BOOK TITLE

ALL-IN-ONE

UNDERSTANDING AND USING COMPUTERS MADE EASY

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Personal Computer
DOS EXPLAINED
Using DOS Commands
Using Redirection, Pipes and Filters in DOS
Using DOS Shell
Create Powerful DOS Macros Using DOSKEY
Develop Powerful DOS Utilities Using Batch Files
Configuring And Fine Tuning Your Computer
Useful DOS Tricks
Computer Maintenance
Microsoft Windows 3.1/3.11
Introduction To Windows 95
INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET
INSTALLING SOFTWARE PACKAGES
ASCII CHARACTER SET
COMPUTER FILE FORMATS
QUICK REFERENCE TO DOS COMMANDS
TROUBLESHOOTING
GLOSSARY OF COMMON PC TERMS

 

  1. Introduction

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2. Personal Computer

2.1 Introduction

2.2 What Is A Computer?

2.3 Why An IBM Compatible Computer?

2.4 Bits, Nibbles, Bytes, KiloBytes, MegaBytes, Gigabytes.

2.5 Computer Keyboard

2.6 Computer Monitor (Display)

2.7 The Computer System Unit

2.7.1 Hard Disk And Floppy Disk Drives

2.7.1.1 Floppy Disks

2.7.1.2 Hard Disks

2.7.2 Other Types Of Drives

2.7.3 Computer Processor

2.7.4 Computer Memory (RAM)

2.8 Peripheral Devices

2.8.1 The Mouse

2.8.2 The Printer

2.8.2.1 Dot-Matrix, Daisywheel, InkJet, and Laser Printers

2.8.3 The Modem

2.8.4 Other Peripheral Devices

2.9 Personal Computer Operation

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3. DOS EXPLAINED

3.1 The DOS Software Package

3.2 Files On DOS Disks

3.3 Major Parts Of DOS

3.3.1 The Command Interpreter

3.3.2 The Basic Input/Ouput System

3.3.3 The DOS Utilities

3.3.3.1 Managing Files

3.3.3.2 Managing Disks

3.3.3.3 Redirecting Input and Output

3.3.3.4 Running Software Or Applications Programs

3.3.3.5 Starting Up Your Computer

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4. Using DOS Commands

4.1 Summary Of DOS COMMANDS

4.2 Issuing DOS Commands

4.3 Directories and Files

4.4 Naming Files and Directories

4.5 Determine DOS Version

4.6 Setting Date and Time

4.7 Clearing The Screen

4.8 Preparing A Disk For Data Storage

4.8.1 Preparing Floppy Disks

4.8.2 Preparing Hard Disk

4.9 Copying An Entire Floppy Disk

4.10 Comparing Floppy Disks

4.11 Write Protect Your Valuable Floppy Disks

4.12 Assigning An Internal Name (Volume Label) To A Disk

4.13 Examining Internal Name (Volume Label) Of A Disk

4.14 Creating DOS System Disk or Boot Disk

4.15 Checking Your Disks For Errors

4.16 Speed Up (Optimise) Hard disk Performance

4.17 Understanding And Using Directories

4.17.1 Creating Directories

4.17.2 Changing Directories

4.17.3 Viewing the Hierarchical Directory Structure Of Disks

4.17.4 Displaying The Contents Of A Directory

4.17.4.1 How to Display Selected Files

4.17.4.2 How To Search For Files Or Directories On Your Disks

4.17.5 Removing Unneeded Directories

4.18 File Manipulation

4.18.1 Creating Text Files Using DOS

4.18.1.1 Creating Files Using The Full Screen Editor (EDIT)

4.18.2 Checking and Setting File Attributes

4.18.3 Changing File Names

4.18.4 Deleting and Undeleting Files

4.18.5 Viewing The Contents Of A Text File

4.18.6 Finding Strings Of Text In A File

4.18.7 Copying and Moving Files

4.18.7.1 Combining Several Files Into One File

4.18.7.2 Copying From A Device To A file

4.18.7.3 Copying From A File To A Device

4.18.7.4 Moving Files

4.18.8 Verifying Your Files For Correctness

4.18.9 Selectively Updating Files On Your Disks

4.19 Taking Care Of Files

4.19.1 Using XCOPY for Simple Backups

4.19.1.1 Comparing Files

4.19.2 Using BACKUP and RESTORE for Large Scale Backups

4.19.2.1 Using The BACKUP command

4.19.2.2 Using The Restore Command

4.19.3 Advanced Backup With MSBACKUP (DOS V6.0 and Above Only)

4.19.3.1 Understanding MSBACUP and How To Use It Effectively

4.19.3.2 Performing Backup

4.19.3.3 Comparing Files

4.19.3.4 Restoring Files

4.19.3.5 Configuring Backup

4.19.4 Transferring Data Between Computers Without Using Diskettes

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5. Using Redirection, Pipes and Filters in DOS

5.1 Redirection

5.2 Filters

5.2.1 The SORT Filter

5.2.2 The Find Filter

5.2.3 The MORE Filter

5.3 PIPING

5.3.1 Combining Piping and MORE filter

5.3.2 Combining Piping And Sorting

5.3.3 Combining Redirection With Filters And Pipes

5.3.4 Combining FIND Filter With Piping

5.3.5 Multiple Piping with Filters

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6. Using DOS Shell

6.1 Changing Screen Lines In DOSSHELL

6.2 Adding and Restoring Programs In The DOSSHELL Menu

6.3 Starting Programs

6.4 File Association

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7. Create Powerful DOS Macros Using DOSKEY

7.1 What is DOSKEY?

7.2 Using DOSKEY To Recall Previous Commands

7.3 Using DOSKEY To Create Macros

7.4 Useful Examples Of DOSKEY Macros

7.5 Creating A Macro With The Same Name As A DOS Command

7.6 Deleting a macro

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8. Develop Powerful DOS Utilities Using Batch Files

8.1 The Basics of Batch Files

8.2 Creating Batch Files

8.3 Understanding AUTOEXEC.BAT

8.4 Special Batch Commands

8.4.1 The ECHO Command

8.4.2 The REM Command

8.4.3 The PAUSE Command

8.4.4 Parameters And Markers

8.4.5 The GOTO Command

8.4.6 The IF Command

8.4.7 The SHIFT Command

8.4.8 The FOR..IN..DO Command

8.4.9 The CALL Command

8.4.10 The Choice Command

8.5 Batch File Examples, Tips And Tricks

8.5.1 Check Amount Of Free Space On Disks

8.5.2 Check Total Amount Of RAM

8.5.3 Multiple Search For Files With Specified Text

8.5.4 Search For File(s) On Disks

8.5.5 Deleting All Files Without Being Prompted

8.5.6 Checking Whether A Directory Exists

8.5.7 Checking That A Program Is Available At The Current Directory Or At Path

8.5.8 Appending A New Directory To The Path

8.5.9 Writing An Empty Line

8.5.10 Customising The Pause Message

8.5.11 Checking A File Name For Wildcards

8.5.12 Echoing The Quote Character %

8.5.13 Showing The Time Without Enter

8.5.14 A Simple Trick To "disable" a Drive

8.5.15 Adding Line Numbers To a Text File

8.5.16 Creating An Empty File If The File Does Not Already Exist

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9. Configuring And Fine Tuning Your Computer

9.1 Booting Up

9.2 Main Commands Used In CONFIG.SYS File

9.2.1 Device drivers

9.2.2 Examples of Device Drivers

9.2.2.1 The default drivers

9.2.2.2 Console Drivers

9.2.2.3 Device Drivers Supplied With DOS

9.2.2.4 Other drivers

9.2.3 The FILES command

9.2.4 BUFFERS command

9.2.5 Increasing The DOS Environment

9.2.6 Break Command

9.3 Typical AUTOEXEC.BAT File

9.4 How To SETUP A Multiple Booting Configuration

9.5 Understanding Conventional, Expanded And Extended Memory

9.5.1 CONVENTIONAL MEMORY

9.5.2 EXPANDED MEMORY

9.5.3 EXTENDED MEMORY

9.5.4 UPPER MEMORY BLOCKS

9.5.5 HIGH MEMORY AREA

9.5.6 VCPI (Virtual Control Program Interface) and DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface)

9.5.7 SHADOW RAM

9.5.8 CACHE RAM

9.5.9 VIRTUAL MEMORY

9.6 The Difference Between Extended And Expanded Memory

9.7 How To Use Extended Memory In An 80286-Based Computer

9.8 Using The Upper Memory Area

9.8.1 Preparing to run programs in upper memory

9.8.2 Moving device drivers to the upper memory area

9.8.3 Moving Programs To The Upper Memory Area

9.9 Configuring The MSDOS Environment

9.9.1 DATE and TIME

9.9.2 PATH

9.9.3 SET

9.9.4 ASSIGN

9.9.5 SUBST

9.9.6 COMSPEC

9.10 Using The PROMPT Command

9.10.1 CHANGING PROMPT INFORMATION

9.10.2 CHANGING COLOURS

9.11 Creating A RAM Disk

9.11.1 Important Points To Note

9.11.1.1 Using conventional memory

9.11.1.2 Using extended memory

9.11.1.3 Using expanded memory

9.11.1.4 Increasing the efficiency of a RAM Disk

9.11.1.5 Examples

9.12 Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) Programs

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10. Useful DOS Tricks

10.1 Organising Data

10.2 DOS Copy Command Tip

10.3 Computer An Typewriter

10.4 File Protection

10.5 Quick Exit

10.6 File And Buffer Commands

10.7 ATTRIB Command Trick

10.8 Basic DOS Backup System

10.9 FORMAT Command Tip

10.10 File Viewer

10.11 Power Of Batch Command FOR

10.12 Emergency Disks

10.13 Directory Navigation Shortcuts

10.14 Disabling DOS Commands

10.15 Stepping Through CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT

10.16 Conditional Deletion Of Files

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11. Computer Maintenance

11.1 Hardware Failure Prevention

11.2 Computer Viruses and Their Prevention and Cure

11.2.1 Computer Virus Prevention

11.2.2 Virus Cure

11.2.3 How To Protect Your Computer From Boot Sector Viruses

11.2.4 Virus Detection and Removal Software

11.2.5 Tips For Avoiding Computer Viruses

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12. Microsoft Windows 3.1/3.11

12.1 Windows System Requirements

12.2 Getting Started

12.2.1 The Program Manager

12.2.2 The Desktop

12.2.3 Three Mouse Techniques to Learn

12.2.3.1 Selecting (Point and Click)

12.2.3.2 Opening (Point and Double click)

12.2.3.3 Moving (Click + Hold + Drag)

12.2.4 Parts of a Window

12.2.5 Window Types

12.2.6 Menus

12.2.7 Common Menu Commands

12.2.8 Icons

12.2.9 Working With Multiple Windows

12.2.10 The Program Manager Menus

12.2.11 Quitting Windows and Turning Off the Computer

12.3 The File Manager

12.3.1 Starting the File Manager

12.3.2 The Directory Window

12.3.2.1 Change Drives

12.3.2.2 Display Tree

12.3.2.3 Change View

12.3.2.4 Change Options

12.3.2.5 Change Window

12.3.3 Managing Diskettes

12.3.3.1 Format

12.3.3.2 Make System Disk

12.3.3.3 Label

12.3.3.4 Copy

12.3.4 Selecting Files and Directories

12.3.5 Managing Files and Directories

12.3.5.1 Delete

12.3.5.2 Rename

12.3.5.3 Change Attributes

12.3.5.4 Copy (Backup)

12.3.5.5 Move (Archive)

12.3.5.6 Search

12.3.6 Managing Directories

12.3.6.1 Create

12.3.6.2 Delete

12.3.7 Associating Applications

12.3.8 Starting Applications

12.3.8.1 Run

12.3.8.2 Open

12.3.8.3 Print

12.3.9 Quitting the File Manager

12.4 Intermediate Windows

12.4.1 Introduction

12.4.2 Bypassing Windows Startup Screen

12.4.3 Creating New Program Groups

12.4.4 Creating New Program Items

12.4.5 Defining Program Item Properties

12.4.6 More Icons

12.4.7 Moving and Copying Icons

12.4.8 "Active" Icons On-Screen

12.4.9 Start-Up Folder

12.4.10 Document Icons

12.4.11 Switching between Applications

12.4.12 The Task List

12.4.13 Using the Command Line and Installing Software

12.4.14 Installing New Software

12.4.15 Print Manager

12.4.16 Printer Drivers

12.5 MS-DOS Command Concepts Important To Windows

12.6 Top 10 Windows Tips

12.7 GENERAL WINDOWS 3.1/3.11 TIPS

12.7.1 Installation

12.7.1.1 Make Use of Sub-directories

12.7.1.2 Use Windows Setup Command Line Options

12.7.1.3 Starting Windows

12.7.1.4 Optimise Your Hard Disk

12.7.1.5 Preventing Conflicts With TSRs

12.7.1.6 Debugging Windows Installation

12.7.1.7 Memory Problems

12.7.1.8 Program Manager Protection

12.7.1.9 Problems With File Association

12.7.1.10 Printing By Dragging and Dropping

12.7.1.11 Load Windows Automatically

12.7.1.12 Using Standard Mode May Be Faster

12.7.1.13 Drag and Drop Documents

12.7.1.14 General Protection Fault Problems

12.7.1.15 Restoring Damaged Program Groups

12.7.1.16 Open Application Automatically

12.7.1.17 Activate Program Manager

12.7.1.18 Open A File During Windows Startup

12.7.1.19 Start Windows Without The Win-Logo

12.7.1.20 Limit Size Of Temporary Swap File

12.7.1.21 Renaming A Program Manager Group

12.7.1.22 Hotkeys

12.7.1.23 Save Program Manager Settings Without Exiting Windows

12.7.1.24 Typing Accented Characters

12.7.1.25 Remove Old Drivers

12.7.1.26 Free Hard Disk Space Buy Removing Fonts You Do Not Use

12.7.1.27 Safe Windows Installation

12.7.1.28 System Insurance

12.7.1.29 Uninstalling Applications Manual Procedures

12.7.1.30 Uninstall Safely

12.7.1.31 Care and Maintenance of WIN.INI

12.7.1.32 Searching Using Names and Dates

12.7.2 Edit Your System Files Using SYSEDIT

12.7.3 File Protection

12.7.4 Program Manager Shortcuts

12.7.5 Foreign Characters

12.7.6 File Manager Shortcuts

12.7.7 Memory Management

12.7.7.1 MemMaker

12.7.7.2 Out Of Memory Message

12.7.7.3 Obtain More Memory By Removing Unwanted Fonts

12.7.7.4 Use Upper Memory Area

12.7.7.5 Disable Your Screen Saver or Use A Simple One For more Memory

12.7.7.6 Increasing Size Of Virtually Memory

12.7.7.7 Use A Swap File

12.7.7.8 PIF Files

12.7.7.9 Video problems

12.7.7.10 Use The Latest Versions Of EMM386 And HIMEM.SYS

12.7.7.11 Remove VGA Monochrome Mode

12.7.8 Applets

12.7.8.1 Greeting Message When You Start Windows

12.7.8.2 Using Cardfiles

12.7.8.3 Configuring Cardfile Dialling

12.7.8.4 Character (Map’s) Traits

12.7.8.5 Use notepad

12.7.8.6 Copying Paintbrush Image

12.7.8.7 Image Adjustment

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13. Introduction To Windows 95

13.1 What is Windows 95?

13.2 Summary Of Main New Features In Windows 95

13.3 Windows 95 System Requirement

13.4 Setting Up Windows 95

13.4.1 Upgrading From an Earlier Version Of Windows

13.4.2 Setting Up Windows 95 From DOS

13.5 Using WINDOWS 95

13.5.1 What You See When You Start Windows 95

13.5.2 Elements Of Windows 3.x In Windows 95

13.5.2.1 The Program Manager

13.5.2.2 File Manager

13.5.2.3 MS-DOS Prompt

13.5.2.4 Control Panel

13.5.2.5 Print Manager

13.5.2.6 Run command

13.5.2.7 Task switching

13.5.2.8 Closing, Minimising And Maximising A Window

13.5.3 Windows 95 Prerequisite

13.5.3.1 Using The Mouse

13.5.3.2 Using A Dialog Box

13.5.3.3 Sizing Windows

13.5.3.4 Moving Windows

13.5.3.5 Selecting Information

13.5.3.6 Using ToolBars

13.5.3.7 Scrolling

13.5.4 My Computer And Its Content

13.5.5 Contents Of A Drive Or Folder

13.5.6 Different Views Of Information In Folders

13.5.7 Starting With Windows 95

13.5.8 Dragging and Dropping

13.5.9 Parts Of A Window

13.5.10 Using The Right Mouse Button

13.5.11 Starting Programs

13.5.12 Switching To A Different Active Program On The Desktop

13.5.13 Opening A Recently Used Document

13.5.14 Accessing Personal Preference Settings

13.5.15 Changing Settings

13.5.16 Accessing Devices

13.5.17 Managing Program & Document Windows

13.5.18 Finding Program & Document Files & Folders.

13.5.19 Managing Program & Document Files & Folders.

13.6 Intermediate Windows 95

13.6.1 Basic File Management Tools

13.6.1.1 My Computer

13.6.1.2 Explorer

13.6.1.3 File Manager

13.6.2 Deleting Files

13.6.3 Creating A Shortcut

13.6.4 Changing File Attributes

13.6.5 Long File Names

13.6.6 Upgrading Applications

13.6.7 Arranging Your Desktop

13.6.8 Modifying the Start Menu

13.6.9 Opening Files Automatically at Start-Up

13.6.10 Changing the Send To... Options

13.6.11 Creating Profile Folders

13.6.12 More About Control Panels

13.6.13 Finding The Desktop

13.6.14 Tidying Up Windows On Your Desktop

13.6.15 Moving and Re-sizing The Taskbar

13.6.16 What To Do If The Taskbar Disappears

13.6.17 Keyboard Shortcuts

13.6.17.1 General Windows keys

13.6.17.2 Keys For The Desktop, My Computer, and Windows Explorer

13.6.17.3 Keys For My Computer and Windows Explorer

13.6.17.4 Keys For Windows Explorer only

13.6.17.5 Keys For Properties Dialog Boxes

13.6.17.6 Keys For Open and Save As dialog boxes

13.6.17.7 Accessibility Options Shortcut Keys

13.6.18 Windows 95 and DOS

13.6.18.1 MS-DOS 7.0

13.6.19 Exiting Windows and Turning Off the Computer

13.7 How To Optimise Windows

13.8 Draw Diagrams And Create Clipart Using Paint

13.9 Basic Text and Word Processing With NotePad and

13.9 WordPad

13.10 Setting Up And Using Printers

13.11 Installing New Hardware

13.12 Adding/Removing Windows Components and Installing Software

13.13 System Maintenance Using Windows 95

13.13.1 Backing Up Your Data

13.13.2 Data Checking And Recovery Using ScanDisk

13.13.3 Defragmenting Your Hard Disk And Improve Its Performance

13.13.4 Increase Your Disk Space Using Drive Space

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14. INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET

14.1 The Internet

14.2 The World Wide WEB (WWW or WEB)

14.3 Why You Would Want To Use The Internet

14.3.1 Lists

14.3.2 Newsgroups

14.3.3 Other Internet Resources

14.4 Domains And Hosts

14.4.1 Nongeographic Domains

14.4.2 Geographical Domains

14.5 Home (Web) Pages

14.6 How To Get Connected

14.6.1 Using a Direct Connection

14.6.2 Dialling In

14.6.3 Connecting To The Internet From Windows 95

14.6.3.1 Configuration of Dial-Up Adapter

14.6.3.2 Configuration of TCP/IP Protocol

14.6.3.3 Configuration of DNS

14.6.3.4 Configuring Dial-Up Networking

14.7 Telnet and FTP

14.7.1 Telnet

14.7.2 FTP

14.7.2.1 Common FTP Commands

14.8 The UNIX Connection

14.8.1 Essential Unix Commands

14.9 Understanding Electronic Mail (E-mail)

14.9.1 Introduction To E-mail

14.9.1.1 Sending E-mail to other people on the Net

14.9.1.2 Introduction to ELM

14.9.1.3 Introduction To PINE

14.9.1.4 Smileys

14.9.1.5 When Things Go Wrong

14.9.2 Advanced E-mail

14.9.2.1 Sending your own files: Encoding and decoding files for transfer.

14.9.2.2 Sending Your Own Files Through The Mail

14.10 Internet Browsers

14.10.1 Introduction To Netscape

14.10.1.1 Toolbar

14.10.1.2 Menus

14.10.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

14.10.2.1 Toolbar

14.10.2.2 Menus

14.11 Creating Home (Web) Pages

14.11.1 Preliminary Tasks

14.11.1.1 Designing The home Page

14.11.2 Basic HTML

14.11.2.1 Basic Format of HTML Tags

14.11.2.2 Creating and Saving The Web File

14.11.2.3 Basic Page Structure

14.11.2.4 Formatting Your Page

14.11.2.5 Checking Your Work With a Browser

14.11.2.6 Controlling Spacing

14.11.2.7 Pre-formatted Text

14.11.2.8 Ordered and Unordered Lists

14.11.2.9 A Third List Type: Definition Lists

14.11.2.10 Adding a Horizontal Line

14.11.2.11 Providing Text Links To Other Pages and Files

14.11.2.12 Adding Links to an External Image

14.11.2.13 External Image From Your Local Computer

14.11.2.14 External Image from Another Source

14.11.2.15 Adding Sound

14.11.2.16 Adding an In-line Image

14.11.2.17 Providing Links to Different Sections of Your Page

14.11.2.18 Signing Your Work

14.11.2.19 Completing Your Page

14.11.2.20 Putting Your Page On The Web (Uploading)

14.11.2.21 WS-FTP (File Transfer Utility)

14.11.2.22 Testing Your Page on the Server and Making Revisions

14.11.3 Tools For Enhancing Your Home Page

14.11.3.1 Special Formatting for Graphical Browsers

14.11.3.2 Adding Comments to Your Page

14.11.3.3 Controlling How Text Appears

14.11.3.4 Fine Tuning Ordered and Unordered Lists

14.11.3.5 Creating Tables in HTML

14.11.3.6 Controlling Horizontal Rules

14.11.3.7 Changing Text Colour

14.11.3.8 Changing Backgrounds

14.11.4 Using Graphics

14.11.4.1 How To Get Graphics

14.11.4.2 Making Buttons & Other Graphics Into Links

14.11.4.3 Positioning The Graphic On The Page

14.11.4.4 Speed Up Page Loading with Sizing Attributes

14.11.4.5 Combining Attributes To Get Things Just Right

14.11.4.6 Special Effects

14.11.4.7 Movies & Sound Files

14.11.4.8 Imagemaps And CGI Scripts And Other Options

14.11.4.9 Archives Of Graphics On The Internet

14.11.5 Finding Out How Other Home Pages Have Been Created

14.12 Promoting Your Home Page

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15. INSTALLING SOFTWARE PACKAGES

15.1 Installing From DOS

15.2 Installing From Windows 3.1/3.11

15.2.1 Installation Using The Run Menu Option

15.2.2 Installation Using The File Manager

15.3 Installing Or Upgrading DOS On A Hard Drive

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16. ASCII CHARACTER SET

16.1 What is ASCII?

16.2 The ASCII Character Set

16.3 Extended ASCII Character Set

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17. COMPUTER FILE FORMATS

17.1 Introduction

17.2 File Format

17.2.1 How To Identify File Format

17.3 Recognising binhexed and uuencoded files

17.3.1 By Filename

17.3.2 By Appearance

17.4 Converting files back to binary

17.5 File compression

17.5.1 Recognising compressed files

17.5.2 Uncompressing files

17.6 File Archiving

17.6.1 Recognising file archives

17.6.2 Unarchiving files

17.7 Other Formats

17.7.1 PostScript files

17.7.1.1 Transferring PostScript Files

17.7.1.2 Printing a PostScript file

17.7.2 Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) files

17.7.2.1 Transferring GIF files

17.7.2.2 Viewing GIF Files

17.8 How To Handle files With .ARC or .ZIP Extensions

17.9 How To Handle .ARJ File Extension

17.10 How To Handle .LZH file archives

17.11 Common File Types

17.12 Graphics File Extensions

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18. QUICK REFERENCE TO DOS COMMANDS

18.1 ANSI

18.2 APPEND

18.3 ASSIGN

18.4 ATTRIB

18.5 BACKUP

18.6 BREAK

18.7 BUFFERS

18.8 CALL

18.9 CHCP

18.10 CHDIR

18.11 CHKDSK

18.12 CHKSTATE

18.13 CHOICE

18.14 CLS

18.15 COMMAND

18.16 COMP

18.17 COPY

18.18 COUNTRY

18.19 CTTY

18.20 DATE

18.21 DBLSPACE

18.22 DEBUG

18.23 DEFRAG

18.24 DELOLDOS

18.25 DELTREE

18.26 DEVICE

18.27 DISKCOMP

18.28 DISKCOPY

18.29 DISPLAY.SYS

18.30 DOS

18.31 DOSSHELL

18.32 DRIVER.SYS

18.33 DRIVPARM

18.34 ECHO

18.35 EDIT

18.36 EMM386

18.37 EXE2BIN

18.38 EXIT

18.39 EXPAND

18.40 FASTHELP

18.41 FASTOPEN

18.42 FC

18.43 FCBS

18.44 FILES

18.45 FIND

18.46 FOR

18.47 GRAFTABL

18.48 HELP

18.49 HIMEM.SYS

18.50 IF

18.51 INCLUDE

18.52 INSTALL

18.53 INTERLINK

18.54 INTERSVR

18.55 JOIN

18.56 KEYB

18.57 LABEL

18.58 LASTDRIVE

18.59 LOADFIX

18.60 LOADHIGH (LH)

18.61 MEM

18.62 MEMMAKER

18.63 MENUCOLOR

18.64 MENUDEFAULT

18.65 MENUITEM

18.66 MIRROR

18.67 MODE

18.68 MORE

18.69 MOVE

18.70 MSAV

18.71 MSBACKUP

18.72 MSCDEX

18.73 MSD

18.74 NLSFUNC

18.75 PATH

18.76 PAUSE

18.77 POWER

18.78 PRINT

18.79 PROMPT

18.80 RAMDRIVE.SYS

18.81 RECOVER

18.82 REM

18.83 RENAME (REN)

18.84 REPLACE

18.85 RESTORE

18.86 RMDIR (RD)

18.87 SCANDISK

18.88 SELECT

18.89 SET

18.90 SETVER

18.91 SHARE

18.92 SHELL

18.93 SHIFT

18.94 SIZER.EXE

18.95 SMARTDRV

18.96 SORT

18.97 STACKS

18.98 SUBMENU

18.99 SUBST

18.100 SWITCHES

18.101 SYS

18.102 TIME

18.103 TREE

18.104 TYPE

18.105 UNDELETE

18.106 VER

18.107 VERIFY

18.108 VOL

18.109 VSAFE

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19. TROUBLESHOOTING

19.1 TroubleShooting DOS and Windows 3.X

19.1.1 Reasons for MS-DOS "File Allocation Table Bad" Error Message

19.1.2 Troubleshooting Windows 3.x Installation

19.1.3 Troubleshooting EMM386

19.1.4 Errors Caused by Cross-Linked Files or Lost Clusters

19.1.5 Troubleshooting HIMEM.SYS

19.1.6 Locating and Excluding RAM/ROM Addresses in the UMA

19.1.7 Using STACKS= Setting in the CONFIG.SYS File

19.1.8 Troubleshooting When TSRs Are Loaded

19.1.9 Causes of system resource problems in Windows 3.1

19.1.10 What To Do If Your System Hangs When Copying Files In Windows

19.1.11 Cannot Read from Drive C" Error with WFW 3.11

19.1.12 How To Reinstall Windows Without Losing Settings

19.1.13 Windows Fails To Run In 386 Enhanced Mode After Using MemMaker

19.1.14 Troubleshooting an Unsuccessful Windows 3.1 Installation

19.2 TroubleShooting Windows 95

19.2.1 Windows Registry

19.2.2 Running MS-DOS Programs When You Are Using DriveSpace

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20. GLOSSARY OF COMMON PC TERMS

 

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