I own a three year old HP Pavilion computer with a 766 Mhz
Celeron processor.  I'm running ME software but I'm having
a few problems that lead me to consider upgrading the
windows software to version 2000.

After installing SP4, network/internet access is very
slow.  Web/intranet pages are slow to load, or time out,
or don't load at all (both in IE5 and Netscape).  Network
drive access is slow.  Netmeeting is slow.  etc.

All OK with  W2000 Pro SP3 and NAVC 7.61
Turned off NAVC 7.61 to install SP4.
Installed SP4, forgot to resume NAVC for a week, then
unable to update and resume.  

i have sound when my computer boots up, but it quickly
shuts off when running startup processes. what is
conflicting? how do i fix it?

Can I easily remove w2000 and revert back to w98?

If I click on my computer, network places, etc - I get the
icons (large) for that menu, but I do not get any of the
menu bars (IE: I see the lovely blue bar, then the
folders/icons). Of course, if I explore, no problem.

We are running a Windows NT 4.0 server with Exchange 5.5 and file services.
We are planning to migrate user data to a Windows 2000 server but keep
Exchange 5.5 running on the NT 4.0 server. The NT server is a PDC with a
domain called "InternalDom". Our Internet domain is InternetDom ...

Soon i will start the upgrade the pdc and bdc's in our network form nt4 to
w2k.
At the moment we are not using our own dns-servers, since we are upgrading
exchange 5.5 to 2k later on, we will need AD and AD needs DNS as i

I have a computer that came with XP Home. I'd like to
switch to Windows 2000 Pro. Can this be done? I need it
to use Java programming.

I am running XP home on my laptop and I want to install w2k server as the
2nd OS on an external harddisk.
If I boot my w2k-CD-Rom, it doesn?t recognize the external HDD which is
USB-connected. From XP where my ext. HDD is recognized I cant install

I have the required files for my BIOS, but I need to
create a boot disk and I cannot find any directions to
make a disk.  Could someone tell me how to make a boot
disk?  Thanks.

I have a laptop that does not have a cd rom, but it does
have a floppy drive. Is there a way to transfer the
Windows 2000 set up cd to floppy's so I can install it on
my laptop? If so how can I do it?

I am doing a clean install of Windows 2000 pro, the
formating process begins fine until I get to 67% formatted
and then i get the Blue Screen. The error message is the
drive is at default, partmgr.sys. I have no idea what this

Norton Anti-virus found a virus in winupdate.exe and
quarantined the file. Now, I get the error "Cannot find
the file winupdate.exe" when I login.
Can you please tell me how I go about requesting and

I ran setup to install Win 2000 and it now is in a
continuous loop where it restarts half way through install
and then goes back to the beginning.  How can I stop it?  
When I hard boot and have the option to go to DOS it says