Windows 2000 Professional

If you can reach hosts on the Internet, for example with your web browser, then you can create a VPN with a RAS server in another location without using a modem. Your corporation has already put the infrastructure in place for your computer to access 202.133.14.10. A dial-up connection to the Internet Access Provider (ISP) is necessary if you are required to reach the Internet via modem and get your computer a valid Internet IP address. A direct cable connection does not refer to a LAN's wiring closet connections. It is a short cable that physically connects two computers by cable. While it is feasible to connect this way to a RAS server that can demand-dial to the Princeton server, it is not necessary since you have a valid Internet IP address. You could use dial-up to the RAS server in Princeton if you did not have the corporate infrastructure to support you. You would use this, for example, to dial from home to the RAS server in Princeton.

You may have a corrupted mouse driver if you closed all other applications and the problem persists. Substitution of hardware is an excellent troubleshooting tool. It would be a lot faster, however, to try reinstalling the mouse driver because you may have to shutdown one or both computers to use substitution. Viruses are always a troubleshooting option. Erratic mouse behavior is a common hardware problem and it is not approached as a virus attack.

The computer must support Active Directory directory services with Directory Service Client. But, before you can install the client, you must install a version of IE that provides Active Desktop. You cannot upgrade this computer to Windows 2000 Professional; the processor doesn't meet the minimum requirement of 166 MHz. It is possible to upgrade a system by booting with the simulated PXE boot ROM and access the installation files from a network server; however, this computer's hardware doesn't meet the minimum upgrade requirements. Adding a new PXE boot ROM-Compliant network adapter describes a way to do a remote installation of Windows 2000 Professional with a bootable network adapter. This computer cannot meet the minimum hardware requirements of a 2000 upgrade, however, without upgrading the processor first. Again, an upgrade by any method is impossible unless the processor is replaced. The boot floppies are needed when your CD-ROM drive is not bootable.

When you choose to obtain an IP address automatically from the General tab in the Properties of the TCP/IP protocol, you have enabled the client to get an IP address from the DHCP server. DNS does not hand out IP addresses, however you may also need to designate the DNS address if you are using this service. Automatic Private IP addressing is only a problem (and therefore needs disabling) if you anticipate that your DHCP server may go off line and no backup is available. The automatic would assign a private address if the computer's lease expired and the computer could not find another DHCP server. Ipconfig is great for releasing and renewing IP addresses if you have DHCP on your network. It is not a utility for configuring automatic IP addressing, however.

Whenever the drivers that come with the operating system are too general, you can check with the manufacturer to see if one is available for your hardware. Device Manager will show you which devices have problems. It will not show you advanced features of device drivers that were overwritten during setup of a new operating system. Device Manager has a Troubleshooter. It is commonly used for devices that have problems, not for revealing previous drivers. You can see the digital signer of the installed driver in Device Manager using the Driver tab. Use this technique when the problem is harder to isolate. The problem introduced in this question is very straightforward. You lost extensibility provided by the manufacturer.

Once a wireless link is established, it can be used by multiple programs. The data connection is established by clicking the wireless link icon, naming the files to send, and then click Send. You do not have to create multiple links for data transfer.

By choosing the LAN as the network connection and by requesting a prompt, you will only be asked about Project1 folder when you are on the faster connection at the office. If you happen to dial-up your LAN from home, it won't prompt you about synchronization because you will be on another network connection. By getting a prompt at work while on the LAN, you'll have an opportunity to occasionally update this folder. If you are the administrator who is configuring the caching options for the Project1 folder and you are also the laptop user, you still would not wish to change the caching options that affect other users, so the Manual Caching for Documents is not the preferred method for limiting synchronization.
Turning off synchronization for On Idle won't really prevent the synchronization during LAN connections, either locally or remotely, if you have any type of settings in the Logon/Logoff area. The Folder Options are good for setting up your laptop and the file server to use offline folders. It is not an appropriate place to fine tune your synchronization, even with the Enable reminders option.

You will delete the computer account on the domain controller because you want to clear up the unique identifier for this computer. When you did the second installation, the ID for the account may have been confused. Deleting the account, recreating the account and then getting the workstation to rejoin the domain should clear things up. The transceiver of a network adapter refers to the infrared eye if you are using infrared for the connection. On a traditional adapter card the transceiver can be onboard or external. If it has both, one or the other must be selected. Use this troubleshooting process if a dependency service fails to start. Check the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) again if you cannot get the computer to start up. It is important to check the uniqueness of the local computer name as NetBIOS still plays a part in the Windows 2000 network. This would be a correct troubleshooting solution if you had an error about Failure of dependency service to start.

The two hardware components that must be identical for a successful sysprep operation are the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and the hard disk controller device driver. You no longer need to specify or provide the NDIS file. When a network adapter is detected, the support files are provided by the operating system. The Mini-Setup wizard will detect the network adapter with Plug-and-Play on the target computers. An answer file is for unattended installations and not a requirement for this question. The new HAL file will be provided as you setup the master computer with Windows 2000 Professional, not during an unattended installation using an answer file.

The languages are provided in groups such as Central Europe, Baltic, Western Europe and US. If you do not see your language, use the setup disk to install a new group. The Input Locale tab lets you further refine your language choice by giving you the differences within a specific language. For example, there is a US variation of the English language. Local Group Policy can be used to manage languages by computer. Remember, however, that security groups cannot be used on local Group Policy to filter Group Policy objects. The Input Method Editors are added with keyboard layouts when you add an input locale.

If the default to synchronize files before logging off was disabled, then she will not have this file on the network folder the next day. Had she saved the file on her hard drive, her application would still be pointing to the location of this recent file. It is not likely that the file was deleted by a peer because only in a share folder where work is shared would you allow users to have delete permission. Her file would most likely be in her own folder on the network since it is an offline folder.

Since the modems are Plug and Play, you can change the registry settings just by disabling the one modem. The driver will not be available when the computer starts up. You do not have to remove the driver since the modem is plug and play. Setting defaults within an application means the user could easily change the settings. One of the criteria was to choose a method the user will not be prompted to change. Access privileges are set for working resources. Setting policy for temporary situations is probably not a good idea anyway.

You have created separate volumes to make restoration easier. Notice that the number of physical disks is not pertinent to the answer choice. You can divide a single hard disk into two volumes if you are using dynamic storage to make backup and restoring easier. When you have separate volumes on a backup job, the files and folders that were backed up on each volume is referred to as a backup set. It is possible to restore individual files and folders; the problem specifies restoring the volume. A backup job that includes two volumes will have two backup sets.

You want to gather auditing data on anyone who accesses your Web server's resources, not just the internal users, for whom you created domain accounts. Auditing is set on the physical computer, not at domain level. It cannot be done in Active Directory at the Local Computer Policy console either. You must also restart the computer once the auditing is configured. If you set the auditing on the Parent folder, then you need to allow inheritance to the child folders you are interested in auditing. The Allow Inheritable Auditing Entries From Parent To Propagate To This Object is checked by default. If yours is clear, you probably cleared it during audit configuration. Domain level settings do not affect the local computer auditing, so it would be wrong to enable Audit privilege use at domain level.

Before you can use auditing of files and folders, you must be on an NTFS system. All answers referring to auditing as a solution miss the point that NTFS is the first requirement.

Three interactive users will be able to access each other's shared folders. Only by formatting the drive as NTFS will you be able to lock out other interactive users from each other's folders. Domain authentication can be required at log on, but will not affect shared folder access on the local drive. Local computer policy does not control access to shared folders. Generally, permissions are applied to objects such as resources and policy defines what users can do on a computer. The share folder under the Documents and Settings folder for each user will be in a unique path, it is true. However, the share name will have to be different. The system will give you an error message if you try and use a share name more than once. It will also give you the option to use the current share name for this folder instead of for the original one.

You should use Device Manager and update the driver from the properties of the current computer type object in the Computer category. This updates the Hardware Abstraction Layer from a single processor to a multi-processor version. Windows 2000 will not detect and configure the second processor automatically. You do not need to reinstall Windows 2000 Professional using the Setup program. The Add/Remove Windows Components feature of Add/Remove Programs does not allow you to add support for multiple processors.

Since USB is Plug-and-Play, these installations usually perform without user interaction. However, if the BIOS on this laptop that has been upgraded does not support USB, you'll need to flash it. Get the new version from the laptop manufacturer. The speakers are Plug-and-Play so you don't need to manually adjust the interrupt settings. To do so defeats the automatic configuration abilities of Plug-and-Play. You should not use third-party drivers until you have tried the BIOS upgrade. Windows 2000 drivers are designed to make installations automatic and without user input. You should not consider Microsoft's new drivers as an option until you enable USB in the BIOS.

The Remote Boot Disk Generator utility (rbfg.exe) should be used to create a remote installation startup disk. This startup disk simulates the PXE boot process. The makeboot utility is used to create setup disks that are used to boot a client computer and install Windows 2000 Professional from a CDROM drive local to the client. These setup disks are needed if the computer cannot be configured to boot from the CDROM drive. The Network Client Administrator utility is a Windows NT 4.0 utility that can be used to create a network installation startup disk. This disk can then be used to connect to a delivery server and install the software for a network client, such as the Microsoft Network Client v3.0 for MS-DOS and Windows. The Setup Manager wizard can be used to create a remboot.sif answer file to be used with RIS. However, this file alone on a floppy disk does not provide the ability for a client to contact an RIS server.

Using Device Manager to configure an IRQ for a device tells Windows 2000 what IRQ to use but does not reconfigure the card itself. Depending on the specific network adapter card, you either reset jumpers or switches on the card itself to configure the IRQ or you use a software configuration utility to configure the settings. Multiple network adapter card drivers can be installed, so you do not have to remove the Microsoft Loopback Adapter to enable access to the network. The Microsoft Loopback Adapter is a driver that is provided to allow you to configure networking services even if you do not have a network adapter card available.
If the non-Plug and Play network adapter card is configured to use the correct resources, the driver for the card is installed and configured properly, and the network protocols and services are bound to the card, the existence of the Microsoft Loopback Adapter will not prevent access to the network. Since the Typical option for network settings was selected during the installation of Windows 2000 Professional, the Client for Microsoft Networks should already be installed and the network adapter should be configured to obtain an address automatically. You do not need to configure the IP address manually.

You cannot configure a network adapter card driver until the Ethernet controller is enabled and no longer listed in the Other Devices category. You configure the Ethernet controller by selecting Reinstall Driver from the General tab of its Properties dialog box in Device Manager. This activates the Upgrade Device Driver wizard. You should allow the wizard to recommend a driver, and you may need to provide a floppy disk or CDROM from the network adapter card's vendor for the wizard to search for the correct driver. When the wizard completes, Device Manager will display a Network Adapters category and list the network adapter card in that category.
Once a network adapter card driver is installed and configured properly, a Local Area Connection icon for the card will be added automatically to Network and Dial-up Connections. You cannot manually add a local area connection. You cannot install a driver for a network adapter card by using the Add/Remove Hardware wizard without first enabling the ethernet controller. You will be able to install the drivers, but the drivers will not load. The Add/Remove Windows Components feature of Add/Remove Programs does not allow you to add support for network adapter cards or Ethernet controllers.

When Setup is used to create and format a partition, Setup will format a partition larger than 2 GB as FAT32, even if you indicate that it is to be formatted as FAT. Partitions larger than 2 GB are not supported by the FAT file system. Windows 2000 system files do not have to be on an NTFS partition, so Setup will not convert the partition to NTFS (version 5 is the Windows 2000-compatible version). If you have at least Service Pack 4 for Windows NT 4.0 installed, you will be able to access NTFS5-formatted partitions from your Windows NT 4.0 installation. Windows NT can access a partition that is larger than 2 GB. Permissions for your Windows NT account would only be a potential problem if the new partition was formatted as NTFS. Both for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, however, the default NTFS permissions for a new partition assign Full Control to the group Everyone.

Service Packs and Hot Fixes for Windows 2000 Professional can be installed using Windows Update if you can access the Internet from the computer to be updated. Windows Update can be activated from the Start Menu or from the Add New Programs choice in the Add/Remove Programs utility of the Control Panel. With Windows Update you can scan your computer for system files that are outdated and then update these files. A shared folder used to host the source files for the installation of Windows 2000 Professional can be updated with service pack files by using slipstreaming. You update the shared folder by using the update utility for the service pack with the /slip switch. Once the source files are updated, all future installations from the shared folder will incorporate the service pack updates, so users will not need to first install Windows 2000 Professional and then install the latest service pack.
The Add/Remove Windows Components choice in the Add/Remove Programs utility of the Control Panel allows you to install components that you did not include during the initial installation of Windows 2000 Professional. It also allows you to remove any components that are installed. It is not used to update components. If the source from which you are installing a new component has had the service pack applied via slipstreaming, you can install the most current files for the component when you add the new component. Windows Installer is used to install and manage applications.

Task Manager allows you to view the Thread Count of a process and determine whether it has single or multiple threads. For a multiple thread process, you will optimize with another processor. For a single thread process, you will optimize by purchasing a faster processor. The Task Manager Thread Count is an interim step. You will then collect data in System Monitor on the properties of the thread(s). The System Monitor histogram view will show you the processes using the CPU time and the percentage being consumed by each process. Use this step to determine if a single or multiple processes are monopolizing the processor. Perfmon.msc is the command line version of System Monitor. In Windows 2000, you no longer use the system object. You'll need to measure total processor time with the _Total instance of the Processor object. The syntax looks like this: Processor(_Total)%Processor Time.
Notice that NT's % Total Processor Time is now %Processor Time for Windows 2000. The Process Viewer (pviewer.exe ) utility, which you can install from on the Windows 2000 operating system CD, reports context switch data. A context switch occurs when the kernel switches the processor from one thread to another. The pviewer result shows processor time as 100% because idle time is included with user and privileged modes to total 100%. If you use System Monitor, however, you will see only the processor time actually used for user and privileged modes and no idle time.

The PC Card will be recognized as a Plug and Play device if its socket driver is also Plug and Play. You should run Add/Troubleshoot when there are problems with a device, but in this case, there is a standard Windows 2000 requirement to be met for network PC Cards. It is not necessary to print a report of all device settings unless you are trying to create documentation. A hardware profile can be made after the system recognizes the network adapter's driver, if you wish, but it is not a requirement for recognizing devices.

There are three ways you can map to a shared folder: by using the Map Network Drive wizard, the Run command, or locate the shared drive using My Network Places, which is the same as using Explorer, only it requires more effort. The correct answer illustrates that Explorer is a very direct way to reach all network resources you wish to manage, including mapping to and disconnecting from a share. Answers that are wrong either have steps out of order or refer to shares in a way that the operating system doesn't recognize.

The Custom network settings option must be chosen to manually configure an IP address. The Typical network settings option will configure the computer as a DHCP client. Compact and Portable are not available as Windows 2000 network setting options. They were available as installation options for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. The Windows 2000 setup utility does not provide these installation options.

When a new account is created, by default the option User must change password at next logon is selected. When this is selected, the check boxes for User cannot change password and Password never expires are disabled. Clearing the check box for User must change password at next logon enables the other two check boxes. An account is enabled by default when you create it, so you do not have to enable an account before modifying its properties. Also, you do not have to finish creating the account before you can modify the password properties for the account.

Telling users "The share no longer exists" is easier for them to understand than "You no longer have rights to the share." Therefore, you should perform the following steps: Create a new group and populate it with those members who need rights. Add the group to the folder's Sharing and Security Permissions lists and use the default permissions. Also add the Administrators group and give that group Full Control permissions in both Sharing and Security. Notify all members who have access to this folder of the change in share name. Any answer that reduces users' permissions but leaves the share intact somewhere on the network falls into the category of "You no longer have rights to the share." The cachemov.exe utility allows you to move offline folders from the default root of the local hard disk, not remove them altogether.

If a computer has a BIOS that is compliant with the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), ACPI will automatically enable Advanced Power Management (APM). You cannot disable APM in this case, so the APM tab is disabled in Power Options. APM is available for both desktop and laptop computers. It does not have to be enabled from the BIOS or via Group Policy.

If a primary partition or logical drive is created on a basic disk and the disk is converted to a dynamic disk, the partitions and logical drives on the disk are converted to simple volumes. These simple volumes that were originally created on a basic disk cannot be extended. When Windows 2000 is installed on a computer running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, any existing NTFS partitions and logical drives are updated to the Windows 2000 version of NTFS. One MB of free space must be available on a basic disk before it is converted to a dynamic disk, not after it is converted. A volume can be extended to include available free space on another hard disk. Once this is done, the volume becomes a spanned volume rather than a simple volume.

In the Users and Passwords icon in the Control Panel, you can take the following steps to change the user account that will be used to automatically log on to the computer: Select the option Users must enter a username and password to use this computer. Select apply. Clear the option Users must enter a username and password. Select apply. You will be prompted for the user account and password that should be used to automatically log on to the computer. Group Policy, Computer Management, and Local Security Policy cannot be used to make this configuration change. The Local Users and Groups node of Computer Management can be used to create new users and groups and to modify the properties of users and groups. Group Policy is used to manage a number of configuration settings for the local computer. Local Security Policy is a node in Group Policy that is used to manage configuration settings that secure a computer. Local Security Policy can also be activated from the Administrative Tools folder.

Your previous operating system version may have multiple network protocols bound to the adapter. Windows 2000 only needs TCP/IP unless you are accessing NetWare servers, in which case you'll need NWLINK. Windows 2000 handles binding dependent network components such as Workstation Service. This is transparent to the user and even the administrator. Corrupt files will cause specific non-performance rather than slowed performance. The default for TCP/IP Filtering is to Permit All (there is no filtering by default).

The transceiver attached to a serial port can only be detected by a manual Add/Remove Hardware wizard. Plug and Play cannot detect the external infrared device. Only configure the serial port as infrared within Setup mode if the device is internal. Doing this for an external device will disable the serial port. The wireless link icon appears when an infrared device is within range of your device. A wireless connection is in effect when the two devices are ready to transmit data using the Wireless Link program or a third party program.

You must have permission to access this printer. If the printer is shared, by default Everyone can connect to the printer by using this method: Use the Add Printer wizard on your Windows 98 computer in the Printers folder. Make the connection by answering all the wizard's option questions for a network printer and the printer driver will download to your computer. The printer can be found by browsing. It does not have to be an object in Active Directory. You cannot access this local print device using the Internet or intranet because you are not on a Windows 2000 computer. If you access the print server from the Run command box, you will be given a Logon failure message because you don't have rights on the Windows 2000 computer.