bit or higher color saturation)
Now your title bars will have a gradient fill
Normally you can't install the OEM Version of Windows98 if you have an existing Win95
on your system.
To get around this problem:
If you want to install Microsoft Fax or Windows Messaging, these don't normally show up
as options.
They are on the Win98 CD in the Tools\Oldwin95\Message\US directory.
Run WMS.EXE to install Windows Messaging
Run AWFAX.EXE to install Microsoft Fax
A new way you can use the Right Mouse click with Win98 are with the programs listed in
the Start Menu and the menus below it.
You can now Delete, Rename, Cut, Copy, Sort, Drag Shortcuts to the desktop and more.
You can even move them to different parts of the Start Menu.
In case you want to change the name that gets displayed when you hover your mouse over
the icons in the Quick Launch Toolbar,
the icon names can be changed in c:\windows\application\microsoft\internet
explorer\quick launch
Windows98 has a DOS mode registry scanning program
Several switches can be used with this program
/BACKUP - Backup the registry and related system configuration files.
/RESTORE - Choose a backup to restore.
/OPT - Optimizes the Registry by removing wasted space. This will be done automatically by Win98 if there is more than 500K of wasted space
/FIX - Repair the registry.
/COMMENT="<comment>" :- Adds the specified comment to the CAB file while backing up.
From the CD in the \TOOLS\RESKIT directory, you can install the Windows98 Resource Kit.
The following is an excerpt from a document included on the CD that lists all the programs
that can be installed.
- BATCH.EXE: Microsoft Batch Setup utility. Creates files for automated installation of Windows 98 and components.
- CHDOSCP.EXE: Code Page Changer. Changes the Code Page used for MS-DOS-based programs to match Windows 98 Regional Settings.
- CHECKLINKS.EXE: Link Check Wizard. Finds and eliminates dead links and shortcuts.
- CLIPTRAY.EXE: Clip Tray. Optimizes and manages the Clipboard.
- FAT32WIN.EXE: Fat32 Conversion Information Tool.
- INFINST.EXE: Windows 98 Inf installer Utility.
- LFNBACK.EXE: Long Filename Backup Utility.
- MINITEL .TTF Files. Minitel font emulation files for HyperTerminal.
- NETMON: Network Monitor. Service for remote monitoring of network performance on Windows 98 client machines.
- QUIKTRAY.EXE: Quick Tray. Organizes the icons in the Windows 98 system tray.
- POLEDIT.EXE: System Policy Editor. Sets administrative policies to define configuration settings for individual users, individual computers, or groups of users.
- PWLEDIT.EXE: Windows 98 Password List Editor.
- REMOTREG: Microsoft Remote Registry. Service for remotely viewing and editing the Registry on Windows 98 client machines.
- RPCPP: Remote Procedure Call Print Provider. Service for administering network printers from Windows 98 machines.
- SNMP Agent: Windows 98 SNMP network protocol agent.
- TEXTVIEW.EXE: Text file viewer. Quickly displays the contents of text files.
- TIMETHIS.EXE: Time This. Scripting tool that times how long it takes for the system to execute a given command.
- TWEAKUI.EXE: Power Toy. Enhances and customizes the Windows 98 desktop.
- TZEDIT.EXE: Time Zone Editor. Creates and edits time zone entries for the Date/Time icon in Control Panel.
- USBVIEW.EXE: USB Viewer. USB Device information and troubleshooting tool.
- WAITFOR.EXE: Scripting tool that causes the computer to wait for a signal sent over the network.
- WHERE.EXE: Command-line tool that reports the location of a specified file on the hard disk.
- WINDIFF.EXE: File and Directory comparison. Compares the contents of files or directories and reports differences.
- WINSET.EXE. Command-line/scripting tool that sets global environment variables for Windows 98.
- WSHADMIN.HLP: Windows Scripting Host Administrator's Guide. Guide to running scripts and designing applications for Windows Scripting Host.
You can likely increase your Hard Drive or CD ROM performance by:
One of the configuration changes you can make with Win98 is to have the mouse only need
a single click to open programs or shortcuts.
To make this change:
To check the integrity of key system file, you can run SFC.EXE in the
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory
It can restore corrupted files, check for changed or deleted system files, as well as
restore default settings
To check on various system configurations such as:
Run the System Information utility from Start/Accessories/System Tools/System Information
There is a program called MSCONFIG.EXE located in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory.
With it you can configure your
You can then easily check or uncheck any of the items in each section
If you should delete the the Show Desktop icon from the Quick Launch toolbar, you can easily get it back again.
With Windows98, you can have programs on the tool bar where they can be quickly
launched.
This area of the toolbar is right next to the start button.
To add a program, simply right-click and drag it there
When prompted, select Create Shortcut
To access the program, press Ctrl-Esc to bring up the toolbar and click on the program's
icon
Normally you can't install Pinball from the original Win95 Plus Pack if you are running
Win98.
To get around this: