Disk Defragmentation
A hard drive should be defragmented once a month as a good preventative action. You will find the disk defragmenter under Start, Programs, Accessories, Systems Tools.
DriveSpace
You can use the DriveSpace utility to compress hard and floppy disks, for added disk space.
Faster Files
You can use Defragmenter, in the System Tools folder, to speed up your computer's performance.
Finding Disk Utilities
Right-click a drive in My Computer and select Properties. The Tools tab offers the following disk tools: ScanDisk, Backup and Defrag, which can be used to optimize your system and protect your data.
Freeing Up Disk Space
To free up disk space, try emptying the Recycle Bin.
Multiple Scandisk
Anyone who has two hardrives can run Scandisk on both drives with one step. Press shift while clicking on both drives. This will highlight the drives and scan them back to back.
Printer Troubleshooting
The Windows 95 installation CD-ROM has a printer-troubleshooting program that may help in the even of printer problems. Put the CD-ROM in your drive, and browse to the d:\other\misc\epts folder (where d: is your CD-ROM drive). Double click on EPTS.EXE, and follow the instructions that the program gives.
ScanDisk
You can use ScanDisk, in the System Tools folder, to check your hard disk for errors.
Speedy CD's
From the System control panel applet, click the Performance Tab, and then click the CD-ROM Tab. From here, you can adjust the memory cache size for your CD-ROM drive.
Watch Your Defrag
Avoid using a defragmentation program that isn't aware of long filenames. You can not only destroy your long filename space, you might end up corrupting the drive's data as well, especially on volumes that are 1GB to 2GB in size.