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Windows 3.1 was introduced in 1992 by Microsoft Corporation as the next generation of their windows operating platform. Microsoft ran its first-ever television advertising campaign, the company merged with Fox Software, and three million copies of Windows 3.1 were shipped in the first six weeks after the product's release. The phenomenal success of this new operating system was followed in 1993 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the upgraded MS-DOS® 6.2, the last of Microsoft's 16-bit operating systems before the introduction in 1994 of Windows 95.
Here is a very helpful Windows 3.1 Tutorial - a good hypertext manual for using Windows 3.1 from the United Kingdom. While Windows 3.1 and its successor are both 16-bit operating systems, they can be configured to run some 32-bit programs using an add-on group called Win32s in a file named pw1118.exe available from Microsoft. You can also configure your system for optimal use of 32-bit file access.
One of the biggest problems with Windows 3.1 is its allocation of GDI resources. GDI - the graphical device interface. The simplest explanation of GDI is that Windows 3.x resources consist of memory "Heaps" --- GDI Heap, User Heap, Menu Heap, String Heap, (there's more) and each of these heaps is allotted only 64KB. Once these get used up, you get crashes or programs slowing down etc., and it doesn't matter if your hard drive is 10GB and you have 64mb or RAM. (this doesn't apply to NT or Win95). A more complete explanation of GDI resources is available by reading the appropriate section in the Windows 3.1 Resource Kit Documentation, Chapter 5. You can download the file RESKIT.EXE file from Microsoft. Use Microsoft's search facility to locate it.
Insufficient GDI resources are one of the primary causes of systems crashes under Windows 3.x. There are various ways to monitor GDI Resources. WINProbe4 from Quarterdeck Corporation is an excellent utility which monitors a lot of things on your computer, among them GDI resources and can help free them up.
If you need help untangling problems with Windows 3.1 on your computer, there's no place to turn that is better informed than Microsoft Technical Support at (206) 637-7098. If you're having trouble getting through to them and need a fast answer you can try Experts Exchange, an innovative site at which you register and can then ask questions of resident experts on almost any computer or Internet related topic including Windows 3.x.
You connect to the Internet using TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) which is what computers use to talk with each other on the Internet. For an excellent introduction to TCP/IP, visit Yale University for this Introduction to TCP/IP. If you are having trouble with your Internet connection here's an excellent Winsock FAQ, aimed at Windows 3.x, that will answer most of your questions. Or you can really go for broke with the outstanding AL's Winsock Tuning FAQ, which is written specifically for Trumpet Winsock.
A great place to turn for information about anything Microsoft is Microsoft's own news server. Add msnews.microsoft.com to the news servers your newsreader software can access. There are close to 400 newsgroups you can subscribe to on this server, and one in particular called microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos where you can find answers to almost any question you can come up with. You can also search the Microsoft Knowledge Base below for information on Microsoft issues.
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In the field of technology specialization, Microsoft has introduced MCTS certification. When it comes to starting your career in the field of IT, you must have desktop support skills. For this Microsoft offers MCDST certifications. As compared to it, MCSA is the most preferred certification for people to excel in the field of IT. 70-220 is the other certification for system administrators. For the measurement of verbal and quantitative skills, GRE test are conducted. |
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