Posted: September 11th, 2008 | Author: seodude | Filed under: Troubleshooting, how to, tips tricks, windows xp | Tags: file systems, how to, windows xp | No Comments »
The Compact Disc File System (CDFS) has full support for CD-based media in Windows XP. Although Windows XP does not support the High Performance File System (HPFS) as used under IBM’s OS/2 operating system, it fully supports the FAT, FAT32, and NTFS file systems.
FAT and FAT32
Windows XP has full FAT (also known as FAT16) and FAT32 file system support with the following conditions and parameters:
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Posted: September 11th, 2008 | Author: seodude | Filed under: Network, Troubleshooting, how to, technology, tips tricks, windows xp | Tags: networking, tcp ip, tips tricks, windows xp | 1 Comment »
Configuring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP 1
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) This service is Microsoft’s implementation of a name resolution mechanism to match IP addresses to NetBIOS computer names and vice versa. WINS servers can greatly reduce NetBIOS traffic on networks by decreasing the amount of broadcast traffic that occurs when computers attempt to resolve unknown NetBIOS computer names to IP addresses. For an Active Directorybased network in Windows 2000/2003 native mode with no applications that require NetBIOS, nor any legacy Windows clients, WINS becomes unnecessary.
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Posted: September 11th, 2008 | Author: seodude | Filed under: Troubleshooting, Web Server, technology, tips tricks, windows xp | Tags: technology, tips tricks, Troubleshooting, Web Server Resources, windows xp | No Comments »
Unlike Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional is designed for the desktop; therefore, Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed by default. IIS version 5.1 ships with Windows XP Professional. You must manually install IIS by going to the Control Panel, double-clicking the Add or Remove Programs icon, and clicking the Add/Remove Windows Components button. Mark the check box for Internet Information Services (IIS). After you select Internet Information Services (IIS), you can click the Details button to add or remove selective IIS components before you proceed with the installation. Click Next to have the Windows Components Wizard install the web server resources for you. If you upgrade your computer from Windows NT 4 Workstation (or from Windows 2000 Professional) to Windows XP Professional, IIS 5.1 is installed automatically, provided that you had installed Peer Web Services (or IIS 5) on your previous version of Windows.
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