How To Make
Windows 95/98 Fly

1. Speed Secrets of the
New Interface

· Customizing the Task Bar

· Learning shortcuts to the shortcuts

· New ways of working

· Controlling file associations

· Keeping the best of 3.11

· Making Windows 95 Document-centric

2. Optimizing Performance

· How hardware affects performance

· Dynapage

· 32-bit access

· Video acceleration

· IOS.INI

· Overriding the IO.SYS values

3. Memory Management

· Windows 95 memory model

· Third-Party Memory Management

· Surviving with minimal memory

· Optimizing cache and swap files

4. Windows 95/98 Driver Secrets

· What’s a Driver?

· Fixing bad drivers

· How and where to get latest releases

· Tuning drivers for optimum performance

· Making Plug-and-Play behave

5. Optimizing the Hardware

· Getting the most from hard drives

· Speeding up video

· Setting up multimedia correctly

· Eliminating device conflicts

· Hardware upgrades that make sense

6. Managing INIs and the Registry

· Understanding the Registry

· Editing the Registry

· Recovering the Registry

· Installing remote Registry services

· Controlling Windows 95’s Appearance

· Tuning Windows Configurations

· What can you do with the Registry?

7. Why the Windows Plus Pack is not Optional

· Features and Benefits

· DriveSpace 3

· Hidden Utilities

Windows 95/98
Networking Secrets

8. Networking Windows 95/98

· Network configuration techniques

· Optimizing network performance

· Which network drivers work best?

· Which network clients work?

· Making networks behave:

- Netware

- NT Server

- Vines

- Pathworks

· Choosing the best way to implement the various network protocols:

- NetBIOS

- NetBEUI

- IPX

- TCP/IP

- DLC

· Troubleshooting the network

9. Remote Administration

· Enabling remote administration

· Cut travel costs

· Reducing Security risks

· Setting up Remote Administration the right way

10. System Policy Editor

· How to lock your users out from making any changes

· The key to secure systems

· Deciding what users should and should not be able to do

· Enforcing policies on a network

· Enforcing policies on stand-alone computers

· Restrict users from modifying just about anything

11. Security

· Why Windows 95/98 has been criticized

· Work arounds for Windows 95/98’s apparent Lack of Security

· The secret "$" switch

· Hiding shared resources

· Protecting against software piracy

12. Automating the Upgrade Process

· Installing Windows across a network

· Using scripts to make it automatic

· Tips and techniques to guarantee a successful upgrade

· GHOST, DRVSPACE, and other ways to speed installation

· Recovering a crashed computer quickly

Reliability and
Compatibility

13. Evaluating 32-bit Applications

· The hidden benefits of 32-bit applications

· Which upgrades are cost effective?

· Office 97 - Do you need it?

14. Ensuring Software Compatibility

· What do you do when it doesn’t work?

- MS-DOS Apps

- Win-16 Apps

· 7 Steps to make DOS apps work

· Configuring MS-DOS Compatibility mode

· The hidden MKCOMPAT tool

· Make every Win-16 application you have run faster and crash less

15. User Proofing with User Profiles

· Supporting user uniqueness

· Optimizing desktops

· Bulletproofing the desktop

· The undocumented USER.MAN command

16. Crash Protection and Troubleshooting

· Illegal Operation Errors

· Troubleshooting tricks

· Using DA0 files

· File System switches

· Boot switches

· Hidden launch commands

· Identifying conflicts

17. Which Windows?

· Microsoft’s Windows Roadmap

· Windows 95 vs. Windows NT

· Windows NT’s promise

· Windows 98 - Not enough hype

· Active Desktop

· Scripted Applets

· Exciting New Features

· Tweaks and Tricks

18. Windows 95/98 Tip Sheets

· 50 pages full of shortcuts, tips, and techniques to make Windows 95 and Windows 98 behave the way you dreamed it could