when I tried to run the windows 2000 setup to upgrade from my current Windows ME to 2000 pro it gave me an error about missing a .dll to upgrade from windows 95, It will install by clean install but it wont let me upgrade?

AFAIK - there is no upgrade path for WinMe to Windows 2000
Could be because Windows 2000 came out before WinMe - I am really not sure

That exactly what's the reason. Windows 2000 came before Windows ME. So you cannot downgrade from Windows ME to Windows 2000. The thing is you cannot upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows ME either, cos it is a different kernal. :)

boo...oh well i just installed the files over the ME files and i still had all my stuff :)

that's interesting dude. how did you install? i know (as i said before, u can't use the windows 2000 cd to upgrade. but did u boot from the cd and install it while ME was there? um, prolly the program files folder may have been ?uckered by that way. :unsure:

If that is true - I suggest you save what you can on another partition then format c:\ and
do a clean install of W2K.

Course that is just my 2 cents worth.

i dont know mcored, i just put the cd in and ran the Install over existing files or whatever and it worked, but then my hd died from a grounded motherboard after changing cases..hehe so i guess it got its format ;p