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Topic: about to install windows 2000
started by: CatKnight

Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 12 2001,20:55

w00t! wish me luck

Posted by askheaves on Feb. 12 2001,21:08

See ya in a couple of days. If you're scared, that means you've never done it before. After you've done it once, it's nice and quick. I'd say good luck, but you seem to already be in the process.

Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 13 2001,00:17

i have done it before. i just wasn't able to reformat because i have no where to put all my mp3's. im going to defrag tonight. im still retweaking all my previous settings back now. oh well atleast its goin fast.

why do i have like 20 progs in my task manager running though they are takin like 80 megs of ram...

Posted by askheaves on Feb. 13 2001,01:28

Win2K is a dream to install compared to Win95. I remember making boot disks, starting the install, then having no CDROM when it did it's first reboot. That sucked donkey balls.

The 20 progs you have running (refer to that other forum where we were talking about startup crap and task manager) are either services or startup crap. Go to the Run key in the registry (something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run... or whatever) and delete the crap that your video card (no matter which card) likes to put there. Also, set the Task Manager colums up to show you the most relevant information to you, as per that other thread... god damn, i'm lazy.

Good luck when you get to it.

Posted by CatKnight on Feb. 13 2001,03:00

yes it was quite easy to install. anyways why won't detnet remember my username and password grr.

Posted by Rhydant on Feb. 13 2001,04:00

Win2k fucking 0wnz.
i had 98SE. damn 'puter froze every 20 minutes. so i boughta burned copy of win2k of a friend and it hasnt crashed once
then i tryed win ME on another machine. damn, that sucks too.
cant wait for Whistler

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Posted by aventari on Feb. 13 2001,21:50

Does win2k have msconfig??

Posted by askheaves on Feb. 13 2001,23:17

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Originally posted by aventari:
Does win2k have msconfig??

Nope, but it runs. I've never heard of msconfig before, but I had an old copy laying on a harddrive from a WinME installation. It runs, but it looked totally useless. It appears to be just a parser for the win.ini and system.ini files. Only looked for a short moment... more powerful tools available in Win2K.

Posted by aventari on Feb. 14 2001,03:25

I use msconfig a lot on 9x boxes because of the quick and dirty 'Startup' tab. You can easily select the programs you want windows to start or not w/o any registry or .ini hacking.

Its pretty useful

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