Find Out What Memory Blocks

                                       Find Out What Memory Blocks

Find Out What Memory Blocks are in Free

Go to your Dos prompt (Windows Dos or normal Dos) 

Type mem/f and it will tell what conventional segments and upper memory regions are free. You use this to your gain and optimize your memory for best performance.

MS-DOS Screen Toggle

 To toggle between a windowed and full MS-DOS screen, press Alt+Enter.

Quick Command

 To access the Command Prompt quickly, simply press Start> Run 

 Type COMMAND and hit OK.

Quick Internet Site Access

 To go directly to a web site, click on the Start button and then Run. 

 Type in the web address (such as www.yahoo.com) and hit enter. Your default browser will load open the web site.

Run Extensions

 An easy way to find out a file's DOS extension is to drag the file into the Run dialog. The entire path, including the file extension, will be visible.

Customize the DIR command

 Customize the DIR command by adding SET DIRCMD= /P in your Autoexec.bat, this will 

    automatically use the page break feature whenever you type DIR from the command prompt. 

 Or, try SET DIRCMD= /P /O:GNE to also arrange the files. G will list the directories first, N 

    places the files in alphabetical order and E will list files of the same in order by the extension.

Load DosKey in a DOS box automatically

 Right-click on DOSPRMPT.PIF (in your Windows directory), and select Properties. 

 Click on the Program tab, and enter "DOSKEY" in the field labelled Batch File.

Using Windows 95's Find tool to locate files contained in ZIP files

 Go to Start>Find>Files or Folders..... 

 Specify *.ZIP in the Named field on the Name & Location tab and specify the file name (or 

    partial  file name) in the Containing text field of the Advanced tab

Always Booting to a Command Prompt

 Edit the file MSDOS.SYS in your root directory 

 Change the BOOTGUI=1 statement to read BOOTGUI=0. 

 Save the file

Getting Rid of the Little Yellow Speaker in the Tray

The little yellow speaker in the lower-right of the screen, next to the clock (which you can      remove by right-clicking on the taskbar, by the way), lets you display the volume control by    clicking on it. For those of us who have volume controls elsewhere, or simply do not need to     repeatedly change the volume, there is a way to remove the icon. 

 Open Control Panel by selecting Settings from the Start menu 

 Double-click on the Multimedia icon. 

 Under the Audio tab, in the Playback section, turn off the Show volume control on the 

    taskbar option. 

 Click OK.