System Information Overview The System Information tool is used to collect and display your system configuration information. You can use this specific information about your computer when troubleshooting your configuration. You can use System Information to quickly find the data needed to resolve your system problem. System Information displays a …

Press and hold the ALT key, and then press the keys on the numeric keypad that represent the decimal code value of the character you want to input. After you finish typing, release the ALT key. Windows 2000 generates the character you specified and passes it to the foreground program. Note: …

Using the Windows 2000 Safemode Switches Although we love working with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, both workstation and server versions, there are those moments that cause monetary hair loss, as in pulling your hair out trying to find out what is wrong. When it comes to Windows NT, …

Microsoft® Windows 2000 Knowledge Center Features and Tools similar to Windows 95/98 If you have arrived here through a search engine, click here! You may call them tools, or features, or anything you like for that matter, but they do enhance the usability of Windows 2000. They may not be …

Microsoft® Windows 2000 Knowledge Center Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter If you have arrived here through a search engine, click here! Maintaining Peak Performance Through Defragmentation This article will provide you with an overview of disk fragmentation process as well as related issues that may be encountered when performing this task. …

Applying a New Hotfix May Undo a Previously Applied Hotfix Microsoft has learned (and users too) that in concatenating or chaining together service packs and hot fixes, you can undo some of the security fixes that the hot fixes were supposed to fix in the first place. Microsoft has released …

Installing and Checking Hotfixes You can use three different methods to install hotfixes: The first method: Hotfixes include the Hotfix.exe utility. When you double-click the hotfix executable, this utility checks the currently installed service pack and automatically installs the hotfix if the hotfix date is later than the service pack …

Using the Backup Wizard Start Backup. From the Start menu, click Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and Backup. On the Welcome tab, click Backup Wizard. At the “Welcome to the Windows 2000 Backup and Recovery Tools” screen, click Next. Click Back up everything on my computer, and then click Next. Select …

Microsoft® Windows 2000 Knowledge Center Using the Tools At Hand Tools in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit If you have arrived here through a search engine, click here! The Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit contains detailed information about Windows 2000, including how to plan and configure networks and how to use new …

Windows® 2000 Upgrading from the Evaluation Version Microsoft has released a utility that will enable those who have loaded the evaluation version of Windows 2000 to upgrade to the full released version. Read Me First You may download this utility if you have installed the Windows 2000 Evaluation Edition and …