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While Bursar is correct about the ICS procedure, the modem can host many PCs on its own. But this function (through DHCP) is ONLY available if the ISP turns it on. Usually, you have to pay another $5-$10US per month per extra machine hosted. As for me, I just use a Linksys router for my 4 systems, and the occasional laptop.

Group policy affects: 1. Local machine 2. Selected remote machine (you connect to it and set its policy manually) 3. Domain wide If you have an AD domain, then you can set a domain wide policy that will propgate to all its members. Do you use AD?

Normally, when I see issues of improper page loading when both sites are on the same machine, I usually check the host header names for each site first. Does your Linux box support this?

Solidworks is parasolid based, and is a very easy to use CAD package. In addition, SolidView might do what you are looking for as well, and they even have free and very affordable CAD packages. Also, you can get SolidEdge "Origin" which is a free version of their commercial CAD/CAM solution. Here are their respective links: www.solidworks.com www.solidview.com www.solid-edge.com I have used Solidworks 2000 and 2001, and I am about to try SolidView, so I don't have a lot to offer on either SV or Origin in the way of advice. But, I think these are good places to start.

TR was a pretty cool movie, just don't go in expecting a deep storyline or anything. It seems to be popular to bash TR, but I don't know why. It's a simple movie that seemed pretty straight forward to me: 1. She's hot 2. She shoots at stuff 3. She's hot 4. She blows up a bunch of stuff Oh I may not have mentioned this, but she's fairly attractive.

I am not as optimistic as DosFreak. While NT was supported with Service Packs for almost 4 years, MS did not release an OS to directly compete with it during that time. Then, W2K comes out, and no more Service Packs. All time that was put into it was written off, and only a handful of hotfixes remain. W2K will be about 1.5 yrs old in full retail trim when XP Pro shows up on the scene. So who knows what the next step in SP methodology will be for MS. The only thing that is keeping my hopes up is that W2K Server has been doing well, and there *should* be a real need to support those even when "Blackcomb" comes out.

Just something odd, but have you fiddled with any Group Policy objects? Just a thought, but if a default setting for the screensaver was set then that could be overiding your preferences at every reboot.

If you are using W2K at all, then you need to use the Group Policy editor. Run "Help" from the start menu and do a search on Group Policy.

You might want to try www.devguru.com or some other sites and learn HTML a bit further. You seem to have a bit further to go in basic development before trying to develop a desktop interface.

Some companies are having problems writing drivers for SP2? What companies and what drivers are you talking about? Where are you getting this information? The only issue that I have had has been flaky ODBC connectivity with 2 of our applications when used by non-admins. It seems like a registry permissions issue, and is usually corrected if I log in and run most of the application functions the first time myself to get all the keys written and updated. I know that you don't care for Win2K for whatever reasons you may have, but you seem to be "defending" NT4 against whatever evils Win2K seems to pose. Give some clear examples as to the issues you have seen so we can determine the root cause.

Can you ping anybody else from your workstation?

A. It should run fine with 64MB anyway. B. There is more than likely something running in the background that isn't shutting down in a timely manner. Go into "Task Manger" (well, it's *something* like it ) and look at what is running. You should then try to close down one thing at a time and then shutdown the PC. If the PC shuts down quickly, then that's the problem program and see if there is an update for it. If not, then try a different one and repeat the process. C. Defragging would be a good idea, but I am not sure that it would contribute heavily to a slow shutdown issue. Now Scandisk might be a good idea, and you would have to run that anyway before doing a defrag.

Another unique guy here. I have 3 computers using the SBLive! card with varying platforms in Win2K with no issues. Damn the luck.

LOL! Screw the PIX, Linksys has what I need! NAT/PAT IS NOT THE SAME AS A FIREWALL! It is not the same at all, in any way. Some of the overall effects may *appear* the same, but they are not.

Win9x platforms don't perform as well as NT-based platforms when using large amounts or memory (256MB or more). I have never seen any real usable increases when going over 128MB in a 9x box. As far as the IRQ situation: 1. Most systems have no issues sharing IRQs. I have many systems running Win2K, ranging from Dells with a simple ATI Rage 128, to my main workstation using an AOpen AX-34 (Apollo Pro 133A Chipset) and a Hercules GeForce2 Pro. 2. You *can* assign IRQs in Win2K, provided you disable ACPI support during setup. You could try to convert an existing machine to non-ACPI, but I haven't seen one successfully pull it off.

We do have directory replication, but every now and again the results are not what you expect.

Well, you would convert the partition back to Fat32 (or create a Fat 32 partition) using Partition Magic, then install Win98 to that partition. I would imagine that you could either manually edit the boot.ini to support the Win98 install in the boot menu, or run the repair option by booting from the Win2K CD. However, putting the NT-based OS on AFTER installing a Win9x OS is always better, but this would more than likely be the way I would do if I needed to.

Are you talking about everybody using the same desktop background? Use the group policy editor for your domain (this is taken from Windows help): To open Group Policy from Active Directory Users and Computers Open Active Directory Users and Computers. In the console tree, right-click the domain or organizational unit you want to set Group Policy for. Where? Active Directory Users and Computers [domain_controller_name.domain_name] domain organizational_unit child_organizational_unit... Click Properties, and then click the Group Policy tab. Click Edit to open the Group Policy object you want to edit. (Or, click New to create a new Group Policy object, and then click Edit.) Note To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers. Then, go to User Configuration>Administrative Templates. I have not messed with this much, other than in class, but I think this you give you what you are looking for. Oh, and btw, if you don't have "AD Users and Computers" or any of the other admin MSC files, just install the "ADMINPAK.MSI" file from the latest service pack that you have. This file is normally found on the Win2K Server CDs, but they are also in the service packs as well. Just use WinZip (or WinRAR in my case) to browse the SP. This program will give you all of the admin tools found on the servers.

Partition Magic can convert from NTFS back to FAT32/16. But then again, it's 3rd party software. Also, there is a 3rd party app that will let Win9x read NTFS partitions too.

Yep, it was a limited version of it. However, I beleive that a certain upgrade patch for the full version of Diskeeper accidentally enabled all of the features in Win2K.

There are a few ways that you can do this. All of them require the use of POLEDIT.EXE, which is the NT Policy editor. You can: 1. Using Poledit, you can develop the NTCONFIG.POL file and put it on the NETLOGON share of your NT Server. 2. Using Poledit, you can connect to each machine and set the policy manually. I have had to do this to clear up machines that were not up[censored] for one reason or another. 3. Using Poledit, you can connect to each machine, and setup each machine to pull future policies from a share you choose. This is kind of a combination of the previous two, so I put it last. What I used to do, was keep the master NTCONFIG.POL and the ADM templates (Common, Winnt, and Windows if needed) in a folder together. When I would edit the file to my liking, I would save it and run a batch file that would update all the DCs at once. Therefore, this would reduce the chance of one DC exporting an old policy file thus overwriting the new one on the other controllers. Of course, this isn't SUPPOSED to happen, but it has. This was what my batch file consisted of: copy "C:\Documents and Settings\clutch\My Documents\mgmt\ntconfig.pol" \\server2\c$\winnt\system32\repl\export\scripts copy "C:\Documents and Settings\clutch\My Documents\mgmt\ntconfig.pol" \\server3\c$\winnt\system32\repl\export\scripts copy "C:\Documents and Settings\clutch\My Documents\mgmt\ntconfig.pol" \\server2\c$\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts copy "C:\Documents and Settings\clutch\My Documents\mgmt\ntconfig.pol" \\server3\c$\winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts Hope this helps.

Cynan has recomended that people with slow browsing delete this key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D62 77990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}] Normally, however, with a proper name resolution system in place (WINS, DNS, DDNS) on the network you wouldn't see performance dips like this from NT-based machines.

Diskeeper has always worked very well for me. I have used versions 4-6 without any problems, plus I use the built-in scheduler to keep everything defragged.

Diskeeper 5/6 is great. The free version works quite well too.

Well, I don't know why your friend would want to wait on the password other than for convenience for troubleshooting later on. Now, as for the firewall bit, I don't bother with one on my home network using the same router. Since it is using NAT (Network Address Translation), it's basically "security through obscurity". You can't see directly into the LAN from outside across a NAT system, since it relies on IP/port translation. But, you could take the extra step and use ZoneAlarm if you like. Plus, with ZA you get notified what apps are trying to get out as well.