Services and Disk Management

Default Services (some) Alerter ClipBook Server Computer Browser DNS Client Event Log Messenger Net Logon Network DDE Network DDE DSDM Workstation NT LM Security Support Fax Service Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service Schedule Server Spooler Telnet Server UPS TCP/IP Printer Server

What they do Computer browser: keeps track of computers in the domain or workgroup Event log: keeps track of events in NTevents Net: logon: performs authentication Network DDE: network dynamic data exchange RPC locator and service: remote procedure call Server: provides RPC support and file, print and named pipe sharing Workstation: provides network connections and communications

What to do with them Configure startupstartup Double-click the specific service Under Startup select: Automatic, Manual, or Disabled. start, stop, pause, or resume a service Click Start, Stop, Pause, or Continue To restart a service: stop and then start The logon account:logon System Account or This Account. If you select This Account, specify a user account, and then type the password for the user account To provide a user interface on a desktop select the Allow Service to Interact with Desktop check box. See here the services dialoghere

Disk Management Select Programs, Administrative tools and Computer Management Select Disk Management and you will see the main dialog displaying a map of the drive(s).main dialog If your disk is new (nothing installed) you should have a primary partition with Win2K and the remaining of the disk(s) marked as free space proceed to create an extended partition in this free space then create drives in the extended partition

Format and assign drive letter Select tools and format. You should format all partitions as NTFS.format Select tools and assign drive letter if you are not happy with the ones Win2K defaulted to.assign drive letter Finally select tools and properties to setup:properties drive label: a name to the drive sharing: in Win2K all drives have an admin share, but you can create new ones security: you should also set the permissions for the drive. You can also check, defragment and clean the drive.defragment