Fonts
The Control Panel’s Fonts applet has a single purpose: to let you manage fonts in your Windows NT system. You can view those fonts currently installed and add or remove fonts from the system. Double-clicking the Fonts icon in Control Panel displays the Fonts window, which is shown in Figure 5.13.
By default, the Fonts window displays in large icon format all of the screen and TrueType fonts on your Windows NT system. TrueType fonts are denoted with a TT inside the icon; all others contain an A inside the icon. The View menu lets you change the method used to display the list of fonts. For example, if you would like to display the icons in a list with additional information such as the font filename, you can choose List from the View menu. If you wish to compare fonts, use the List Fonts by Similarity option in this menu.
Also, many fonts come in sets of four: the main (normal) font, the italic version, the bold version, and the bold italicized version. Others may have only a normal and bold version, or only the regular font with no variations. If you would like Windows NT to display only the main fonts and not all the variations, choose the Hide Variations option in the View menu.
To install a new font, choose Install New Font from the File menu. You will see the Add Fonts dialog box (shown in Figure 5.14), which lets you point to the location of the new font(s) to be installed. Once the directory has been selected using the dialog box, Windows NT 4.0 retrieves the font names and displays them in a list from which you can choose the font(s) you wish to install.
You should check the “Copy fonts to Fonts folder” option when installing new fonts. Otherwise, Windows NT 4.0 will attempt to find fonts in their original locations when they are needed; problems can occur if the fonts were installed from removable media, such as floppy disks or CD-ROMs.
Internet
The Internet applet in Control Panel lets you configure your Window NT system to use a proxy server to access the Internet. A proxy server is a special server that acts as a firewall for a network, simultaneously providing Internet access to internal network users while preventing outside intruders from accessing internal network resources. Proxy servers are connected both to the Internet and to the internal, private network. The Internet applet is shown in Figure 5.15.
The Internet Properties dialog box lets you set whether your machine will use a proxy server and if it will, enter the Internet Protocol (IP) address (or host name). You should enter the proxy server’s name or IP address in the Proxy Server field. Additionally, the “Bypass proxy on” field lets you enter the host names or IP addresses of any internal servers that you will access from your machine using TCP/IP applications. Internal TCP/IP-based servers are considered part of an intranet, or private TCP/IP-based network, and they normally do not require a proxy server. Only Internet (outside) servers are accessed via the proxy.
Speccial Note: Microsoft has released a Windows NT-based proxy server application (called Microsoft Proxy Server). This new proxy server provides access to Internet resources without the use of the TCP/IP protocol on individual workstations (i.e., workstations may access Internet resources via the proxy server using the IPX/ SPX protocol), caching features to speed connections to frequently accessed resources, and firewall features to protect networks against outside intrusion.
Keyboard
You can modify keyboard-related settings in your Windows NT system by using the Control Panel’s Keyboard applet. The Keyboard applet is shown in Figure 5.16.
There are three tabbed sections in the Keyboard applet:
Speed: This section lets you adjust various speed-related keyboard settings. “Repeat delay” lets you adjust the time before a character begins repeating, and “Repeat rate” lets you control how quickly characters are repeated. The cursor blink rate may also be adjusted from the speed tab.
Input Locales: This section lets you specify which international keyboard layouts are loaded when Windows NT starts. Multiple locales may be installed, and each may be called up via a hotkey (also set via an option on this screen).
General: This section lets you define the keyboard driver used by Windows NT 4.0 for your keyboard (this feature was located in Windows Setup in previous versions of Windows and Windows NT). Use the Change button to select your keyboard type. If your keyboard ships with a special Windows NT-specific driver to enable support, you can also use the Have Disk button to load the driver from a vendor-supplied driver disk.
Mail
The Control Panel’s Mail applet is the tool used for configuring NT’s Windows Messaging System (WMS) Client. The WMS Client is a universal client inbox based on Microsoft’s Exchange messaging technology. It lets you receive messages from a variety of different information services. The list of supported services includes Microsoft Exchange Servers, Microsoft Mail Postoffices, third-party Exchange-based fax services, The Microsoft Network, and a variety of other online services (such as CompuServe) that offer add-on Exchange/Windows Messaging services for managing their mail.
By default, the Windows NT WMS Client supports the exchange of mail with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Mail Postoffices, and Internet-based (SMTP/POP3) mail servers. Microsoft will be offering Exchange add-ons for Microsoft Fax and The Microsoft Network from their FTP or Web server sometime after Windows NT 4.0’s release.
Tip for Windows 95 Users: The Mail applet is basically identical to the Mail and Fax applet found in Windows 95. The word Fax is omitted because the Microsoft Fax option present in Windows 95’s Windows Messaging Client doesn’t ship with Windows NT.
If you checked the box next to Windows Messaging during the installation of Windows NT 4.0, you should have been asked during Setup to configure each of the Windows Messaging services you installed.
The Services Tab
If you want to add or remove WMS information services or want to make changes to those you have already configured, you can do so using the Services tab (shown in Figure 5.17).
To add a service, click the Add button and select a new service from the list provided. To remove a service, highlight the service name and choose Remove. To make changes to an installed WMS service, highlight the service name and choose the Properties button. For example, to configure the Internet Mail service, highlight Internet Mail in the list of installed services and choose Properties. The Internet Mail dialog box appears (shown in Figure 5.18) and you can enter the appropriate settings for your Internet SMTP/POP3 mail server (the mail server at your organization or Internet Service Provider that maintains your Internet e-mail account).
The Internet Mail service (and most other Windows Messaging services) has other tabbed sections for inputting important information about the service. Examples of this type of information include whether the service’s server is directly accessible via a LAN or requires a dial-up networking session (and which dial-up networking session should be used), and whether remote (offline) mail options should be used for this service. Remote mail lets you view and edit messages and folders offline when not connected to a service (e.g., on a laptop computer used while traveling).
Another feature of the Windows Messaging Client configurable through the Services tab is Profiles. The Profiles feature lets you create custom profiles for each user who will access Windows Messaging on the Windows NT computer. You can also configure Windows Messaging to give you a choice of profiles when it is started or automatically choose a particular profile every time. To manage profiles, choose the Show Profiles button at the bottom of the Services tab’s window. The Mail profiles window then appears (shown in Figure 5.19) displaying a list of all existing profiles.
Each profile may be configured to use one or more of the installed Windows Messaging services. In a typical configuration, a profile is created for every user of the system. Individual personal profiles give each user access to his or her own personal messages. Also, multiple profiles for the same user can be created using different sets of services (e.g., a user could have a second profile for accessing the Internet Mail service). Profiles can be added and removed using the Add and Remove buttons, and copies of existing profiles can be made using the Copy button.
Problems and Answers:I want Windows Messaging to ask me which profile to use when it starts, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do this. What am I doing wrong?
To get Windows Messaging to ask for the profile type to use when it starts, log on using one of the existing profiles. Once the Inbox is visible, choose Tools, Options, and find the section of the dialog box titled “When starting.” Choose the control button option that says “Prompt for a profile to be used” and choose OK. When Windows Messaging is started in the future, it will ask for a profile to use at startup.
The Delivery Tab
The Delivery tab of Mail (shown in Figure 5.20) lets you specify where incoming messages should be delivered and in what order outgoing mail should be processed.
Incoming mail messages should be stored in one of two locations: in a network server-based mailbox named “Mailbox — Username” (for networked users only) or inside a personal folder file stored on the local system. You can set this location via the list of choices next to the “Deliver new mail to the following location” portion of the Delivery tab window. You can specify the order in which outgoing messages from various information services are processed by highlighting the service name and using the up and down arrow keys on the right side of the screen to move through the list.
The Addressing Tab
The last tabbed section of the Mail applet is the Addressing tab (shown in Figure 5.21), which configures options for using Address Books. Address Books are lists of mail addresses that can be selected when you create new messages.
The Addressing tab’s “Show this address list first” option lets you configure which address list should be displayed by default when viewing addresses: the Global Address List (a network shared address list all users can access), or a Personal Address Book (a private address book only the user of that profile can access). The “Keep personal addresses in” option tells Windows Messaging which address list to store personal addresses in and should normally be set to Personal Address Book. The “When sending mail” option at the bottom of the dialog box lets you tell Exchange the order in which available address books should be searched when it is searching for names you address in messages. The up and down arrows at right can be used to move address books up and down in the list.
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