I recently installed windows 2000 pro as sugested by a collegue this was on a system running windows 98 . I am not happy with the software and need to return to win 98. How do I get back to win 98 ???

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Hey, give 2K a chance. I can't imagine anybody wanting to revert to 98. I upgraded to 2K on both of my computers and couldn't be happier - neither has frozen or crashed in 6 months. Just exactly what are you unhappy with? Properly set up, 2K can be made to look and act like 98 (only faster and more stable).


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 3:07 am, Mike wrote:
>I recently installed windows 2000 pro as sugested by a collegue this was on a system
>running windows 98 .
>I am not happy with the software and need to return to win 98.
>How do I get back to win 98 ???

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Hi Glen, Ihave lost access to several programs and that are not upgradeable to win 2000 and the colour definition has been reduced to 16 colours . For me it would be more convienient to return to win 98 but Im becoming aware that is now not a simple exercise. fortunately I have two machines running the other is still on win 98


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 4:42 am, Glenn wrote:
>Hey, give 2K a chance. I can't imagine anybody wanting to revert to 98. I upgraded
>to 2K on both of my computers and couldn't be happier - neither has frozen or crashed
>in 6 months.
>
>Just exactly what are you unhappy with? Properly set up, 2K can be made to look
>and act like 98 (only faster and more stable).
>
>

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You could try running the 2 apps through compatibility mode. As for the color issue, you need to get the proper driver for your video card. Do a search for a program called aida32, it will tell you what video card you have. 2000 is a much more stable OS than 9x ever was so give it a fair chance.


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 4:54 am, Mike wrote:
>Hi Glen,
> Ihave lost access to several programs and that are not upgradeable to win 2000 and
>the colour definition has been reduced to 16 colours .
>For me it would be more convienient to return to win 98 but Im becoming aware that
>is now not a simple exercise.
>fortunately I have two machines running the other is still on win 98
>
>

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Hi there, my sympathy!!! The same thing heppened to me. See my sad story But dun worry. there's a solution. Try booting up using a boot floppy and run Win98 setup from DOS. U can get Win98 boot floppy from some other computer which runs on Win98. if taht doesn't work, u have to format ur C* drive, backing up the necessary data before, and perform a clean install of win98. *Note: if u didn't install win2k on C drive. the uninstall method is different. See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;250456

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Why blame all your Screwups on W2000.Running W2k on a Computer which originally had W95 then W98 then was upgraded to W98SE before someone installed W2k on it.Runs an AMD 330 Mhz,64MB Ram,a 3.5 GB (?) Harddisk.Runs W2k for at least 4yrs.Not bad for The allegedly buggiest and crankiest of all Operating Systems since the ENIAC


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 10:09 am, Amey Purandare wrote:
>Hi there,
>my sympathy!!! The same thing heppened to me. See
>my sad story
>But dun worry. there's a solution. Try booting up using a boot floppy and run Win98
>setup from DOS. U can get Win98 boot floppy from some other computer which runs on
>Win98. if taht doesn't work, u have to format ur C* drive, backing up the necessary
>data before, and perform a clean install of win98.
>
>*Note: if u didn't install win2k on C drive. the uninstall method is different. See:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;250456

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