SHUT DOWN WIN9X WITH ONE CLICK!
Microsoft has Windows set up so that it takes at least four clicks to shut down Windows. Would you like to do it in one click? It's easy to do. Here you go:

• Right click on the desktop and select New/Shortcut.
• Once the Create Shortcut wizard loads, type C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows in the Command Line text box. (Make sure that there isn't a space between the comma and the exitwindows parameter, otherwise the command won't work.) Click Next.
• When the next page appears, type Shut Down NOW! in the Select a Name For the Shortcut text box and click Finish.
• Now, when you're ready to shut down Win9x, close all your applications as you normally would, and then just double-click the new Shut Down NOW! icon.
• Enjoy!

QUICK TIP -- FASTER INTERNET CONNECTIONS!
For those of us fortunate enough to have fast internet connections (cable modem, DSL, etc.) with Win9x or Win2K, the following registry tweak allows more concurrent HTTP connections while downloading a web page. Each item on a web page requires a separate HTTP "Get", so if your connection can handle more concurrent connections, you can "Get" more items downloading at once. Stands to reason that it should speed things up a little. This is what to do:

• Create a new plain text file and call it TweakConn.reg.
• Highlight the text below and press CTRL+C to copy it:
  
  REGEDIT4
  
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
  "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000010
  "MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000008
  
  
• Paste it into your new text file by pressing CTRL+V.
• Note: If you prefer not to create the file yourself, feel free to download TweakConn.zip and unzip it to a temporary directory. When you're done, you may delete the REG file.
  
  Get TweakConn.zip  
  
  
• If you decide to create your own, make sure that you get the first line that reads REGEDIT4, and that everything on the line that starts with "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER....\Internet Settings]" is on one line.
• Next, make sure that there are no blank trailing spaces, and that there is one carriage return after the last character in the text you paste.
• Right click on the file. From the context menu choose Merge. Wait a few moments.
• Microsoft has a Knowledge base article on this tweak.
• Enjoy!