Windows NT 4.0 on a Laptop using Remote Access Service

Created on April 10, 2016
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Windows NT 4.0 in its vanilla form is dumb with laptops. Even having been released after the advent of Windows 95, NT4 still can't detect some hardware without the intervention of the user or drivers. Windows NT 4.0 doesn't have power management either, so laptop manufacturers had to implement it themselves. I'm sure it's all worth it in the end though, as it allows laptops to run a true 32-bit environment with great efficiency!

To get the Toshiba Tecra 8100 all set for Windows NT 4.0, I installed the Remote Access Service on both the server and laptop, connected them together with an RS-232 null modem, and just dialed in to the server as if I was using a phone line to connect to a remote location!

Roaming profiles have been a part of Windows NT from the beginning, and what they basically do is allow users to download the most up to date copy of their profile to any machine in a domain - desktop items and settings, sound schemes, and other things which may be defined by Windows or other applications. Roaming profiles are incredibly useful for giving users a consistent experience wherever they're logged on, but coming from this era, it's shaky in practice. It's heavily dependent on things being stored consistently in a network share, to start. As I understand, a lot of organizations never bothered with this feature, including my schools where many of us would be logging on to a different computer each day.

Windows 95 supports roaming profiles as well, but it expects a different path to be assigned from the normal one.

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Imagine hitting, "Eject PC" and literally all the hardware in your computer gets launched out of the computer case.

Kugee - December 05, 2022 at 10:37 AM

There actually exist a few docking stations which are capable of self-ejecting laptops, including one for the Compaq Armada 7770DMT: https://youtu.be/48jMW5w9BXU?t=1540

Some high-profile juggernaut tried to pass that off as an "easter egg", and it's now spread all across YouTube as it seems.

Blue Horizon: windows youtubers putting out such hits as "windows xp in 8-bit color?? wOW!!"

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