Index of Computer Clinic columns from March 1998 March 98 Disappearing CD-ROM How to get your CD-ROM working in DOS mode. Who runs what? Getting around the default file associations in Win95. Moving troubles How to move programs in DOS and Win95. Escaping from games A quick way to exit from DOS programs in Win95. DOS BOX Using the FOR command with wildcards. April 98 I want an option! Run a DOS program in Win95 with extra options on the command line. Where to start? Automatically running programs at startup, and sorting out MS-DOS mode configurations. The shrinking drive... Sorting out formatted vs unformatted hard drive capacity. Battery problems Removing and replacing a motherboard battery. DOS BOX New and exciting screen modes for DOS May 98 DOS for ever? What's the future for DOS, and do the other operating systems need it... CGA on a TV Identifying a CGA to TV adapter, and the disadvantages of using your TV with a PC. Win95 breaks it! The self-modifying CONFIG.SYS, courtesy of Creative. Speedy CPU The pros and cons of over-clocking your CPU June 98 Save your screen Intelligent Power Management, DPMS, and your monitor. Change that folder! Changing the system icons, including the folders and My Computer. DOS BOX Unique filenames, and a couple of useful name-generating utilities. July 98 The write stuff Setting the default directory for applications in Windows 3.11. More IRQs? Why you can't add any more IRQs to your PC... Two on the net Setting up two networked Win95 systems so that they can both access the net. Exploring passwords Getting Win95 to remember your password DOS BOX A real C/C++ compiler -- DJGPP. August 98 Tangling with Arachne Setting up the Arachne DOS web browser Windows programming The various Windows-based programming packages compared. DOS BOX Things NOT to do... How to crash your PC September 98 Creating your own Windows program with the CGI... With a couple of demo programs October 98 Batch file database There's no Mr. Paperclip here, just DOS commands. Even more IRQs Sharing IRQs, and is USB the answer? Hard drive woes Problems with proprietary IDE drivers November 98 Lost a boot Fixing a 'Boot disk error' CMOS screw-up Tracking down a bug in the BIOS... C++ made easy Borland's C++ Builder DOS BOX I like DOS, but... Replacement DOS shells, and a Norton Commander clone December 98 Seedy-ROM Problems reading audio CDs in a CD-ROM drive External speaker Wiring up the PC speaker to your soundcard amplifier. SMART feature Systems Monitoring And Reporting Technology in modern hard drives Cool stuff! Software emulation of a CPU cooling fan! January 99 Spurious Floppy Success with 'Boot disk error', but it could be the power supply after all... The Linux Option Setting up a dual boot system with Linux and Win95/3.1x/DOS -- Part 1 A Source of Source C++ source code sites on the Web Flywheel Ravings on the wonderful mouse-wheel utility that is Flywheel DOS BOX CD-ROM God -- a program that will set up your CD-ROM drivers for you... February 99 Dual-booting Linux A further look at how to get Linux going on your PC along with Win95, DOS et al. March 99 BIOS ex machina Installing Win95 without the BIOS virus protection locking up the system, and installing off the hard drive. Frozen Chips CPUidle for overclockers, and dew born devistation -- problems with using Peltier coolers on CPUs. Medium rare MP3s through the latest Media Player vs Winamp. Key note Right-button shortcut keys in Word and other Win95 apps. The gory details Filemon and Regmon regisrty and file system monitors - for class 'A' personalities only... April 99 INTERNET FEATURE (Professional Eletronics) Fast track to the net Setting up and optimising your internet connection Getting connected Choosing a browser and ISP May 99 Win95 Y2K Y2K problems with Win95's File Manager Unfair to Linux Of course you don't have to reboot linux after changing the mount type of a partition. Silly me... TCP/IP & CGI under NT Selecting your own IP addresses, and how to get CGI things happening under NT. Update TIMEDATE A Y2K complient version of TIMEDATE.EXE (CC, June 98). Re-written, and called TDY2K.ZIP. Window.close Running a Win32 console app, without having the window close on exit. Corel WordPerfect 8 A rave review of Corel's latest MS Office killer. June 99 Phantom partition Troubles in deleting a non-DOS partition with FDISK. Printer problems General help in fixing Win95 printing problems. Crossover or hub? Making your own crossover LAN cable for playing Quake. (And file transfers of course...) Paperdisk an interesting program for backing up your files onto sheets of paper. Old DLLs Win95 confusing itself with DLLs. Reinstalling Win95 without loosing all those apps. IE5 is cool A general rave on the wonders of the new Internet Explorer 5.