Table Of Contents
From Windows® 98 Secrets®
by Brian Livingston, Davis Straub
Part I: Introduction, Installation, and Startup
Chapter 1: Read This First
Why Windows 98 Secrets
How to Use This Book
This Book's Overall Structure
Part I: Introduction, Installation,
and Startup
Part II: Interface to the Desktop
and the Internet
Part III: Internet Applications
Part IV: Connectivity
Part V: Plug and Play
Part VI: DOS Secrets
Part VII: Windows 98 Shareware
Getting Commands Right the First Time
Finding the Good Parts
Getting Technical Support for Windows 98
Online News about Windows 98
Accessing Microsoft Support Newsgroups
Accessing Technical Support on CompuServe
Technical Support for the CD-ROM
What Are Windows 98 Secrets?
Chapter 2: Installing and Setting Up Windows 98
Take a Moment to Reflect
Requirements
Unsupported hardware
Making room for Windows 98
Upgrading DOS to Windows 98
Upgrading from Windows 3.1x
Upgrading Windows 95 to Windows 98
Loading the source files
Installing over a network or from
a CD-ROM
Getting Ready to Start Windows 98 Setup
Back up some files
Changes will be made
Running Setup from DOS or Windows
Setup switches
The Setup Process
Starting Setup
Copy files
Finishing Setup
Installing Windows 98 Over a Copy of Windows 3.1x
Adding and Removing Parts of Windows 98
Copying All Your Windows 98 Files to a New Hard Disk
Installing Windows 98 With Other Operating Systems
DR DOS
Windows NT
OS/2
Uninstalling Windows 98
Back to DOS 7.1
Back to an earlier version of MS-DOS
Back to Windows NT
Chapter 3: A Quick Look at Windows 98
The Desktop
Active Desktop
Single-Click Icons
Finding Stuff the Web Way
The Start Button
What's on the Desktop?
Tune in the Channels
What's in the My Computer Window?
Disk Drives, Folders, and Files
Special Folder Windows
Quitting
Chapter 4: A Tutorial for Windows 98
Starting
Switching Views
Using the Explorer
Creating a Folder or Two
Creating a File
Moving a File
Creating a Shortcut
Deleting a Shortcut
Deleting a File
So What Was the Point?
Chapter 5: Customizing Your Windows 98 Startup
Do I Need to Do This?
How Windows 98 Starts Up
First, the BIOS
Then, DOS
Finally, Windows 98
Msdos.sys
Editing Msdos.sys
Msdos.sys file contents
Msdos.sys options
The Windows 98 Startup Menu
Normal
Logged
Safe mode
Safe mode with network support
Step-by-step confirmation
Command prompt only
Safe mode command prompt only
Previous version of MS-DOS
Startup Keys
What Gets Loaded When
Config.sys
Config.sys variables
Memory Management
Autoexec.bat
Multiple Configurations
Config.sys
Autoexec.bat
Multiple Hardware Configurations
Changing the Startup Graphic
Dual-Boot Configuration
The StartUp Folder
Temporarily turn off Startup
Windows 98 Troubleshooting
System configuration utility
Part II: Interface to the Desktop and the Internet
Chapter 6: The Desktop and the Taskbar
What You See Is a Mess
First, Your Password
The Desktop
The invisible grid
Changing the font and size of icon
title text
Changing other properties of the
Desktop
Putting new items on the Desktop
Pasting and undoing actions
The Active Desktop
The Icons and Items on the Desktop
New icons for Desktop items
Make your own icons
High Color icons
Corrupted Desktop icons
Scraps
The Taskbar and Its Toolbars
The Taskbar buttons
Drag and wait to a Taskbar button
Hiding the Taskbar
Sizing the Taskbar
Moving the Taskbar
Which Desktop edge is best for the
Taskbar?
Resizing and moving windows on the
Desktop
The Start button
Toolbars
The Tray on the Taskbar
The clock
Sliding windows
Task Switching with the Keyboard
The Task Manager
Chapter 7: My Computer -- Folders and Windows
Viewing Your Computer
Once is enough
My Computer, your computer
Changing My Computer to Fred
The My Computer Window
Folders
The special folders in the My Computer
window
My Computer window properties
Drive properties
Opening a new window
One window or many?
Switch to a single window view on
the fly
Open a window in the Explorer view
Closing a folder window
Change Your Window View
Order the icons
Line up your icons
Changing the columns in Details
view
Freshening up the folder window
Windows toolbars
The Explorer bar
Customizing this folder
New, Copy, Cut, Paste, Rename, and Delete
Creating a folder
Moving a file or folder
Copying a file or folder
Copy with Copy and Paste
Cut or Copy now, Paste later
Renaming files and folders
Deleting files and folders
The Undo command
Selecting Items in a Window
Selecting multiple files and folders
Selecting a group of files and/or
folders
Lasso those icons, cowboys and cowgirls
Select everything
Select everything but
Deselect with Ctrl+hover
Select a few bunches of icons
Grabbing the icon group
Dragging multiple icons
Press Esc to cancel
Chapter 8: The Explorer
Explorer Basics
The Explorer views a web page
Finding the Explorer
The Windows Explorer and the Start
button
Putting the Explorer on the Desktop
Turning My Computer into the Explorer
Getting an Overview of Your Computer
Special folders
Two panes -- connected and yet independent
Thumbnails
Folder Options
Sticky view settings
Seeing all the files on your computer
Seeing hidden folders
Single-click or double-click
Navigating with the Explorer
Highlighting a folder icon
Folder icons in the Explorer
Two versions of the Standard Buttons toolbar
Making the left pane bigger
Full-screen Explorer
The Network Neighborhood
Using the keyboard with the folder
tree
Creating New Folders
Copying and Moving Files and Folders
Creating Two Explorer Windows
Explorer (and My Computer) Keyboard Shortcuts
Explorer Command Line Parameters
Going from the Windows 3.1x File Manager to the Explorer
Open, Copy, Move, Delete
Rename
Run
File association
Open an unassociated file
Create directory
Create file
Search or File Find
File view filters
Copy, Label, Format, make a system
disk
Change the font used
Print a directory listing
Put two directory listings side-by-side
Sort files by name, date, file type,
size
View file contents
Undo and Delete
Share a disk drive or folder
Customize the toolbar
See hidden files
See free disk space
File attributes
File size
Additional File Manager strengths
Additional Explorer strengths
Chapter 9: Internet Explorer
The Windows 98 User/Browser Interface
Starting the Internet Explorer
New link, new window
Channels
ActiveX documents
Internet Explorer PowerToys
Connecting to the Internet with the Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer, the 128-bit version
Commands to connect to the Internet
Managing downloads from the Internet
Finding web sites
Customizing the Internet Explorer
Address field
Creating custom versions of the
Internet Explorer
Underlining hyperlinks
Edit on the Internet Explorer toolbar
Make history a quick link
Stop dialing up my Internet service
provider
Favorites and URL Shortcuts
Organizing your favorites
URL shortcuts
Capturing URLs in a frame
Deleting typed URLs in the Address
field
Converting Netscape Navigator bookmarks
to favorites
Saving Web Pages on Your Hard Disk
Internet Explorer drag and drop
links
Drag and drop images
Saving graphics off the Internet
Internet Security
Internet Explorer's security options
Beneath your level
Where are the cookies?
Corrupted Files in the Internet Cache Folder
Corrupt History folder
Defrag hangs
Filling in forms gives me an error
Slow browsing
Err Msg: MPREXE caused an invalid
page fault in Kernel32.dll
The trouble with web sites
Can't find an Internet site
File Download dialog box
Browse in a new process
Browser Wars
Keyboard Shortcuts for Internet Explorer
Where Does the Search Start?
Windows 98 Home Pages
Internet Explorer's Easter Egg
Chapter 10: Shortcuts at Home and Abroad
What's a Shortcut?
Shortcuts Are Great
Put your favorite files and programs
on the Desktop
Automatically start programs when
Windows starts
The Start button is full of shortcuts
- add more
Shortcuts in toolbars
Move, copy, print, and view files
and folders easily
Start DOS programs by clicking icons
Use a shortcut to do more than one
thing at a time
Modify how a Windows program operates
Use a different program to open
a document
Put shortcuts to parts of documents
on the Desktop
Shortcuts to web pages and through
the mail
Shortcuts to e-mail recipients and
newsgroups
Creating Shortcuts
Drag and drop to create a shortcut
Name that shortcut
Get rid of "Shortcut to"
Cut and paste a shortcut
Create a new "unattached"
shortcut, then create the link
Shortcuts on the Desktop
Creating a Shortcut to a Folder of Shortcuts
Shortcuts to Folders, Disks, Computers, Printers, and More
Folders
Disk drives
Audio CD
Computers
Printers
Control Panel icons
HyperTerminal connections
Shortcuts to files far, far away
Mail out shortcuts
Paste shortcuts into documents
And on and on
Right-Click to a Powerhouse
Send to a Printer
Send to a menu of printers
Send to a computer on the network
Send to SendTo
Send to the Desktop
Create Shortcuts to DOS Programs
What's Behind the Shortcut?
The Target field
The Start In field
Hot keys
Run in which size window?
Change the shortcut's icon
Find that target
DOS shortcut properties
Shortcuts on the Start Button
A Shortcut to a Shortcut
What Happens If I Move or Delete the Linked File?
Shortcuts in the Help Files
Creating Application-Specific Paths
Disabling Link Tracking
Chapter 11: The Start Button and Finding
Starting
Stopping
Shut down
Restart
Restart in MS-DOS mode
Stand by
The Start Menu
Programs
Documents
Settings
Find
Help
Run
Log on as a different user
Right-Click the Start Button
Drop It on the Start Button
The Desktop on the Start menu
Folders in the Start menu folder
Control Panel on a Start menu
Keyboard Control of the Start Menus
Long Start Menus
The Find Function
Finding files or folders
What you can do with Find
Finding a computer on your network
Searching the Internet
Chapter 12: Desktop Strategies -- Making Windows 98 Your
Own
It Comes with a Start Button
A Desktop Strategy
Whose Desktop Is This Anyway?
Setting up Windows 98 for multiple
users
Setting up your network logon option
Securing the Windows 98 Desktop
Dealing with a corrupted password
file
Dealing with the Start Button
The Start button itself
The menus on the Programs menu
Multiple toolbars
Pile It on the Desktop
Massage the Context Menu
The Active Desktop
Turn a Folder Window into the Program Manager . . .
The Program Manager window
The Explorer as File Manager
Use the Real Program and File Managers
Making Windows 98 a Complete Operating System
Chapter 13: Documents First
Document-Centric?
Associating Actions with File Extensions
Where Are These Actions?
Creating and Editing File Types and Actions
Creating a new file type
Editing an existing file type
One application associated with
two file extensions
File associations via the Registry
Change the edit application for
batch files
Multiple extensions - one application
Editing (not merging) exported Registry
files
Re-associating RTF files with WordPad
Associating more than one program
with a given file type
Opening Unregistered File Types
Opening a registered file type with
another application
Create a default file opener
General actions on any file type
Printing files using other applications
Changing BMP Icons to Show Thumbnail
Viewing a File Without Starting an Application
Easiest Way to View/Open an Unregistered File
Documents on the Start Menu
New Blank Documents
Adding Items to the New Menu
Immediately invoke an application
with a new file
Taking items off the New menu
Chapter 14: The Recycle Bin: Going Through the Trash
What's Recyclable about the Recycle Bin?
The Recycled Folders
The Recycle Receptacle Icons
What Does the Recycle Bin Do?
Delete files from common file dialog
boxes
Deleted, what does that mean?
Deleting shortcuts
Right- or left-drag to the Recycle
Bin
Shift+Delete
Don't Delete Your Hard Disk
You Can't Delete My Computer or Other Key Components
You Can Delete a Floppy Disk
Going Through the Trash -- Retrieving Deleted Files
Emptying the Recycle Bin
Remove Files Immediately When Deleted
The Recycle Bin and Networks
Undelete and Unerase
Chapter 15: The Registry: The Real User Interface
Ini Files, Forever
The Registry Keys and Structure
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIGURATION
HKEY_DYN_DATA
Registry Monitor
The Registry Files
What if bad things happen?
The Registry Editor
Starting the Registry editor
Editing with the Registry editor
Exporting and importing the Registry
Changing the Registered Owner
Your own tips
Editing the Most Recently Used list
Editing other people's Registries
The DOS Version of the Registry Editor
Chapter 16: The Control Panel and Properties
What Will You Find Where?
Getting to the Control Panel
Shortcuts to the Control Panel
Fine-tuning your Control Panel shortcuts
Assigning hot keys to Control Panel
shortcuts
Control Panel Settings
Missing files
Add/Remove Programs
Make Compatible
Multimedia
Regional settings
Sounds
TweakUI
Properties
Part III: Internet Applications
Chapter 17: Dial-Up Networking
Networking? Over a Modem?
Dial-Up Networking
DUN version 1.2
Dial-up servers
Network protocols
Dial-up protocols
Setting Up Your Windows 98 Computer at Work As a Host
Running fax software and DUN Server
together
Disallowing dial-in access
Security
Setting Up Your Computer at Home As a Guest
General connectoid settings
Preparing for server dial-back
Dialing into another operating system
Copying your DUN connectoids to
another computer
SLIP server type
Setting up your basic telephone
information
Your modem
The Dial-Up Adapter
Dialing into the Office
Dialing in manually
DUN command line parameters
Networking over a modem
Monitoring your calls
Getting your e-mail when you're
on the road
Printing on the printer at work
from home
Faxing from work while on the road
Play DOS multiuser games over the
network
Connecting to a Personal Web Server
DUN Troubles
Compatible protocols
Chapter 18: Connecting to the Internet
Your First Point of Internet Attachment
Microsoft's TCP/IP Stack
Installing an Internet dial-up connection
Installing and configuring your
modem
An Internet service provider account
Service provider account information
The Internet Connection Wizard
Dial-Up Networking
Bind TCP/IP to your Dial-Up Adapter
Configuring the TCP/IP stack
Speeding up file transfers
Multiple TCP/IP settings for multiple
connections
Dial-up connection to your service
provider
Calling Your Service Provider
Automating your DUN logon
Making sure you have a good connection
Connecting to CompuServe
Creating a DUN connectoid for your
Netcom account
Internet Through Your LAN
Configuring the TCP/IP stack for
a network adapter
Connecting a Windows 98 network
to the Internet
Microsoft Network (not MSN) over
the Internet
TCP/IP Utilities
Displaying your TCP/IP settings
Telnet
Network file system
Chapter 19: Outlook Express
Outlook Express Is Configurable
Configuring Outlook Express
Changing Outlook Express options
right away
More Outlook Express changes
Shortcuts to Outlook Express
POP3, SMTP, and XOVER required
Where is everything stored?
Transferring Inbox Assistant rules
and newsgroup filters to a new computer
Connecting with the DUNs
Multiple accounts for the same server
Corrupted passwords
Different service providers for
Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
Sending messages now or later
Outlook Express security
Spell checking
More than meets the eye
Adding Outlook Express messages
to the New menu
Saving attachments
Dragging and dropping messages
Sending web addresses
UUENCODE or MIME
Multiple users and user profiles
Where to find more help
Messages Formatted in HTML
Editing HTML messages
Stationery
Fancy signatures
Pictures and text
Outlook Express Mail
Multiple e-mail accounts
Choose which account to send your
messages through
Duplicate messages downloaded from
the mail server
Outlook Express as the default mail
program
Sending messages to a group
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