World Magazine 2023
ATA/UDMA Device Definitions Hard drive technologies are expanding at a meteoric rate, like so many other computer technologies today. Just a short time ago, there were two terms to define hard drives, IDE and SCSI. Today, as new drive technologies develop and old ones expand, the terms that define them …
Read More »Operating Systems and File Systems Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP
Operating Systems and their File Systems If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Windows 2000 There’s little question that Windows® NT was very successful for Microsoft through the 1990s, but as the software began to mature, a number of …
Read More »Operating Systems and File Systems Windows® 95A
Operating Systems and their File Systems If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Windows 95A As discussed earlier in this segment, the initial versions of Windows®, Windows 3.x etcetera, represented a significant improvement over the text-based and single-tasking environment …
Read More »Monitoring Registry Activity During the Boot Process
The first 5,000 to 10,000 records in a Regmon log file will be the result of boot and system driver initialization. An interesting observation that can be made by comparing a NT 4.0 log to an NT 5.0 log is that its very clear that Microsoft has been thinking about …
Read More »Speed up your Fast Ethernet Network
How to Speed Up Your Existing Fast Ethernet Network Fast Ethernet networks, in most cases, operate with shared bandwidth, which means that the network’s overall speed is spread out across all of the available computers (nodes). If you have a hub with 5 nodes attached to it, and the total …
Read More »select MS-DOS Command
Type: External Syntax: SELECT [d:] [d:][path][country code][keyboard code] Purpose: Formats a disk and installs country-specific information and keyboard codes In DOS Version 6, this command is stored on the DOS supplemental disk. Discussion SELECT transfers country-specific information, such as date and time formats for a country. After the target disk …
Read More »Operating Systems and File Systems – OS/2
Operating Systems and their File Systems If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! IMB’s OS/2 HPFS File System In the early 1990s, two of the biggest competitors in the computer industry each had an urgent need, they both needed …
Read More »Introduction to Fast Ethernet
Introduction to Fast Ethernet Welcome to our Fast Ethernet information center! Whether you’re building a network from scratch and want exceptional speed, or you’re simply expanding an existing Fast Ethernet network, we have a full line of fast 100Mbps hardware that is perfect for video conferencing, multimedia, graphics, fast data …
Read More »Windows Device Manager Registry Keys
Registry Keys Used by the Device Manager The Device Manager uses registry keys stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\b0 key. The following are the major subkeys of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\b0 key: Active\b0 The Active\b0 key contains subkeys that track currently active drivers loaded by the Device Manager. Device driver setup routines should not …
Read More »mirror MS-DOS Command
Type: External Syntax: MIRROR [d:]path [d:] path […] MIRROR [d1:][d2:][…] [/T(drive)(files)] [/partn][/U][/1] Purpose: Used to store information about a disk’s file allocation table, boot record, and root directory (to be used later for file recovery). (In DOS Version 6, this program is stored on the DOS supplemental disk.) Discussion The …
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