Adding the Device Manager to your Desktop

Adding the Device Manager to your Desktop

This allows you to quickly see all the devices attached to your computer.
I use it a lot to select Refresh when I add new external SCSI devices that were not
powered up at startup. This way you do not need to restart the computer. To add the Device Manager Icon:

1. Right click on an open area of your desktop
2. Select New / Shortcut
3. Type in C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL SYSDM.CPL, SYSTEM, 1
4. Replace C:\WINDOWS with whatever directory you installed Windows95
5. Click on the Next box
6. At the next dialog box type in Device Manager
7. Click on the Finish when you are done

Note: Replacing the 1 with a 3 will bring up the Performance Status

“Automated System Recovery

1. Firstly you need to create a backup of your system. Go to the backup utility, and click “Automated system Recovery Wizard“, and you the wizard will come up
2. Just follow the wizard, give the path name and then save the back up file
3. Once the disk backup is done, it will prompt you to insert a Floppy disk


ASR - Floppy disk
4. Once the floppy is ready, your ASR disk is ready to be used whenever required

If in case your system needs to be recovered, You will be required with OS disk, ASR disk, and the Backup file.

1. Insert the OS disk, and boot from the disk
2. Press F2 when setup says “Press F2 to run Automated system recovery“
3. Setup will then ask you to insert the ASR floppy disk and will then Run the ASR process, which is almost the installation of XP
4. After the Process is complete, you can then backup the files using the backup saved

P.S. Make sure that the Backup is on other drive, partition or any optical drive.

“Show Hidden Files and Folders” not Working ???

1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL
3. In the right pane, look for key “CheckedValue” and change the value to “1“
4. Also look for key that says “DefaultValue” and change its value to “2“

Show Hidden files Reg Key

When I tried this on my machine with changes values, i could see the effect, fortunately all the values were correct, and this time I did took a backup of my registry ;)

Does Your Drive Not Open on Double Click

1. Go to Start –> Run, Type Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Drive\shell
3. In the Right pane, Change the Only value there “Default” to “None“

This Solved the issue. If you are facing this problem too, you can try this and thus get your problem solved.

Open Explorer to the Directory you want

If you want to create a shortcut that will open the desired folder in explorer, then here is a small trick for you all. Just by including the path, this can be achieved.

1. Right click on Desktop, and go to New –> Shortcut
2. On the shortcut location type in “%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, C:/abhi“

Explorer
3. Here C:/abhi is the destination folder, you can type in your folder path name here.

Hope you enjoyed it :) .