Change Win 2000 Pro into Win 2000 ?

[Jim Ratchford]

Made the mistake of buying 2000 Pro for my home/office,
personal desk top. I've been having downloading and
licensing problems with the "Administrator", "Users" stuff
for four years.
I would like to get rid of the "Pro" features meant for
multiple users and just use it like plain old Win 2000.
I'll buy the upgrade to 2003 if that's what it takes.

Thanks for your help,
Jim Ratchford
Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

[Rick]

Made the mistake of buying 2000 Pro for my home/office,
personal desk top. I've been having downloading and
licensing problems with the "Administrator", "Users" stuff
for four years.
I would like to get rid of the "Pro" features meant for
multiple users and just use it like plain old Win 2000.
I'll buy the upgrade to 2003 if that's what it takes.

Thanks for your help,
Jim Ratchford
Santa Fe, New Mexico

All versions of Win2K (and Win2K3) are multiuser, so
I'm not sure what you mean by "old Win 2000"??

If you want a single user operating system, revert back
to WinME or Win98.

Rick

 

[DL]

If yr saying you have problems with 'user' rights simply make the user have
full admin.rights
I'm assuming, from the rest of yr post, that you are the only user.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Made the mistake of buying 2000 Pro for my home/office,
personal desk top. I've been having downloading and
licensing problems with the "Administrator", "Users" stuff
for four years.
I would like to get rid of the "Pro" features meant for
multiple users and just use it like plain old Win 2000.
I'll buy the upgrade to 2003 if that's what it takes.

Thanks for your help,
Jim Ratchford
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Win2K Pro is the workstation version of the OS. All other
versions of Win2K are designed to operate on servers. Also, the only
Microsoft OS to be tagged with "2003" is also a server OS.

If you've been using the OS for 4 years, I don't understand what
kind of problems you're having. What "Pro" features have you not
learned to handle after four years?

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[George Hester]

Jim maybe one of the reasons you are having trouble with "Administrator" and "User" stuff is that you don't understand it. I'm not trying to belittle you but if your expertise is not in this area than it is expected to have troubles. It is clear you misundertstand Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Professional is really not a consumer product. It is meant to be a secure operating system in a business Network which can easily be administered from a centralized source called Windows 2000 Server. Windows XP Home Edition is what you want. But brace yourself. The idea of an Administrator and Users is here to stay. Windows 2003 don't even consider it. It's a Server anyway.

 

[JM]

quoting:

Made the mistake of buying 2000 Pro for my home/office,
personal desk top. I've been having downloading and
licensing problems with the "Administrator", "Users" stuff
for four years.

There's no such thing as a "home" verson of 2k, is that's what you're
looking for. You can make 2k more like a single user OS by using a registry
fix to make the OS automatically log on as administrator, so that the system
just goes to the desktop when you boot. You can also disable many of the
services that you don't need running on a single user environment.

I would like to get rid of the "Pro" features meant for
multiple users and just use it like plain old Win 2000.
I'll buy the upgrade to 2003 if that's what it takes.

2003 is a server, you don't want that. If anything, you want XP home.