I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this. Perhaps another forum
would better?
I have a Compaq Presario 5700T running Windows 2000. After I installed SP3,
the USB ports no longer worked. I researched this matter and learned that

I was doing a chkdsk on all partiions (FAT and NTFS) and I noticed
that no activity was happening on the drive.
I did a HW reset, now the drive is not seen.
Anyone knows if the drive can be recovered?

After reinstalling Windows 2000 on my Dad's Dell PC (Dimension 8100)
I've been having multiple issues with the Monitor display settings
There are 2 issues at the moment, first is that when I go into contro
panel -> display ->  settings -> advanced then monitor that I can'

In order to repair a W2K installation, I went into the BIOS to change the
boot order. When I boot up, the computer loads MS-DOS. It won't allow W2K
Setup.exe to run under Dos. I ran the Winnt.exe directly, and I get a
message like "Cannot find a place to swap files".

I'm considering upgrading my mobo to an Intel DG41RQ. The User Guide
lists only Vista and XP as supported operating systems. I don't know if
this means the board will not work with W2K, or Intel just assumed that
not enough people still use W2K to include it in the supported OS ...

After updating my Windows 2000 Pro with update rollup 1 and the service pack,
I realized my hard disk's space went down gradually so later decided to
uninstall both to find out which one is the cause.
After uninstalling the service pack though, it demanded that the computer be

Win2KP SP4.  I seem to rermember monkeying with some setting in the
registry that controls the way pages trickle back to disk.  But that
was about 2 years ago!   The problem is things are working fine until
I want to switch from, say, Quicken to Outlook.   The system hangs up

A problem arose with my W2K setup. I started a repair, then guessed why I
had the problem, and cancelled the repair at the earliest opportunity. I was
able to restore more or less everything as it was but during the repair I
had been prompted for installation CDs for other ...

When saving Word 2007 documents to a Windows 2000 server shared folder, the
documents cannot be re-opened by double clicking on the icon. You
have to right click on the document and then choose OPEN to view the
document. Word documents saved in an earlier version of Word (97 - 2003) ...

I'd like to run msconfig and see what doesn't need to run at startup, but
the file can't be found.
Windows2000 fully updated.
Thanks for any help.

I am trying to help friends who inherited a Win2K PC with the
restaurant they are about to re-open. Boot-up cannot get beyond the
request for the Admin password. Someone must have tried a few times
too many. They don't know what the p/w is anyway.

I am looking for "Windows 2000 DDK Documentation for NDIS".
I serached google with the same above sentence, but the search was not
success.
Can somebody provide a Weblink for the same.

I just upgraded my computer's RAM from 512 MB (2 sticks of 256 MB) to
1.5 GB (3 sticks of 512 MB).  The motherboard has 3 memory slots, and
supports 1.5 GB of RAM.  All 3 sticks are the same brand (Crucial) and
speed.

Is there a generic bluetooth w2k driver for a usb dongle?  If so a link
to a download of it would be much appreciated. TIA

I have a server running Windows 2000 SP4.  It is up to date with
patches.  Recently, the server started crashing and rebooting itself
several times a week.  I sent the dump file to Microsoft for analsys
and they told me that a driver file named hidfw.sys was causing the