OS windows 2000 user question

[sajankk]

hi guys,

1. i am using windows 2000 as OS. i hv my own user name and pass to enter the system. sometimes i use to enter as Administrator too . if again(new) made a user name and password can i able to edit , save documents that i previously stored used . the reason is the same computer am using will use another guy next week and i dont want to show some important documents that i did. can anybody explain briefly the restriction in windows 2000

2. One other question... in my home am using windows 98 as OS. How should i know which are hardware am using and what all the driver files i needed. bcs i want to reformat my pc and i thought of if the driver file of particular h/w is not available then. is there any easy way to find out the driver files am using.....

c am very beginner in h/w side

saj

[The Phoenix]

One other question... in my home am using windows 98 as OS. How should i know which are hardware am using and what all the driver files i needed. bcs i want to reformat my pc and i thought of if the driver file of particular h/w is not available then. is there any easy way to find out the driver files am using.....

Sorry, I'm not too good with Win 2000, but I know a decent answer to this question.

First of all, if you have the discs that came with your hardware, you'll be fine. Just use those to install the drivers. If there's a piece of hardware that you don't have, there's a few things you can do:

1) If its a generic device, the Win 98 CD will have drivers on it that will enable it. Like if it's a CD, CD-RW, DVD drive, you shouldn't need a disk.

2) Go into your device manager and get the names of each deivce for which you don't have a CD. Then search the company site of each device for driver packages. Save them to a CD or something, and use that to install driversd after the reformatting.

3) If you bought the hardware someplace locally, you can usually get a driver disk from the place that sold it to you, ususally for free.

Hope that helps.

[dglienna]

If the new guy is an Administrator, then he can see all of the files on the machine. If he is a user, he cannot see documents created by another user in that user's My Documents folder. If you stored them somewhere else, you will have to right-click on the folder (as an Admin) and select that only your username can view, edit, or delete from this folder.