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Zombie9920:
Your system may need a BIOS update and a clean installation of Win2K to fix your problem. Believe it or not, alot of systems have BIOS updates to solve all sorts of problems with the particular mobo and Win2k/XP.
You don't have Win2K and WinME on the same partation do you? That there can cause alot of Win2K problems also.
Zombie9920:
One more question, you didn't set an administrator password to gain access to files/folders and forgot it did you? That will definatley lock you out of stuff also.
voidmain:
I have seen that same problem with W2K in the past. That is, logged on as Administrator it gives nothing but access denied errors when trying to open up control panel items. I didn't take the time to figure out the cause of the problem because it was on a home machine and I didn't have the time (at the time) and just decided to reformat and make it another Linux partition instead. It almost acted like the registry permissions got hosed up, or the Administrator SID was messed up.
Gooseberry Clock:
quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
You are using Windows ME(the worst spawn of Win9x).
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OK, it's all listed here.
Calum:
no i didn't forget the password.
Why is it that when i ask windows people a question like this, they always reel through the dumbass answers that i'm way ahead of?
Seriously though, thanks for thinking about it, Zombie64273862, i do appreciate that you made an effort to help me
The 2 installations were on separate partitions and the 2000 install was on an NTFS partition so it didn't even show up in 9x. As i said in the Format/Partition thread, my Kiwi linux using mate went through the registry and the dos based help screens before my eyes, at a blinding speed for somebody who hadn't used windows for a year. I could see all the stuff he was checking but would not be able to replicate it myself. Anyway, he couldn't help.
To cut a long story short, i have just reformatted the partition as FAT32 and plan to keep MP3s there, till i get round to backing them up. The next step for that partition is a Linux install of Red Hat 7 or Turbolinux 6.1. Any ideas which is better btw folks? those are my only two options right now, unless i go and buy OLD copies of Mandrake and CorelLinux for
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