How to fine tune the Recycle Bin
You undoubtedly know that Windows 2000 uses the Recycle Bin as a temporary storage location for deleted files and folders, giving you the opportunity to restore those folders and files. Once the items are deleted from the Recycle Bin, however, they are gone for good unless you use a third-party recovery tool to bring them back.

Windows 2000 sets aside a certain percentage of your hard disk for the Recycle Bin. When the Recycle Bin reaches its allocated capacity, Windows 2000 starts deleting files rather than placing them in the Recycle Bin (without warning). Therefore, if you keep a lot of files in the Recycle Bin, you might need to increase the amount of space allocated to it. Or, if you seldom use the Recycle Bin and your system is running low on disk space, you might want to decrease the amount of space allocated to the Recycle Bin or disable it altogether. A third possibility is to allocate different percentages on different drives.

By default, Windows 2000 allocates the same percentage of space to the Recycle Bin on each drive, but you can configure them separately, if needed.


1. Right-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop and choose Properties.
2. Select Configure Drives Independently and then use the slider to set the percentage for the selected drive.
3. Click the next drive's tab and set its percentage.
4. Repeat the process for all drives in the system and then click OK.

If you prefer to disable the Recycle Bin and delete files immediately, open the Recycle Bin Properties and select the Do Not Move Files To The Recycle Bin option. To bypass the Recycle Bin for selected files without disabling it, hold down [Shift] when you press [Delete] to delete an item

Tips on how to recover from a crash in Windows 2000
Even though the Windows NT Rdisk utility isn't included in the Windows 2000 OS, there is a workaround that you can use to keep Rdisk in play in case of a system crash. Here's that tip, plus info on the Windows 2000 Backup utility.

Use Rdisk under Windows 2000
Windows 2000 did away with the Windows NT Rdisk utility, which on Windows NT systems creates a backup on an ERD of your system's critical files: Autoexec.nt, Config.nt, and registry files. Rdisk can also create a backup copy of the registry in the %systemroot%\Repair folder, which you can use to restore the system in the event of a corrupted registry or other major problem. Microsoft replaced Rdisk's functionality with features in Windows 2000's Backup utility. For example, you use the Emergency Repair Disk wizard from Backup's Welcome page to make a backup copy of the registry and create the ERD.

You can still continue to use Rdisk in Windows 2000 if you wish to back up the registry and create a repair disk. However, you need to copy the Rdisk.exe executable to your Windows 2000 system(s) from an NT system because the file doesn't exist under Windows 2000.

Rdisk compresses the registry files to make them fit on a diskette, although in many cases the registry is simply too large to fit on a diskette—one of Rdisk's failings. You can use the Windows 2000 Repair process to restore a system using an ERD created with Rdisk, although you'll need to manually expand the registry files from the diskette if you need to restore the registry. To save time, create a batch file to expand the files.

Use alternating backups for document protection
Windows 2000's Backup utility offers one really useful feature for helping you protect and back up your files on your personal workstation: the ability to back up to a file. You can back up to a file on your local hard drive, a floppy drive, or network share. This means you don't have to have a tape drive installed in your system to make periodic backups. For example, you should consider backing up your My Documents folder and any other folders that contain documents you can't afford to lose.

When you back up to a file, you have the option of appending to or replacing the backup set, just as you do with tape media. If you choose to replace the backup set, Backup overwrites the previous backup data in the file, if any. If you choose the append option, Backup adds to the set instead. The result over a period of time could be a really large backup file containing many multiples of the data.

You typically don't want to use the replace option with a single backup set, because a problem with the backup process could leave you with no valid backup. Rather than use Append and end up with a huge backup file, create multiple Backup jobs that each use a different file and use replace for the backup operation. For example, create a different backup job for every day of the week, with each backing up to its own backup file using the replace option.
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The ________ is responsible for file format translations, syntax translations, and terminal characteristics.

A. Application Layer
B. Presentation layer
C. Session Layer
D. Transport Layer

Answer: B
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Which IRQ is assigned to the first serial port?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. 7

Answer: C

What PC resource is used by a hardware device to let the Central Processing Unit know it needs servicing?

A. IRQ
B. DMA
C. I/O Address
D. Base Memory
E. Operating System

Answer: A

You are the administrator for a company that has six offices scattered throughout The United States. Each office has its own WINS server. Your head office is located in San Francisco and your branch offices are located in Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit and Miami. You would like to configure your network so that any updates that occur on one WINS server are available to any of the others within an hour. For example, if a machine is started in Miami at 12 PM San Francisco time, you would like that record available on the WINS server in the Detroit branch office at 1 PM San Francisco time. The WAN is set up so that all branch offices have an T1 line that runs from each branch office directly to the San Francisco office. There are no direct lines between the branch offices (e.g. all traffic between Philadelphia and Indianapolis first travels down the T1 link from Philadelphia to San Francisco, then is routed through to Indianapolis). Because the T1 links are reasonably saturated with traffic, you wish to minimize the amount of data that WINS will need to transfer across the T1 lines. Which of the following represents the simplest way to achieve to achieve these objectives?

Answer: D - Every 20 minutes the server in San Francisco is notified of the changes that have occurred in the WINS databases of the branch offices as well of any changes that have occurred in the San Francisco office. At the same time the servers in the branch offices are updated with the San Francisco office's current database. Let's say a machine is started in Miami. It registers itself with the Miami WINS Server, and a maximum of 20 minutes later, the San Francisco server is informed of this change and adds it to its database. At some time in the next 20 minutes the Detroit server is going to contact the San Francisco server, pushing its updates to it as well as pulling down the updates from San Francisco's database. As the Miami update now resides in the San Francisco database, the Detroit WINS server will now be aware of the change in Miami. Answer C could not be correct because it could be 45 minutes before the San Francisco server is aware of a change made in the Miami database and possibly another 45 minutes before Detroit becomes aware of this change. This does not meet the objective of having all changes propagated to all servers within an hour. In answer B, an update will effectively travel both ways around the loop (so an update in Miami goes to both San Francisco and Philadelphia within 12.5 minutes). This does not minimize network traffic (all traffic goes through San Francisco anyway) and therefore does not meet the latter objective. Answer A would cause the most network traffic so it also does not meet the latter objective.

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