Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrators Companion (IT-Administrators Companion)
Within the Accessories and Utilities grouping, additional component groups live. To see the specifics of any component grouping, highlight the grouping and click the Details button. If the Details button is dimmed, that means you are highlighting an individual component and not a group of components.
Accessibility Wizard
The Accessibility Wizard allows you to configure your system to make it more accessible to those with special vision, hearing, and mobility needs. Installed with the wizard are additional accessibility tools, including Narrator, Magnifier, and On-Screen Keyboard, as well as Utility Manager to manage the configuration of these utilities.
Accessories
Accessories is a grouping of applications and features each designed for a single use or purpose. These include:
- Calculator A simple on-screen graphical calculator.
- Character Map Displays all the characters in any installed font and allows you to insert special characters and symbols into your current document.
- Clipboard View Enables you to view and save the contents of the clipboard.
- Desktop Wallpaper Provides additional background images and pictures for enhancing your Windows desktop.
- Document Templates Adds choices for new documents to your right mouse button.
- Mouse Pointers Provides additional mouse pointers, including larger and animated pointers.
- Object Packager Allows documents to include embedded or linked objects from another source.
- Paint A basic bitmap painting program.
- WordPad A simple word processor that can read Microsoft Word documents and handle ASCII text documents.
Communications
Communications is a grouping of three simple programs that enhance the Windows 2000 communications abilities. The three programs are:
- Chat Installs a useful little chat application but doesn't create an icon for it on your Start menu. To use Chat, open the Start menu, choose Run, and type Winchat.exe.
- HyperTerminal Uses a modem (or null modem cable) to connect to other computers or online services that still require terminal emulation.
- Phone Dialer Allows you to dial a phone through your attached modem.
Games
Games is a grouping of four games normally installed in Windows 2000 Professional but optional in Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server. The four games are:
- Free Cell A difficult solitaire card game.
- Minesweeper The familiar strategy game.
- Pinball A 3D computer version of an arcade pinball machine.
- Solitaire The classic card game.
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All of these games except for Pinball have a boss key. Press Esc while playing, and the game minimizes to your taskbar—it appears to be a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet called Budget.xls.
Multimedia
Multimedia is a collection of utilities and sounds to take advantage of your server's multimedia capabilities. The group includes:
- CD Player Plays music CDs in your computer's CD-ROM drive.
- Media Player Plays a variety of audio and video formats.
- Sample Sounds Provides a collection of sound clips.
- Sound Recorder Records sounds using your sound card.
- Utopia Sound Scheme Provides a collection of sounds that can be attached to various actions on your computer.
- Volume Control Lets you adjust the output volume from your sound card.