Windows 98

Windows 98 - Memphis CODEC - released by Microsoft Corporation on June 25, 1998. Windows 98 is the successor of Windows 95 and presented a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit monolithic product based on MS-DOS. This was soon followed by renewed for the operating system with Windows 98 SE (second edition), as Microsoft attempted to fix many bugs are present in the original version. 

Among the new features of Windows 98 is better AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) support, functional USB (Universal Serial Bus) drivers, and support for multiple monitors and Web TV. It also features support for FAT32 file system allows for the support disk partitions larger than two gigabytes maximum accepted by Windows 95. This is also the first version of Windows to support ACPI (advanced configuration and power interface. 

Windows 98 is also the first operating system that uses the Windows Driver Model is a standard device driver program and allows more peripherals running smoothly on the system. When Windows 98 was released, this fact was not well publicized and device manufacturers continue to develop the device with a driver under the old system that would make them incompatible with the new operating system. 

One big advantage of Windows 98 as the operating system is that the low system requirements. That means that even older computers can be effectively and efficiently run Windows 98 and users can take advantage of new updates to the system. 

Windows 98 also offers up full support for DOS applications because it can easily switch to DOS mode. In doing this, a DOS-based applications can handle the system in their native environment. After DOS mode is available also provides an easy way to fix the system errors without having to log into the graphical user interface. 

As with other previous versions of Windows, the operating system is not without problems. Windows 98 was never stable as common user expectations. Often, software developers and application drivers have enough experience with the creation of programs for this new system. Many of these errors are generally described as a mistake caused by the user's system even if the error was not caused by a part of Windows or DOS. 

Newer versions of Windows will fix this problem, and Microsoft is working quickly to provide a patch to a Windows 98 system for users to download and make their systems much more stable. 

Like most operating systems, Windows 98 was updated shortly after release and enhanced. It gives some major update that will serve as a model for the next version of Windows.
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Computer Network at Home

Have you ever thought about networking your computers at home? If you have a small collection of computers around the house (and a small collection of computer users), you can connect each one of the computers to each other and share data, software and hardware including a single Internet connection. There are many creative uses for home networks, but this is an ideal situation when upgrading each computer with the same capability is financially out of the question. On a home network, each computer has access to the equipment of a better machine in the group as if they own the equipment. 

Connecting computers with either an Ethernet cable or wireless connection to create a home network. The easiest and cheapest method to use an Ethernet connection, which requires a series of network cards, cables for each computer, and router. Network card is similar to the old modems we used in the past to connect to the Internet, but in a home network, it is used to communicate with any computer connected to the network. 

You will want to first, select the computers that will connect to one another and then install the network card in each. Then you would connect the cable for each computer that will communicate with the server. This cable will not connect to the server directly. Instead, they will be connected to the router. To enable Internet access for each computer, this router will need to connect with a modem from the host machine. 

Once the hardware is set correctly (you'll need to read the instruction manual of your equipment for details), you can then setup the network from Windows on each computer. In Windows, you can configure a home network similar to the way that you set up your Internet connection. Only this time, you will create a LAN (Local Area Network) connections. 

  Windows will guide you through the LAN settings after starting the computer and once finished, you can begin to connect one machine to the network. You can do this through Internet Explorer by typing in the address and the password required to access the router (the address and the password required to access the router in the router manual). 

Connected to the network, each computer can send files back and forth, open programs on a remote computer, play sound and video files located on another computer, and share a single Internet account to browse the web, download files, or chat with someone in a country completely different. If a printer is available on only one computer in the network, every connected PC can send documents to it and print it. Children will enjoy the ability to play multi-player games and adults will enjoy the ability to blast a message to everyone at once or maintain a group schedule. 

Since we describe a home network that will connect to the Internet, you are strongly advised to install a protective firewall program to thwart Internet viruses, worms, spyware or other harmful code. Firewalls prevent - but they do not repair. Only anti-virus and anti-spyware programs can reverse the damage. So you have to install a firewall on a computer that provides access to a computer, and then install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs on each of the remaining computers in the network.
 
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Working With Computer

Computer are everywhere. Take a moment to try and think of a place of business where you do not see a computer is used. From the point of a local small store to the largest hospital, the computer at every gas station, grocery stores, banks, restaurants, salons, and physician offices in the vicinity. From the consumer point of view - you might not think that much to worry about. But along with computers, we also have been compromised by a little thing called "self-service." Currently, there are more resources than previous self-service and in an effort to synchronize with the central office database, they are provided through your computer can not be avoided. 

Here are some examples. Banks themselves are served through a desktop computer or an ATM machine-dressed. gas stations are self-served basis through the kiosk touch screen menu-dressed. Most of the cash register is Windows XP or Vista machine that sends details of the purchase back to headquarters via the Internet (or Intranet small). It has a weight, blood pressure, and heart rate were measured and recorded is now a digital process. Even ordering pizza now a simple matter of a call from a wireless phone and make some menu choices from a series of programming! 

It is important to realize here is that this phenomenon is not new convenience - this is a new requirement. And if you have not jumped into the world of technology, you will face some problems. For just as this new lifestyle ever expected, we would predict that the "old ways" will slowly disappear. and now is the era of computerization, computers are the hardware that must be used to follow the development of technology. 

This is good and of course cool, but if you can not the computer, you will feel a little lost after the choice has past and the revolution is 100% complete. Fortunately, the computer system is designed in a way that even a child can manipulate them. In fact, if you can remember that most systems are designed along the menu and a choice of several options on this menu, you'll be fine no matter how many there are buttons to push. 

So computers and computerized systems are here to stay. No need to fear them - but you certainly can not avoid them. Just remember the menu system and you will soon find that you can approach and use these things as if you designed their own.
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