Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Professional help and discussions.
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Cleanup Win 2000?
by Guest Bob Newman- 2 replies
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I am interested in "cleaning" up an old bogged down computer's Windows 2000 system. Things like old inactive registry entries, even new one not being used, or anything else along these lines. It is a borrowed laptop I am getting ready to give back therefore anything I do must be 100% safe for the system. One mistake I made, this computer has VERY limited resources so I installed several programs to an external drive to save HD space and have since disconnected the HD (I still have it). I was using add/remove programs to remove some that I installed. When I would try to remove one of the programs that was installed on the now disconnected HD add/remove…
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win2k to winXP...
by Guest Boodahbellie- 5 replies
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Is there an easy way to transfer files and settings from win2k to winXP-SP2? I tried to find an accessory in win2k that was similar to XPs "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" but didn't have any luck. Even a good tutorial on the MS KB would suffice.
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Making a former Slave HD bootable 1 2
by Guest aa- 43 replies
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I have two harddrives on my PC, teh Primary has XP and the Slave has w2k The Primary HD crushed, I took it out and moved the Slave in its place, while seting the jamper on the Slave into "Master or single drive" position. Now how do I make this HD bootable?
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Re: Does installing IE 6.0 affect any MFC Controls?
by Guest PA Bear- 0 replies
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Re: Does installing IE 6.0 affect any MFC Controls? Forwarded to Win2K General via crosspost. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.org/ Nathan wrote: > I have a VC++ MFC application that was built and tested on Windows 2000 > Professional machine and now I want to upgrade the Internet Explorer > version > on that machine. I would like to find out whether installing Internet > Explorer 6.0 would affect any of the GUI controls. Please help.
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Offering a part-time job
by Guest 520520- 2 replies
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win2000 password
by Guest gnat- 10 replies
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hello I have been given a windows 2000 pro computer, but while booting into windows it says that the password has expired and i should make a new one; but it wants the old one too... of which I dont have. It isnt the bios password, because I got past that. In windows98, I know I can use dos and go delete the password file, and it will start over from scratch, do I do the same here? or is there another way. Thank you in advance. gnat
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Windows Update
by Guest V Green- 7 replies
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So, I haven't updated my laptop for years (literally). I'm an MSDN member, so I got SP's that way. I am already at SP4. I just checked in with Windows Update, and, of course, the Win Update stuff was out of date, so I let it update. When I rebooted, the dreaded Automatic Update service was turned back ON, so I quickly turned it OFF and disabled it - Auto Update is a DISASTER - foisting off things like WMP 11 as "critical" when it is not (not to mention that WMP 11 is just a POS downgrade from WMP 10 as well). Of course, visiting the Windows Update site now results in a 0x8DDD0018 error. I am NOT gonna let Auto Update download stuff and THEN ask me …
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unable to ear system's sound
by Guest :. mrcmobile- 1 reply
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win2k workstation sp4 - Audio driver AC97 last updates. It happens that I can't ear system sounds. All wav files are played correctly. If I play a test wav file I can ear it correctly. If I go to control panel sounds and I assign a sound to an operation (f.i. empty trash), the speakers play correctly the wav files. But if I close control panel and I try to empty trash or anything other applications with associated sound, I can only ear the beep from the motherboard buzzer. I have re-installed ac97 drivers with last updates. No success. Any tips? Thank you. Marco
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Lost identity: W2k treats me like a new user for all settings
by Guest jmoleary@earthlink.net- 5 replies
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I've had this Windows 2000 box for 5 years. One PC with a cable internet connection. Today I turned on my PC and logged on and it logged on just fine but everything I have customized is GONE. My desktop, user settings, etc. It treated me as if I were a completely new user, asking me for internet connection settings, MS Office settings, etc. My user name is "joe". I can still see my old desktop sitting there under the "Documents and Settings\joe" folder but now windows apparently is using "Documents and Settings\joe.joeo" Can anyone tell me how I can let Windows know to use the old folders, desktop settings, display settings, etc?
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DOS Convert
by Guest Norm Cook- 4 replies
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I have a 500GB Iomega USB Drive with about 60GB of files. It is formatted in FAT32. Have heard that NTFS gives better performance, so I am considering using the DOS command convert to switch. Question 1) if I do so, will I lose the files? 2) is it worth it?
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My father recently accepted an automatic MS update on his computer, running Windows 2000 with all updates up to that point. His desktop and documents disappeared, with the login now looking like a new user. Turns out that C:\Documents and Settings still has his original profile directories under User, including his document files (phew!), but now also has an empty profile consisting of User.ComputerName, which is where he somehow gets placed when logging in using his user name (as judged by where Windows Explorer opens up to, in Start Menu). We created a new user, and Win2K creates another profile file set under NewUser.ComputerName, and then appears to disr…
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synchronisefolders on two computers
by Guest aa- 12 replies
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I often have to synchronise some folders on my desktop and notebook. So far I was simply copying the contents of one folder into another. This takes time. How do I synchronise the folders without replacing the files which have not been changed? WindoewExplorer-Tools-Synchronise does only some synchronisation with the Internet
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USB ''Unable to load driver instance'' problems
by Guest JR- 0 replies
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Win2k up to date. Have internal usb card reader/floppy drive worked fine until recent boot, when installing hardware wizard appeared. Then failed with message "installation failed because a function driver was not specified for this device instance" Tried the update driver and returns ''better match...usb.inf" select that and same error message rolled back registry a couple of weeks, but same error. ANY clue please as seem to remember having this problem once before and getting an answer, but can not find article etc etc All other usb stuff works fine.
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Updates integration in installation disk
by Guest kindwoulf- 6 replies
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I'm trying to make an updated windows 2000 insatllation disk, with sp4 and all susequents. So I downloaded the needed files and integrated them into an installation folder, then burned it to a bootable cd. The disk boots fine, and i tried it twice; once with only sp4 then with some additional updates and both worked fine. But after few days i tried it with a fresh start, new copy of w2k cd then integrate sp4 then the additions. What happened is that the disk booted fine and while the setup is loading, every thing stops and the blue screen tells me that "cannot find mountmgr.sys" and the insatallation aborts. What keeps me wondering is that i done before, w…
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Saving GIF and/or JPEG from MS Paint
by Guest eramawm- 3 replies
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Hi. I used to have a computer with Windows 2000 and used MS Paint a lot to copy bitmaps and convert to GIF or JPEG. Then I got a new computer, also with Windows 2000, but to my surprise I can now only save in four different bitmap formats. Where did JPEG and GIF go. I have tried to search the internet and found things like "graphics filters must be installed" and that MS Word would contain graphics filters. And I have MS Word installed and from what I read the graphics filters for GIF and JPEG are always installed with Word. So why doesn't my Paint save to GIF or JPEG? Thanks in advance, eramawm