New and Upcoming Book Titles. Swapfile Optimization Guide. Dr. Watson Troubleshooting. This article describes how to use Dr. Watson to troubleshoot program errors that occur when you are running Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition (Me). Dr. Watson is a program error troubleshooting tool that traps program faults (that are running in ring three of the processor), and generates a snapshot of the operating system that you can use to diagnose the fault. This tool interprets program errors in Windows-based programs and attempts to diagnose them. When you run Dr.
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Fdisk and Format Tools. This article describes the Fdisk and Format tools and how to use them to partition or repartition a hard disk. How to Use the Fdisk and Format Tools Before you install your operating system, you must first create a primary partition on the hard disk (disk 1) on your computer, and then format a file system on that partition. The Fdisk tool is an MS-DOS-based tool that you can use to prepare (partition) a hard disk. You can use the Fdisk tool to create, change, delete, or display current partitions on the hard disk, and then each allocated space on the hard disk (primary partition, extended partition, or logical drive) is assigned a drive letter. Disk 1 may contain one extended partition, and a second hard disk may contain a primary or extended partition. An extended partition may contain one or more logical MS-DOS drives.
After you use the Fdisk tool to partition your hard disk, use the Format tool to format those partitions with a file system. MS-DOS Partitioning Summary. Hotfix Package Naming Schema. Microsoft has adopted a standardized file-naming schema for all software update packages for the products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article (hereafter referred to as "Windows software update packages"). The new naming schema went in effect in April 2003 for all Microsoft Windows software update packages that are created and distributed by Microsoft. For additional information about the standard terminology that Microsoft is adopting to describe software updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) Description of the Standard Terminology That Is Used to Describe Microsoft Software Updates Microsoft has adopted this file-naming schema for software update packages for the following reasons: New Schema for Naming Windows Software Update Packages Microsoft uses the following schema to name Windows software update packages: -KB--.exe For example: Exceptions to New Naming Schema.
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Before you install the Windows 2000 Professional desktop operating system, make sure that your computer meets the following minimum system requirements: 133 MHz or more Pentium microprocessor (or equivalent). Windows 2000 Professional supports up to two processors on a single computer.64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum. 32 MB of RAM is the minimum supported. 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM is the maximum. A 2 GB hard disk that has 650 MB of free space. If you are installing over a network, more free hard disk space is required. File Systems Comparison.