World Magazine 2024

Wintop Wintop is one of the Microsoft Kernel Toys. When installed and used correctly, it displays information on all of the devices that are running in the Windows environment, such as their CPU usage, threads etcetera. To install Wintop, download the file and then extract the zip file contents into …

Troubleshooting Category 1 Memory Problems If you haven’t added any new hardware, and you haven’t made any changes to the existing hardware (e.g. you haven’t been inside the PC case for any reason), this narrows the possibilities considerably. You suspect the problem resulted from an external source: If you suspect …

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Cable Select (CSEL) An optional feature per ANSI ATA specification (IDE cable connector #28). Your computer’s motherboard must be capable of supporting this feature, plus you need a special IDE cable that is designed for CSEL. On some drives that support CSEL, the enabling jumper number is not a consistent …

Removing a Bios – CMOS Password Unfortunately, access to computers can, at times, be blocked for all of the wrong reasons. Sometimes this occurs due hardware related issues such as electrical problems or due to inadvertence, such as someone setting and then forgetting the password. It can happen as the …

Hard Drive Size Limitations and Barriers The Basics Introduction If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to add a new hard drive only to be confronted by the inability to use it’s entire …

Use of Memory Configurations Greater than 512MB in Windows 95, 98 and Windows Millennium Edition There have been numerous questions that have arisen since the release of Windows 95 regarding memory limitations in Windows 9x. These questions resurface with each subsequent release, and cover Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows …

Prior to the advent of Logical Block Addressing, all hard drives were accessed via CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector) or Extended CHS, which means that the drive was accessed by specifying its cylinder, head and sector address. More appropriately, it was referred to as accessing the drive through its “geometry”. Extended …

98/95/NT SETUP SWITCHES If you try to install Windows 95/98 from a DOS prompt, SETUP allows several command line switches, also available to their Windows based counterpart. Run this the following command for available parameters: SETUP /? “Setup Options: SETUP [/C] [/IL] [batch] [/T:TMP] [/IM] [/ID] [/IS] [/IQ] [/IN] /C …

Conversion Table Decimal – Hexadecimal – Binary Dec Hex Bin Dec Hex Bin Dec Hex Bin Dec Hex Bin 0 0 00000000 64 40 01000000 128 80 10000000 192 c0 11000000 1 1 00000001 65 41 01000001 129 81 10000001 193 c1 11000001 2 2 00000010 66 42 01000010 130 …