Not sure if I have (or made) a boot disk back in 2002 when PC was new.  Best
method for getting the machine to boot?  No screen display, no GUI, no
command prompt, etc. when choosing Safe Mode.  Recovery console no help. Last
known good config no help.  On Win2K SP4 --- did ...

I am told there are about 20 - 30 specific places where a program can hide
in the registry and be automatically started up when the system boots. Can
anybody list all these places?

I have a PC with Windows 2000 Pro installed on a hard drive that is
dying. I have bought a new hard drive, and installed in in the system
an temporary operating system. Is there any way I can recover all the
key codes needed to re-install the Office applications etc, in the new

I'll try to paraphrase this problem.....
Bought a cheap Gateway laptop with Vista pre-installed.  Found that Vista
was FAR too slow and decided to wipe and install win2000 with SP4 and latest
Internet updates.  There is NO SOUND.  I re-installed Vista on another

Hi. I've got a weird one. I've tried googling it but I can't find any
references.
Here's the background:
a while back, my hard drive died. I got a new 300 GB IDE drive, and as an

I just have a quick question:  I figured out how, in Setup, on my home
computer to have the first boot device be the DVD-ROM drive.  I put the
Win2K Pro disk in but nothing happened.  I turned off computer, and, again,
nothing happened.

I want to put Win98 on one harddrive and Win2k on the other.
How do I setup a dual boot?
Also, I want both on Fat 32, no NTFS, so I can read both drives from
Dos.