Clock synchroniser for Windows 2000 in the UK

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Hi Jason - Sorry, but that's not correct, at least not the part about all
caps. While it may appear to work OK and will most of the time in some
fashion when named lower case in W98x, Win2k and XP, a good bit of
experimentation has been done in these OS's which shows that it will respond
erratically upon occasion (blocking incorrectly, translating IPs
incorrectly, and/or freezing the browser) if not named upper case. I (and
some other MVPs who've looked at it) have never been able to determine the
specific cause, but that does appear to be the case. (I
found, for example, that I had to add a little .bat file (HostsSuspend.bat)
to reset the name to all caps after using HostsToggle in order to get proper
subsequent operation. I've since gone to RenHosts.bat, as I mentioned.)

YMMV, and, of course, you're free to choose to name it as you please.

See here, for example:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;228760


"4. Save the HOSTS file.

NOTE: This file must be upper case, and should NOT have a file name
extension. In other words, the file name should simply be HOSTS."


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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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Thanks for the link, it was edifying. I have several customers who have been
having strange, but minor, problems and the only thing they had in common
was they're on an intranet. It just never occurred to me that something so
simple as case, that works fine on the internet, could cause problems on an
intranet. Like the man said, no I don't know who that man was, you learn
something new everyday.
 
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