Gavin, >Do you have a CD-burner?
I have a CD burner. And the Orange Micro PC reads the CD I made. However, when I try to open the two files, the process starts and then almost immediately locks and freezes everything. Control-Alt-Delete does not work, neither does trying to shift to the Mac side and reboot, or using Option-Command-Escape. When I try to move the files by copying them, the process starts and then seems to freeze with the same sort of results as mentioned in the previous paragraph. >My experience is that Windows NT with no service pack is not very much >fun, and a lot of things >don't work all that well until you go to at >least SP4, but SP6a was the best and last major update >available. It may >be that NT will not see the Apple side of things until you install SP6a. I think that is probably correct. >Apologies for the following - it is OT, and shows my true heritage as a >Pee-Cee guy.... > >Please also note the following: >1. There are two versions of the Windows NT service pack - a standard >encryption version and a >high-encryption version. If you get the >standard version, and upgrade your Internet Explorer to 5.x or >above, you >will not be able to re-install this service pack. Only the high-encrypt >version will work. >[NT4 will require you to re-install the service pack >after adding a feature from the original CD at a >later date] I downloaded the 128 encryption, "build" version of SP6a. That may have been a problem, since it includes some extra code for system administrators to debug software and analyze network difficulties. I will try downloading the standard 128 version of SP6a and try that. >2. Please ensure that if your Internet connection is not protected by a >firewall that you do something about that real quick. NT4 is not quite as >vulnerable as Win2K or XP, but if you have a "direct" connection to a >broadband link from the NT system, you WILL have a problem. It will just >be a matter of time ... oh the joys of Windoze. Norton Internet Security >does a reasonable job, as does the free ZoneAlarm software. Your assertion here is absolutely correct. My wife and I installed Norton Personal Firewall on our Macs. It was amazing to us to see the number of attempts (often times almost two per minute) to get into our computer when it was hooked to the Internet via DSL. We are only on the Internet when we are doing things on it. People who go onto the Internet without some sort of protection, Mac or PC, are risking all of the information they have on their computers. Virus protection is not enough anymore. Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Neal Carrie L. Lewis - Horse Painter Member of The Equine Art Guild http://www.equineartguild.com/carrielewis Visit My eBay Auctions at http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/horse_painter -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
