To set up Eudora Lite to work with more than one E-Mail account you need make 4 changes to the Eudora.ini
file and then save the file as Eudora2.ini Etc.
Then to start Eudora on the alternate account you create a new
shortcut with the target entered as C:\Eudora\Eudora.exe C:\Eudora\Eudora2.INI where "C" is the appropriate
drive letter.
The 4 modifications to the Eudora.ini file are all in the "Settings" section as follows:
Where altname = 2nd user name & alternate.net = 2nd ISP
Note many setting will remain as they are in the primary account .ini file.
Side Note: To remove Eudora's startup splash screen add the line "NoSplashScreen=1" in the settings section.
Here are a few additional switches that can be used with FDISK:
There are a couple of undocument Format switches that have been around for several years: They will work with at least DOS 6.2 and above.
These can be useful if your are formatting drives from a batch file or shortcut and don't want to be prompted for input.
When in Outlook's Calendar program with Day View, to change the number of days shown,
press Alt along with the number of days you want to see.
For example Alt-4 would show 4 days.
To create a shortcut for your Outlook Contacts folder on the desktop
When you double click on a data file, the application associated with that file's
extension is stated the the file is loaded.
To change a the application associated with a particular file extension:
Note from Mihir: The submitted tip will only extract files that start
with the name you specificed.
To extract a file from an unknown cab file, where it will search through all cab files,
from the command line, enter:
for %p in (x:\win95\*.cab) do extract %p filename
Where x\win95 is the location of you cab files and filename is the
name of the file you are looking for.
To do this in a batch file, use two % signs instead of one.
Here's a handy tip to recover a corrupt or damaged text file through Word 97.
It doesn't have to startout a Word file either. This can be used to recover any file that
contains text.
Here's how you do it:
If when you first start your computer, a swap file is being created. You can speed the boot process by specifying this as the minimum swap file size.
Normally when you use Windows95's Disk Defragger, this will not defrag the swap file.
To defrag the swap file:
To alter the way the DOS Scandisk gets used during a SR2 bootup, you can modify the \WINDOWS\COMMAND\SCANDISK.INI file.
With the new OEM version of Windows95, if the system was not shutdown cleanly,
the next time it is started, it will stop and prompt you before running ScanDisk.
New options are available for the MSDOS.SYS file to configure how ScanDisk will start.
You can use the DOS SUBST command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to set a drive
letter to a local or networked drive and directory.
This way you only need to go to a new drive letter rather than needing to go several
levels deep into a directory structure.
For example:
SET SYST=D:\SYST
SET UTIL=%SYST%\UTIL
SUBST G: %DATADIR%\GRAPHICS
SUBST H: %DATADIR%\HTML
SUBST I: %DATADIR%\HTML\intrepid
SUBST M: %DATADIR%\MIDI
SUBST T: %TEMP%
SUBST U: %UTIL%
SUBST W: %DATADIR%\HTML\smulder
SUBST Z: %DATADIR%\DL
To Shutdown Windows95, create a shortcut to:
rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows
To Restart Windows95, create a shortcut to:
rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec
Note: This will also run the DOSSTART.BAT file if you have it. There is an easy way to not use this file and boot to DOS Mode.
If you have applications that you want to stop from starting automatically, there are three places you need to look, the WIN.INI file, the Startup Folder and the Registry.
Start the Explorer.
Go to C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp folder.
Remove any shortcuts you find there that you don't want.
Edit the Registry
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run.
Remove any programs from there.
Do you have a folder with lots of .txt ot other files that when "ZIPPED"
really compress?
Try this to save valuable disk space:
The net result is your files take up a lot less disk space and the files are easily accessable. (I have a group of .txt files that ZIPPED are just over one Meg but unzipped are over 7.5 Megs!)
Note from Mihir: You can download the patched version of the file at THEMES.EXE- Updated Themes.exe version 4.40.311
Now when you secondary (right) click an HTML Document select Edit
from the menu (or press E) and you are now looking at the source in Notepad.
You can use a similar process for Graphic files (JPG, GIF, etc) to send them to your
favorite Graphics program.
At a DOS prompt, type START FILE1.DOC (or just file1 if it's unique). Word comes up and loads the document.
Normally when web browsing, if Exchange is installed, and you click on a e-mail address
it will default to opening up. If you want to change it to another e-mail program:
Eudora Pro has an option to set that automatically. Other programs may have switches you need to include.
Pegasus needs a -T %1 for it to automatically insert the e-mail address
This tip works especially well if you have a large monitor and run at a high
resolution...
If you want to really power surf the web, open up more than one browser. Arrange them on
the screen so that you can see at least part of each one at all times.
Once this is done, you can now drag links from one browser to another. This saves you from
having to use the back button constantly, especially if you are on a page like a search
engine, where there are lots of links and you want to try a bunch of them.
Also, if you encounter a web page with frames, and you want to break out of the frames,
you can drag a link to a new browser. No more frames.
(You can also right-click a link and choose "Open in New Browser".)
Here's an example of using two browsers...
Let's say you are going to be using a search engine for the next hour or so. Start two
browsers and tile them vertically. (Minimize all programs except the two browsers, and
right click a blank spot on the taskbar, then choose 'tile vertically'). Now drag the
edges of the browsers so that the browser on the left is about 3 inches wide. Drag the
edges of the browser on the right so that it takes up the rest of the screen. Now, using
the browser on the left, open your favorite search engine and do a search. When the list
of hits are displayed, drag a link into the browser on the right.
This lets you see all the hits from the search engine while you are surfing those sites...
no more hitting the 'back' button all day long.
If your Lotus 123 Release 5 for Windows grays out the spreadsheet and locks up, here's what to do:
In addition to the usual wildcards for doing such things as a DIR or File Find,
new options are available with Windows95. The following are a few examples:
COM - All files and folders that have COM in the extension
*ABC* - All files and folders with ABC somewhere in the name
*ABC - All files with ABC as the last characters in the name (no including the extension)
*ABC? - All files with ABC as the second to last characters in the name
?ABC* - All files and folders with ABC as the second through the fourth letters in a name
?ABC? - All files and folders with at least one letter before and after the ABC
Scandskw
drive: - Drive letter of disk you want to scan
/A or /ALL - Scans all local, non-removable hard drives
/N or /NonInteractive - Start and closes ScanDisk Automatically
Defrag
drive: - Drive letter of the disk you want to defrag
/all - Defrag all local, non-removable drives
/F - Defrag files and free space
/U - Defrag files only
/Q - Defrag free space only
/concise - Display the Hide Details view
/detailed - Display the Show Details view
/noprompt - Immediately starts Defrag
Occasionally, after Exchange is installed, you will get errors that indicate that
MPREXE.EXE caused a page fault in KERNEL32.DLL
To solve the problem, delete the .PWL file associated with your login ID.
Another solution is to download the Password List
Update (278 K) to repair the existing PWL file.
If your 32-bit Internet applications do not automatically invoke your
Windows 95 Dialer, here is a way I found to enable this feature.
Once you do this, close your internet application and disconnect from your internet
provider.
Re-start your Internet application and the Windows 95 dialer should start up.
NOTE: From my experience, all Internet applications will be effected and will
automatically start the Windows 95 dialer.
There's a file name DOSSTART.BAT in the WINDOWS directory. By editing this file you
will be able to configure how to start DOS whenever you exit Windows to DOS mode.
This is just like an AUTOEXEC.BAT file that starts up your system.
To replace corrupted files in MS-Exchange run
c:\program files\microsoft exchange\mlset32.exe
Normally, just removing exchange won't delete the old files.
If it should happen that one is corrupted it won't be replaced by the original from the CD
when exchange is added again.
Running the program above launches the original exchange setup applet which guides you
through the original install process.
Microsoft includes their Emergency Recovery Utility(ERU) on the 95 CD-ROM
This utility makes a backup of the registry and other important system files.
In some cases Windows 95 can be fixed by restoring the registry with this utility.
The ERU program is in the \OTHER\MISC\ERU directory on the Win95 CD.
If you have the floppy version of Win 95, the utility can be found at Microsoft's web site
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/download/eruzip.exe
ERU is also a good way to keep recent backups of all your important system files!
When using Exchange, sometimes other e-mail packages will end
each line with a = character.
To turn this off:
If you want to use your mouse to select an area to copy while you are in a windowed DOS
program:
This eliminates the need to select text by using the pull down menu.
If you set up exchange to connect using the modem, you can only have one phone number
listed.
If you have more than one phone number available for your provider, you would need to
create another profile,
which would have your e-mail to go to two mail boxes.
To get around this problem, simply select Network for the connection.
Connect first using either phone number and then start Exchange
Then no matter what phone number you used to connect to the internet,
all your e-mail will be in one place.
Use CFGBACK.EXEon the Win 95 CD. It is in the /OTHER/MISC/CFGBACK directory.
It will save up to 9 copies of the registry in*.rbk file format.
You can restore any of these when necessary.
Create a shortcut to notepad.exe in the C:\WINDOWS\SENDTO directory.
Then, you'll have the option to view a files contents by right-clicking it and
"sending" to the notepad.
Immensely useful for deciphering old set-up files (or .DOC files that aren't Word files,
READ.ME etc.)
If you are using the Internet Explorer and send e-mail, Win95 defaults to using
Exchange.
If you would rather use Eudora Pro as your e-mail program:
Now when you e-mail from within the Internet Explorer, Eudora will come up as your
e-mail program.
If the readings on the amount of hard drive space is showing
more than is possible
This will now give you an accurate reading.
The DOS based text editor that comes with Windows95 has some advantages
over the one that came with prior versions of DOS.
EDIT can also be used on prior versions of DOS.
Just copy EDIT.COM to your old DOS directory.
Here’s a blast from the (supposed) past:
If you are using WordMail that comes with Office95, you can send e-mail using
Microsoft Word.
Exchange will automatically detect the addition and start WordMail when you create
a new e-mail or reply to an existing one.
It will use Word's spell checker, most of the WinWord text formatting capabilities
(centering, full justification, bold, italics)
a special Mail button bar and quite a few new features. It is certainly worth trying out.
This may sound like MS hype but I'm actually quite impressed
To include a signature:
Advantages are:
I have found a lot of variations and options on this tip.
There are quite a few new switches to the XCOPY command. To get a full listing, type XCOPY /?. Below are some of the additions over DOS 6.X.
There is a program, MKCOMPAT.EXE in the SYSTEM directory. If allows you to change several settings that could help with problem programs.
If you have any additions or comments, please