Number 211a - Year End 2000

UPDATE
Extra Issue     We don't want to confuse anybody, least of all ourselves, but this is not our regular monthly newsletter. This is an extra issue--ayear-end bonus, designed to present you with several articles which we simply did not have room to include in the regular newsletter. So this year at least, you get 13 issues instead of the usual twelve. What a bargain, eh? Oops! There's our Canadian accent coming through again!     As we have said before there are hundreds of articles out there for any of you/us to download and read, some are really good and informative while some are just fair, so we act as a sort of "filter" trying to gauge those that we think will be the most useful to, and welcomed by our membership. Judging by the lack of complaints, we seem to be striking a reasonable balance and, occasionally, a responsive chord. (Or, could it be that nobody else wants to do it?) Hidden, Handy Win98 Utilities     Since we have featured some of these utilities on these pages before, we didn't, as did many other newsletters, include this article back in June or July of this past year. However, there are some utilities here that you should be aware of so take a look under Operating System Notes & Tips. One that should be used with caution, however, is the Version Conflict Manager. Before using this one be sure to checkout Carl Tenning's article "Don't Mess Around" on page 1 of the July 2000 TOGGLE--also available for viewing in our online July 2000 edition at www.toggle.org.	Does Out-of-Date Mean Passé?     Beginning with an article on safety procedures and continuing with one rapid technological change in this issue are a couple of items dating back to 1997 and referring to features of, and techniques to apply, when working with Windows 95. While the specific software may have been updated the points made, and techniques described, are not passé but are still valid and worth a look. No DOS With Windows Me?     We have had both good and bad reactions to the recent Windows Me (Millenium Edition). Most have to do with error messages due to incompatibilities between WinMe and existing programs. One of the bad ones, we didn't experience but were told about, apparently results from the full installation of Windows Me, not the upgrade from Win98 SE. We are told you can no longer access the DOS prompt from Windows Me. You can get to DOS by booting with the Windows Millenium Startup Disk in the A:\ drive. (You did make one didn't you?) Upon start up you will see the A:\> prompt then can navigate to the C:\> drive to access your DOS directories and programs. However, the claim is your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files will either be gone completely or will be empty, apparently erased by WinMe.     When we protested that this was not true because we go to DOS from WinMe all the time, we were told: "Yes, but that is because you upgraded from an earlier version of Windows that did allow you to go to DOS--so you retained that capability since you did not do a complete installation!" Hmmm!
Number 211a - Year End 2000