Windows XP was shipped with two web browsers from Microsoft. Internet Explorer 6 is the one everyone knows about while almost no one even realises that MSN Explorer is there. This “hidden” web browser can be removed from your computer to free up resources and increase the security of your computer.
I have decided to spend part of the long weekend setting up and configuring a new computer. At some point in the next few weeks I should have some comments on how it is all proceeding. So far I have purchased the new parts I needed, installed some other parts that I already had installed the operating system and configured it to work with my network.
Do you need to reinstall your operating system? Have you lost the install disk? perhaps you never had one. If your computer didn’t come with an install disk then there should have been a copy on the hard drive for you to burn the CD yourself.
I wasn’t sure which situation applied to the person who asked this question so my answer covers all the possibilities.
I would have thought that everyone would have upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP by now given that it is now several years since Microsoft dropped support for that old DOS antique. Not so as I still get the occasional question about that old operating system. Some of those are looking to make the move though as this recent question demonstrates.
Windows XP and more recent operating systems all use TCP/IP as the protocol for networking computers together. Back in the days of Windows 95/98 the protocol used was NETBEUI. Now it doesn’t really matter what each of these two protocols are and how they work. The important thing is that the two are incompatible and so if you have computers running different operating systems on the same network you may not be able to get them to communicate unless you enable additional protocols on one or more computers.
In this article I wrote some time ago I discuss how to enable the NETBEUI protocol on Windows XP.
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