DUN Remembers Passwords

To get DUN to remember your dial-up password, you'll need to install the client for Microsoft Networks. Open the Control Panel, double-click on Network, and then highlights Client for Microsoft Networks. Select Add, Client and Add again, then click on all of the OK buttons.

Creating an Easy to Remember Password

Some time it is hard to remember your own password. Too simple a password makes it easier for somebody else to guess your password. As a solution, you can mix numbers, small letters, capital letters, and symbols to compose your password.

First, think two or three words that are easy for you to remember. For example, use your own name such as JOHN SULLIVAN. Next, change the "O", "I", and "S" letters with "0", "1", and "5" numbers, so it becomes J0HN 5ULL1VAN.

Change the empty space with ~ or & symbols, so it become J0HN~5ULL1VAN. Finally, use capital letters for the consonants and small letters for the vowels. So the final password will be J0HN~5uLL1VaN.

Creating a Connection Log

You can create a file log, which is useful to record all connection to the Internet activity. This log is useful to check if any problem happened when you connected to your ISP. First, click on the Start, Settings, Control Panel menus. Double-click on the Network icon. Select the Dial-Up Adapter from the list, and then click the Properties button.

Click the Advanced tab, click the Record a log file option from the Property list, and then select Yes from the Value drop down list. Click OK and OK, to close the dialog boxes. Double-click the Connection to Internet shortcut in the Dial-Up Networking to start surf the World Wide Web. A file named Ppplog.txt will be created in the C:\Windows folder. You can open and read this file by using Notepad.

Copying the Favorite folder

There is an easy way to copy your favorite Web address, which is saved in the Internet Explorer, to another computer. Just copy the C:\Windows\Favorites folder to a diskette, and then copy the diskette content to the same location in another computer.

Checking the Web Site Speed

Taking too much time to access your favorite sites? Probably the problem is on the server used by those sites. To make sure that is the problem, use Windows PING facility. Ping is a small program, which sends a 32-bit signal to the Web site server. Next, Ping record the time needed by the server to answer it. To activate Ping:

Click on the Start-Run menus, type command, and then click OK. Type PING "site name" in the MS-DOS prompt window, for example PING www.yahoo.com. In a moment, the result will appear on the screen. A result less than 300ms is normal speed while a result more than 400ms is slow speed.

If "Request timed out" message appears on the screen that means the Web site server is not responding in one second. Probably it happens because the server is too slow, or designed on purpose not to respond to the ping test, or you forgot to specify your name server addresses in the TCP/IP settings dialog box.