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Experiment 1

AIM To study features and installation steps of WINDOWS

2000 operating system.

Windows 2000 is a line ofoperating systems produced by Microsoft for use on

personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Released on 17

February 2000, it was the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the final release

of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation

Four editions of Windows 2000 were released: Professional, Server, Advanced

Server, and Datacenter Server. While each edition of Windows 2000 was

targeted to a different market, they share a core set of features, including many

system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system

administration applications.

Support for people with disabilities has been improved over Windows NT 4.0

with a number of new assistive technologies, and Microsoft increased support

for different languages.

All versions of the operating system support the Windows NT file system,

NTFS 3.0, the Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk

storage. The Windows 2000 Server family has additional features, including the

ability to provide Active Directory services (a hierarchical framework of

resources), Distributed File System (a file system that supports sharing of files)and fault-redundant storage volumes. Windows 2000 can be installed through

either a manual or unattended installation. Unattended installations rely on the

use of answer files to fill in installation information, and can be performed

through a bootable CD using Microsoft Systems Management Server, by the

System Preparation Tool.
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Plug and Play

The most notable improvement from Windows NT 4.0 is the addition of Plug

and Play with full ACPI and Windows Driver Model support. Similar to

Windows 9x, Windows 2000 supports automatic recognition of installedhardware, hardware resource allocation, loading of appropriate drivers, PnP

APIs and device notification events.

Windows Explorer

The integrated media player in Windows Explorer playing a MIDI sequence.

Windows Explorerhas been enhanced in several ways in Windows 2000. It is

the first Windows NT release to include Active Desktop, first introduced as a

part ofInternet Explorer 4.0 (specifically Windows Desktop Update), and only

pre-installed in Windows 98 by that time. It allowed users to customize the way

folders look and behave by using HTML templates, having the file extension

HTT.

Accessibility

With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced the Windows 9x accessibility

features for people with visual and auditory impairments and otherdisabilities

into the NT-line of operating systems. These included:

Sticky Keys: makes modifier keys (ALT, CTRL and SHIFT) become "sticky": a

user can press the modifier key, and then release it before pressing the

combination key. (Activated by pressing Shift five times quickly.)

Filter Keys: a group ofkeyboard-related features for people with typing issues,

including:

Slow Keys: Ignore any keystroke not held down for a certain period.

BounceKeys: Ignore repeated keystrokes pressed in quick succession.

Repeat Keys: lets users slow down the rate at which keys are repeated via the

keyboard's key-repeat feature.

ToggleKeys: when turned on, Windows will play a sound when the CAPS

LOCK, NUM LOCK or SCROLL LOCK key is pressed.
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Sound Sentry: designed to help users with auditory impairments, Windows

2000 shows a visual effect when a sound is played through the sound system.

MouseKeys: lets users move the cursor around the screen via the numeric

keypad.

Serial Keys: lets Windows 2000 support speech augmentation devices.

High contrast theme: to assist users with visual impairments.

Microsoft Magnifier: A screen magnifier that enlarges a part of the screen the

cursor is over.

Additionally, Windows 2000 introduced the following new accessibility

features:

On-screen keyboard: displays a virtual keyboard on the screen and allows users

to press its keys using a mouse or ajoystick.

Microsoft Narrator: Introduced in Windows 2000, this is a screen reader that

utilizes the Speech API 5.

Encrypting File System

The Encrypting File System (EFS) introduced strong file system-level

encryption to Windows. It allows any folder or drive on an NTFS volume to be

encrypted transparently by the user. EFS works together with the EFS service,

Microsoft's CryptoAPI and the EFS File System Runtime Library (FSRTL). To

date, its encryption has not been compromised.

Windows 2000 introduced the Logical Disk Manager fordynamic storage. All

versions of Windows 2000 support three types ofdynamic disk volumes (along

with basic disks) : simple volumes, spanned volumes and striped volumes:

Simple volume, a volume with disk space from one disk.

Spanned volumes, where up to 32 disks show up as one, increasing it in size but

not enhancing performance. When one disk fails, the array is destroyed. Some

data may be recoverable. This corresponds to JBOD and not to RAID-1.

Striped volumes, also known as RAID-0, store all their data across several disks

in stripes. This allows better performance because disk reads and writes are

balanced across multiple disks.
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Languages

Windows 2000 introduced the Multilingual User Interface (MUI). Besides

English, Windows 2000 incorporates support for Arabic, Armenian, Baltic,

Central European, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Japanese, Korean,Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkic, Vietnamese and Western

European languages.

Recovery Console

The Recovery Console is usually used to recover unbootable systems.

The Recovery Console is run from outside the installed copy of Windows to

perform maintenance tasks that can neither be run from within it nor feasibly berun from another computer or copy of Windows 2000. It is usually used to

recover the system from problems that cause booting to fail, which would

render other tools useless.

It has a simple command line interface, used to check and repair the hard

drive(s), repair boot information (includingNTLDR), replace corrupted system

files with fresh copies from the CD, or enable/disable services and drivers for

the next boot.

The console can be accessed in either of the two ways:

Booting from the Windows 2000 CD, and choosing to start the Recovery

Console from the CD itself instead of continuing with setup. The Recovery

Console is accessible as long as the installation CD is available.

Preinstalling the Recovery Console on the hard disk as a start-up option in

Boot.ini, via WinNT32.exe, with the /cmdcons switch. In this case, it can only

be started as long asNTLDRcan boot from the system partition.

INSTALLATION STEPS

To install Windows 2000 Professional, follow these steps:

1. Start the installation by using one of the following methods:
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o Start from the Windows 2000 Professional installation CD-ROM.

Make sure that the CD-ROM is set to start before the hard disk

starts. Insert the CD-ROM, and then when you are prompted, press

any key to start the Windows 2000 Professional Setup program.

o Start from boot disks. Insert Disk 1, and then insert each of theremaining three floppy disks when you are prompted to do so. For

additional information about creating boot disks for Windows

2000, click the article number below to view the article in the

Microsoft Knowledge Base:

197063 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197063/EN-US/ ) How

to Create Setup Boot Disks for Windows 2000

o

Start from within a current operating system. Insert the CD-ROM,and then, at a command prompt, type drive:\i386\winnt32.exe and

then press ENTER, or if this is an installation on a computer that

has no previous installation of Windows, type

drive:\i386\winnt.exe and then press ENTER, where drive is the

letter of the CD-ROM drive.

2. Setup inspects your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to

install the Setup and driver files. When the Microsoft Windows 2000Professional screen appears, press ENTER to set up Windows 2000

Professional.
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3. Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms

of the license agreement and continue the installation.

4. When the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen appears, either

press ENTER to set up Windows 2000 Professional on the selected

partition, or press C to create a partition in the unpartitioned space.


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5. If you choose to install Windows 2000 Professional on a file allocation

table (FAT) partition, specify whether you want to:

o Leave the current file system intact.

o Format the partition as FAT16.

o Convert the existing file system to the NTFS file system.o Format the partition by using the NTFS file system.

Press ENTER after you make your selection. Setup examines the existing

hard disks and then copies the files that are needed to complete the

installation of Windows 2000 Professional. After the files are copied, the

computer restarts.

Important Do not press a key to boot from your CD-ROM drive when

your computer restarts.

6. When the Windows 2000 GUI Mode Setup Wizard appears, clickNext to

start the wizard. Setup detects and installs such devices as a specialized

mouse or keyboard.

7. When the Regional Options dialog box appears, customize your

installation of Windows 2000 Professional for locale, number format,

currency, time, date, and language, if necessary. ClickNext.


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8. In the Personalize Your Software dialog box, type your name and the

name of your organization, and then clickNext.

9. In the Product ID dialog box, type the 25-character product key, and

then clickNext.

10.In the Computer Name and Password dialog box, either accept the

default name that Setup generates or assign a different name for thecomputer. When you are prompted for an administrative password, type a


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password for the Administrator account. (You can leave the box blank;

however, this is not recommended.) ClickNext.

11.In the Date and Time Settings dialog box, set the correct date and time

for your computer. You can also specify which time zone you are in and

set the computer to automatically adjust the clock for daylight savingtime. ClickNext.


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12.Setup installs the networking software and detects your network settings.

When the Network Settings dialog box appears, click either

o Typical to set default network settings such as File and Print

Sharing for Microsoft Networks, Client for Microsoft Networks,

and TCP/IP protocol that uses Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol (DHCP), or

o Custom to specify the network components that you require for

your network environment, and then clickNext.

13.In the Workgroup or Computer Domain dialog box, specify the

workgroup or the domain to join. If you indicate that you are part of a

domain, specify your domain user name and password. Click Next.

Setup installs the networking components.

14.

During the final stage of installation, Setup installs Start menu items,registers components, saves settings, and removes temporary files. When

the Completing the Windows 2000 Setup Wizard dialog box prompts

you to do so, remove the Windows 2000 CD-ROM, and then clickFinish

to restart the computer.

15.After the computer restarts, clickNext in the Welcome to the Network

Identification Wizard dialog box.

16.In the Users of This Computer dialog box, specify either that users must

enter a user name and password or that you want Windows 2000 to

automatically log on a specific user when the computer starts. Click

Finish.

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