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Important!

Before you start to use one of the tips be sure to know what you are doing. I take no responsibility if anything goes wrong.
I tried these tips myself, and they worked correctly without a computer crash or error message.

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Tip 1
Changing the start menu icon

Normally, the little icon on the Start button is the little Windows flag.  If you'd like to change it, copy the file:
C:\ WINDOWS \ SYSTEM \ USER.EXE
to a temporary file and then simply use your favorite icon librarian program to open the new temp file.  Inside you will see icons used throughout Win95, including the

START  button icon (you'll have to set your librarian to show you only the 14x14 icons in the file, however; the Windows flag should be the only one you see under 14x14).

The reason you copied USER.EXE to a temp file and worked on the latter, is that Windows 95 uses USER.EXE while Win95 is running, so, when you've saved your change

into USERX.EXE, you'll have to restart in DOS mode to copy temp file to USER.EXE and then restart Windows to see the change.
***BE SURE TO MAKE A BACKUP of the original USER.EXE, should you ever want to undo the change!***
  Windows Version: 95 - 98, 98-SE

Tip 2
Avoiding Logo At Startup

Either press [Esc] during bootup, or edit MSDOS.SYS (remember to change properties before and after doing this) and add the line LOGO=0 to the Options section.
  Windows Version: 95 - 98, 98-SE

Tip 3
Change Exit Screens

You can change those lovely screens you see as you exit Windows95!  Simply start up paintbrush and load up the files LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS.  Change them to

whatever you want - they're just bitmaps with a different extension! For a very quick exit - convert the file to Black and White and make the entire picture black.
  Windows Version: 95 - 98, 98-SE

Tip 4
Changing The Startup Logo 

If you want to have a different “Start-Logo, place a file named LOGO.SYS in your root directory.  NOTE:  LOGO.SYS must have the same format as the LOGOW.SYS and LOGOS.SYS (320 x 400,256) bitmap. Windows Version: 95 - 98, 98-SE
 
Tip 5

Update the registry without Rebooting
Press Ctr-Alt-Del, select Explorer, and click "end task". When Windows asks if to shut down, click "no", then click "end task" at the next prompt.
Windows Version: 95 95-OEM-SR2 98 98-SE

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