home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.answers,news.answers
- Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kodak.com!news-nysernet-16.sprintlink.net!news-in-east1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.globix.net!news.idt.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!204.174.67.209!news.bctel.net!srv4.reelwest.bc.ca!not-for-mail
- From: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
- Subject: Win95 FAQ Part 1 of 14: Administrivia
- Message-ID: <19981108.8D7FAB8.1253D@ras4vpn10.reelwest.bc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 98 20:09:50
- Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
- Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
- Summary: These postings list many questions asked in said newsgroups,
- and answers them as best as I can. I make references to other
- Web sites and FAQs when appropriate. Visit the WWW home of
- this FAQ (http://www.orca.bc.ca/win95) for the appropriate
- links. This section is the 1st: Administrivia
- Organization: Personal and Win95 FAQ maintainence
- X-NoSpamWanted: This address is not for unsolicited commercial e-mail
- X-ImNotKidding: By sending UCE to this address you agree to pay $50.00 CDN
- X-pensive-spam: Payable to G. Fecyk, c/o P.O. Box 373 Oakville, MB R0H 0Y0
- X-ploded-spams: Stop e-mail trespassing. <http://www.orca.bc.ca/dul/>
- X-federal-bill: Section 302, HR3888 / S1618, R.I.P.
- Lines: 330
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:326243 comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95:77862 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95:59687 comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95:17915 comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95:62551 comp.answers:33804 news.answers:144049
-
- Archive-name: windows/win95/faq/part01
- Last-Modified: 1998/11/08
- Posting-Frequency: Every two months
- URL: http://www.orca.bc.ca/win95/faq1.htm
-
- Subject: 1. Administrivia, copyrights, etc
-
- * 1.1. What are FAQs?
- * 1.2. What is Windows 95?
- * 1.3. Why did you write this FAQ about Windows 95?
- + 1.3.1. Why did you cross-post this FAQ to all the .win95
- newsgroups?
- + 1.3.2. Why do you have all the Win95 groups in the
- Followup-to line?
- * 1.4. Whose work did you include in this FAQ besides yours?
- * 1.5. What other FAQs are out there?
- * 1.6. What other resources are out there?
- * 1.7. Whose trademarks did you use?
- * 1.8. What restrictions do you put on usage of this FAQ?
- + 1.8.1. Disclaimers
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.1. What are FAQs?
-
- FAQs are Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs minimize traffic on Usenet
- by providing answers to common questions, before users post those
- questions on newsgroups. If people knew about FAQs and used them, we
- wouldn't need ridiculous high speed links just to distribute Usenet
- news. Read the FAQs when available. Save copies. Give copies to your
- friends.
-
- Read all about FAQs and get others from the FAQ archives at
- rtfm.mit.edu and their mirror sites.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.2. What is Windows 95?
-
- Microsoft's newest "low end" operating system for Intel based
- computers. In my opinion, they designed it to wean DOS users off that
- 20 year old operating system and into some current stuff. It replaces
- DOS and previous versions of Windows entirely.
-
- In addition to completely re-working the user interface, Win95 brings
- over large amounts of Windows NT technology, allowing app writers to
- write for both operating systems. One of Microsoft's requirements for
- Designed for Windows 95 products is that the product must also run
- on Windows NT Workstation.
-
- It also (supposedly) helps you manage your hardware, your software,
- your time, etc better. It's also supposed to make you rich, good
- looking, sexually irresistible, and permanently wonderful. heh heh...
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.3. Why did you write this FAQ about Windows 95?
-
- The traffic on comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc is ridiculous. Other
- Win95 FAQs I read were too sparse, too technical, too anti-Microsoft,
- or otherwise too un-useful for the common folk. Also, Microsoft's FAQ,
- which shipped with the CD-ROM version, was pathetic. But ultimately, I
- wrote it for the experience, so I can say, "Hey, I made a Web page!" I
- hope this page is useful to you out there.
-
- This FAQ tries to get the big questions answered while going into some
- technical detail for those who want to learn more. Where content goes
- beyond the scope of this FAQ, I link you to appropriate sites.
-
- * 1.3.1. Why did you cross-post this FAQ to all the .win95
- newsgroups?
-
- Because I was asked to. One of the initial letters I received in
- response to the FAQ was to have me post it in the FAQ archives for
- news.answers, so non-WWW people could use it. And not everyone has FTP
- either; people using the Vancouver CommunityNet have no FTP access
- at all! To get in the archives I had to actually post it to, not only
- news.answers and comp.answers, but the groups directly concerned with
- the questions in the FAQ. I wouldn't have received approval from
- rtfm.mit.edu to cross-post if I wasn't supposed to.
-
- Cross-posting also takes less disk space on news servers than
- multi-posting. In a cross-posted article you have only one message ID
- (and only one file). Cross-posting the FAQ to the groups in question,
- as well to news.answers, takes the same bandwidth as a single posting
- to news.answers would.
-
- * 1.3.2. Why did you include all the .win95 groups in the
- Followup-to header?
-
- Originally, the .answers moderators' FAQ checker would reject the FAQ
- if it didn't include a followup-to line containing all the groups in
- question. I've started using only the .win95.misc group as it seems a
- better place for folow-ups to the FAQ itself. Yes, I've started
- reading .win95.misc to look for FAQ followups.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.4. Whose work did you include in this FAQ besides yours?
-
- These people:
- * Rich Graves: He runs the win95netbugs FAQ. He has excellent tech
- information but is very anti-Microsoft. He heeds help; he can't
- maintain the netbugs FAQ, so if you think you can do it, ask him.
- * Jim Farewell: My ex-boss, who allowed me all the resource material
- from Microsoft he had, and his computers. If it wasn't for this
- guy's patience and resources, the FAQ wouldn't be so
- comprehensive.
- * Creative Element: They run the Win95 annoyances FAQ, and they have
- plenty of brute-force methods for making Win95 work the way THEY
- want it to work.
- * Richard Evans: Who lent me his web server space to allow you all
- to preview this FAQ.
- * Glen Ninow: He runs The InterNet Store (With special emphasis
- on the capital 'N' in 'InterNet') and graciously offered his web
- server space to me for the permanent home of this FAQ, and his
- computers for me to bash after Jim Farewell handed me my pink
- slip. :p
- * Ben Goetter: He is writing a book on writing MAPI applications for
- MS Exchange, and has an excellent Exchange FAQ.
- * Sue Mosher: Excellent work keeping us updated on the Windows
- Messaging updates.
- * William Hartley: He prepared a .HLP version of this FAQ
- * Sean Erwin: He maintains the OSR2 FAQ.
-
- And then there are those who gave suggestions since the first
- release... sorry it took so long guys:
- * Eric Gisin for many corrections and a hack to MS's TCP/IP
- Properties sheet to let you make adjustments without Registry
- hacking, and for the Emergency Recovery Disk suggestions. Visit
- his new Registry site at
- http://www.webhaven.com/ericg/Windows/Registry.html
- * Ed Babin for some tape backup corrections
- * Michael Thomas and too many others not listed here, for
- encouragement
- * Kurt C. Joseph for the advice in running Win 3.1 within Win95
- * Jack H. Pincus for the good news regarding Corel's version of
- WordPerfect for Win95
- * William Hunt (E-MAIL address unknown) for the RNAAPP lockup fix
- and Eric Mitchell for telling me that it DIDN'T work
- * Eric again for the Documents Menu clean-up program, from MS Power
- Toys
- * Jeff Lawson for the Modem Break script to get SLiRP working with
- Win95 dial-up networking
- * Gordon McAndrew for the pioneering work into making TAPI work over
- packet radio
- * Anthony Humphreys for the nice package of MS Exchange add-ons, and
- FAQ page 10 corrections
- * Cassell for spelling corrections
- * "S. Dawson" for pioneering work into Banyan's VINES client for
- Win95
- * Alan R. Miller for corrections in FAQ page 9
- * Demetrio Lamzaki for encouragement in the face of OS/2 religious
- fanatics
- * Daniel Bourdon for the Rendering Subsystem/MS Fax clairification
- * perin@onyx.interactive.net for making a BOOTP client for Win95
- * Many others for telling me about the WinWord 7.0a / MS Fax mail
- merge bugfix
- * S. T. Brown for nominating this FAQ answer as the funniest
- quote in the FAQ. Go to the bottom of section 3.1 to find the
- line.
- * Several users: for SUBST.EXE clairification
- * Mr. Harigan for telling me about IMAP4, MHS, and Newsgroup clients
- for Exchange (Search for ExpressIT! 2000 on the WWW)
- * Volker Hejny for adventures in DriveSpace 3 :-) and some
- clairifications
- * Dwight Jones for telling me about changing MAC addresses in the
- dial-up adapter
- * Breidavik Gistiheimili for VCPI information: Games that need VCPI
- services won't run in a Win95 DOS session
- * John English for publishing this and many many other FAQs on their
- Student Info CD-ROM from the University of Brighton, in the UK
- (And for giving me a copy)
- * Vincent Hsieh for translating the FAQ to Chinese (I don't have the
- URL; somebody PLEASE give it to me)
- * Jeremy Parkinson for alerting me to the missing Alias Monitor file
- from HP's web site (Another reason to keep HP on my Lamers page)
- * Witalka, Jerome JRV for pointing out more errors in FAQ page 9
- * COPStalk info; finally, a Designed for Win95 AppleTalk client
- * Serg V. Shubenkov for mirroring my site in Moscow!
- * Jon Jacobik for the ultimate Win95 FAQ question: "How do you get
- Microsoft's attention to a problem like this?" (Answer: Return
- your copy of Win95 and phone MS Tech support asking for your
- registration card back!)
- * Oliver Knorr for experience in making User Profiles work on a
- non-centralized network
- * Howard Harkness for more Corel WP 7.0 lameness reports... I
- expected better from Corel.
- * The brave souls who harassed anyone who gave me sh*t for
- cross-posting the FAQ. I got a couple of nasty responses but I
- never heard from then ever again... heh heh heh... Perfect example
- of how The Net polices itself
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.5. What other FAQs are out there?
-
- Too many... use them.
-
- Win95 Net Bugs:
- <http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/win95netbugs/faq.html>
-
- Win95 Annoyances <http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/index.html>
-
- The one on the Win95 CD-ROM even though it sucks now
-
- Ben Goetter's Exchange FAQ:
- <http://www.halcyon.com/goetter/exclifaq.htm>
-
- Sue Mosher's Exchange/Windows Messaging FAQ:
- <http://www.slipstick.com/exchange/>
-
- There's an excellent Win95 Usage FAQ at
- <http://www.wantree.com.au/~hansie/>
-
- The OSR2 FAQ lives at <http://www.compuclinic.com/>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.6. What other resources are out there?
-
- There's Microsoft's Windows 95 Resource Kit which makes a great start.
-
- Definitely check out the Microsoft Knowledge Base,
- (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/) which has a lot of stuff who you
- might've thought only Technet users had access too. They recently
- re-did their search engine, so you can search on phrases like
- "Confirmed bugs" or "Bugs fixed", or "Files available for download".
- This stuff is right to the point. If you don't use Internet Explorer,
- visit http://www.microsoft.com/kb/softlib/ for a non-IE-viewable
- page of software. MS's regular Win95 pages have a bunch of tags that
- NCSA Mosaic barfs on.
-
- www.windows95.com keeps a well updated library of software.
-
- Search engine searches will give other sites of course.
-
- I won't recommend any magazines as of yet, because they're all full of
- MS ads and other un-productive junk.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.7. Whose trademarks did you use?
-
- Windows, MS-DOS, MS Exchange, MS Plus, Internet Explorer, DriveSpace:
- Microsoft Corp
-
- NT: Northern Telecom (Go figure)
-
- Norton Utilities, Norton Anti-Virus, Norton Navigator, etc: Symantec
- Corp
-
- Colorado Backup: Hewlett-Packard Corp
-
- Macintosh, AppleTalk: Apple Computer Inc
-
- Pentium, Pentium Pro: Intel Corp
-
- Netscape Navigator and Communicator: Netscape Communications Inc
-
- LANtastic: Artisoft Corp
-
- Disk Manager: Ontrack Systems
-
- DrivePro: Microhouse
-
- Stacker: Stack Electronics
-
- OS/2: IBM Corp
-
- TCPMAN: Trumpet Communications
-
- NetWare, MHS: Novell, Inc
-
- CleanSweep 95, QEMM: Quarterdeck
-
- SoftRAM: Synchronys Software (Evil, evil, evil, evil...)
-
- Award BIOS: Award software
-
- MR BIOS: Microid Research
-
- Sound Blaster (whatever kind), AWE32: Creative Labs
-
- Graphics Ultra/Pro/Expression: ATI
-
- WinCIM: CompuServe Inc
-
- WinFax: Delrina Communications/Symantec
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1.8. What restrictions do you put on the use of this FAQ?
-
- Distribution and mirroring are encouraged so long as the source is
- quoted, and it's distributed in full. (Unfortunately I can't control
- broken news gateways that won't distribute the FAQ pages... sorry).
- Translation to other languages and other formats is encouraged
- provided the intended content remains the same.
-
- People asked me about removing the "editorial comments" I scatter
- through the FAQ. I prefer you don't, but I won't mind. If you do this,
- please let me know so I can inspect it and make sure the answers are
- still accurate.
-
- * 1.8.1. Disclaimers:
-
- As MS fixes the bugs and as vendors come up with new products, this
- info may be in-accurate. Check with other sources (like the references
- above) if you are in doubt of any info I have here. I would appreciate
- updates and comments and you will receive recognition for your
- work.
-
- The opinions in this FAQ are mine, except where directly quoted and
- linked from. They do not reflect the opinions of my employer or the
- provider of this web space. Especially as I often argue with both of
- them about these topics.
-
- I can't be responsible for any damage this information causes you or
- your equipment. Try to avoid using REGEDIT. RTFM. RTFFAQ. Ask
- Questions. But don't come crying to me or sic your lawyers on me if
- you broke your computer. I can't fix it.
-
- --
- ==============================================================================
- = I am Gordon of Winterpeg. Junk mail is futile. Post MakeMoneyFast =
- = Find out why: http://spam.abuse.net/spam/ Or eat pink meat from a can =
- = World's best computer: http://www.amiga.de/ they're both the same =
- = Windows 95 FAQ: http://www.orca.bc.ca/win95/ http://ga.to/mmf/ =
- ==============================================================================
-
-