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Bail out of crash Windows NT is basically a power operating system, whose features got further enhanced by the launching of Windows 2000. However, there have always been issues related to stability with Windows NT operating system. But contrary to general perception, Windows NT has many features, which add to its stability. One very common problem in case of Windows NT is of system crashing due to change of device driver. Thus if you change the device driver by mistake or deliberately then, this could lead to the crash. The sensitivity of Windows NT is rather high and thus installation of programs, which are not meant for NT, could also crash it. Now in all these situations, you may not be able to restart your Windows NT system. However, if you are stuck up in this kind of a situation, then the bailing out is rather very simple. All you need to do is use the "Last Known Good Control Set" menu, which appears during Windows NT boot up process and appear normally on the blue screen. Using this option you can revert back to the stage immediately before this problem occurred. Actually, Last Known Good Control Set is a set of back up copy of all the system configuration entries of the last time when your computer booted up successfully. However, in the Last Known Good Control Set, you can only go back to the settings, which you had at the last successful boot. Avoid disconnection Now let’s talk something about the Internet, which is the most common application on computer these days. Normally people complain about too frequent disconnection from the ISP and which is something very annoying for the Internet users. Though there could be several reasons for such disconnection but one common reason for frequent disconnections is the enabled call-waiting feature on the PSTN phone. Normally, in majority of cities, the telephone service provider company provides free phone plus facilities, which includes call waiting also. However, for Net surfing this service should be disabled or stable connectivity to the Internet. Otherwise, whenever someone will call you on your telephone, your Internet connection will drop and would thus cause disconnection. Though in the properties of dial-up networking, there is an option to deactivate the call-waiting feature. But the best way to deal with this situation is to deactivate this feature through your telephone before you dial your ISP. However, if you are not sure about this feature on your telephone, then you can confirm it from your phone company. Know your IP Just like you have your telephone number for your land phones, similarly on the Internet, there are IP numbers. IP numbers or the Internet protocol number is a unique address, which is the virtual address on the Internet. This number is important and often is a dynamic number and thus never remains the same and changes each time you connect to your ISP. You can use this number to place a call on the Internet or can even use it for file and data transfer over the Internet. There are some software, using which you can know your IP address easily. However, even without having any software, this task can be accomplished very easily by a simple DOS command. Thus, if you wish to know IP address along with your Ethernet adapter configuration just type ipconfig/all at the DOS prompt. This will give you detailed information about your IP configuration. Typing the above command at the Run menu can alternatively do this. DOS commands The new users do not know the power of DOS commands and the old computer users have now started forgetting it. But all said and done, DOS commands are quite powerful and those who use them can tell you about the utility of the same. There are many simple DOS commands say
for example Dir command, using which you can get the detailed
information in the format you want. Thus if you wish to explore the
contents of C: drive and the D: drive, you can simply do it by giving
one single command Dir C: D:. However, if you wish to view them more
thoroughly then you can modify it further to Dir C: D:/p. This will list
the contents of both these drives page wise in the same order. Now if
you wish to get a list of files in the current and sub directories with
their full path name, then you can do so by simply giving the command
Dir /S /B. For viewing the short i.e. 8.3 DOS file name and the long
name of files in the current directory, you can give a simple DOS
command Dir /X. If you want to display all files in the current
directory including hidden and system files, then you can do so by
giving the command Dir /A. Similarly the DOS command Dir /OS, will sort
your files by size in ascending order i.e. the smallest file first. |
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