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24giovanni
07-23-2006, 10:40 PM
By searching windows 2000, How do I check against the HCL on Microsoft’s site and see if your hardware meets the requirement please?

I went to http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/default.mspx and i clicked on win98 and it gave me a response which I copied that totalled over 1700 pages so I am not sure. That is why I am asking the forum for someone who is familiar with it maybe would know better. Is that what i should be doing?
Paul Komski
07-24-2006, 03:19 AM
Windows 2000 (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx/) or Windows 98 (https://winqual.microsoft.com/download/hcl/Win98HCL.txt)? I think that with the latter you just have to search through the large text file. Win98 is no longer fully supported by MS.
Sylvander
07-24-2006, 04:08 AM
I upgraded from Win98SE to Win2000PRO, and during the installation Win2000 setup gave me the opportunity to generate and print an "Upgrade Report" that listed all the likely problems with software and hardware.

I then had to uninstall various applications and hardware programs before re-running setup.
e.g.
HARDWARE
Scanner, printer, raid controller driver put on floppy, USB Root Hub, USB Enhanced Host Controller.
SOFTWARE
TclockEx, Java, Simple Backup, Startup Control Panel, Wintop.exe, 3COM NIC Doctor, AVG Free Control Center, Cahoot Webcard, ZoneLabs Security, DirectX 8.1
24giovanni
07-24-2006, 11:00 AM
Paul so what I did was correct then?
24giovanni
07-24-2006, 04:35 PM
I upgraded from Win98SE to Win2000PRO, and during the installation Win2000 setup gave me the opportunity to generate and print an "Upgrade Report" that listed all the likely problems with software and hardware.

I then had to uninstall various applications and hardware programs before re-running setup.
e.g.
HARDWARE
Scanner, printer, raid controller driver put on floppy, USB Root Hub, USB Enhanced Host Controller.
SOFTWARE
TclockEx, Java, Simple Backup, Startup Control Panel, Wintop.exe, 3COM NIC Doctor, AVG Free Control Center, Cahoot Webcard, ZoneLabs Security, DirectX 8.1

Is there a way to generate a report without upgrading? Anyway, how do I go about generating this report? I appreciate any help.
Sylvander
07-25-2006, 03:40 AM
"Is there a way to generate a report without upgrading?"
I began the upgrade to Win2000Pro [by running Winnt32.exe (I'd copied the installation files to a folder on my G: partition) if I remember] and was presented at one point with the opportunity to generate the report and print it.
After doing that I terminated the upgrade installation.