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net send * msg I belive that will send msg to everyone, never really tried it on a workgroup though, heh.

Its time to format c:, and reinstall by the sounds of it

Boot to the recovery console, using an ERD disk, and type fixbmr and fixboot. If you dont have an ERD disk, boot off the cd.

Read this. http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBK/tip5400/rh5472.htm

They are system files, I could not tell exactelly what they do, but ..... They are talked about here.... http://content.techweb.com/winmag/columns/powerw2k/2000/36.htm here... http://www.techhowto.com/How_to/dual_boot/me2000_3.html here... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q238359& here... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci789606,00.html?FromTaxonomy=%2Fpr%2F5e3 and so on...

If you want them to 'see' each other, install netbios on both machines.

WinXP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301911 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304530 Win2K http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q279792&

Since i put XP on I have had to format and reinstall 3 times, in about 5 months. Recently I have gone back to win2k, seems to not blow it self up as much, I will probaly stay with win2k for a while now.

How can you still boot to win2k if you get invalid system disk?

9X is DEAD, who cares.! 16 bit applications/games need to go away

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ This bootdisk will reset the password, follow the instructions, works great.

Dont buy VIA if you want stable.

http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/support/msjavx86.exe ftp://ftp.3danywhere.com/pub/msjavx86.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q255503 <--

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

check this guys site out, he has a great setup for bootable floppy disks. http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/