How do I turn off printer notification banners in a mixed Windows NT and Novell NetWare environment?
I have answered this question several times, but it’s a valid question worthy of repeat. The solution is a simple and relatively innocuous Registry change. Open your favorite Registry editor and go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Print\Providers key. Set NetPopup of type REG_DWORD to 0, as Screen 1 shows. This modification should solve the problem. (If your browser does not support inline frames, click here to view illustration in a separate page.) Q: We currently run a mixture of Windows 98 and Win95 workstations, and we want to upgrade to Windows NT 4.0. Will we have problems converting to NT and will Win95 applications run on NT 4.0? A: You can’t upgrade from Win98 or Win95 to NT 4.0. As a result, you’ll have to reinstall all applications on each machine when you upgrade to NT 4.0. How difficult this upgrade will be depends on the complexity of your current applications and your system setup. Win9x and NT are 32-bit OSs, but they don’t handle the Win32 APIs in the
