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Q150489: How to Enable the Windows 95 Welcome Dialog Box

Article: Q150489
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
Version(s): 95 4.00
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): win95
Last Modified: 09-AUG-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 95 
- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 
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SUMMARY
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This article describes how to re-enable the Welcome dialog box that appears when
you first start Windows 95. If you clear the "Show this Welcome screen the next
time you start Windows" check box, the Welcome dialog box no longer appears when
you start Windows 95.

MORE INFORMATION
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1. Click the Start button, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type "welcome.exe" (without the quotation marks), and then
  click OK.

3. Click the "Show this Welcome screen the next time you start Windows" check
  box to select it.

4. Click Close.

Additional query words: 4.0

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Keywords          : win95 
Technology        : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTWsearch kbWinNTW400 kbWinNTW400search kbWinNT400search kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTS400 kbWin95search kbZNotKeyword3
Version           : 95 4.00

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