The author of this text is not responsible for any damages to your system that you create through system registry editing, hex editing, or any other means. If at any time you even think that the author will be responsible, consider now these words of wisdom...

Playing with your system when you don't know how to do it is foolish. In many cases it's just plain dumb . DO NOT take my word as the equivalent to a manual or technical support. This information is intended as a guide, not a manual. Hopefully (though I make no promises), after reading this guide, you will have come to better understand what your system is doing and/or how to use it more efficiently. If that happens, you may then act on your own judgement in following (or not following) the suggestions of this text.

I wish you luck, but mainly I wish you wisdom.

                                                                                                          -- Golden_Eternity

1.0 Basics and Beyond

1.0.1 Software

1.1 Desktop Shortcuts

1.1.1 Recommended Shortcuts for Desktop.
1.1.2 How to get rid of the arrow on a shortcut's icon.
1.1.3 How to get rid of unwanted icons (Tweak UI).
1.1.4 How to refresh the Desktop without restarting.
1.1.5 Shortcut to Control Panel's Display Settings.

1.2 Keyboard Shortcuts

1.2.1 Cycling through applications.
1.2.1.1 Alt+Tab
1.2.1.2 Alt+Shift+Tab
1.2.1.3 Alt+Esc

1.2.2 Opening the Start Menu (Ctrl+Esc)
1.2.2.1 Switching applications through Taskbar
1.2.2.1.1 Ctrl+Esc, Tab
1.2.2.1.2 Ctrl+Esc, Tab, R/L Arrows (Alternate build)

1.2.3 Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste
1.2.3.1 Undo (Ctrl+Z) (Alt+Backspace)
1.2.3.2 Cut (Ctrl+X) (Shift+Del)
1.2.3.3 Copy (Ctrl+C) (Ctrl+Insert)
1.2.3.4 Paste (Ctrl+V) (Shift+Insert)

1.2.4 New, Open, Save, Print
1.2.4.1 New (Ctrl+N)
1.2.4.2 Open (Ctrl+O)
1.2.4.3 Save (Ctrl+S)
1.2.4.4 Print (Ctrl+P)

1.2.5 Closing Windows with Keyboard Shortcuts (Alt+F4)

1.3 Explorer Tips

1.3.1 How to not open a new window when opening a new folder.

1.3.2 Right click
1.3.2.1 "New" Menu on right click.
1.3.2.2 Send To Menu on right click.
1.3.2.3 Move, Copy, Shortcut
1.3.2.4 Open With...

1.3.3 How to show a bitmap image as it's own icon.
1.3.4 File associations.
1.3.5 Setting default path for Explorer.
1.3.6 File Manager (Winfile.exe)

1.4 Recycle Bin

1.4.1 How to delete files instead of sending them to the Recycle Bin.
1.4.2 How to rename the Recycle Bin.
1.4.3 How to get rid of the Recycle Bin.

1.5 Start Menu/Button

1.5.1 Moving the Start Button
1.5.2 Closing the Start Button
1.5.2.1 Re-Opening the Start Button

1.5.3 Documents in Start Menu
1.5.4 Control Panel Shortcuts in Start Menu
1.5.5 Clearing Run History

1.6 Taskbar

1.6.1 Selecting Taskbar without searching the Start Menu.
1.6.2 Tricks to hide the Taskbar (Auto-hide, Sizing, Location, Color).
 

2.0 Boot-up/Shut Down

2.1 Splash Screens
2.1.1 How to change the Windows 95 Splash Screens.
2.1.2 How to by-pass the Boot-Up Splash Screen.

2.2 Welcome Tips (See 3.1.1)

2.3 Booting to MS-DOS
2.3.1 Closing windows to a DOS prompt.

2.4 Restarting Windows Quickly
 

3.0 Registry Editing

3.1 Regedit

3.1.1 Welcome Tips
3.1.2 CD-Key/Registration
3.1.3 "New" Menu on Right Click (Section 1.3.2.1)
3.1.4 Shortcut Arrows (Section 1.1.2)
 

4.0 Hex Editing

4.1 Explorer.exe
 

5.0 Partitions (My Battle with Tech Support)

5.1 The point of partitions in Windows 95.
5.2 How to restore partitions without reformatting ("That's Impossible!")
 

6.0 Appendix

6.1 Release Notes
6.2 How to contact the author