TABLE OF CONTENTS So far, you have learned about the various tools that are available from the Winternals team, and how to use these tools for different purposes. The Winternals team developed most of these tools for the most recent additions to the Windows product family, such as Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP. However, what about administrators who must maintain and support legacy Windows NT 4.0 systems? We wrote this chapter with these administrators in mind. The crew at Winternals has not abandoned these users and continues to maintain many utilities for Windows NT 4.0 (and even for Windows NT 3.51) administration. In the following sections, administrators of this venerable operating system will discover the most popular NT 4.0 tools available to them, and will learn how to use them to their fullest potential. The chapter covers topics ranging from advanced system optimization, to options available in a multiboot system with various versions of Windows, to data recovery for NT.
Generally, the two best ways to increase the performance of a system is to optimize how the file system and memory are used. Achieving optimal use of both of these components will ensure the very best levels of application performance. As mentioned earlier, Winternals has not abandoned the owners and caretakers of NT 4.0 systems. A number of utilities are available, and in the following sections, we will describe how to use some of the most popular tools: CacheSet and Contig for...
