upgrading to 2000 professional

i have been having some major problems with ME lately and was thinking about
upgrading to a copy of 2000 pressional i have on hand.

are there major issues i should be aware of before upgrading.

i have a full install disk that i got at my last job back from a tech in 2001.

thanks,

tim

There is no supported upgrade path from ME to Win2K - a clean install is the
best way to go. Make sure that you have drivers for all your hardware
available - you will not be able to use Me drivers for Win2k.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

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"tim" wrote in message
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i have been having some major problems with ME lately and was thinking
about
upgrading to a copy of 2000 pressional i have on hand.

are there major issues i should be aware of before upgrading.

i have a full install disk that i got at my last job back from a tech in
2001.

thanks,

tim

As Noel as stated there is no upgrade path from ME to Windows 2000, best
to format the drive and install Windows 2000 from scratch. When you
launch the Windows 2000 Setup from the CD you will be offered to format
the drive, although Windows 2000 supports FAT32 you are best to format
to NTFS file system, unless you want to share files on the installation
with a W9x operating system, which I don't recommend. If you have
multiple drives or partitions you should exit Setup after you format
then relaunch setup and install to the newly formated partition, this
avoids drive letter assignment surprises, like having Windows 2000 end
up on drive D for example.

MAKE SURE that you don't connect a new Windows 2000 installation to the
internet without protecting the computer! An almost guarantee that you
will get infected with a virus within 5 minutes of connecting to the
internet if the pc is not properly protected. Your best defense is to
make sure that you have a properly configured firewall before you
connect to the internet. Also, disable Windows Messenger, this small
utility will do it for you:

Shoot The Messenger
http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

The Windows 2000 disk that you got in 2001 will not contain the latest
Service Pack (SP4). Installing Service Pack 4 is one of the first thing
that you should do after you install Windows 2000. It's a rather large
file (132 MB) so you might want to download it beforehand, see he
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...vicepacks/sp4/

After you install SP4 you can go to the Windows Update site and get the
other necessary patches to properly secure the computer. There will be
lots and lots of patches and fixes to apply, some are quite large so
patience if you are on a dial-up connection. Final tip: On the Windows
Update site you will be offered .Net Framework as a "Critical" or
"Recommended" update, skip on it. It's a large update that is neither
"Critical" nor "Recommended". You will or would only need .net
Framework IF you have software that needs it to work properly, and the
software install package would tell you so when you try to install.

Oh yeah, and another thing, make sure that you have a product key for
the Windows 2000 disk, you don't want to format your drive then halfway
through the installation find out that you don't have the key and end up
with no working computer or having to reinstall ME ;-)

John

tim wrote:
i have been having some major problems with ME lately and was thinking about
upgrading to a copy of 2000 pressional i have on hand.

are there major issues i should be aware of before upgrading.

i have a full install disk that i got at my last job back from a tech in 2001.

thanks,

tim

John John

Note that which needs ot be disabled is NOT Windows Messenger, but Windows
Messaging (something totally different, and which confuses everybody, since
the Service involved is called Messenger!) - and which your link does not
properly identify (possibly because it suits the owner more).
Messaging can be disabled from services.msc - simply disable the
'Messenger' service.
The difference is that Messaging deals with network broadcast alerts and
messages, while Windows/MSN Messenger is a chat interface. There is no need
whatever to install third-party software to do the job.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"John John" wrote in message
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As Noel as stated there is no upgrade path from ME to Windows 2000, best
to format the drive and install Windows 2000 from scratch. When you
launch the Windows 2000 Setup from the CD you will be offered to format
the drive, although Windows 2000 supports FAT32 you are best to format to
NTFS file system, unless you want to share files on the installation with
a W9x operating system, which I don't recommend. If you have multiple
drives or partitions you should exit Setup after you format then relaunch
setup and install to the newly formated partition, this avoids drive
letter assignment surprises, like having Windows 2000 end up on drive D
for example.

MAKE SURE that you don't connect a new Windows 2000 installation to the
internet without protecting the computer! An almost guarantee that you
will get infected with a virus within 5 minutes of connecting to the
internet if the pc is not properly protected. Your best defense is to
make sure that you have a properly configured firewall before you connect
to the internet. Also, disable Windows Messenger, this small utility will
do it for you:

Shoot The Messenger
http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

The Windows 2000 disk that you got in 2001 will not contain the latest
Service Pack (SP4). Installing Service Pack 4 is one of the first thing
that you should do after you install Windows 2000. It's a rather large
file (132 MB) so you might want to download it beforehand, see he
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...vicepacks/sp4/

After you install SP4 you can go to the Windows Update site and get the
other necessary patches to properly secure the computer. There will be
lots and lots of patches and fixes to apply, some are quite large so
patience if you are on a dial-up connection. Final tip: On the Windows
Update site you will be offered .Net Framework as a "Critical" or
"Recommended" update, skip on it. It's a large update that is neither
"Critical" nor "Recommended". You will or would only need .net Framework
IF you have software that needs it to work properly, and the software
install package would tell you so when you try to install.

Oh yeah, and another thing, make sure that you have a product key for the
Windows 2000 disk, you don't want to format your drive then halfway
through the installation find out that you don't have the key and end up
with no working computer or having to reinstall ME ;-)

John

tim wrote:
i have been having some major problems with ME lately and was thinking
about upgrading to a copy of 2000 pressional i have on hand. are there
major issues i should be aware of before upgrading. i have a full install
disk that i got at my last job back from a tech in 2001.

thanks,

tim

Yes, it's a bit misleading and confusing, it's the Windows Messenger
Service that needs to be disabled. A simple thing to do but new users
to NT/Windows 2000/XP may be a bit leery or not understand the Services
Management Console so that's why I refer them to the GRC site and the
utility. It's (Shoot the Messenger) not anything that needs to be
installed, it's a simple 22kb utility that disables the service.

John

Noel Paton wrote:

John John

Note that which needs ot be disabled is NOT Windows Messenger, but Windows
Messaging (something totally different, and which confuses everybody, since
the Service involved is called Messenger!) - and which your link does not
properly identify (possibly because it suits the owner more).
Messaging can be disabled from services.msc - simply disable the
'Messenger' service.
The difference is that Messaging deals with network broadcast alerts and
messages, while Windows/MSN Messenger is a chat interface. There is no need
whatever to install third-party software to do the job.