Re: Help!?
From: Tritium (h3_at_hot.lab)
Date: 03/13/04
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:37:05 -0800
kgstrong wrote:
> I recently upgraded from Win 98 to 2000 because 98 was crashing every 15
> minutes and because Microsoft will soon be ending support for it. I chose
> 2000 because my hardware is incompatible with XP.
>
> I did an "upgrade", not a clean install. This is a single user machine - no
> network, other than the internet via a cable modem.
>
> I have several problems:
> - BIG...I do not know how to be an ADMINISTRATOR or configure this system!
> This may be the root of all my problems.
> -- I cannot figure out how to access my old Start Menu and Desktop. They
> are there, in ALL USERS, but I can only log in as ADMINISTRATOR or using my
> name. I can only access old programs via Windows Explorer.
> - I cannot delete old programs which do not run under Win 2000 using
> Add/Remove Programs - the Add/Remove window comes up garbled!
> - I cannot get my HP printer to work even after installing their Win 2000
> driver. At first, there was no LPT1 port, but I manually added that to
> Device Manager.
> - Javascript and other scripting do not work in Internet Explorer, so I
> cannot access Windows Update or Support scripts.
>
> Can anyone help me?
> Ken Strong
It is not going to be easy since setting up Windows 2000 is
not similar to doing the same in a Win9X machine. The original
flaw was not to have done a clean install. Might as well do it
now instead of kludging the setup. That is, it can only get
worse.
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