1. Click "Start, Run"
2. Type "WinIPCFG.exe" and click OK.
3. Click "More Info" for additional information.

WinIPCFG.exe can display information for Ethernet cards, Dial-Up Networking, and AOL Adapter information if applicable.

To restore the registry in Microsoft Windows 98 do this:

Restart the computer to MS-DOS mode. This can be done by choosing Command Prompt Only on boot or by clicking Start, Shut Down, Restart the Computer in MS-DOS mode and clicking "yes" when prompted. Then type,

Press enter. Restart your computer. These steps will restore your registry to its state when you last successfully started your computer.

If you frequently get illegal operation or invalid page fault error messages in Windows 98, there is a great utility that Microsoft included which you can use to troubleshoot, find the cause of, and correct those errors to prevent yourself from getting them again. It also logs all errors so you can report them to Microsoft or your software program's vendor so that they can fix the problem. To start this program:

1. Click Start, Run.
2. Type "DrWatson" and press ENTER.
3. An icon for Dr. Watson will appear on your taskbar tray.
4. Double click it. From here on you can view detailed info about your system.

If you frequenty experience crashes, put a shortcut to Dr. Watson in your Starup group, as it will automatically log all illegal operations and invalid page faults/general protection faults that you might get.

If you have a "Windows" keyboard with the special "Windows Key" on it, you can hit:

to instantly open the System Properties dialog box. This saves you the extra step of going to the Start Menu and opening the Control Panel, then clicking the System Icon.

If you type in "go X" in IE 4.x or later (where "X" is any keyword) you can search for ANYTHING using IE, it will default to Yahoo for searching for that item that you entered for "X".

Hightlight one window on the desktop and hit Print Screen while holding down the ALT key and it captures that one window to the clipboard instead of the entire desktop.

This tip assumes you have at least one machine running Windows 98 Second Edition, a network interface card in each machine you plan to use with ICS [Internet Connection Sharing], and at least one Internet connection [Dial-Up, Cable, DSL, ISDN, etc.]

If you are running any previous version of Internet Explorer 5.0 on the host computer [who's connection you wish to share] you should first uninstall it before upgrading to Windows 98 Second Edition.

Once Windows 98 SE has been setup on the host computer, you must do the following:

1. "Start, Settings, Control Panel."
2. Once it opens, click on "Add-Remove Programs."
3. Click "Windows Setup" and select "Internet Tools" from the categories.
4. Place a check in "Internet Connection Sharing" and click OK.

Follow the instructions that come up on the screen. The "Sharing" button is now present in IE5's Connection tab of Internet Settings window. [Found on the "Tools" tab in Internet Explorer 5.0]. Click it.

It will create a client disk. You must run the file from the client disk so your other machines may access the connection you have shared. The other machines may be running Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, Linux or almost any operating system that supports the TCP/IP protocol.

You must have TCP/IP installed on each machine you wish to use with ICS and bind it to the network interface cards in each of them. You may do this by clicking "Start, Settings, Control Panel, Network" and following the instructions. Windows Help, "Start, Help" has more information about how this is done. Do NOT set the client machines to use a proxy server.