Greetings ... some thoughts on your situation. Have you tried to download
Win98 Sec. Edition from microsoft's site?
Second, how much experience do you have running win2000? When compared to
win98, it's far more complex.
For instance, my first experience with win2000 was on my wife's notebook.
She's limited in her computer literacy.
Because of the "improvement's", security has changed. It's designed for
multiple users with administrators controlling all functions. I have seen
recommendations to keep administrator users from internet use. The reason?
applications must be installed by an administrator. This includes viruses.
So, some viruses search for internet users that are administrators or an
administrator on a computer it is trying to attack. A defense against this
is to change the administrator's logon user name to something other than
administrator.
What does all this mean? To install software on win98, just run the setup
executable.
But with win2000 on my wife's notebook it goes something like this. Start
computer. It begins with a user (call it B). Since B is used for surfing the
internet, I logoff B and log on as the administrator (call it A). I install
the software then must tell the computer that B is to have the ability to
use the software. Then, logoff A and back on as B.
This may sound as a small thing, but lets look further. Say a website has
used an application (like Quicktime video) and the notebook doesn't have it
installed. She, (B) clicks on it and the computer tells her she doesn't have
security clearance to install it. She can't save things off the internet.
Because of this, SHE HATE'S WIN2000.
Solutions for this are poorer and poorer. I could simply assign B as an
administrator. This allows use of applications similar to win98 as long as
the computer is notified who has access to the application. Of course, the
virus problem previously described is now in play.
Or,
the website containing the free application or upgrade is bookmarked and
emailed (by B) to A. Then logoff B and on A. Get the email, go to the
website, download and install the application or upgrade, tell the computer
to allow B access, logoff A and on B and return to the website that required
the software originally.
Or,
the website containing the free application or upgrade is bookmarked by B.
Then logoff B and on A. Change B to an administrator. Logoff A and on B. Go
to the website, download and install the application or upgrade. Logoff B
and on A. Change B to be an user other than an administrator. Logoff A and
on B. Return to the website that required the software originally.
There is an user description "Power User" which is suppose to allow
installing software but I haven't had much luck with it.
This is a win2000 nightmare on such a basic computer use. It's similar for
installing a network printer, especially if the printer driver must be
downloaded.
Good luck.
