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| Clear the Recent Documents Menu Quickly: |
August 30th, 1998
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Clear the Recent Documents Menu Quickly:
It seems as though everyone hates having to do all that clicking to clear the recent documents menu in the
start menu. Here's a quick way to be able to
clear them with a double-click:
- Create a batch file with the line: echo y| del \windows\recent\*.*
- Save the batch file into a directory or your choice.
- Create a shortcut to the batch file
on the desktop.
- .Right-click the shortcut and choose properties.
- Choose the Program tab.
- Under Run, choose Minimized.
- Check the Close on Exit box.
- Click OK.
Now just double click on the shortcut's icon to clear the document menu.
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| August 23rd, 1998 |
System Configuration Utility:
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Win98 includes a nifty utility for troubleshooting. To run click on Start/Run and enter "msconfig".
Among other features you no longer have to do such things as rename your autoexec.bat, config.sys files etc. to
exclude them in order to try to isolate a problem. You can selectively include or exclude these and other files,
on startup, by just checking a box.
Another great feature is that it can create a backup copy of your system
files before before you start.
Information from the Help file: "This tool permits
you to modify the system configuration through a process of elimination with check boxes."
"System Configuration Utility also can create a backup copy of your system
files before you begin a troubleshooting session. Create backup copies of your system
files to ensure that the modifications made during your troubleshooting session can be reversed."
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| New and Improved Features in Win98 |
August 16th, 1998
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Well, we have to start talking about sometime. Here is a list of some new features in windows 98. Please
be forwarned that the installing of a new operating system
there is always the possiility of unwanted superises!
I have done several installs thus far and descovered that windows 98, like it's predisser is like a knuckle
ball! one simpily does not know what to expect.
Also keep in mind that the hardware requirements are much greater! For Example, if you were running windows
95 on a pentium 90 with 16 megs of ram,
do not expect the same proformance from windows 98. The latter would be the equilvialnt of puting a gorilla in
a small cage and expecting him to perform like he would in the wild.
Please be advised that we at high density computing do not endorse windows 98 or any products mentioned here,
nor do take any responsibility for malfunctions. That is simply the responsibility of the vendor!
To see a list of features, click
here
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| August 9th, 1998 |
Com to .org and .ad to .zw explained
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The last word (sometimes words) after the last period (.) of an Internet
domain name generally represents either the
type of the organization or the geographical location of that particular domain.
For example, microsoft.com (note .com at the end) means that microsoft.com is a domain
name of a commercial entity. Top Level Domains
Example: school_name.EDU = Domain name of
an educational institute ARPA Old style Arpanet
- COM Commercial
- EDU Educational
- GOV Government
- INT International field
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- MIL US Military
- NATO Nato field
- NET Network
- ORG Non-Profit Organization
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| August 2nd, 1998 |
Reaching your destination on the Internet
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Having trouble reaching your destination on the Internet?
Maybe your path on the information superhighway
is experiencing a traffic congestion, or maybe it's the Internet
weather. Much like individual cars on a regular motor vehicle highway, information (often called data packets)
on the Internet has to travel from point A to point
B, sometimes passing through high traffic areas, small tunnels and unstable paths. If you're having trouble reaching
a particular site, you may have to first find out if the data packets
are able to travel freely in-between your computer and the destination site.
One of the ways to get an idea of what maybe preventing you from reaching your destination is to check with
a service that keeps track of the major Internet traffic carriers
or backbones. So how do these services work? Mostly with the
help of two commands called ping and traceroute.
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