1 For maximum DOS memory in an MS-DOS session, add the line
  LocalLoadHigh=1 to the [386Enh] section of system.ini.

2 To get Explorer to show a two directory view similar to File Manager

  just open two instances of the Explorer, right-click on the Task
  bar, and select "Tile Vertically".Win95 will retain both if you
  leave them running when you shut down so that they're instantly 
  available the next time you boot up.

3 You can have the icon of all your BMPs a small picture of the actual
  bitmap.
  1. Open regedit
  2. Find Paint.Picture (or whichever program BMPs are registered to)
  3. Add a New Key under Paint.Picture        DefaultIcon
  4.In the right pane,change the Default Value (by Double Clicking it)
  to %1.  %1 tells windows, the default icon for this file type is in 
  the file itself-since there is no icon in a BMP file, Windows 95 
  makes a small preview image of the BMP for the icon.Makes sorting 
  and viewing BMPs super easy.

4 To speed up the Program tree accessed from the START button ,open
  the Registry Editor, expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and then Control
  panel.Inside of Control Panel you'll find Desktop, highlight it w/o
  expanding it.
  In the right pane make a right click and choose New-String value.
  The name of the string is "MenuShowDelay" w/o the quotes, give it
  a value of   10 or less.
  This value is the time in milliseconds that the popup will wait 
  before   showing.
  When you restart WIN95 you'll see that the Start menu opens it's
  popups almost instantaneously. 

5 If you hold down shift while dragging items into the Recycle Bin
  they will be DELETED immediately rather than being placed in the bin.
  Just be careful not to accidently multi-select more files than you 
  wanted.Similarly, pressing Shift-Del gives you the same effect. 

6 >> I installed Win95 into a new directory. Is there a way, now,
  >> to get back my WfW 3.11 groups? I copied all the .grp files
  >> to the win95 directory, but how can I now tell Windows to use
  >> or convert these files?
  Run the program grpconv.exe in your Windows directory. It will 
  allow you to convert your Program Manager groups to Win95 folders
  in the Start Menu.

7 Even if Win95 recognises your video card it often requires an entry
  in AUTOEXEC.BAT to set the correct refresh rates.For instance a 
  Stealth 64 card requires a ref to S64MODE in AUTOEXEC.BAT.

8 Have you played with the SENDTO feature in Explorer?It's a hidden
  folder in   C:\WINDOWS. You can add folders to it and be able to 
  quickly move things around(right click on file - use Send To).
  You can also put WINZIP in there to make quick ZIP files.

9 In Explorer you can set up different actions to be performed on a 
  document in addition to just the standard 'open' command that will
be   
  available to you when you right click on your icon.Go to an Explorer
  window and choose View | Options and then the tab 'File Types'. 
  In the list you see, find the association for the file type you want
  to add an action to, e.g BMP. Double click on it to bring up the edit
  window. You should see that there is already at least one action here,   
  probably Open, maybe Print, etc. Click on the New . . . button and
  type in a new command, like Edit or View or whatever you want. Then
  select the application you want to use to Edit your Bitmap, as 
  opposed to just viewing it. Then when you right click on a BMP file
  you will see your new command there and you can easily choose to
  View, Edit, Open, Print . . . .whatever you want with whatever app
  you want to do it with.   

10There's a magical little program that is automatically installed by
  Win95 that you can use to make Win 3.x programs more compatible
  under 95.It is called MKCOMPAT.EXE and is in the Windows\System
  directory.
  - Just run MKCOMPAT.EXE - Select File/Open - Open the EXE file that 
  you are having problems with - Start highlighting things that seem
  like they may make a difference. - Select File/Advanced for more
  control options - Select File/Save to save the new configuration 
  There is no online help - so some trial and error is in order 
  until you find the optimal settings.

11 To turn off the Logo put the following in your CONFIG.SYS -or- MSDOS.SYS

	[options]
	logo=0

12 To turn off the Auto Load feature of Windows 95 Put the following in your
   CONFIG.SYS -or- MSDOS.SYS...

	[options]
	BootGUI=0

13 To have the option of booting your old DOS everytime you boot up put this in
   your CONFIG.SYS -or- MSDOS.SYS...

	[options]
	BootMenu=1