Subject: Microsoft Windows Technology News - February 16, 1997
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 04:29:25 -0800
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Microsoft Windows(R) Technology News - 1998, Issue No. 3
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SEE THE FUTURE AT PC FUTURES 98 CONFERENCE
http://www.microsoft.com/events/pcfutures
Find out more about the future of Windows and the PC platform at the
upcoming PC FUTURES 98, the definitive conference for PC technology
decision makers in medium and large businesses, coming to St. Louis,
June 10-11.
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MORE THAN 50 SMS QUESTIONS ANSWERED
http://mspress.microsoft.com/news/chat/Ethan_chat.htm
Catch up on what network experts Tom Prisk and Ethan Wilanksy discussed
in their recent Microsoft Press chat about preparing for the Systems
Management Server (SMS) certification exam and other SMS-related issues.
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DON'T MISS MICROSOFT TECH ED 98
http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched/
This year's definitive technical conference for building complete
solutions with Microsoft technologies takes place in New Orleans, June
1-5, and features more than 250 technical courses.
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GARTNER GROUP RELEASES TCO REPORT
http://www.gartner.com/webletter/microsoft2/article.html
A new Gartner Group Research Note projects that network computer
technologies can reduce TCO by as much as 35 percent.
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WINDOWS NT OPTION PACK
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/guide/whatisntop.asp
With the Windows NT Option Pack, it's easier to create and manage an
intranet, use the Internet to reduce costs and run scalable web
applications with Windows NT Server(r) 4.0.
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MICRON TO BUNDLE WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dailynews/021198.htm
Micron Electronics will preinstall Microsoft Windows NT Workstation on
all ClientPro and Powerdigm business systems in order to improve system
reliability, performance, manageability and security.
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WINDOWS NT SERVER AND WORKSTATION 5.0 BETA A POSITIVE REVIEW
http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/excl0298/nt50/nt50.html
PC Magazine says the new version of Windows NT 5.0 should "make it
easier to manage even the largest global networks."
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WINDOWS 95 PROFESSIONAL TIP OF THE WEEK
Brought to you by the WINDOWS 95 PROFESSIONAL, a monthly publication of The Cobb Group. For a FREE issue, go to
http://www.cobb.com/w9p/freevyeu.htm
OBTAINING A HARD COPY OF SYSTEM INFORMATION
Have you ever wanted a hard copy of information about your system? It's easy to do. Open Control Panel and double-click the System icon. When the System Properties sheet appears, click the Device Manager tab, then click the Print... button to display the Print dialog box.
If you choose the System summary option, you'll receive a short report that tells you which system resources--such as IRQ, I/O port, memory and DMA channels--are being used by what hardware.
If you choose the All devices
and system summary option, you'll receive a complete report that
includes detailed information about each piece of hardware, plus
information on what hardware is using what resources. And if you select
a particular device in Device Manager, before you click Print... button,
the Selected class or device option will also be available.
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TIPWORLD'S TIP OF THE DAY
This tip originally appeared on the TipWorld web site.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
Why do you need to use the Start command to run a program from the command prompt when you can run any executable file from the command prompt by simply typing in its name? The difference is that you can run a program in a command prompt window by simply typing its name and pressing Enter. When you use the Start command, however, you run a program in a NEW command prompt window by entering "Start Program Name" and pressing Enter. For example, if you want to run a program named program.exe, you can simply type "program" at the command prompt and the program will run.
Try doing this with xcopy. Open the command prompt window and go to the
root folder (type "md c:\test" and press Enter). Now type "xcopy c:\data
c:\test."
Press Enter and xcopy will run and copy c:\data to c:\test. Now let's
use Start. Open a command prompt window and type "Start xcopy c:\data
c:\test" and press Enter. This time, xcopy will run in a separate
command prompt window, allowing you to continue using the original
window to perform other work.
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WUGNET SHAREWARE OF THE WEEK
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/shareware/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/software/shareware/
Each week WUGNET and Microsoft feature a shareware pick demonstrating the highest standards available today in shareware for Windows NT. Try one, try them all!
Second Copy 97 by Centered Systems
http://www.centered.com/download/setup97.exe
NT Shareware of the week
Second Copy 97 by Centered Systems
http://www.centered.com/download/setup97.exe
With Second Copy 97 the task of backing up important data in Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 becomes automatic. Second Copy 97 organizes your copy jobs in profiles. Each profile is a set of file and folder specifications that tells Second Copy 97 what you want copied, where you want it copied and when you want it copied. Once configured, it runs in the background and monitors the source folders for changes or updates and copies new or changed files to the destination.
Setting profiles is a snap with the Profile Wizard. Express set-up lets
you copy entire folders to another location on your disk, to another
disk on your computer or to another computer across the network. You can
define copy intervals from every half an hour to once a day. The Custom
setup option lets you specify which files and folders should be included
or excluded and whether you want the files copied, moved, compressed or
synchronized. A neatly organized Log lets you monitor the copy
activities.
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