Re: Win98 to 2000

"John John (MVP)" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#$hN8kJKJHA.2444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Cottonmouth wrote:

For W98 go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?
dg=microsoft.public.win98.internet.windows_update&tid=2a0d5b40-
4b4e-4407-bd66-e14c3962a79c&cat=en_US_1e460e32-d1c1-4b19-b946-
627dc9559b28&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1

or
http://tinyurl.com/4o3skm
http://tinyurl.com/4tzvd6

If tinyurl doesn't work..you'll have to c & p the full one to a new
tab/empty address bar in FF.




It doesn't bother Windows 2000 at all to be installed on a drive
other than C:. When you install Windows 2000 you will be given
a choice of which disk/partition you want to install on, it will
also create a multiboot setup if a previous Windows version is
detected during the installation.



Once Win2k is installed, you will need a lot of updates, but
they are still avail from the update site.
First thing I'd do is install SP4 if your CD is older...
next, install IE6
once sp4 and IE6 are installed, you can get all the updates...
there will be at least 50 of them or more but it is a very good
idea to install them.


Is SP4 an update that can be downloaded or is it an upgrade?

You can still order SP4 Cds in US and CAN.

Make sure that you apply these *before* you connect to an
outside network!

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A
0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=e
n&familyid=B54730CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en



Before you connect to the internet you need to protect Windows
2000 with a firewall!

John


Well that's really really paranoid, when doing a rebuild or new
build I just go directly to Microsoft [after installing AVG, which
so far 7.5 is still getting definition updates,and Spybot S&D, or
you may want one of the all-in-one packages like 8.0] get the IE6
[though I think the last time I put it somewhere as a file,for
later use] let it update to the
rollup...disconnect...reboot..connect...update your antivirus and
spyware killer(s) disconnect and run a check on your system then
reboot, go to the Kaspersky site and let it run as a double check.
Stick with Firefox or your favourite flavour of Netscape[yes I know
about March 1st,2008 but there is an archive] but IE6 is used for
various things like HTML help as the above site will tell you.

As for Firewalls....I say it depends on your level of experience...
I got fed up trying to teach ZoneAlarm and the others right from
wrong/yes and no and just got a high bandwidth modem that can be
disconnected from the AC power without having to be
reset/reconfigured each time. Though I expect to have to change in
2010 when Microslop says they'll stop security patches for W2kP.
In which case I hope to find a firewall that doesn't take up as
much home time as previously.

That's my firewall, AC plug in/plug out, though not recommended for
business, in which case one could write off the expense of a pay-
for solution/subscription for computers that are connected 24/7 to
the WWW, in their taxes.
The firewall in XP was put there mainly to protect the casual user.

I also keep the most precious data on removables,floppies,bernouli
boxes,Zip disks etc and now, flashdrives and memory sticks, 'cause
if its not there they can't get at it.

I have 23 harmless tracking cookies and two harmless MRUs each
makes it easier to re-log on to my trusted sites and if I used Ad-
Aware to kill them I'd have to logon the slow way, from scratch
each time. The harmful ones get killed right away anyhow.

.

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