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1. BASICS OF WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION 2

1.1 AIMS 2

1.2 WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION 4.0 3

1.3 NEW FEATURES OF NT WORKSTATION 4.0 3

1.4 LOG ON, LOG OFF, SHUT DOWN 4

1.41 Logging On 5

1.42 Shutting Down 5

1.43 Logging Off 6

1.5 ENABLING AUTOLOGON 7

1.6 QUIZ 9

2. INSTALLING NT WORKSTATION 11

2.1 AIMS 11

2.2 INTRODUCTION 12

2.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 12

2.4 INSTALLING AND SETTING UP NT WORKSTATION 12

2.41 Installing Workstation using boot media 13

2.42 Installing Workstation using a network 13

2.43 Setup Walk-through 15

2.5 WINDOWS NT SETUP WIZARD 18

2.51 Choosing a Set-up type 18

2.52 Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) 19

2.53 Optional Components 19

2.6 NETWORKING SETUP 20

2.61 Network Adapters 20

2.62 Network Protocols 20

2.63 Network Bindings 20

2.64 Workgroups and Domains 21

2.65 Finishing Installation 21

2.66 Starting Windows NT 21

2.7 UNATTENDED INSTALLATION 21

2.8 SERVICE PACKS 25

2.9 QUIZ 25

3. WORKING IN NT WORKSTATION AS A USER 28

3.1 AIMS 28

3.2 INTRODUCTION 29

3.3 WELCOME SCREEN 29

3.4 USING THE START BUTTON 29

3.41 Documents Menu 30

3.42 Settings Menu 30

3.43 Find Utility 34

3.44 Help Menu 34

3.45 Run Menu 35

3.5 VIEWING THE CONTENTS OF YOUR COMPUTER 36

3.6 EXPLORING NETWORK NEIGHBOURHOOD 36

3.7 PERSONALISING YOUR DESKTOP 36

3.8 OBJECTS AND THE CONTEXT MENU 37

3.9 THE DESKTOP 38

3.10 QUIZ 39

4. FILE AND DISK MANAGEMENT 40

4.1 AIMS 40

4.2 USING WINDOWS NT EXPLORER 41

4.21 Changing the View of Explorer 42

4.22 Changing Explorer options 42

4.3 CREATING FOLDERS 43

4.4 COPYING FILES 43

4.5 MOVING FILES 44

4.6 COPYING FILES TO A DISK 45

4.7 CREATING SHORTCUTS 46

4.8 USING DISK ADMINISTRATOR 47

4.9 MANAGING HARD DISKS 48

4.91 FAT/VFAT File System 48

4.92 NTFS (Windows NT File System) 48

4.10 UTILISING VOLUME AND STRIPE SETS 49

4.101 Volume Sets 49

4.102 Stripe Sets (without parity) 49

4.11 QUIZ 50

5. WORKING WITH 16 BIT APPLICATIONS 52

5.1 AIMS 52

5.2 INTRODUCTION 53

5.3 DOS APPLICATIONS PROPERTIES 53

5.4 WIN16 APPLICATION MEMORY ALLOCATION 61

5.5 RUNNING APPLICATIONS IN A SEPARATE MEMORY SPACE 62

5.6 QUIZ 64

6. NETWORKING FEATURES 66

6.1 AIMS 66

6.2 INTRODUCTION 67

6.3 SHARING RESOURCES 67

6.31 What does sharing mean? 68

6.32 Sharing resources with other users 69

6.33 Why should you share? 70

6.4 USING NET COMMANDS 71

6.41 Help at the Command Prompt 71

6.5 QUIZ 73

7. DIALUP NETWORKING 74

7.1 AIMS 74

7.2 OVERVIEW 75

7.3 INSTALLATION 75

7.31 Dial-up Networking Modem Setup 75

7.32 Dial-up Networking RAS Setup 78

7.4 USING DIAL-UP NETWORKING 79

7.5 CONFIGURING A PHONEBOOK ENTRY 80

7.6 QUIZ 82

8. PRINTING IN NT 83

8.1 AIMS 83

8.2 WINDOWS NT PRINTING 84

8.3 MANAGING PRINTING SERVICES 84

8.4 USING THE ADD PRINTER WIZARD 84

8.5 MANAGING PRINT QUEUES 85

8.6 FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PRINTING PROBLEMS 86

8.7 QUIZ 87

9. PERFORMANCE BOOSTING 88

9.1 AIMS 88

9.2 INTRODUCTION 89

9.3 BENEFITS TO USERS 89

9.4 AVAILABLE UTILITIES 89

9.41 Disk Administrator 89

9.42 Event Viewer 90

9.43 Event Types 90

9.44 Selecting a Log 91

9.45 Viewing Log Details 91

9.46 Performance Monitor 91

9.47 Monitoring Events 91

9.48 Windows NT Diagnostics 94

9.49 Viewing Information on your system 94

9.5 MULTITASKING PERFORMANCE 95

9.6 SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE 95

9.7 QUIZ 96

10. THE REGISTRY 98

10.1 AIMS 98

10.2 INTRODUCTION 99

10.3 INI FILES AND THE REGISTRY 99

10.4 REGISTRY STRUCTURE 100

10.5 SEARCHING THE REGISTRY 101

10.6 EDITING THE REGISTRY 102

10.7 QUIZ 102

11. SECURITY 104

11.1 AIMS 104

11.2 UNDERSTANDING NT SECURITY 105

11.3 MANAGING USERS AND GROUPS 105

11.31 Creating an Account 107

11.4 BACKING UP YOUR SYSTEM 108

11.5 VIRUS PROTECTION 109

11.6 UPDATING EMERGENCY REPAIR DISK (ERD) 110

11.7 QUIZ 111

12. TROUBLESHOOTING 112

12.1 AIMS 112

12.2 USING HELP 113

12.3 USING THE HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST 114

12.4 COMMON INSTALLATION PROBLEMS 114

12.41 Devices 115

12.42 Virus Threats 115

12.43 Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) 115

12.5 RE-INSTALLING NT 115

12.6 QUIZ 117

13. SHORTCUTS 119

13.1 AIMS 119

13.2 NAVIGATION TRICKS 120

13.3 USING NET COMMANDS 121

13.31 Getting help 121

13.32 Understanding Help message numbers 121

13.33 Creating accounts 121

13.34 Viewing Resources 121

13.35 Connecting to Resources 122

13.36 Viewing open files 122

13.37 Sending Messages 122

13.4 QUIZ 123

14. NT WORKSTATION SOLUTION SAMPLES (CASE STUDIES) 124

15. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 147

15.1 CHAPTER 1 147

15.2 CHAPTER 2 147

15.3 CHAPTER 3 148

15.4 CHAPTER 4 148

15.5 CHAPTER 5 148

15.6 CHAPTER 6 149

15.7 CHAPTER 7 149

15.8 CHAPTER 8 149

15.9 CHAPTER 9 150

15.10 CHAPTER 10 150

15.11 CHAPTER 11 151

15.12 CHAPTER 12 151

15.13 CHAPTER 13 151