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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
 
kgstrong said:
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
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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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