Pc Windows Tips

(With Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 and Windows XP)  If you have two phone lines in your home and want to use them both to dial out, you can use MultiLink, which will effectively double your connection speed.

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There are several ways you can determine your IP address information, but the easiest way is to run IPCONFIG and this is how you can do it.

IPCONFIG

1. Start / Run / cmd
2. IPCONFIG /ALL

This opens a command window. One advantage is that you can send the
information to a text file (IPCONFIG /ALL > c:\ip.txt)

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One way to run a chkdsk (this is like Scandisk that was with Win9X), is to

1. Double click on My Computer
2. Right click on the drive you want to check
3. Select Properties
4. Click on the Tools tab
5. Click on the Check Now button
6. Check to Automatically fix file system errors -
   This is the same as running chkdsk /f
7. If you want to Scan for and attempt recovery of bad
   sectors, check that box – This is the same as running chkdsk /R. It
   can also add a lot of time to the scan
8. Reboot if necessary

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You do not need to reinstall if you forgot the admin password.

There is a boot disk you can download at: http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

That will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or XP. Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used it many times with great success.

They also have a bootable CD image you can download.

There is a great little utility available to help you find your currently
installed product ID

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

It also works for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office 97,
and Office XP