After trying VPC with Win2k I noticed everything is a lot faster and responsive, only start up is slower when compared to XP Pro. Should I downgrade to Win2K, This is unbelievable even though I was running in VPC Adobe Photoshop CS2 was running faster in the Virtual PC then it would on my XP
View 7 RepliesI have Win98 running on an old PC and now wish to remove it and install win2k Pro with my CD. I have saved the 4 boot disks and the makeboot exe.disk using 5 floppy disks. What are the steps I should use to install this OS. I have 256MB ram installed. As usual,
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a peer to peer workgroup lan at home; and all the pc's are in win2k pro; well, i was trying to setup win2k pro on a new pc for my niece; i use tuneup utilities and in the options screen for automatic logon, it shows the computerid as the domain name; thinking that i m not in a domain, i changed the value to workgroup and now windows cant let me log back in, even in safe mode; how can i get to a screen where i can change the domain name to what it should be? the login screen only shows username and password fields.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter upgraded my pc from 2000 to XP/SP2, both my cdrom and dvd burner are disappeared. No question mark in control panel/device manager. Tried the method posted on microsoft support artical No.320553 by deleting 2 keys in regeistry, it does not help. MB is old asus a7v133 with VIA chipset, it do find cdrom/dvd in POST.
View 3 Replies View RelatedTrying to install WIN2K on an old machine. I cannot get it boot from the installation cd. It goes through the BIOS routine then hangs at a C: prompt.
View 8 Replies View RelatedBoot-up ceases prior to desktop display. Attempted to reinstall windows, but ended up with 2nd WIN2K boot option, which works fine as basic O/S.Ran CHKDISK on C: drive. After initially correcting multiple errors, drive is now OK. I have original WIN2K Pro install disk, but not all drivers for peripherals- help me repair original install.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedMy company has 3 compaq presario s6500nx that came loaded with XP Home and all the compaq crapware. We are migrating the machines from home to 2000, because they are too cheap to upgrade to xp Pro. I am having a difficult time location 2k drivers for this machine. I go to HP/Compaq and the only drivers they have available are for XP, does anyone have any experience with a 2k migration on these machines?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have inadvertently setup my laptop with both Win2000 and WinXP. The intent was to set it up (clean install)with XP. I thought that now that I have both OS's on the same partition, I could still do a new install by booting to the XP CD. I go into BIOS, make sure the CD is the first device, save, and reboot the machine. It wants me to pick an OS. It does not want to (seemingly) do an install. How can I fix this. If I must reformat the drive, fine. Please point me in the right direction to get a single OS(XP Pro) on board my machine.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to set up a functional limited-user account (windows 2000 pro) that runs painlessly. I know it's a pain setting them up, or I am just really struggling.If there are any usefull guides anyone could provide a like to, or solutions,I am faily knowlagable with computers, but setting up functionable limited-user accounts is over my head. My goal is to run NOT as admin anymore.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI did a big no no I know. I changed a key in the registery without backing up. I am now unable to run .exe files. For example I am tring to install drivers for a USB PCI 2.0 card. I entered in the disk and double click on .exe file and get error> Cannot find the file d:usb2.0 cardviavia6202setup.exe. Make sure the path and the filename are correct and that all required libraries are available. This error is consistant when I try and run any .exe file. 2nd example start>run>iexplore.exe get error cannot find file iexplore.exe. Make sure..... and the rest of the error message. This started when I was tring to manually remove a virus. I followed the directions from this website. http://www.symantec.com/security_res...445-99&tabid=3 see step 6 Delete the current value data, and then type: "%1" %* quote-percent-one-quote-space-percent-asterisk.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a Sandisk Micro Cruzer 512M USB flash drive. It works fine on my Win2K at work. It works fine on my Win98SE after loading the driver. It will not work on my Win XP Athlon 2000+ system (MSI KT3 Ultra mother board with VIA chipset, USB 2.0).It says 'Unknown Device" in the device manager listed under USB
View 18 Replies View RelatedI have made two clean installs of Windows 2000 Professional today trying to figure out a problem. It all started with my first install. It was behaving funny, freezing on startup (after desktop icons loaded) every other reboot or so. I put the latest Via chipset drivers on there, and nVidia video drivers (to get out of 16 color mode) and then the freezing upon boot seemed to stop. Is something somehow messed up in Windows 2000? I'm not sure where to go from here.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedOn Add or Remove Programs, it says "Service Pack 3" and I can remove it, but I'm not so sure if that's the right way. and I installed Windows XP on SP2, and updated my windows, and got SP3.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI frequently see computer advertisements with the Vista OS and there is an option to downgrade to WXP. Why would anyone want to downgrade when XP will eventually be phased out and Windows 7 is on the horizon Years ago I bought a new computer with W98SE and within months WXP was on the market. A short time later W98 wasn't supported any longer. I know some individuals don't like Vista but isn't it just a matter of time when XP won't be supported by Microsoft I am an XP user and will soon be in the market for a new computer so haven't had the opportunity to try Vista
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've got a Lenovo X60 Tablet, which came preinstalled with XP. Last year I installed Vista Ultimate (OEM version), but of different reasons I do not want Vista anymore on my PC and want to downgrade to XP Tablet edition. I have now a XP Tablet edition that I want to install, but it crashes just after it have started the process.
PC is turned on, it boots from the USB CD-Rom drive, it starts to install the drivers, but when it comes to where it says "restarting windows", it crashes and gives me a blue screen telling me that the disk can be corrupted, should be checked for viruses etc. etc. This have happened three times now, and now I have been searching the internet for information of how to work around this. I haven't found any good sources yet and hoped some of you guys at this forum could help me out
i just bought a hp dv9730US. It comes with vista home premium. I want to downgrade it to Xp Professional or just XP home. I am having trouble finding the drivers for the applications
View 2 Replies View RelatedWe have a new laptop that came installed with XP SP3. Software that we use from Rockwell Software (several packages) is not certified for use with SP3. Is there any way to remove SP3 and get SP2 on it
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have service pack 3 on my desktop pc with windows xp. is it possible to downgrade to service pack, my wireless usb adapter will work on it properly, This is what I was told to do by a tech at Linksys just now, although it worked fine last night, they know they have issues with service pack 3 on xp, and have not got a driver working yet for service pack So they told me to downgrade my pc to service pack 2 until they do have a good driver
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently downgraded from vista to xp pro and during the downgrade i unplugged a 400 gb hard drive that i use only for storage. after a clean install of xp pro i plugged in the drive and while booting i get a wierd dos looking screen that says vista cant load or something of that nature. i unplug the drive and viola xp loads. this is just a back up drive with nothing but music and pictures on it. could vista have written something to the drive i cannot see? format is not an option. if i plug it in after xp loads it works great and i can access the drive perfectly
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have Windows Server 2003 on my laptop and would like to 'downgrade' it with Windows XP Professional. The CD-ROM (XP OS nstallation) does not allow my to INSTALL XP (cannot select the on) maybe because downgrades are not allowed. I also tried to reformat my hard-disk and install XP from scratch. My laptop have just one drive (C: drive). When I force to boot from my CD-ROM (BIOS settings), nothing happens Boot error
View 11 Replies View RelatedWith all the threads providing help for people who want to downgrade their Vista OEM branded systems to XP, I'm wondering how you go back to Vista if desired using the recovery partition. In this particular case the computer in question is a Dell. I successfully installed Windows XP, but the MBR was obviously overwritten, so the F8 and F11 keys do not provide the option to access the recovery partition. I did some searching on the web, but I wasn't able to find a solution to this
View 14 Replies View Relatedgood day to everyone, is there anybody can teach how to downgrade SP3 to SP2
View 7 Replies View RelatedJust got this computer but was just wonder in we can downgrade from vista to XP
View 6 Replies View RelatedHello all firtst thanks for all the good advice i haved rec'd in the past. ie 7 decided to get me on the ms downloads my bad...went back to ie 6 via add/remove in ctl pnl worked fine now i'm at ie6. A dos window will appear on screen and attempt to download pages to my printer. The name on the window is "C:WINDOWSTEMPWIN3E3-1.EXE. it can only be closed using the end task screen.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI posted here in February '08 about a downgrade from Vista Home Basic to XP Home, and received good information on finding the necessary drivers at the Acer website.
I got XP on the Acer up and running, Internet access, etc. all appeared fine. I am now adding speakers and unable to get sound. I viewed Device Manager and found to my surprise that I've got question marks next to Display Adapter >Video Controller and Other Devices > PCI Device. Interestingly, Sound, Video and Game Controllers appears normal in Device Manager, but no sound card appears in the list (interesting since it is lack of sound that prompted me to check in the first place
I recently had my computer crash. Then I had the misfortune of going to the wrong repair shop. Among other things, the tech, instead of reinstalling my Windows XP Home Edition from my disc, installed XP Professional from a disc he had.The tech also lost a lot if data and did some other things that I didn't like; I don't want to go back to him. I wonder what the best way is to get rid of Professional and install Home?What would happen if I just tried to install Home over Professional? Is there any way to downgrade from Professional to Home? I presume that what I have to do now is to uninstall XP Professional and then reinstall XP Home. Could I partition and put Home on a new partition and then uninstall Professional on the old partition? I know there is an abundance of websites that tell how to do a clean install, but could someone suggest one they feel is good?
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