If you mean the programs will have to be installed to 2000, certainly. It's a new operating system and doesn't know those programs exist. They should all still work in whatever other operating system you have installed (you didn't mention that but I'm forced to assume from the post it's a dual boot since you don't get the boot manager in a single OS install) When a program installs, it writes to the registry telling the PC what components to start in what order etc. Without that information, most programs won't run so you can't simply make a shortcut to the .exe file either with a new install of 2000.




On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 4:04 pm, Aaron wrote:
>After reinstalling Windows 2000, not only do I have a boot menu, but I have a fresh
>installation of 2000. All my data is there, but all the programs need to be reinstalled.
>This is not an acceptible solution to the problem.

Written in response to: Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed' (Aaron: Friday, November 9, 2001 at 4:04 pm) There are presently no replies to this message.

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