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I find the "shortcut" facility of Windows 95,
which was described briefly in a previous column, very
useful. As mentioned before, the DOS Editor, EDIT.COM, is
one of my shortcuts. Another is Windows Explorer. (Why
put up with all this in order to start up Explorer,
surely one of the most important and often-used parts of
Windows: click on the Start button, maneuver your mouse
pointer to the "Programs" item, then over to
the new menu that "cascades" down, then down to
the bottom-most item on that menu, where you click in
order to choose Explorer? If you make a shortcut to
Explorer on your desktop, then all you have to do is move
the mouse over to the new icon and then click twice...)
I also use ScanDisk and WordPad quite regularly, so I've
created shortcuts for them. (Both normally require you to
progress through several nested cascading menus to access
them.) You should run the ScanDisk utility fairly often
because it's like sending your hard disk drive to a
medical doctor and giving it a physical exam. Various
tests are performed in order make sure your system is
operating up to par, and any minor problems found can be
corrected right on the spot. WordPad is the New and
Improved ("with green crystals!") version of
the basic word processing program Windows Write that came
free in Windows 3.x. One of the books about Windows 95
I've read -- I believe it was Que Books' "The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 95", by Paul
McFedries -- referred to WordPad as "Windows Write
on steroids". Nice way of putting it, and pretty
accurate, too. Maybe I'll write a future column or two on
WordPad...
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