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The offline feature in Windows 2000 works great, with one small exception. It will not sync the following types of files. .db? .ldb .mdb .mde .mdw .pst .slm It tracks which files have been modified and then over writes the older versions. It even has a safty feature built in. If you modify a...

We use Netbackup on our Origin system to backup over 1/2 terabyte of data. The only problems we had turned out to be a tempermental tape drive, not the software.

The net use command will capture the lpt1 port. net use lpt1: \\servername\Printers-share-name /persistent:yes

The autoexec that you need to modify is winnt\system32\autoexec.nt. Both the autoexec.nt and the config.nt have a bit of "read me" information in them.

Any 19" rack will work as long as it is deep enough. The 3000 needs about 27" between the front and rear mounting rails. Compaq racks have air vents built into their doors. If you use a non Compaq rack you need to leave the front and rear doors or you may overheat your system.

If you save them as a Word 6.0/95 document your Macs with Word 98 should be able to open them.

On a Win2K professional system the following information is in the target for the shortcut. It's all one line it just wrapped to 2 in the reply box. "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" C:\WINNT\Resource Pro Kit

We have about 40 Macs using OL98 via TCP/IP to an exchange server. You'll need to create a hosts file for the Mac to use to resolve the exchange server name to it's IP address. Use something like Simpletext to create a file called hosts with the following information in it. Exchangeservername...

Go to http://www.compaq.com/support/files/index.html Select Presario then the model and operating system that you need the drivers for.

Yes, you can have multipal subnet scopes configured on the same DHCP server. The only requirement is that your router must be capable of acting as a RFC 1542 (BOOTP) relay agent so the DHCP server knows which address pool to use when it supplies the address lease.

Our graphic designers receive the same error message if they have to many fonts open in Font Reserve or Suitcase. If you just have the standard system fonts then one or more may be corrupt.

The file is called hosts on a Mac, but doesn't exist until you create it with something like simpletext. It can be saved anywhere. Once the file is created and saved, open the TCP/IP control panel to the advanced user mode and hit the “Select Hosts” button and point it to the file you just...

An incremental backs up only the data changed on that day. To restore the full system on a Thursday, you would need to restore your Saturday full backup followed by the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday incremental backups. A differential backs up all data changed since the last full backup. To...

WinTAR SCSI by Spiralcomm will allow you to restore Unix/tar backups to an NT system. spiralcomm.com

According to Microsoft "Q238289" you can reinstall Windows without loosing data files such as Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.