Access the Internet quickly without affecting PC performance in
Windows 98!
If you're on a network that's patched directly to the Internet,
you probably keep Internet Explorer minimized on your taskbar all
day long so that you can quickly and easily access the Web when
you need something. However, the whole time Internet Explorer is
running in the background, it's using valuable system resources
that could be put to better use enhancing the performance of other
tasks, such as calculating spreadsheet formulas in Microsoft
Excel. A better solution to quickly access the Internet is to use
the Address toolbar.
To do so, right-click on the taskbar and select Toolbars | Address
from the shortcut menu. Then, move the Address toolbar to the top
of your desktop and choose the Auto-Hide and Always On Top
features. Now, when you need to access the Internet, just move
your pointer to the top of the screen and when the Address toolbar
appears, enter the address. When you do, Internet Explorer
launches and connects to the requested site.
NetBIOS with DHCP options in Windows 2000!
NetBIOS over TCP/IP allows host name resolution for NetBIOS names
over the TCP/IP protocol. Windows 2000 uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP to
communicate with earlier Windows platforms such as Windows NT and
Windows 9x.
Windows also supports direct hosting, which allows the Windows
2000 client to perform name resolution using DNS directly over
TCP/IP without NetBIOS. Windows 2000 clients attempt to establish
a connection with both NetBIOS over TCP/IP and direct hosting.
Whichever method succeeds first is the one you'll use.
You can disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and force the Windows 2000
client to use DNS to improve network performance if all the
network computers to which the computer needs to connect are
running Windows 2000 or later.
You can take one of two approaches to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP:
disable it outright or configure the computer to take its settings
from a DHCP server. The latter is the default setting. To
configure the client, follow these steps:
1. Open the Properties for the network interface in the Network
And Dial-Up Connections folder.
2. Open the Properties for the TCP/IP protocol, click the Advanced
tab, and then click the WINS tab.
3. Select Disable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP to disable it outright, or
select Use NetBIOS Setting From DHCP Server if you want the
computer to pull the NetBIOS setting when it renews its address
lease.
4. Open the scope on the DHCP server using the DHCP console.
5. Right-click Scope Options and choose Configure Options.
6. Click the Advanced tab, and then under Vendor Class, select
Microsoft Options.
7. Select 001 Microsoft Disable NetBIOS Option and set Data Entry
to 0x2.
8. Then, close the scope options and use ipconfig on the client to
renew the lease.
Track System Up Time in Windows XP Pro
If you want to know how long your Windows XP Professional system
has been running since the last reboot, you can run the command
line version of System Information. Unlike its GUI counterpart,
the command line version offers System Up Time information.
In a command prompt window, type Systeminfo. Near the top of the
report that displays on the screen, you'll find an item titled
System Up Time that tells you in days, hours, minutes, and seconds
how long the system has been running since the last reboot.
If you'd rather not visually sort through the report to track down
the System Up Time, you can pipe the Systeminfo report through the
DOS-based Find command to get this information. Open a command
prompt window, and type the following command:
Systeminfo | Find "System Up Time:"
Note: The command line version of System Information is only
available in Windows XP Professional.
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