Simply create a folder within your StartUp folder and place that program icon within it.  You have to manually
start up that program, of course, but it guarantees it will load last if that's what you want.  I use this method for
programs I want loaded at startup only on certain days, and it's an easy way to control that.

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Close down all running programs, (you'll likely need to restart at least twice to do this).  It will most likely be a 2 or 3
step process, since I'm not sure you can switch a drive to a letter currently in use.

Go to control panel, System, Device Manager, Disk Drives, and select the cdr drive.
Click on properties, then on the Settings tab.
In the Reserved Drive Letters section, set both the Start Drive Letter and the End Drive Letter to "Z" for now.
Click on okay.  You'll be told you need to restart, go ahead and do so.  Upon restart, the cdr should appear as "Z".  Follow the above steps, but for the cdrom, and designate it as "D" in both Start and End Drive Letters boxes.
At this point you may be able to say no to the restart and go back to the cdr drive's properties and change it from "Z" to "E" in the Start and End Drive Letters, then restart.  If not, just restart, then repeat the steps again  for that drive. Once done, these drive letters should remain reserved for each of the drives as assigned.

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It's a backup of your original registry files created by win95.  Keep it.

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Hold your mouse pointer over the top edge of the task bar until you get the black vertical up & down arrows.  Left
click and hold.  Then drag the bar down to one row.

Note:  this may not work if the display is set to 640x480.  This happened to one of the computers in my office, and it
turned out the user had been messing around and changed the display area to 640x480.  Clicking and dragging only served to make the taskbar shrink to nothing or too big, no in between.  Finally solved when reset to 600x800.

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Filegrab.exe, which should be available at:  http://www.pcmag.com  will enable you to do this.  You can include any or all file attributes in your "grab".  While designed for printing out this info, once you have it in FileGrab's window, you can do a "SaveAs" and save the info in a text file.

If all you need is a printed list of file info, try DirPrn.exe, which is available from:  http://winmag.com/software/wmfiles.htm#sep97

I believe DirPrn does NOT include size, however.

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Go to Control Panel, Multimedia, Audio tab, and put a check in the "Show volume control in taskbar" box.

Tried that, my "show volume control in taskbar" bar is grayed out.  Any way to activate?

That suggests the control is not installed to be activated. Go to Add/remove programs, Windows setup, Accessories, Details.  There's a check box for Volume control.  If it is not checked, that is your problem, check it, then select OK
and it will read files from the CD.  If it is checked then there is a foul-up.  I'd uncheck it (to un-install), then come back and perform the install, which should put it right.

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