Howard Kaikow said:
Previously, I had always done clean installs with all OS, however, I
recently decided to retire my last Win 98 partition by upgrading to Win
2000. I've noticed the following:
1. Win 2000 installs itself in the old \Windows directory. Several
directories and files seem to be left behind from Win 98. Is there a KB
article that describes which of those critters can be deleted?
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191860
Do you still have an option to boot DOS?
If you want to disable it, right click "My
computer" ->Properties->Advanced->"Startup and Recovery"->uncheck the box
"Display list of operating systems".
Also I think you can remove "MSDOS7" folder (mentioned in the KB), and you
can manually edit your C:\boot.ini, as described on
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311578
to remove the DOS option from your boot menu.
Also, \WINDOWS\TEMP, the garbage collection from Windows 98, can be removed.
Also, most DLLs from /windows/system were installed by third-party programs
and that can be checked rightclicking them, chosing "properties and then
"version", where yu can see what program put those there. The programs you
still need will most probably search for those DLLs on system 32 for now, so
you can move those there if your program stopped to work after upgrade. If
already reinstalled the program and those DLLs are in double, in /system and
in /system32, you can remove those from /system.
Windows 2000 do not use VxD files, as much as I know. These files are from
the drivers of 98 and I think you can remove those too.
2. In the resultant Win 2000, if I right-click on the Task Bar, then choose
Properties, then Advanced, there are no check boxes listed in Start Menu
Settings. This does not seem to be right. How can I cause those check boxes
to appear?
Start->Run (or windows key+R), type "mmc".
MMC shows up.Choose Console->Add/remove snap-ins-, click "add", search in
the list for "Local Computer policy", double click-this.
It will show a wizard where you have nothing to do but click "Finish".
"Close" the "Add Standalone snap-in" window, then the "Add/remove snap-ins"
one with "OK".
On the left side, we have a tree.
Go to "Local Computer Policy"-"User config"-"administrative
templates"-"start menu & taskbar".
On the right side yoiu will se some setting.
These are explained, as you right click them and choose "Properties", then
"Explain".
There are the only settings I know about Startbar, make sure they allow you
to set the start button menu as you like.
