Network server
Notepad Used to Open a File

Network server

A performance tip for standalone Win95 Desktop Machines:
Open My Computer/Performance/File System, and set your Machine to "Network Server".
This allocates about 40KB of RAM to cache the last accessed 64 directory paths and the last 2729 accessed files.
The "Desktop" setting caches the last 32 folders accessed and the last 677 accessed files, and takes around 16KB of memory.
The extra RAM is well worth the file system boost.
BUT before this could help, you need to do a Registry hack, to make this really happen (on some systems anyway).
Microsoft says that these settings get written incorrectly to the Registry for the "Network Server" and "Mobile Docking" profiles on some systems.
The settings that need to be changed are found in the Registry under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates

Click on Server, and in the right-hand pane you'll see two entries called NameCache and PathCache.
Here are the values that you need to enter/modify for each one of them:

1. For NameCache modify the numeric values to read: a9 0a 00 00
2. For PathCache modify the numeric values to read: 40 00 00 00

These values are written to the wrong entries by default and you have to manually fix them to get a boost in performance when setting your machine to "Network Server".
Because these values are written in wrong many people see no difference in performance when changing to "Network Server". But this Registry hack fixes it, and when you're done making these changes, go set your system to "Network Server" and see if you notice any improvement
You'll need to restart Win95 first for the changes to take effect.

Notepad Used to Open a File

Enabling this setting will allow you to use Notepad to open a file by simply right clicking on the icon.
Also the Notepad will be used to open the files by default if no association already exists.

1. Go to the key "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell", if it doesn't exist create it.
2. Under shell create a new key called open, and edit the string "(Default)" to read "Open With Notepad".
3. Under open create a new key called command, and edit the string "(Default)" to read "notepad.exe %1".

Now when you right click on a file you should see "Open with Notepad" as one of the options.