My son got a hold of a pc from school which was going to be thrown out. He couldn't log onto it as it was asking for admin password. I downloaded windows xp which works great, but my son reckons it uses alot of space as Windows 2000 is still installed. Is there a way i can get rid of 2000. Can anyone advise please.
Cheers in advance folks!!!!
2007-09-01 03:06:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Hi, Thanks for all your suggestions, couple of good ones so will try them out.
Cheers Fiona R
2007-09-01 23:55:35 · update #1
1) disc cleanup, in admin tools.
2) control panel, add remove programs.
Its hard to explain how to get rid of 2000 because i cant see whats going on - however, it might be an idea to reinstall windows XP and do a quick format. - BACK UP YOUR GOOD STUFF FIRST BECAUSE YOU WILL LOSE IT!
2007-09-01 03:11:53 · answer #1 · answered by sirantonycartwright 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Right click on the explorer icon, select properties and select delete temporary files and cookies.
2. Go to My Computer and right click on "C" drive to see how much space you have used / available on the hard drive.
3. Go to Control Panel and select add / remove programs and remove programs not needed. Selection can be driven by how much space you need to free up on the hard drive.
4. From start menu, select "run" and enter "msconfig" . Select the "start up" tab. The programs with a green check mark are loaded and reside in ram when the computer is started. Look the list over and remove the check from what you don't think you need. Select two or three at a time and keep track. Restart. You can put the check mark back if you have problems.
Most of my issues have been in item 1 and 4. You can exceed your memory allotment for the cookies and temp files and that slows things down. Many programs install themselves to reside in ram on start up and eventually cause problems when it tries to run ( ram is used up). The biggest problem programs I had like that were an accelerator program provided by an Internet service and a spy-ware program. When I took them off start up, it was like having a new computer again. Thing will boot in about 4 seconds.
The link provides detailed instructions.
2007-09-01 03:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is unlikely that you have both W2K and XP installed - I WANTED to do this and found it difficult to achieve!
It is actually more likely that as the PC was going to be dumped it was simply too small & slow to be worth keeping.
Although you could do things like defrag & diskcleaning - it is more than possible that there just isn't enough space & RAM to make the PC a good bit of hardware four installing XP onto - it IS very space and resource greedy.
It may be worth looking at downloading Linux - or even purchasing one of the sold variants from somewhere like PC World (MUCH cheaper than anything Microsoft, getting more and more popular and useable and in the past it has always taken up MUCH less resource)
2007-09-01 03:18:52 · answer #3 · answered by Hedge Witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going into control panel from the start menu and click on performance and maintenance for disk clean up. If you cant find this...go to internet explorer and should see at top of homepage "tools" click on it to bring down menu and click on "internet options" a screen should come up which you can delete from there
2007-09-01 03:21:02 · answer #4 · answered by lochbuie49 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to. Can also delete programs that aren't used and regularly run disk cleanup and defragmenter.
2007-09-01 03:13:49 · answer #5 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
format your PC, sorry don't know how to do this, that's my husbands job !
2007-09-01 03:20:31 · answer #6 · answered by Jovi Freak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋