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by tim d il

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Hello Folks!

HELP! I'm trying to get my boss to let me upgrade all the computer to Windows 2000 Professional with our in house intranet/web server running 2K Server. Is there any inexpensive way to upgrade them all to Windows 2000 Pro/Server without costing a small fortune? We'd looked into an Open License, but it was going to cost near $300 per machine when I can get an OEM copy of 2000 Pro for $130.00 and do a fresh install. We have a couple of workstations that are getting to be really unstable (mine being one of them) and the server is running Windows 98. My station will do a "Not Responding" on My Computer frequently (we're talking 5 times in 8 hours) whenever I try to access any of my networked drives - F: being the office file server and G-J being the IS File Server. Any ideas what's causing this? As far as I know, none of my other PCs are having this problem. ANY help is appreciated.

The other thing is that we may be getting a new server by year's end, so I don't want todo too much upgrading in preparation for the new server. I prefer to keep our file server & Intranet server separated as I also use the intranet server as my file server.

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by erikbutler

I will tell you this becareful with OEM software. OEM software is suppose to be installed with new hardware only(i.e. motherboard or harddrive). This track could lead you into violation of the EULA's and the BSA gestapo agents knocking on your doors for an audit.

by bohicam1

You should be able to buy a copy of win2k server which includes 5 client licenses for about $1300US. What is the average age of your present machines there now? Are you sure you are not going to open a new can of worms by upgrading to win2k only to find you have hardware incompatibility problems (more money)? For the time being why not simply reinstall win98 on your machine to repair any corrupt system files you may have?
Good luck!

Mike

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