Re: OS Re-installation

Thanks for your patience, Dave!
I will need a bit of time to really get a good grasp of what is really wrong
with the setup. For starters I can do this.
For years I've been using PC's with Windows98 and 98SE and have become
familiar with it. I still have the Computer that has a Pentium II with MMX
technology. The inherited Dell, that I am concerned about, has a lot faster
CPU and some Applications that I would like to preserve, since I do not have
the Installation Disks, such as MS Photo Editor for one. I am not familiar at
all with Windows2000 Professional Edition. There seem to be a lot of ongoing
tasks or applications running in the background. Several Utilities available
in W98 are not available in W2K. I do not know what progs or tasks should be
running in the background.
I would like to eliminate the Administration 'stuff' and the logon options.
It takes too long to shutdown, as it always wants to save my settings, even
if I do not do anything other that turn it on, logon and shutdown.
I have a Dial up connection that uses an Internal PCI V.92 DATA/FAX/TAM
Modem. Getting to sites on the Web is extremely slow, as compared to the
speed on the other Computer that uses a Rockwell Soft56 Dat, Fax, PCI Modem.

Some time back, I downloaded SP4Express_EN.exe file. It shows a size of
588KB Version 1.16.120.0. It’s certainly a lot smaller than the one with
129MB size. At the current speed of my dial-up set up, the faster speed, it
would take about 15hrs to download the latter.
Is there a way to get a CD with the applications needed?
Anyway, as you might gather, I feel very uncomfortable in getting the
re-installation project under way, being so unfamiliar with what to do and
how to do it.
Another problem! I have what appears to be a Product Key
written on a Dell's copy of the Items specified to be in the Computer's sale
papers. I tried to locate the ProductKey in the Registry, to make sure I had
the right one, but could not find it in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.
There is the ProductID, but what may be a ProductKey is in binary format.
Does this sound correct?
Incidentally, how do you restart the Computer in MS-DOS Mode?
Sorry!

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"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> Let's start over. Tell us exactly what problems you're having and why you
> want to reinstall the operating system? My reply was directed at the latter
> without really knowing any details of the former.
>
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>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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> "BAP" wrote:
> | Thanks again, Dave!
> | In today's Posts I saw and read similar to my questions....
> | ?Steven Sinclair 1/7/2006 12:01 PM PST and n cook 1/6/2006 2:15 AM PST,
> to
> | which you replied. I have to apologize for my ignorance, but I just can't
> | quite follow all that has to be done and how to get it done. This project
> | just might be too much for me.
>
>
>
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