62. Clear up your Cloudy Day
Wish you didn't have to stare at that cloudy Windows 95 screen (basically, a Microsoft ad) every time you start your system? There are two ways to hide this logo screen from view: Either edit the msdos.sys file or, assuming you have the utility Tweak UI, make a simple setting change.
If you don't have Tweak UI, you'll have to go about this logo deletion the long way. Open an Explorer window and locate msdos.sys (it's on the root of your hard drive). Right-click this file, select Properties, deselect Read-only, and click OK. Now open msdos.sys inside Notepad (with the file selected, hold down Shift as you right-click the file, select Open With, choose Notepad in the list of programs, then click OK).
Inside the Notepad window, under the [Options] section of msdos.sys, type the line
LOGO=0
Select File, Save to keep your changes, then close Notepad.
(Tip: Go back and reattach the read-only attribute to msdos.sys using the same steps you used to remove it.) The next time you start Windows 95, you won't see a cloud in the sky--er, I mean on your screen.
Microsoft® Windows®95 Hints & Tips by Stuart Martin.
