Re: Windows 2000 question

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> My bet is AOL (an uttely lousy piece of garbage), but I doubt you CAN
> remove it, short of a format and reinstall; the thing burrows deep into
> the innerds of a system.


AOL was also my suspicion. It's almost impossible to recover a system after
that has been installed. (By recover, I mean get AOL completely out.)


> You need to see what is loading at startup. I bet both Works and Office
> are, and they are RAM hogs. In 9x, you can run MSCONFIG to clean out the
> startup folder, but W2K doesn't have that helpful utility.


You can get a version of MSCONFIG for 2K (and XP) on the web--e.g.,:
http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx