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Windows NT4 and generic Windows NT topics

<thinking out loud>
Firstly, service packs are a major happening in Windows NT. Win9x systems are consumer systems. That probably means that they are targeted at non mission critical use. Implying that people bear up with more anomalies than Windows NT systems who are continuously under the scrutiny of IT system admin types and hackers.
</thinking out loud>

Windows NT was the first MS system that would not rely on good ol' FAT, the ubiquitous file system. Therefore booting up a machine is of prime concern, particularly if the machine is heavily used, contains the latest data, and now, due to software or hardware glitch, fails to boot. You can't just shove in an MS-DOS formatted diskette into A: drive and boot up to retrieve data.

Learn about the event before it happens:

Preparing for the day

Another feature that often leaves DOS and Win9x experts cold is how to interpret the myriad error messages that can arise in the NT Event Logs and other places. For this, see:

The reason people use Windows NT is it's increased stability over Win9x and it's support for multi-processor motherboards

If you have been brought up in Novell Netware Admin, Windows NT rights are different:

Although Microsoft maintains that Windows NT4 Workstation and Server are the same core code, just hundreds of registry changes and optimisations for the task expected in each product, there are significant differences in several areas. Disk utility software for Workstation is quite inexpensive, for Server, the price escalates dramatically. It's not just marketing - there are technical results.

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Utilities

The NT User Wizard is an administration utility built for use with Windows NT Server 4.0. The NT User Wizard allows you to import user lists and automatically set up mail accounts, NT logon accounts, groups, and permissions. Save hours, even days of time in setting up and administering accounts. The NT User Wizard allows you to create a single user account, or hundreds of accounts in a single batch process. Accounts created by the NT User Wizard can incorporate nearly all of the elements provided by the NT User Manager.

Windows 2000 topics

Service Pack 1

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