Re: OS Re-installation

"BAP" wrote:
| 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.
* What utilities?

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.
* Control Panel|Users and Passwords, then uncheck the box for "Users must
enter a user name and password to use this computer"

| 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.
* Possibly the wrong driver for your hardware. Check the manufacturer's web
site.


| 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.
* I doubt if there is more than the setup in that one.



| Is there a way to get a CD with the applications needed?
* See this link if that's what you're asking about.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/SP4/ordercd.mspx


| 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.
* Give this a go.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

| Does this sound correct?
| Incidentally, how do you restart the Computer in MS-DOS Mode?
* You don't. There is no msdos with Windows 2000


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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