Start Navigation sound under
Start 
Settings
Control Panel Sounds
Windows Explorer.
In Windows 7, there is a Start Menu item in
C:\Users\username\ but it is just a shortcut
and ‘Access is denied’. The real folder is in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\.
There is also a Start Menu item in
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\.
I don't understand the relationship.
Items that have been pinned to the Start Menu are found in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu.
Dragging a folder into this location doesn't accomplish anything.
I was hoping to get something
like the way the pinned Firefox item expands to multiple Tasks.
Under certain circumstances (possibly related to the installation
of IE 5), certain versions of Windows will emit
a Click sound when Windows Explorer is used to open a new directory,
or when a link is selected in IE, or when a Web-page frame is
refreshed (perhaps repeatedly but invisibly). If this clicking
irritates you, disable the Start Navigation sound under
Start Settings
Control Panel Sounds
Windows Explorer.
In Windows 2000, by default, menus change their contents depending
on which items you've used recently. This means that menus are
unpredictable, and that it's more difficult to get at seldom-used
features. Microsoft calls these ‘personalized’ menus
and considers this to be an accessibility feature. To
turn it off, go to Start
Programs Accessories
Accessibility
Accessibility Wizard. Click on Next
until you get to the Display Settings dialogue box.
(You'll have to pass through a Text Size dialogue box
which may go crazy for a while messing with your screen fonts.)
Make sure the Disable Personalized Menus box is checked. Click on
Next as often as necessary, ignoring a stupid
No Options Selected warning.
That was for Windows itself. For Word, do Tools
Customize
Options and make sure the
Always show full menus box is checked.
Starting with Windows 2000, by default the underlining of keyboard
accelerators is hidden until the Alt key is pressed. This behaviour
can be controlled by going to Control Panel Display Appearance
Effects and checking or unchecking
the box labelled . This also applies to the
visibility of focus rectangles. (References: details
and comments; rationale)
It may be desirable to swap the Control key and the Caps Lock key,
so the Control key (heavily used in Emacs, for example) is positioned
to the left of the ‘A’ key and is easier to reach.
You can make the swap by editing the Windows registry.
Note that editing the registry is very dangerous. Before editing
it you should back it up by doing Registry Export registry file.
To edit the registry, do
Start Run regedit. In regedit
select the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\
Control\ KeyBoard Layout. Do Edit New
Binary Value, give it the name
Scancode Map, then use Edit Modify and give it the value
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
03 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00
3A 00 1D 00 00 00 00 00
where the first 8 00's constitute a header, the number of map entries
is 0000003 (including the final null entry), 001D is mapped to 003A,
and 003A is mapped to 001D. The entries are in reverse byte order.
Reboot for the key swapping to take effect. Note that the swapping will apply to all users.
When installing Windows NT on a machine with a large hard disk, only 8 GB of disk space will be recognized, even though the CMOS settings recognize more. Go ahead and install Windows with a system partition of 4 GB (the maximum). Once Service Pack 5 (or 4) has been installed, the system will recognize the whole disk, and Disk Manager can be used to define a partition (or partitions) for the rest of the disk.
After a new Windows NT machine has been installed (or Windows NT has had to
be re-installed on an existing machine), it is necessary to enable
plaintext passwords, in order to permit access to Samba on Unix/Linux
machines (e.g., Funsan and Fundus).
This is done by using the Registry Editor to set the key
\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters
to
EnablePlainTextPassword REG_DWORD 1
(See MS
Support page.)
Under Windows 2000 this can be done by doing Start . In the
Settings Control
Panel Administrative Tools Local Security PolicyLocal Security Settings dialogue box, select Local
Policies ,
double-click on Security OptionsSend unencrypted password to connect to
third-party SMB servers and enable it. Apparently a reboot is
then required. (Note that the instructions for finding
Administrative Tools are incorrect on the relevant MS
Support page: they say to use Programs rather than
Settings .)
Control Panel
Under Windows NT, to print using the network printers, HP Jet
Admin software must be installed on each machine. It can be installed
from
\\milsum\download\system\hp\jetadmin\3.4\hpjanten.exe.
Running the self-extracting executable (choose an appropriate
destination directory rather than using the default) will create
several directories called Diskn. In
Disk1 run Setup.exe. Once it has been
installed, add a printer by doing Start . Use Programs HP JetAdmin
Utilities Add HP JetDirect Printer
Easy setup and click Next as
required. Protocol will be TCP/IP; use the Printer List and select
printer 132.206.111.12 for the printer in the hall opposite room 311,
and select the driver for HP LaserJet 4Si/4Si MX PS.
Under Windows 2000, HP Jet Admin is not required. (In fact I got
an error message when I tried to install it, although it continued to
install itself and pretended to work.) To gain access to a remote
printer, do Start . Specify that it will be a Settings Printers Add
PrinterLocal printer
even though it won't, and make sure the check box Automatically
detect and install my Plug and Play printer is not checked.
Create a new port, of type Standard TCP/IP port, with
the appropriate TCP/IP address. Specify the appropriate manufacturer
and printer type.