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Windows 2000 for Not Yet Techies"Computer Careers: Working with Microsoft's Network Operating Systems"by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career |
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Windows 2000 is the latest version of Microsoft networking software. It replaces Windows NT 4.0. Windows 2000 is composed of two separate parts: Windows 2000 Professional, which is the operating system interface which most office workers will see and use. It looks somewhat different than NT. Windows 2000 Server. This is the software which basically administers the the network system. This is what network administrators must deal with. The biggest change in Windows 2000 which the professional networking people will see is the Active Directory, which is a database of all objects within the network. Casual users of Windows 2000, who just use the software to do their jobs, Word to write letters and reports, send email jokes to each other, surf the Internet while they're supposed to be working, etc. will probably not notice any great differences. I do like one new feature of Windows 2000On my day job, there're some sets of PCs which are used by many different people. Not all at once of course, but I may sit down there after Joe and after I'm done you might sit down. Because of this, we're supposed to use a generic login name and password which are known to all. Certain people like to login under their own name and password. Then they leave the machine. After it's inactive for a short time, it locks up. Under NT, only that particular user could unlock the computer, because only they knew their password. Problem was, Joe would leave the PC, let it lock up -- and then go home. I'd want to use the PC but couldn't unlock it because Joe was no longer available. So I had to switch the PC off and on, which is NOT recommended. (Tell it to Joe - didn't do any good.) With Windows 2000, when Joe does this, I can simply tell the PC I want to log in as a new user and it lets me do so under the generic user name and password. Also, under Windows 2000, menus don't unfold, they just *appear* like a ghost in a cartoonIt's kind of a neat and spooky effect. You might miss the Briefcase icon with Windows 2000, but you can bring it back if you want. You can also go into My Computer and find a list of radio stations that stream over the Internet. So you can listen to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern any time they are being played on any radio station with Internet access. That makes Windows 2000 worth whatever your employer had to pay for it! Next: Windows CE |
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Permission is granted to reprint the above article in an ezine or on a website as long as it is reprinted in full, with no changes, with full credit and with this contact information and link included at the bottom. All other rights reserved. Copyright 2007 by Info Ring Press All Rights Reserved. Computer Careers (Home) Sitemap Contact Privacy Info Ring Press Richard Stooker PO Box 617 130-G Ballwin Manor Dr Ballwin, MO 63011 (636) 394-2052 rick@inforingpress.com |