Microsoft KB Archive/198868

= Disabled Device Settings May Not Be Retained During Upgrade =

Article ID: 198868

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q198868



SYMPTOMS
Hardware devices that have been marked as disabled in Device Manager in Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98 may be enabled when you upgrade to Windows 2000.



CAUSE
Because of the differences between the Windows 95/98 and Windows 2000 architectures, hardware detection and enumeration must be performed on all devices by Windows 2000. Therefore, all devices are detected during Setup, regardless of their status before upgrading.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: migrate

Keywords: kbhardware kbprb kbsetup KB198868

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