Stop the logon screen in Windows 98SE from appearing at startup!
1. Click on Network Neighborhood and select Properties.
2. In the pull-down menu under Primary Network Logon, select
Windows Logon.
3. Hit OK.
4. If the system asks for a Windows CD-ROM, cancel it.
5. Restart your system.
6. When the PC restarts, a logon window will appear. Enter a name,
but leave the password blank. The next time you reboot, the logon
will not appear.
If you want to do this in Windows XP, you need to use TweakUI.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
You can network multiple PCs and a single printer using Microsoft
Windows Printer Sharing!
More and more of us have several computers in our home. And more
and more of us are networking them together.
Once you have your computers networked, it's just a hop, skip, and
a jump to sharing that single printer on your network.
You can use a utility called "File and Print Sharing," which is
built into every desktop version of Windows since Win95. It's
easy, and it works with any parallel port printer.
Setup
Networking
First, your computers need to be networked. It can be as simple as
two computers using a crossover cable, or five systems using a
hub.
Printer setup
Plug it in.
Decide which computer you want to connect your printer to. Your
best choice is a computer that isn't used very often, but if all
your computers are used regularly, choose the one with the most
horsepower.
Install the printer drivers on the local machine.
Local system software setup
Now you need to tell your computer to let others use the printer.
1. Open your network properties either through the control panel,
or right-click on Network Neighborhood and choose Properties.
2. Click File and Print Sharing.
3. Check the box marked "I want to be able to allow others to
print to my printer(s)."
4. Click OK.
Remote system software setup
Next you need to tell the networked computers where that printer
is.
1. Click Start, Settings, Printers.
2. Double-click on the Add Printer icon.
3. A wizard will start to help you set up the printer.
4. It will ask you if the printer is local or network. Choose
Network printer and click Next.
5. It will ask you for the network path of the printer; click
Browse. It may take a minute to continue.
6. You will see a list of the computers on your network. Click the
+ next to the computer the printer is connected to, and select the
printer. Click OK.
7. If you plan to print from MS-DOS programs, choose that option,
then choose the printer port it is connected to.
8. Your printing will probably be entirely in Windows. Click Next.
9. Choose a name for your printer. The name is purely for your
use. It could be technical -- HPLJ4 -- or creative: The Wife's
Printer.
10. If you want to use that printer for all your printing, choose
Yes as the default. Click Next.
11. To test the connection, print a test page.
Windows will then load the drivers. You may need to insert the
disk with the appropriate printer drivers on it.
Follow this process for each computer on your network that you
want to allow access to this printer.
There are pros and cons to setting up your printer this way.
Pros:
It's free.
It's easy.
Cons:
It ties up resources on the computer the printer is connected to.
Printer cables are expensive, so if your printer needs to be in a
different location from the computer, you'll have to pay more.
The more computers on the network using the printer, the more it
bogs down the system it's connected to.
Runtime error messages are relatively benign in Windows Me!
Microsoft developed them so Web developers could troubleshoot
problems with underlying code on webpages. The problems lie
squarely with the developer of the webpage.
If you just want to do some regular ol' surfing, turn error
reporting off. Here's how in Internet Explorer.
1. Click Tools.
2. Choose Internet Options.
3. Flip over to the Advanced tab.
4. Place a check mark next to "Disable script debugging."
5. Click OK.
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