Alex_w

I had some similar problems with adaptecs junk software, uninstalling and then reinstalling fixed the problem. Although the best fix is to not use any adaptec programs, try nero burning rom it works much better.

I dont know whats wrong with me today guess i shoudl try sleeping once in a while or something, i dont know why i said fireburner i meant to say nero burning rom that works great on windows 2000, and always works perfectly for me, never have any bad discs. fireburner does work ok for me in windows 2000 havent used it very often though. Sorry about that, hope this is more helpfull

I dont know whats wrong with me today guess i shoudl try sleeping once in a while or something, i dont know why i said fireburner i meant to say nero burning rom that works great on windows 2000, and always works perfectly for me, never have any bad discs. fireburner does work ok for me in windows 2000 havent used it very often though. Sorry about that, hope this is more helpfull

I had that problem when using win on cd in windows 2000 it seems like it really messes up the aspi in windows 2000, although it may be something else, all i can really say is that fireburner is much better in windows 2000, in my case it has never burned a coaster. If you really want to use win on cd look for aspi32.exe on the adpatec ftp ftp.adaptec.com that will update the aspi to the latest version, which may help, and you could also look through the system aqnd system32 directories to remove the wrong file versions which get placed there by win on cd. hope that helps

Well if you meant by actually calling the other computer using the modem which you would need 2 lines for then you could do that or conecting two computers with a parrell or serial port is another cheap way to do that, but obviously you wouldnt get the best performance.

The ASPI defenitley seems to be a problem with windows 2000, only the very latest version seems to work properly, but Adaptecs stupid program leaves you with copies of older version in places were they shouldnt be. If you have updated to the latest version you should check the files in system and system32 directories to make sure they are the right versions. maybe thatll help with some problems.

Well im guessing you havent paid and have used a keygem from somewhere, because CDRwin has pretty nasty protectin and if you use a keygen it sometimes will accept it and say it is registered and working perfectly but it just burns coasters.

Try paying for CDRwin instead of using a keygen that doesnt work properly and you would see it does work well.

Its not hard at all to make a dos boot disk with windows 2000 you can make one from the cd, just go to \VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\ and make a disk easily. for anyone that knows how to use dos anyway.

I have a sounblaster PCI 128, and have noticed the same thing the basic drivers seem fine but the updated drivers causing a lot of crackling, the only way to fix it seems to be to set the sample rate conversion quality from good to best in the audio properties allow that slows performance it does fix the sound. I really wish creative would get some better drivers out, ive been thinking about getting a soundblaster live, but with there driver situation im not so sure anymore, anyone know a good card with good drivers?

I may be wrong but doesnt windows use memory as chache for each hard drive partition so therefore the more partitions you have the more memory will be used, however i cant see that having any real relavance to processor speed.

I have noticed faulty memory can be a big issue with windows 2000, probably due largely to the fact it uses a lot of ram, running windows 95/98 on my computer with some slightly faulty ram, it really was not obvious that the ram was faulty you just expect bugs and crashing with those, but with windows 2000 setup ran wierdly to say the least and when it was installed regular blue screens kept happening, i had been using win 98 fine on 64mb of ram but added an extra 64 to upgrade to windwos 2000 with good performance, i found out a lot later that it was the ram that was bad, really win 98 didnt particularly crash much with the bad ram but windows 2000 did at least every couple of hours, id say that ram is good thing to check carefully.

Earlier today i downloaded a program called uptime which is freeware you can get it from http://mrdo.com/1.html thatll tell you how long windows has been running.

I have had a problem with this in windows 2000 in my case it was related to ACPI installs, if installed as a Standard PC then the processor would display correctly, the processor did work at full speed but with some programs the timing would be lost and things like the fading menus would fade faster. I think this most probably is a bug with windows 2000 i dont know what kind of processor you have but so far it seems only to affect AMD K6-2 although maybe others too. I would really like a solution for this too, been looking for a while though and havent found anything, sorry couldnt help more

I dont know too much about this, but i believe that the people who made 98lite are planning a windows 2000 version if possible which would allow you to remove IE from windows and stop the intergration, other than that i dont think there is any real practical way to remove IE or install an earlier version. Im sure that it is possible to install office 2000 on a computer with IE4 already installed i believe there is a comand line option something like -NOIE that makes office not install or upgrade IE but you do lose some functions of ofice, i think web folders and maybe some other too. Im sure if you look through office documentation or something you could find the correct command

I might be wrong about this but im sure i read somewhere that by using windows 2000 server or advanced server cd and doing full repair it will upgrade windows 2000 professional and keep all settings and programs installed.

I dont know if anyone has already put this address here, but i thought maybe some people would find it usefull. The site says it is aimed at windows 2000 home users, and it has a good section on the services which can be disabled. http://win2000tips.home.att.net/

Is it just me or are SRS WOW effects completley useless with heavy rock music, When i turn the effects on with a lot of songs such as Metallica Whiskey in the Jar or KoRn Got the Life the sound goes too bad to listen yoo, even the normal equalizer seems to cause a lot of distortion and poor sound quality sometimes. Can we assume this is better bugs and the sound performance will be optomized by the final realease so its possible to listen to any kind of music, or is microsoft trying to control what we listen to now?

Maybe you already know this, but there is a program call CoolTaskbar http://www.kagi.com/OwnerWorld/ctbar.htm which can set it to be flat although it doesnt do the fading.

I was wondering since you have installed the service pack, does it add anything new to windows? I know microsoft said they wouldnt add any new features with service packs, but id be interested to know if anything is new or changed, i did read somewhere that the service pack would change the taskbar to use flat buttons, this wasnt a very reliable source though so im doubtfull about that.

Im still waiting for the perfect mp3 player to come along. Winamp sounds so bad if you turn bass up at all youd think they put extra effort into makeing it sound bad. Sonique sounds great but give it a playlist and it becomes unstable too many bugs, get rid of the bugs and it would be the best mp3 player currently in my opinion, and from what ive heard kjofol is just about dead the lead programers have been hired to work on winamp 3.

I was just thinking about installing that havent played it for ages, have you tried APCOMPAT.EXE on the win 2000 cd?

Usually this is a problem that plugins from 2000a are left in the icq directory if you want to uninstall icq 2000a to go back to 99b then you would have to uninstall icq 2000 and then delete the files in the icq directory, it would be best to delete everything and only back up your history database. Although maybe that wasnt youre problem sorry if this wasnt any help

This may not be any help but were you using the icq email checking in icq 2000 there seem to be a lot of problems with that, so long as you arent using that icq 2000 seems to work perfectly i dont have any problems running icq for days at a time.

Windows 2000 does not come with a program like that at all as far as iam aware. But i have heard that you can use the windows 98 msconfig if you ignore the errors it gives, i wouldnt recomend that though. You should probably try a freeware program which can do the same such as StartCop or StartupCPL which i would recomend, you can get that from http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml