Windows98/2000 installation and uninstallation skills

1. Improve the speed of installing Windows 98/2000 under DOS state

First boot the computer with the boot disk, run Smartdrv.exe under DOS and then install the Windows system, so the installation time Will be greatly shortened. Note: To run Smartdrv.exe, the DOS system must load the Windows system file himem.sys during the boot process. The Smartdrv.exe file is generally in the Windows directory of the C drive. If the machine does not have Windows 9X installed, you can copy the file from another machine. 2. Make full use of the system's memory when installing Windows 2000
Windows 2000 installation system default memory is 32MB. Copy all the files of the installation disk to the hard disk, open the Txtsetup.sif file in the I386 directory with Word, and change the value after the RequiredMemory to the actual value. This allows the machine to take full advantage of system memory during system installation. 3. Uninstall Windows 2000 under Windows 982000 dual system First uninstall all software under Windows 2000, then manually delete Winnt, Document and Setting folder and Pagefile.sys, Ntdetect.com, winnt.ini, Ntldr and other files. And use the Windows 9X boot disk to start, use the SYS command to pass a system to the C drive (actual operation A:\\>SYS C:), this transfer process will overwrite the original boot system file, only one Windows left after the system restarts 98 system. 4. Understand the compatibility of software and hardware before installing Windows 2000
When installing Windows 2000, you can know in advance whether a certain hardware device of the computer is supported by Windows 2000: Open the Support folder of the Windows 2000 installation disk. There is a file called Hcl.txt, which shows a list of all the hardware that Windows 2000 is compatible with.