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Windows 2000
Instalation
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Windows 2000
Essentials
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Hardware requirements, introduction and new features
Introduction, comparing characteristic with previous OS, new features
Commentary from installation Windows 2000 Professional
Step-by-step installation, possible problems
Commentary from installation Windows 2000 Server
Step-by-step installation, possible problems
Disk management - short about control disk in Windows 2000
Fault tolerance, RAID 1 and 5, news in management disk - basic and dynamic disk
Installation modem
Installation and configuration modem for connect to Internet
Active Directory - Installation
Program dcpromo.exe - Installation Active directory and promote computer on Domain Controller
Remote access and control Server. Enable work with application that would cannot run on client computer
RIS (Remote Installation Services)
Remote installing operating system.
Test for Windows 2000 - Question and Answer
Questions, answer, tips.
Test for Windows 2000 - Question and Answer 2.
2. Part question and answer for Windows 2000. For beginner and advanced.
Resources for Windows 2000 (27)
Links and Resources for Windows 2000
DNS Installation and Configuration
Installation and configuration, Dynamic Update
Short about user and groups, create new user, next tools for user administration and solve the problem with user's accounts.
Short about settings and tools to local security.
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Windows 2001 on the horizon
It's not a radical change, but Microsoft is clearly altering the look of Windows. One modification: New drop-down menus Microsoft may still be more than a month away from releasing the first beta build of its Windows 2000 successor.
But the latest alpha build of "Whistler" shows how Microsoft is changing the look and feel of Windows. Microsoft posted to its private Web tester site late last week build 2257 of Whistler, the second developers' preview. The company posted the first, build 2250, in mid-July. Build 2257 demonstrates how Microsoft is changing the look and feel of Windows via new drop-down menus, similar to the ones it is building into its next version of Office, codenamed Office 10. According to sources,
other user interface changes in Whistler include the following: A changeable interface that gives users a choice of a Personal or Classic Start Menu. The menu lets users show or hide elements such as their Web browsers, email programs, most recently selected documents and network connections, as well as their My Computer and My Network Places icons A task-oriented metaphor that lets users organise their user interface around "task centres" instead of applications. One tester said that Microsoft is incorporating a text-to-speech interface capability as a default feature. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has talked up both voice recognition and text-to-speech as two of Microsoft's favoured person-machine interfaces. Gates has predicted that PCs in the not-to-distant future will include built-in microphones.
Microsoft has said it plans to ship Whistler commercially in the second half of 2001, several months later than the company originally anticipated. A first Whistler beta is due out in October, according to Microsoft officials. The next major Windows release, codenamed Blackcomb, isn't due out until the second half of 2002. Whistler is expected to be a fairly minor update to Windows 2000, but will be available in a host of flavors, ranging from the 32-bit Personal Server, to 32 and 64-bit Professional and Advanced Server. Unlike Windows Millennium Edition -- the consumer release of Windows due to ship in two weeks --
Whistler is built on top of the same NT kernel that Windows 2000 is. Windows ME is the last of Microsoft's Windows releases that is built on top of the legacy Windows 9X kernel. One tester close to Microsoft, who requested anonymity, said that Microsoft already has told its own Windows development team that it has stopped accepting new features and feature changes for Whistler. Microsoft declined to comment on the latest Whistler build, other than to say that 2257 "was distributed to testers last week as part of the normal development process", in the words of a company spokeswoman. "At this point, Microsoft is still on track to deliver Whistler Beta 1 in October," she added.
Installation of Windows2000 Professional
Example installation from Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and DOS - commentary from installation
Hardware requirements:
PentiumŪ 166 MHz or higher (recommended PentiumŪ II)
32MB RAM (recommended 64MB rather 128MB)
2GB HDD and 650MB free space (recommended fast disk 4GB and min. 1GB free space).
Start in Windows NT Workstation
Menu start - Run... - find (browse) file winnt32.exe and run (rem - below DOS - run installation by the help winnt.exe) - select "Install and new copy of Windows 2000 (Clean Install)"
Entry key - From cover Windows is necessary copy product key (25 sign , in this case enough impedes, during installation you are request again. In case several installation I am mad).
Display license terms (license agreement). For continue in installation is necessary agree, otherwise installation discontinues.
Special Option
Language setting - option local setting language and keyboard. V English Windows is necessary order for Czech set up for central Europe , while that skip cannot select Czech keyboard (relatively frequent mistake).
Advanced setting - siting directory from where shall they Windows copy and where shall they install. In the case of check "I want it choose the installation partition during setup" have you possibility choose installation partition on which Windows will install.
Options for health disabilities (Accesibility)
Updating partition on NTFS (my choice was no - couldn't would use double boot with Windows 98)
Copying file and restarting
Instance start under DOS
V command prompt run winnt.exe (control by the help of command DOS and start installation from directory I386 placing on installation CD)
Place file (ratify path to directory from whose install Windows)
Copying files on disk
Restarting
Continuing installation - text mode
Welcome - for continue in installation choose Continue Enter key (if you are already install and installation fail choose Repair keys R)
Display license terms (licence agreement). For continue in installation is necessary agree, otherwise installation discontinues. Choose I agree keys F8
Selection partition and disk for installation Windows (cursor keys select partition and Enter key validate). - after confirmation you may be caution about exist operating system and on possibility damage previous OS, select other partition or continue keys c. For used more Operating Systems applies definite rules according to type Operating System.
Convert partition (system tried convert current partition FAT on NTFS - select according to incident to discretion - for me holds "Leave current without changes", with NTFS would couldn't use double boot)
Possible notice on older version Windows NT - older version do not know without installed service pack to work with new version file system NTFS creation by the help of Windows2000. Is necessary for older version system have SP4 or higher.
Check disk, copying files and Restart
Continuation installation - graphics mode
Start wizard - installation device
Regional settings - option regional environment and keyboard. care on setting for Central Europe.
Your name and name company
Entry key - From cover Windows is necessary copy product key (25 sign , in this case enough impedes).
Name computer (must be on network unique) and password administrator (remember!)
Setting data, time and time zone
Networking settings) - typical ( automatic setting TCP/IP by the help of DHCP) or custom ( manual setting TCP/IP)
After clicks on protocol TCP/IP you can manually set characteristics for network cards (IP address, mask, gateway, servers...)
Option connect to domains or workgroup - specify and write name workgroup
installing components
Final task - Restart
First login
Welcome and initiation identification wizard - designating method identification and login to computer. On selection they are two possibilities: User must always enter username and password after start system and user will automatically login (Can select name and password ) - For confirming serves Finish
Test hardware
Computer: MB Triton FX (no name), AMIBIOS, PentiumŪ 90Mhz, 40MB RAM, HDD WD 2500MB, FAT 16 (before installation 950MB free space, after installation 300MB), Mono monitor Samsung, VGA S3 Vision 968
Time installation 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Problems
Setup did not detect smartdrive - In installation under DOS to you commission smartdrv enables obtain several minutes of times, is therefore necessary have system containing files himem.sys (driver memory - necessary have instituted in file config.sys) and smartdrv.exe.(run after start system - reserve part memory for work with disk)
Drivers - drivers functional under Windows NT 4 needn't work under Windows 2000. For actual drivers is necessary visit with pages manufacturer on internet.
Relatives articles
Installation Windows NT 4.0 Server - Requirements hardware and Run installation. Example installation Step by Step for Windows NT Server. Common error during installation.
Installation Windows 2000 Server - Step-by-step installation, possible problems.
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More Windows 2000 Tips and Tricks
Windows 2000 has been out now for 6 months and in that time most of the initial problems with available drivers have been cleared up with manufacturers making compatible ones available for download.
A lot of new hardware now comes with Win2k drivers on disk.
Windows2000 still remains as a operating system for work and not for play though.
Its stability lends itself more to creating electronic documents than is does to game playing. for that you are still better of with Windows98/SE.
The ideal compromise through is to dual boot your system to run both, keeping Windows98/SE for just the gaming side and taking advantage of the increased features and stability of Windows2000 for everything else.
Windows 2000 Links
