ü Things You May Find It Useful ü


þ When you want to dial-up to internet, usually the authetication windows appear asking for name and password. To eliminate this and dial up straight away:

1) First, make sure that at the authentication windows, save password is checked and the correct password is entered.
2) Click "My Computer"
3) Click on "dial up net-working"
4) Go to "Connections" and click on "Settings"
5) Uncheck the prompt for information before dialing.
6) Now dial-up to the internet. The computer will straight away dial without asking for information.
 


þ For NUS students who often faces "line engage" during peak hours while trying to dial in?
You can set your Windows dial up to redail as many times as you desired !

1) Click "My Computer"
2) Click on "dial up net-working"
3) Go to "Connections" and click on "Settings"
4) Enable the "Redial checkbox" and set the number of tries to redial
and the time interval between each redial as desired.


þ You can find all the messages from a given person in a given mailbox
quickly with Eudora.
Hold down the ALT key, then click the person's name in the "who" column.
 

  þ    To close Eudora, you can simply press:
   "Ctrl Q"  

 
 þ Does your Windows 95 hang after disconnecting from the Net?
Try deleting vnbt.386 from your c:\windows\system directory and see if the problem goes away. This works only for Windows 95 systems.

vnbt.386 is a "legacy file" needed by older versions of Windows such as Windows 3.1.
It is not required by Windows 95 and can be safely removed.


þ  To eliminate Eudora's at-launch splash screen:

1) Close the program
2) Open the eudora.ini file (it's in the same directory as the eudora.exe file; make a backup copy before you alter the INI file) with a text editor such as Windows Notepad.
3) In the [Settings] section, add this line:
 

Or, if the line already exists, but with a value of 0, change it to 1. 
Save the INI file, and relaunch Eudora

þ Tired of the banner "At this time and day, you wrote:" when you click on "Reply"
Personalize it by:

1) Closing Eudora and opening the eudora.ini file (it's in the same directory as the eudora.exe file; make a backup copy before you alter the INI file) with a text editor such as Notepad. In the [Settings] section, add this line:
 

Use the variable %1 to insert the time/date of the original message and/or %2 to enter the original sender's name. For instance, adding this line:
  Your message was:
  Save the INI file, and restart Eudora.

þ     Why it is still possible to fix a sandwich and something to drink while waiting for Window 98 Start Up!!??
Isn't it suppose to be much faster????