One of the tools included with Windows XP is the System Configuration Utility, a diagnostic program that automates routine troubleshooting tasks. This is the same tool that Microsoft Technical Support engineers will use when walking you through a system with problems. Giving it a look might save you a great deal of time and effort when attempting to solve system issues.
A Key to the Windows Fortress: The Registry
What is the Registry?
In the days of Windows 3.x programs used to put their critical data on .INI files. Every program had to create its own .INI file where it stores its relating data.
Straight dope on The Abstract Windows Toolkit
If your worst nightmare is drowning in a bowl of alphabet soup, maybe you’d better re-think your Java-oriented strategies, because you are about to leap onto a scaffold of functions that come wrapped up, ribbon and all, to help you give your programs that graphical look!
Windows XP and Networking Your LAN, Part Two
In our first article on networking and Windows XP we discussed using Microsoft’s Network Setup Wizard to automatically set up your networked LAN within the constraints imposed upon you by Microsoft.
Windows DCOM RPC Exploit
This is not a usual tutorial, but more of a “description of events” of the past few days. It began when Microsoft issued this bulletin.
Virus ALERT – VERY IMPORTANT FOR WINDOWS XP/2000 USERS
I have received over 2 dozen calls on Monday, Aug.11, 2003 concerning people with Windows XP that contains an error that states there was in an error in the RPC and the system will reboot.
Windows 2000 ICS, NAT, and IAS
A service first provided by Microsoft in its Windows 98 operating system, Internet Connection sharing is meant to allow a single Internet connection to be shared amongst multiple computers on a small network with minimal configuration. In Windows 2000, ICS is implemented via the actual sharing of a network interface, which has a real’ IP address, either via a dial-up or fixed network connection. It is important to remember that ICS (which is available in both Windows 2000 Professional and Server) is mainly meant as a solution for small and home offices, and not larger enterprise environments.
Windows XP and Networking Your LAN, Part One
One of Microsoft’s goals with Windows XP was to improve your experience when networking personal computers together by automating the task with the Network Setup Wizard. (Start>Control Panel>Network Connections>Network Setup Wizard>follow the menu prompts)
Pop-Up Windows: A Nuisance or a Gold Mine?
How many times a day do you see them as you surf the Web? Pop-up and pop-under windows have become a widely used marketing tool. But do they work? Are they just a nuisance, or are they really the gold mine that all the “gurus” claim?
Java VM and Windows 98
Dear Carey,
Hi, I lost all java on my win 98se machine .I’ve done everything short of reinstalling the OS. I reinstalled MS java VM Did not work. So I tried Suns Java, installed it And it still does not work. I uninstalled it then reinstalled it still nothing did this 8 times. I consulted with sun about 4 times, and they told me to do everything I had already done all 8 times i reinstalled it.