Set Up a Multilink Modem Connection

To set up a multilink modem connection, install and configure each modem involved as usual. Use HyperTerminal or Phone Dialer to make sure each modem and phone line is working. Then open the Properties dialog box for the connection and take the following steps:

1. On the General page, shown here, select the check box in the Connect Using list box for each modem you want to use for the connection. (In most cases, this means using both your modems.)

2. If all the modems will call the same phone number to establish the multilinked connection, leave the All Devices Call the Same Numbers check box selected, as it is by default, and leave the existing phone number and dialing information as it is in the Phone Number group box. If the modems will dial different numbers, clear the All Devices Call the Same Numbers check box, select each modem in turn, and specify the phone number and dialing information for the modem.

3. On the Options page of the Properties dialog box for the connection, shown next, use the Multiple Devices drop-down list to specify how to dial the modems. The default setting is Dial All Devices, which automatically dials all the modems each time you establish the connection. The Dial Devices Only As Needed setting dials the modems according to the conditions you specify (see the next step). The Dial Only First Available Device setting lets you establish a single-line connection using whichever line is available;it’s primarily useful when you’re sharing phone lines with other people (or with your voice calls).

4. If you selected the Dial Devices Only As Needed setting in the Multiple Devices dropdown list, configure automatic dialing and hanging up as described in the section after
next.

5. Click the OK button to close the Automatic Dialing and Hanging Up dialog box and then click the OK button to close the Properties dialog box for the connection.

Here are some necessary steps below which you have to follow :-

1. If there is an operating system currently installed on your computer, start the computer, log on as an administrator, and insert the Windows XP Professional CDROM into the CD-ROM drive.

2. When the Welcome To Microsoft Windows XP page appears, click Install Windows XP.

3. If you see a Windows Setup message box indicating that the version of the operating system cannot be upgraded and that option to upgrade will not be available, click OK.

4. On the Welcome To Setup page in the Installation Type box, click New Installation (Advanced), and then click Next.

5. On the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, select I Accept This Agreement, and then click Next.

6. On the Your Product Key page, type in your 25-character product key, and then click Next.

7. The Setup Options page allows you to configure the following three options:

❑ Advanced Options Allows you to control where the installation files are obtained, where the installation files are copied to, whether or not to copy all installation files to the hard disk, and whether or not you want to specify the drive letter and partition during Setup.

❑ Accessibility Options Gives you the option of using the Microsoft Magnifier during Setup to display an enlarged portion of the screen in a separate window for users with limited vision and the option of using the Microsoft Narrator to read the contents of the screen for users who are blind.

❑ Select The Primary Language And Region You Want To Use Allows you to specify the primary language and region you use.

8. After you have configured any required Setup options, click Next.

9. Setup displays the Get Updated Setup Files dialog box. If your computer has access to the Internet, you might want to ensure that the Yes, Download The Updated Setup Files (Recommended) check box is selected, and then click Next. Otherwise, select No, Skip This Step And Continue Installing Windows, and then click Next.

10. If your partition is not currently formatted with Windows XP Professional NTFS, the Setup Wizard displays the Upgrade To The Windows NTFS File System page. If you get the Upgrade To The Windows NTFS File System page, ensure that Yes, Upgrade My Drive is selected, and then click Next.

Important :- If you plan to dual boot your computer with an operating system that does not support NTFS, your C drive cannot be formatted with NTFS. You might want to install Windows XP Professional in a different drive, and then format that drive with NTFS. If you install Windows XP Professional on a drive other than the C drive, you must be sure you are using the correct drive for the rest of the practices in the training kit.

11. If you are installing an Evaluation Edition of Windows XP Professional, the Setup Wizard displays the Setup Notification page, informing you that this is an evaluation version. If Setup displays the Setup Notification screen, press ENTER to continue.

12. On the Welcome To Setup page, press ENTER to install Windows XP Professional.

Note:- You can also delete partitions at this time. If you have a C partition, you might not be able to delete it because Setup has already loaded some files onto it. The partition you choose to use must be at least 2000 MB in size. If you cannot use the C partition to install Windows XP Professional, you must replace the C partition in all following practices in this training kit with the appropriate partition, the one on which you install Windows XP Professional.

13. The Setup Wizard prompts you to select an area of free space on an existing partition to install Windows XP Professional. Select the C partition. The Setup Wizard displays the following message: You Chose To Install Windows XP On A Partition That Contains Another Operating System. Installing Windows XP Professional On This Partition Might Cause The Other Operating System To Function Improperly.

14. Press C to have Setup continue and use this partition.

Caution Depending on the operating system currently installed on the C partition, Setup might display the following message: A Windows Folder Already Exists That May Contain A Windows Installation. If You Continue, The Existing Windows Installation Will Be Overwritten. If You Want To Keep Both Operating Systems, Press Esc And Specify A Different Folder To Use.

15. If you get a warning about a Windows folder already existing, press L to use the folder and delete the installation in it. If your partition was not formatted with NTFS and you choose to have the partition formatted as NTFS, Setup formats it as NTFS, and then copies files. Otherwise, Setup examines the partition and then copies files.

16. The Setup Wizard reboots the computer and continues to copy files in GUI mode, after which it displays the Regional And Language Options page. Select the appropriate system locale, user locale, and keyboard layout (or ensure that they are correct for your language and location), and then click Next.

17. Setup displays the Personalize Your Software page, prompting you for your name and your organization name. The Setup Wizard uses your organization name to generate the default computer name. Many applications that you install later will use this information for product registration and document identification. In the Name text box, type your name. In the Organization text box, type the name of your organization, and then click Next.

18. The Setup Wizard displays the Computer Name And Administrator Password page.
Type a name for the computer in the Computer Name text box.

Important If your computer is on a network, check with the network administrator before assigning a name to your computer.

19. In the Administrator Password text box and in the Confirm Password text box, type a password, and then click Next.

20. Depending on your computer configuration, the Setup Wizard might display the Modem Dialing Information page. Configure the following information:

❑ Ensure that the correct country or region is selected.

❑ Type the correct area code or city code.

❑ If you dial a number to get an outside line, type the number.

❑ Ensure that the correct dialing tone is selected, and then click Next.

21. The Setup Wizard displays the Date And Time Settings page. If necessary, select the time zone for your location from the Time Zone drop-down list, and adjust the date and the time. Ensure that the Automatically Adjust Clock For Daylight Saving Changes check box is selected if you want Windows XP Professional to automatically adjust the time on your computer for daylight savings time, and then click Next.

22. Ensure that Typical Settings is selected, and then click Next.

23. On the Workgroup Or Computer Domain page, ensure that the No, This Computer Is Not On A Network, Or Is On A Network Without A Domain option is selected, make sure that the workgroup name is Workgroup, and then click Next.

24. The Setup Wizard configures the networking components and then copies files, installs Start menu items, registers components, saves settings, and removes temporary files. This process takes several minutes.

25. The computer restarts, and Windows XP Professional starts for the first time.

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Just open the Internet Explorer 8 and select tools > internet options. After this, select the general tab and click on the settings under the tabs sub-group. Now in the tabs settings just uncheck the box which says “ Show previews for individuals tabs in taskbar” and click ok. This alteration requires you to restart your internet explorer to apply the settings. This procedure is easy to follow and requires no additional program to carry on the task, you just have to change the internal settings of the internet explorer 8 and can see only one thumbnail preview even you have more than one tabs opened at a time.

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LockImgae is a portable software which allows you to add a password to your personal pictures so that other person cannot view that photo. The working is simple, just run the program and open that particular image on it. Now save that executable image by selecting Save As under File Menu. After giving the name and selecting the file type, it will ask you to assign a password to the file. Just type the password and save it.

In order to view that protected file, just double-click on that file and it will ask you to enter the password. Simply enter the password and view your image. Once a photo is protected with this software, it cannot be converted back to the image format ,so be sure before protecting any image with this software.

This program needs no installation as it can be executed directly after downloading.

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The process is simple, just download the program and run, you will be able to see all those files that were closed accidently. Just select the particular file which has to reopen and press the Hotkey Shift + Pause, Your file will be reopened. This Hotkey combination can be changed to whatever combination you wish to select, as the tool is configurable and can be modified to provide any hotkey combination and color. This tool is portable and can be downloaded from below.

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In order to solve this problem we are here with a third party application tool named as Roadkil’s Disk Wipe and it will remove the data from hard drives permanently and it can also fill up the disk space with random data or it may leave the disk space blank as well. This application is very easy to use and you can perform several passes to ensuring that the data is totally unrecoverable. You can fully utilize this application for deleting the data from your Hard Disks and USB/Flash Drives as well.

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This is not enough here but you are also able to select the layout of arrangement ( for example : Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically). In addition with the help of this application you may also select the option ( Close all Programs ) or (Keep all Programs Maximized) . In conclusion this application is a portable type application and you will get full advantage of this coolest application.

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- Here you may see the above image a blue icon of iReboot after installing it on. By just clicking on it you will see the installed Operating system on your PC.

- The above image shown up two installed version i.e Windows 7 and Windows XP. So just similar to this way you may have more then 2 operating system installed on your system and by just using iReboot you can easily switch on Operating Systems.

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The primary administrative tools in Windows Server 2003 are MMC consoles with collections of snap-ins suited to a specific purpose. The Active Directory Users and Computers administrative tool, for example, is specifically designed to administer the security principals (Users, Groups, and Computers) in a domain. The snap-ins within the MMC—not the MMC itself—are the administrative tools that you use.

Each MMC contains a collection of one or more tools called snap-ins. A snap-in extends the MMC by adding specific management capability and functionality. There are two types of snap-ins: stand-alone and extension. You can combine one or more snap-ins or parts of snap ins to create customized MMCs, which can then be used to centralize and combine administrative tasks. Although you can use many of the preconfigured consoles for administrative tasks, customized consoles allow for individualization to your needs and standardization within your environment.

Important Tip By creating a custom MMC, you do not have to switch between different programs or individual consoles.

Stand-Alone Snap-Ins:- are provided by the developer of an application. All Administrative Tools for Windows Server 2003, for example, are either single snap-in consoles or preconfigured combinations of snap-ins useful to a particular category of tasks. The Computer Management snap-in, for example, is a collection of individual snap-ins useful to a unit.

Extension Snap-Ins: - or extensions, are designed to work with one or more stand-alone snap-ins, based on the functionality of the stand-alone. When you add an extension, Windows Server 2003 places the extension into the appropriate location within the stand-alone snap-in.Many snap-ins offer stand-alone functionality and extends the functionality of other snap-ins. For example, the Event Viewer snap-in reads the event logs of computers. If the Computer Management object exists in the console, Event Viewer automatically extends each instance of a Computer Management object and provides the event logs for the computer. Alternatively, the Event Viewer can also operate in stand-alone mode, in which case it does not appear as a node below the Computer Management node.

• In this guide you will easily explore how to migrate the User files and Settings from Windows XP to Windows 7.
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• • Application Compatibility and Application Packaging
• You can learn about the Strategy of an Image and will be able to Build Windows 7 System Images.
• • You can learn quick history lesson for system imaging
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Follow these below steps in order to configure a server in Windows 2003:-

1. If it is not already open, open the Manage Your Server page from the Administrative Tools program group.

2. Click Add Or Remove A Role. The Configure Your Server Wizard appears.

3. Click Next and the Configure Your Server Wizard detects network settings.

4. Click Typical Configuration For A First Server, and then click Next.

5. In Active Directory Domain Name, type contoso.com.

6. Verify that NetBIOS Domain Name reads CONTOSO and click Next.

7. Verify that the Summary Of Selections matches that shown in below Figure and click Next. The Configure Your Server Wizard reminds you that the system will restart and asks you to close any open programs.

8. Click Yes.

9. After the system has restarted, log on as Administrator.

10. The Configure Your Server Wizard will summarize its final steps, as shown in below figure.

11. Click Next and then click Finish.

12. Open Active Directory Users And Computers from the Administrative Tools group. Confirm that you now have a domain called contoso.com by expanding the domain and locating the computer account for Server01 in the Domain Controllers OU.

So this time we are going to tweak this small thing by applying some changes in registry settings and trying to remove the shortcut text as we create new shortcut icon on desktop. So lets follow the below steps :-

* Just open up Start menu and on Run/Search Tab , type regedit

* By Selecting regedit open up the registry editor and move towards the following path of Registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

* Now apply changes in the Link key value and change 17 00 00 00 into 00 00 00 00

Important :- While you are performing changes make sure that your explorer is not in running condition , So before applying these changes just end up the explorer task with task manager .

Now finally you have done it and you will not see any further shortcut text with the Shortcut icon . Enjoy !!!!!

Here are the following steps through which you can copy your network profiles to USB drives:-

1- First of all just click on the Network Icon situated in the Taskbar and make a right-click  on network profile and select properties option.

2- Now choose the connection tab in the properties and in the below picture you can see the option “ copy settings” to Flash or USB drives.

3- Now in this step you will see the new window which will pop up after clicking on “copy settings option” and in this step it will ask you to insert the USB Flash Drive.

4- Just click on Next and  then it will copy the whole network profile of yours to the USB Flash Drive.

5- Suppose if you need to install these setting to another computer, then you just need to double click on setupSNK file in USB Flash Drive and it will configure the whole settings automatically.

Note:-These all settings will vary just depend on the different sort of Windows versions either(XP or Vista OS)

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Microsoft Windows networks support two directory service models: the workgroup and the domain. The domain model is by far the more common in organizations implementing Windows Server 2003. The domain model is characterized by a single directory of enterprise resources—Active Directory—that is trusted by all secure systems that belong to the domain. Those systems can therefore use the security principals (user, group, and computer accounts) in the directory to secure their resources. Active Directory thus acts as an identity store, providing a single trusted list of Who’s Who in the domain.

Active Directory itself is more than just a database, though. It is a collection of supporting files including transaction logs and the system volume, or Sysvol, that contains logon scripts and group policy information. It is the services that support and use the database, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Kerberos security protocol, replication processes, and the File Replication Service (FRS). The database and its services are installed on one or more domain controllers. A domain controller is a server that has been promoted by running the Active Directory Installation Wizard by running DCPROMO from the command line or, by running the Configure Your Server Wizard. Once a server has become a domain controller, it hosts a copy, or replica, of Active Directory and changes to the database on any domain controller are replicated to all domain controllers within the domain.

Joining a Domain

When you install Windows XP Professional on a computer, you can add that computer to an existing domain. Adding a computer to a domain is referred to as joining a domain. You can join a computer to a domain during or following installation. Joining a domain during installation requires the following:-

Domain name:- Ask the domain administrator for the Domain Name System (DNS) name for the domain that the computer will join. An example of a DNS-compatible domain name is Microsoft.com, in which Microsoft is the name of the organization’s DNS identity.

Computer account:- Before a computer can join a domain, you must create a computer account in the domain. You can ask a domain administrator to create the computer account before installation or, if you have been assigned the Add Workstations To
Domain right, you can create the computer account during installation. If you create the computer account during installation, Setup prompts you for the name and password of a user account with authority to add domain computer accounts.

Available domain controller and a server running the DNS service (called the DNS server) At least one domain controller in the domain that you are joining and one DNS server must be online when you install a computer in the domain.

Joining a Workgroup

When you install Windows XP Professional on a computer, you can add that computer to an existing workgroup. This process is referred to as joining a workgroup. You can join a computer to a workgroup during installation simply by assigning a workgroup name to the computer. The workgroup name you assign can be the name of an existing workgroup or the name of a new workgroup that you create during installation.

If you select Custom Configuration, the Configure Your Server Wizard can configure the following roles:

■ File Server Provides convenient, centralized access to files and directories for individual users, departments, and entire organizations. Choosing this option allows you to manage user disk space by enabling and configuring disk quota management and to provide improved file system search performance by enabling the Indexing service.

■ Print Server Provides centralized and managed access to printing devices by serving shared printers and printer drivers to client computers. Choosing this option starts the Add Printer Wizard to install printers and their associated Windows printer drivers. It also installs Internet Information Services (IIS 6.0) and configures Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and installs the Web-based printer administration tools.

■ Application Server (IIS, ASP.NET) Provides infrastructure components required to support the hosting of Web applications. This role installs and configures IIS 6.0 as well as ASP.NET and COM+.

■ Mail Server (POP3, SMTP) Installs POP3 and SMTP so that the server can act as an e-mail server for POP3 clients.

■ Terminal Server Provides applications and server resources, such as printers and storage, to multiple users as if those applications and resources were installed on their own computers. Users connect with the Terminal Services or Remote Desktop clients. Unlike Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 provides Remote Desktop for Administration automatically. Terminal Server roles are required only when hosting applications for users on a terminal server.

■ Remote Access/VPN Server Provides multiple-protocol routing and remote access services for dial-in, local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). Virtual private network (VPN) connections allow remote sites and users to connect securely to the network using standard Internet connections.

■ Domain Controller (Active Directory) Provides directory services to clients in the network. This option configures a domain controller for a new or existing domain and installs DNS. Choosing this option runs the Active Directory Installation Wizard.

■ DNS Server Provides host name resolution by translating host names to IP addresses (forward lookups) and IP addresses to host names (reverse lookups). Choosing this option installs the DNS service, and then starts the Configure A DNS Server Wizard.

■ DHCP Server Provides automatic IP addressing services to clients configured to use dynamic IP addressing. Choosing this option installs DHCP services and then starts the New Scope Wizard to define one or more IP address scopes in the network.

■ Streaming Media Server Provides Windows Media Services (WMS). WMS enables the server to stream multimedia content over an intranet or the Internet. Content can be stored and delivered on demand or delivered in real time. Choosing this option installs WMS.

■ WINS Server Provides computer name resolution by translating NetBIOS names to IP addresses. It is not necessary to install Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) unless you are supporting legacy operating systems, such as Windows 95 or Windows NT. Operating systems such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not require WINS, although legacy applications on those platforms may very well require NetBIOS name resolution. Choosing this option installs WINS.

Anyways lets have a look towards its details so this program contains few options in its interface. The most important thing of course is the Start Virtual Router button. Because this button will be active if the PC has wireless adapter connected or supported. In other options it has changing the network name , a password feature ( it is recommended as the default password is always same) . Another feature it has a WPA2 Encryption for security which is definitely a good protection for Wireless network.

You can download Virtual Router Application from Codeplex site, and this version of software is just compatible with MS Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 R2 version and definitely it requires a compatible wireless adapter.

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Lets have a Quick look towards its Features :-

• This tool is free of spywares, adware and malwares
• You are not required to install it.
• You can directly run it from Desktop or from USB.
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