10-16-2002, 09:06 PM
MSConfig - that's it. I always got to it in win98 via system info. Now a lot of that stuff is"hidden" - ie you actually have to type it into run command.
I had a bitch of a time installing XP the first time. I had 2 copies - one wouldn't boot (even though it was supposed to be "bootable"), and the other kept stopping - giving me a "invalid hardware error", or some such nonsense. I went to load win98 temporarily instead, and It was having a problem reading the cd - it kept asking for floppy, and wouldn't progress. After 6 hours of stupidity, I copied win98 to the HD, booted from cd but switched to HD to do install. After win98 installed I was able to use the non-bootable XP Pro corp to upgrade. I had a list of 15 other serials, and I picked a different one than the notorious one, and it worked.
I am running win98se on the old machine, which is Pent-II 300; I don't know if it will take XP.
since my last post I found this on PC mag site <a target="new" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,570867,00.asp">PC world - make windows better</a>
EDIT: I finally got my 2 computers to "see" each other; I had to go to the XP install disk to /valueadd and find where the NetBUI protocol install files were . Once I installed NetBUI, I was able to connect the two computers.
Edit 2: I gambled and successfully downloaded & installed the sp1 update from MS. Note: my copy of XP supposedly already had SP1 (although not according to MS), and more importantly I didn't install with the FCKGW- cdkey, but used another generated key.
Edited By PeterDragon on 1034824478
I had a bitch of a time installing XP the first time. I had 2 copies - one wouldn't boot (even though it was supposed to be "bootable"), and the other kept stopping - giving me a "invalid hardware error", or some such nonsense. I went to load win98 temporarily instead, and It was having a problem reading the cd - it kept asking for floppy, and wouldn't progress. After 6 hours of stupidity, I copied win98 to the HD, booted from cd but switched to HD to do install. After win98 installed I was able to use the non-bootable XP Pro corp to upgrade. I had a list of 15 other serials, and I picked a different one than the notorious one, and it worked.
I am running win98se on the old machine, which is Pent-II 300; I don't know if it will take XP.
since my last post I found this on PC mag site <a target="new" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,570867,00.asp">PC world - make windows better</a>
EDIT: I finally got my 2 computers to "see" each other; I had to go to the XP install disk to /valueadd and find where the NetBUI protocol install files were . Once I installed NetBUI, I was able to connect the two computers.
Edit 2: I gambled and successfully downloaded & installed the sp1 update from MS. Note: my copy of XP supposedly already had SP1 (although not according to MS), and more importantly I didn't install with the FCKGW- cdkey, but used another generated key.
Edited By PeterDragon on 1034824478