win 2000 Services

[Dontkillbill]

Oh dear....

I picked up a second hand laptop.... Its great but the guy who set it up has a lot of functions turned off, like at work.  Uninstall program etc....  He also has my tcp/ip properties locked and I can't undate them to log in to my dial up from the road.    

A little help would be very very cool on what switch to flip...

I'm logged in as as an admin

[GX1_Man]

Did you get a WIndows CD to reinstall, if needed? Is he available to "fix it"? What version of Windows?

(You will need a real Windows CD eventually, you know.)

[Dontkillbill]

I'm trying to track down the cd...  

Its windows 2000 service pack 4.  I hads to install all the service packs. Its a government surplus PC so it came with a wiped hard drive that was reformated and win 2000 reinstalled.  

 All was well until I tried to install a usb network card.  It must of changed a setting.  Very select stuff I want to access such as ppp settings and DNS settings are locked.  


Any other solutions.  

Oh yeah its a P3 600    Compaq Armada e5000.  

[patio]

I'd keep hunting a Win2KCD  as you can do a non-destructive rebuild keeping all your data...
But in the meantime here is the default listing of default services and their settings...

Here

patio  8-)

[Dontkillbill]

Got the CD from the guy I got the laptop from, did thje rebuild but no luck its still locked...


TCP/IP properies  not accessable.  

Any ideas?  

[patio]

If you did a clean re-install of the OS this shouldn't be happening.
All Admin stuff goes out the window when this is done.
How did you proceed with this re-install ? ? ?

[Dontkillbill]

Thanks I finally got it working after 2-3 reboots and deleting the old dialers...


Now I'm battling USB network cards... I guess the win sp 4 drivers don't get alone with the D LInk USB network card.  Error code 31?  I hate that Yellow sign beside the device manager!

Any idea if there is a patch to help with this

[JPH]

Thanks I finally got it working after 2-3 reboots and deleting the old dialers...


Now I'm battling USB network cards... I guess the win sp 4 drivers don't get alone with the D LInk USB network card.  Error code 31?  I hate that Yellow sign beside the device manager!

Any idea if there is a patch to help with this

Did you try updating the driver for the network card?

[patio]

Yep, i'd travel to DLink and grab the Win2K drivers...if they don't list them it won't hurt to try XP drivers...