Index_S

S

Safe mode, booting to, 158–160

safety issues

in portable systems, 116–117

for technicians and equipment, 2–3

ScanDisk utility

after shutdowns, 165

working with, 263–265

screen resolution, 124, 126

SCSI hard drives, 52–53, 53

installing, 55–56

removing, 54–55

Search for a Better Driver option, 219

searching for files and folders, 176–177

security, firewalls for, 236–238

SEPs (Single Edge Processors), 14

serial ports

for mouse, 128

for printers, 63

server-based networks, 74

services for networks, 224–228

Set Active Partition screen, 196

Setup utility, 199–200

shares, 233–234

accessing, 235

creating, 234

sharing, 224

shock hazards, 3

shortcuts on Desktop, 171–172

Show Hidden Files option, 157

shutting down Windows, 166–167

signing, driver, 212–214

SIMMs (Single Inline Memory Modules)

characteristics of, 15, 16

installing, 94

removing, 93

single drive option, 50

Single Edge Processors (SEPs), 14

SIPPs (Single Inline Pin Packages), 15, 15

size of paging and swap files, 243–245

Slot 1 sockets, 14

Small Outline DIMMs (SoDIMMs), 17, 18

SMARTDRV program, 246

snapshots in Dr. Watson, 260

sockets, 14

SoDIMMs (Small Outline DIMMs), 17, 18

sound cards

in DOS systems, 133–135

in Windows 9x systems, 135–139

SPP (standard parallel port), 63

Standard ScanDisk scans, 264

star topology, 74

Start menu

customizing, 172

launching programs from, 180

navigating, 164

starting

command-line sessions, 167

Windows GUI, 165

static electricity, 3

subnet masks, 225

SVGA monitors, 124

swap files, 242–245

system bottlenecks, 251

System Cache category, 33

system configuration files, 266

System Events in Event Viewer, 259

System Information window

for memory

in Windows 98, 31

in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, 34–35

for resource information, 105

system.ini file

for caching, 246–247

MSCONFIG for, 266

System Monitor, 251–252

in Windows 98, 252–253

in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, 254

system restore mode, 158