windows98/2000 installation and Uninstall techniques _windowsxp

1. Increase the speed of Windows 98/2000 installed in DOS

　　Start the computer with the boot disk first, after running Smartdrv.exe in DOS and then install Windows system, so the installation time will be greatly shortened.

Note: To run the Smartdrv.exe,dos system, you must load Windows's system file Himem.sys during startup. Smartdrv.exe files are generally in the C disk Windows directory, if the machine does not install Windows 9X, you can copy the file from another machine to use.

　　 2. Make full use of system memory when installing Windows 2000

The Windows 2000 installation system defaults to 32MB of memory. Copy all the files from the installation disk to the hard disk, and use Word to open the Txtsetup.sif file in the I386 directory and change the value of the requiredmemory to the actual value. This allows the machine to take full advantage of system memory during the installation of the system.

3. Uninstall Windows 2000 under Windows 982000 Dual Systems

First uninstall all software under Windows 2000, and then manually delete the Winnt, document and setting folders and Pagefile.sys, Ntdetect.com, Winnt.ini, NTLDR, and so on. Starting with the Windows 9X boot disk, the SYS command is used to pass a system to the C disk (the actual operation A:\>sys C:), which overwrites the original boot system file and only one Windows 98 system is left after the system restarts.

　　 4. Understanding hardware and software compatibility prior to installing Windows 2000

When you install Windows 2000, you can see in advance whether a hardware device on your computer is powered by Windows 2000: Open the Support folder of the Windows 2000 Setup disk, There is a file called Hcl.txt that contains a list of all the hardware Windows 2000 can be compatible with.