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I'll admit to being a long time hold out on NT because I just don't like all the 'new' features on Win 2k and XP. (In fact, can anyone tell me how to prevent Win 2k or xp from 'hiding' my menu items? I can't find that in the help files and it annoys the hell out of me. My dvd burning SW only works under W2k or WXP and I have to resort to those OSs at least part of the time.)

I built this system in 2001 to be multiboot.

Right now it has dos/win3.1 - NT4 - Win 2k and Win XP.

Around 2003 I added a PCI ethernet card for DSL access that was finally available in my area. The problem was that my PCI SB sound card had an IRQ conflict with it. I could never resolve it, even after hours of trying, so I just pulled the sound card out. My computer was deaf, so to speak. It also had a conflict with the ISA modem card. I also pulled that out.

So today I was dicking around with my even older system (an early Pentium). I had taken a SB 16 card out of my 386 to try and get a CD rom to work in it. For some reason I can't get any CD rom to work in the old system. (Multi-boot dos/win3 and NT) And back then the CD cables connected to the sound cards.

So on a lark, I stuck the ISA SB 16 into my newer system to see if it would work. The MB has one ISA slot for legacy stuff. I did have a SCSI card there.
By gawd it does!!!
So I'm using a sound card that came from my 386 on my newer multi-boot system and it works under all the OSs.

Is that weird or what?

I guess I'll try a PCI SCSI so I can have all add-ons added on under all OSs or maybe find a MB with more than one ISA slot and 4 PCI slots.

In case anyone wants to know, NT does have drivers for USB.

While I'm on the topic, the old system with only ISA slots needs a network card. Anyone have an old one that works under NT or Win 3.1? I also tried looking for ISA usb port cards. They don't exist to my knowledge. In the meantime, I use a cable modem to connect the old and new computers together. Slow, but it works.

Each computer has its own little mission in life, so I can't really throw them away.

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Each computer has its own little mission in life, so I can't really throw them away.




:D

My first thought was get a new computer. Nowaday's they're pretty cheap.

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(In fact, can anyone tell me how to prevent Win 2k or xp from 'hiding' my menu items?



Are you talking about the taskbar auto hiding on you? If so,
-rt click the task bar... that bar along the bottom, and select properties.
- Deselect auto hide

You can also rt click the task bar and select lock the task bar if you don't wish for it to be moveable or re-sizable.

I suggest adding the desktop and quick launch to the task bar as well.

Right click the task bar > Toolbars
Select: Desktop
Right click the task bar > Toolbars
Select: Quick Launch

Is that it?
My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

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Whee. Welcome to the world of NT4.

NT4 doesn't play particularly well with either soundcards or with ISA PnP network cards. Four years ago I could've probably answered your question, but I don't remember any of that stuff now.

To be honest, you're just going to make life harder & harder for yourself by sticking with NT4. It's possible to make XP look similar to NT4, though the auto-hiding of programs in the Start Menu used to really annoy me too, but now I just deal with it.

NT4 is like jumping a Vector I. It's ok for certain very specific things (RW), but if you want to do any of the cool new stuff, you need to spend lots of time & money upgrading it to a product that's still not as good as something more modern (Vector 3).

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In fact, can anyone tell me how to prevent Win 2k or xp from 'hiding' my menu items?



Right click on taskbar, select properties. Uncheck the "Use Personalized Menus". That will fix it ;) (That is for win2k. I believe that in XP you have to go digging through the tabs on the properties page to find it, but it is in there)

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Damn you! :P

I just did that and was going to post it!

Edit: Oh, for XP ...

The difference is click on Customize
Scroll down then de-select "Use Personalized Menus"
OK
Ok

That's it.

Second Edit: Damn I'm slow.... :|
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In fact, can anyone tell me how to prevent Win 2k or xp from 'hiding' my menu items?



Right click on taskbar, select properties. Uncheck the "Use Personalized Menus". That will fix it ;) (That is for win2k. I believe that in XP you have to go digging through the tabs on the properties page to find it, but it is in there)



To be more specific (since I just did this on my new laptop - thanks for the reminder on how).

Right click taskbar.
Select properties.
Select "Start Menu" tab.
Select "Customize" (assuming you are already using the Classic Start Menu)
Scroll down and uncheck "Use Personalized Menus"

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Anyone have an old one that works under NT or Win 3.1?



Poke around the net and find a NE2000 compatiblle ISA card and that will work just fine. (Can you say "Jumper Hell" or "Proprietary Config Utility"?)

If you can't find one PM me and I'll send you the whole box of them that I have.
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