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THE WINDOWS 95 DEVICE MANAGER   (CONT) Primary and Secondary IDE Controllers: Unfortunately problems with the Primary and Secondary IDE Controllers are abundant in Windows 95, and we do recommend that you upgrade to Windows 98 unless that it not at all feasible. Neither of the retail versions of Windows …

Add “Open With” to all Files You can add “Open With…” to the right click context menu of all of your files. This is great when you have several file types that you want to open with the same program. As an example, if you have three different text editors …

184 Pin DIMM DDR SDRAM is the newest of the memory types under development that will be available in the 184 Pin DIMM form factor. The principle difference between conventional SDRAM and DDR SDRAM is its ability to read/write data on both edges of a clock, therefore resulting in faster …

What is Unicode? Developed in cooperation between the Unicode Consortium and the International Organization for Standardization, Unicode is an attempt to consolidate the alphabets and ideographs of the world’s languages into a single, international character set. It is language agnostic, focusing instead on the characters themselves. Thus, a letter shared …

And The Issues Surrounding Them! A character that appears on your computer screen, whether it be a number, letter or symbol, is the graphical interpretation of a number. For a computer to know what characters to display, it refers to a database that associates a single character with each number. …

SiSoft Sandra Errata List No Memory SPD/PLL IC info on Asus boards: If Sandra does not show any memory module information on your Asus board it is because motherboards produced beginning with the P3B-F block software from detecting these devices after boot. SiSoft has no idea why Asus has done …

What is Sandra? Sandra stands for “System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant”, and is a synthetic information and diagnostic utility used to provide diagnostic information, including that which may be undocumented, about hardware and software as well as other devices whether they are hardware or software (synthetic devices). Sandra is …

CMOS Date and Time Not Set If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Explanation: The system BIOS has detected that the date and time stored in the CMOS memory were never set up, or set to an unacceptable value. …

Printer Related Registry Keys Disable the Printer PopUp message [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers] Disabled “NetPopup”=dword:00000000 Enabled “NetPopup”=dword:00000001 Disable Print Job notification in Event Viewer [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers] Disabled “EventLog”=dword:00000000 Enabled “EventLog”=dword:00000001 Beep on Printer Error [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print] Disabled “BeepEnabled”=dword:00000000 Enabled “BeepEnabled”=dword:00000001 Changing the Default Spool Directory [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers] ;”DefaultSpoolDirectory”=”Full path to printer spool directory“ User’s Default Printer …

Type: Internal (1.0 and later) Syntax: PAUSE [comment] Purpose: Suspends execution of a batch file until a key is pressed. Discussion PAUSE suspends execution of the batch file and displays the message Strike a key when ready … With some versions of DOS, a comment may also be entered on …