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Win95 Systems Logging On to an NT Domain
If you have a Windows NT domain that includes both NT and Windows 95 workstations, you've probably experienced this problem. When a Win95 machine loses the network connection, the domain field of the logon prompt disappears. You can see only the username and password fields, even though Client for Microsoft Networks is installed and you've selected the Primary Network Logon option on the Control Panel Network applet's Configuration tab. One solution is to add a Microsoft NetBEUI protocol (e.g., TCP/IP) to the configuration, restart the system, then remove NetBEUI.
—Vladimir Tankhimovich
vtankhim@tdc.com
Personal Firewall
In the past few months, attacks on individual computers seem to be more frequent. On my Windows NT system, which uses a cable modem, I thought I had sufficient security settings to keep unwanted people out of my system. However, after using Gibson Research's Shields Up! utility, I discovered how inadequate my security settings were. When I researched a third-party solution, I had trouble finding a cheap firewall that worked with NT.
Then I discovered Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm 2.1 personal firewall software. This product's rule-based system of setup is easy, and when I ran Shields Up! after installing ZoneAlarm, my connection was completely invisible. The product asks you what programs or services on your system you want to let access the Internet and be accessed from the Internet. One of ZoneAlarm's key features is that it displays warnings of all attempts to access your computer, listing the IP address of the connecting system and the service or port that IP address is trying to access. ZoneAlarm works on NT and Windows 9x.
—Eric Ritter
eric_ritter@lgs.com
Add Windows Explorer Context Menu Options
In Windows 2000, when you right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, you get a context menu that displays various actions that you can perform on the file, such as Open, Copy, and Delete. With a small addition to the Registry, you can add options to this context menu that let you choose a directory to which you can copy or move the file or folder. Run regedit, and navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjects\shellex\Context
MenuHandlers subkey. From the Edit menu, click New, Key; type
Copy To
as the key name, then press Enter. Select the Copy To key you just created, and double-click the (Default) value in the right-hand pane. Set the value to
{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}
and click OK. The string contains only numbers and letters that come before G in the alphabet, so don't mistake the number 0 for the letter O. Close the Registry editor, and restart Windows Explorer. (You don't have to reboot for the change to take effect.) Right-click a file or folder, and the context menu will list a Copy To option. Selecting this option will open a Browse for Folder dialog box in which you can drill down to find the folder you want to copy the selected files or folders to. Click OK to complete the copy.
To add a Move To option to the Windows Explorer context menu, follow the previous instructions. However, when you add the new key, name it Move To and set the (Default) value to
{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}
Selecting the Move To option from the context menu will open the same Browse for Folder dialog box that the Copy To option brings up, but the resulting action will be a move instead of a copy.
—Chris Taylor
ctaylor@nrcan.gc.ca