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Windows Training: Windows NT 4

Windows NT 4 foundation

• The Windows NT workstation 4 desktop
• The start button
• The taskbar
• The Recycle Bin
• My Computer
• Network neighborhood

• The title bar
• The scroll bars
• Maximize, minimize, restore and close buttons
• Borders
• Dialog boxes, Text boxes, List boxes
• Drop down list boxes
• Check boxes and radio buttons
• Command buttons
• Selection techniques
• Drag and drop techniques
• The ‘other’ mouse button

• The start menu & startup folder
• Controlling applications from the taskbar
• Moving and customizing the taskbar
• Tiling and cascading Windows
• Arranging your desktop icons
• Adding programs to your start menu
• Creating a new file directly from the desktop

• "tip of the day"
• Help within the start menu
• Help - contents and index
• ‘What’s this?’ help
• Wizards
• Troubleshooting using help

• What is WordPad?
• Paint?
• The calculator and clock

• What are drives, folders and files?
• The Explorer window
• Long file names
• Folder selection techniques
• Switching drivesFolder creation
• Moving or copying files and folders
• Renaming files or folders
• Deleting files or folders
• The Recycle Bin and deleted files
• Customizing the Explorer file display
• Sorting files within the Explorer
• File searches
• Starting programs via the Explorer
• File association techniques
• Adding icons to the desktop

• Types of laser printer - PCl vs. Postscript
• Printer considerations
• Installing a printer driver
• Setting up a printer
• Default and installed printers
• Controlling print queues

• Basic clipboard concepts
• What is OLE?
• Linking vs. Embedding
• Compound documents
• Linking in action - Excel and Word
• The clipboard and the command line
• Screen dumps and producing documentation

• Windows NT workstation 4 network features
• Sharing documents and folders
• Sharing printers
• Windows NT workstation 4 as a network client
• Windows NT workstation 4 and the Internet

• Customizing the background
• Setting a screen saver
• Setting color schemes
• What is the Control Panel?
• Setting the time and date
• Customizing the mouse and keyboard
• Changing your password
• Installing new application programs
• Creating shortcuts
• Customizing shortcut behavior
• Customizing shortcut icons

Windows NT 4 admin

• NT is a multi-user system
• Default accounts
• Terminology
• The default group accounts
• The user manager
• Creating new accounts
• Assigning user accounts to groups
• The user environment profile
• Copying, deleting, renaming and disabling user accounts
• Creating a customized local group
• Modifying account policies
• User rights
• Audit policies

• Security and NT
• Sharing folders
• Connecting to a shared folder

• Network printers vs. PCs with printers
• Adding a local printer
• Sharing printers
• Configuring a printer
• Setting printer and document defaults

• Domain vs. Workgroup installation
• Partitioning your disks
• Fat vs. ntfs
• Converting fat to ntfs
• Creating a set of Windows NT boot disks
• Hardware and the hardware compatibility list
• Winnt and winnt32
• Network installation startup disks
• Winnt & winnt32 syntax
• Unattended installations

• Troubleshooting issues and techniques
• The NT boot process
• Boot.ini switches
• Last known good
• The emergency repair disk
• Recovery options
• Removing 'non-responding' processes
• The event viewer
• Windows NT diagnostics (winmsd)
• Service packs
• 'The blue screen of death'
• Technet and resource kits

• Performance analysis
• Applications, processes and performance
• General backup issues
• Viruses
• Backing up and restoring data
• Diskprobe and disksave