23rd October 1996

Want to reboot Win95, but don't want to go all the way through the entire rebooting process? Well, that's simple to do! Go to the Start Menu, click Shut Down, select "Restart the computer" and just hold down the shift key as you click "Yes." Simple as apple pie! ;)

Detecting Doubled Diskettes -- Compressed hard disks and diskettes must be mounted before they can be accessed. Hard disks mount automatically when Windows 95 boots, and compressed diskettes are mounted as soon as Windows 95 detects them. But if you aren't running Windows, compressed diskettes aren't automatically mounted. To mount a compressed diskette, use the ScanDisk utility with the parameter /MOUNT followed by the diskette's drive letter. The DOS command looks like this: "SCANDISK /MOUNT A:"

OH, and in case you forgot, try using ctrl-x, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v once in a while--definitely speeds things up in cut/copy/paste operations. =)