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The Windows 2000 Character Map A special accessory program provided with Windows 2000, called Character Map, allows you to insert characters and symbols into your documents that are not available with the keyboard. Character Map displays all the characters that are available for each of the fonts on your computer. …

Building a Fast Ethernet Network from Scratch Building a Fast Ethernet 100Mbps network is a snap! All you need are a few desktop or lap top network adapters, a Fast Ethernet hub, and a Category 5 network cable for each computer. To make things even easier, we stock ready-made as …

Memory Speeds Have you ever wondered how they were determined? It doesn’t matter whether you are purchasing memory for a new system, or just trying to match the memory in a system you already own, if you have ever asked yourself how fast it is, you’ve just stumbled onto one …

Diagnosing the most common memory problems Memory sizing error during POST (initial system boot) This is one of the more common memory problems, occurring mainly in older computers such as the 486, earlier 60-120MHz Pentiums and even some of the Pentium Pro vintage that use EDO memory. Unfortunately though, we …

Type: Internal (2.0 and later) Syntax: PATH; PATH [d:]path[;][d:]path[…] Purpose: Sets or displays directories that will be searched for programs not in the current directory. Discussion PATH tells DOS which directories should be searched for external commands after DOS searches your working directory. DOS searches the paths in the order …

DDR SDRAM (or Double Data Rate SDRAM) Introduction We have no intention of getting into the disputes over which technology is better, Rambus or DDR SDRAM. Both have their place in the user environment, and they both have their positive, as well as negative, aspects. If you are building your …

BOOT.INI Controlling The Boot Process If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! In the Dual and Multi-Boot sections of our Web site we have introduced you to the ability of Windows NT (which includes Windows 2000) to maintain and …

Preparing the Hard Drive Some of you may be thinking that partitioning your hard drive with the Fdisk utility, or performing a clean format of your hard drive is a monumental, if not impossible task. Rest assured that with some careful thought and prior planning, it’s easy. Carefully planning your …

Windows 98 Second Edition  This is the Programs.txt File that you will find on the Windows 98 Second Edition Stallation CD Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition README for Programs Information April 1999 © Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1999 This document provides complementary or late-breaking information to supplement the Microsoft Windows 98 …

Windows 2000 ProfessionalUnderstanding the various phases of Setup and Startup The Phases of Setup The following will provide you with a brief description of how boot drivers and Plug and Play devices are loaded during the text-mode and graphical user interface (GUI) mode phases of Setup, along with a description …