Windows 2000/2003/NT4 Latest Topics

Last Version of Programs for Windows NT 4.0

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:38:30 +0000

The Latest versions of NT software you can find for NT 4.0

1. 7-zip
7z920.exe

2. Adobe Acrobat 7.0.9

3. Alcohol
Alcohol52_trial_1_9_5_3105
Alcohol120_trial_1_9_5_3105
Alcohol120_retail_1_9_5_3105

4. Audacity 1.2.6

5. Avast
setupeng1368 (untested)

6. Bochs 2.3.7

7. CCleaner
ccsetup213720

8. Clamwin Legacy 0.97

9. Cool PDF Reader 3.0.0.128

10. Conectix Virtual PC v5.2

11. Daemon Tools 3.47

12. DOSBox 0.74-3

Keep in mind that you need Active Desktop Update before you run it.

13. DOSBox SVN (When compiled with MinGW)

14. ffdshow
ffdshow_rev2352_20081124_clsid

15. Flash
install_flash_player_9
install_flash_player_9_ax

Officially,the latest Flash will be supported is at Version 7,as Adobe says, however it supports Flash 8 and 9 up to 9.0.47 without any tweaks.

For versions above 9.0.47,A missing function called MonitorFromWindow can be replaced with SetAppCompatFlags and it will work on NT 4.0. The latest tested is 9.0.289.0,Later version such as 10 and up (32 included) won't work,although 10.0 can install,the helper exe that makes it work requires 2000. 10.1 and later uses a new installer which is incompatible with NT 4.0.

16. FireFox

2.0.0.0.20

v3.6.28 Roytam1

17. Foxit
foxit13b1621

18. Internet Explorer
5.5 SP1
6 SP1

19. GIMP
gimp-2.2.17-i586-setup
gtk+-2.6.10-20050823-setup

20. imdisk
imdiskinst_1.6.0

21. ImgBurn
SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0

22. K-Meleon
K-Meleon1.5.4en-US

23. K-lite Codec Pack
klite273 (?)

24. Links
Links-2.5-install

25. MagicDisk
setup_magicdisc105

26. Miranda v0.10.80 (failed to work)

27. NetScape
netscape71_sd701

28. OpenOffice 2.01

29. Opera
v1063

You need to install it with the classic installer.

30. PCem
PCemV0.41a

31. Qemu Manager v7.0
Qemu Manager v7.0 (QEMU 0.11.1) on 9x/NT4/2000

1. Must have at least IE5 installed!
2. Install Qemu Manager.
2. Execute Qemu Manager.
If you receive an error about wininet.dll then you do not have IE5+ installed.

3. Open Qemu.exe with the Hexedit program.

4. Replace "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname".

5. Start Qemu Manager!

6. When you create a VM in the VM options change "Main Display" to "QEMU Windows", otherwise your VM will not load.

32. Qemu 14.0

1. Download Qemu v14 http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=1214
2. Extract contents of .zip.
3. Download Hexedit.
4. Open up all executables with hexedit
5. Replace all instances of "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname". (Zero out any extra characters).
6. Done!

33. QtWeb 3.4.8

34. Retrozilla 2.3

35. ScummVM v2.9.1

Install the Windows 95 version,The newer versions need to be copied from the zip file to the program files,if you want it to be installed manually.

36. SeaMonkey95

37. SoftPerfect Personal Firewall

38. Thunderbird
Thunderbird Setup 2.0.0.24

39. VDMSound v2.1.0

40. VideoLan
vlc-0.8.6h-win32

41. Virtual CloneDrive
SetupVirtualCloneDrive5450

42. Vmware Workstation
VMware-workstation-4.5.3-19414

43. Windows Media Player
v6.4
v7 MP7195NT

44. Windirstat
windirstat1_1_2_setup

45. Windows Remote Desktop v5 client
MSRDPCLI

46. WinSCP
winscp419setup

47. Nero 6.0.0.60

48. WinRar 36

49. DOSBox-X

NT 4.0 must use the portable SDL1 low-end build. The XP build and the normal build won't install at all.

50. Vitalize

instvtz4.exe

Yes,this actually works,despite its download website claiming to support 98, 98SE, 2000,XP, Vista or 7,it actually works on NT 4.0,Clickteam lied and their plugins actually works with this OS...

51. Adobe/Macromedia Shockwave Player

8.5.1

This is the last officially supported,Shockwave 10 requires at least 98/ME and 2000,so it won't work on NT 4.0 and potentially 95. 8.5.1 is confusing with the fact it has 9.0.0.434 as the installer version and yet when installed on Retrozilla 2.3 it says 8.5.1r102 as the file version for the DLLs. Shockwave 9 never existed...

52. Java

5.0 Update 5

This is the last unofficially working with this OS,later versions doesn't work,even Java 6 Update 7...

53. Yamaha S-YXG50

3.02.01 for WinNT

OEM versions untested.

If you wish to encounter latest versions for NT 4.0,tell me so i can add it.

Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Windows NT 4.0 driver

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:29:56 +0000

I spend a quite a lot of time in the search for NT4 drivers for Broadcom NetXreme 5708 PCI-E cards.. I have classic not enough PCI-E / PCI slots problem, so i cant simply replace it.
There as usually some drivers for more modern Windows which has false description claims about supporting - NT4 it their description on some driver download sites, but after downloading in real readme NT4 arent in the list of supported OS. I have tried some Windows 2000 drivers, but they are not working.

So the last chance is try to ask here, because perhaps someone here has driver for it.. or has better driver google fu..
I have found and have on other machine working driver for previous generation Broadcom NetXtreme I - 5703 card.. (these are supported:
and driver which is working with Broadcom 5721.

I have also tried to modify NT4 driver for 5703 by adding HardwareIDs of 5708 to it - its 164C at the end, but NT4 drivers *.inf which i found seems much more complex than other *.inf, so my edit probably not worked, because when i tried to add it.. Device name was detected with wrong name (or maybe it is using generic one until extract card is detected).. but
Maybe some has better *.inf modding skills. Others these cards has nice support of Everything from Dos to modern Windows, except NT4 and Windows 98 (but i already made Ndis2 dos driver working there).

released: bug fix for win32k.sys/_SetWindowWord (local variable initialization)

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:19:39 +0000

Hello Windows 2000 fans,

a while ago when WildBill was backporting security updates from Windows XP to Windows 2000 he noticed a flaw in Microsoft's implementation of the security fix in the function "_SetWindowWord". By now Microsoft released an update for Windows 2000 to fix the security problem so WildBill's backported version has been superseded. However, the flaw still exists in the newest versions of win32k.sys from Microsoft both in Windows 2000 and in Windows XP.

The flaw causes problems in some applications which try to deal with their graphical user interface. In an extreme case it can cause the bluescreen "WINLOGON_FATAL_ERROR". The flaw has a pretty small security impact.

There is an update available to fix the flaw:

WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000004-V1-X86-INTL.exe

Since the newest version from Microsoft contains the security fix already, this update fixes the flaw only. It's all that was left to do.

There is more information available about this issue and this update in the article in the knowledge database:

OTSKB.chm

The patch updates the file "win32k.sys"

from the version "5.00.2196.0004"
to the version "5.00.2196.0005".

Special thanks go to

@dencorso for reporting the bluescreen "WINLOGON_FATAL_ERROR" (0xC000021A) in Windows XP and narrowing down the problem to the Windows update "Windows XP (32 bits)/KB981957" and
@WildBill for further narrowing down the problem to the function "_SetWindowWord" and to the exact machine instruction within the function.

looking for up to date solution for Windows 2000 install on modern hardware + acpi support

Fri, 08 May 2026 18:50:43 +0000

I'm having a very hard time trying to install windows 2000 on modern hardware, specifically on a sandy bridge system at the moment ( hp probook 6460b with 4 GB memory installed and latest bios ). I have tried so many different approaches / methods, from disabling serial / parallel ports in bios, disabling other devices like fingerprint device, trying in ide mode vs ahci, limiting to 1 core, disabling hyperthreading, etc, but i just cant get any sort of method to work with default acpi install, or even manually choosing any of the acpi related entries from the F5 menu. Because ACPI is needed for many functions like gpu driver ( intel hd 3000, etc ), installing in standard pc is therefore not a choice.

All systems have same issue, they get stuck at the "setup is starting windows 2000" part.

The specific media i tried was a relatively minimal modifed 2K SP4 iso with ahci / sata drivers preloaded + acpi.sys 6921 integrated as referenced in some guides, though i didn't delete the "usbhub20.sys" file in the installation contents. Other iso i tried is the one from here "https://w2k.skver.space/isos/YSI_Win2kPro_R3.3_DEV-TEST-processr.iso", and "https://archive.org/details/windows2000-hfslip-english-finished" with filename "HFSLIP120825_2K_20241225_13h08m", all end up with same hang.

Flash 9 not working on NT 4.0? (consolidated thread)

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:51:29 +0000

Hello,

I know it was not officially supported but is there any way to make it work. This forum:http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-nt/how-to-watch-youtube-and-view-flash-sites-in-/23266.html (scroll down a bit) said that Firefox 3.x would run on 95 and NT 4.0, but it turned out not to work (even after modifying the registry to say 5.0 instead of 4.0). Even Firefox 3.0.7 wouldn't work. They all install OK, but I get an error in a procedure entry point in the file GDI32.DLL. What I'm saying is, is there ANY possible way to run Firefox 3 on Windows NT 4.0?

released: bug fix for win32k.sys/CreateXlateObject (execution order)

Sat, 02 May 2026 13:17:39 +0000

Hello Windows 2000 fans,

I noticed that there is another bug in the function "CreateXlateObject" in the file "win32k.sys". The execution order of 3 loops is incorrect which leads to the situation, that the static colors in a translation table (Xlate-object) is stored in the table but then are overwritten by dynamic colors directly afterwards.

There is an update available to fix this problem:

WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000003-V1-X86-INTL.exe

There is more information available about this issue and this update in the article in the knowledge database:

OTSKB.chm

The patch updates the file "win32k.sys"

from the version "5.00.2196.0003"
to the version "5.00.2196.0004".

released: bug fix for win32k.sys/EXLATEOBJ::bMakeXlate (data field initialization)

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:18:32 +0000

Hello Windows 2000 fans,

by chance I noticed that there is a bug in the function "bMakeXlate" of the class "EXLATEOBJ" in the file "win32k.sys". The initialization of XLATE data structures doesn't fill out all fields. Some fields remain uninitialized and therefore keep their random data which they received during the memory allocation. This can lead to unexpected and unwanted behaviour of functions which read the random values from the affected fields.

There is an update available to fix this problem:

WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000002-V2-X86-INTL.exe

There is more information available about this issue and this update in the article in the knowledge database:

OTSKB.chm

The patch updates the file "win32k.sys"

from the version "5.00.2196.0002"
to the version "5.00.2196.0003".

Office 2010 in Windows 2000 ?

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:08:19 +0000

Hi all ,this topic created to try the Office 2010 in Windows 2000 , you should first to install the latest version of extended kernel from blackwingcat wlu site : http://www.win2k.org/wlu/wluen.htm

then you can try to run office 2010 , but unfortunately the installer don't work until now , then what is the solution for now ?

the solution exist to run office 2010 but even that it is not perfectly stable.

you should to download this version of portable office 2010 exist Here

With fcwin2k run the office which you want 'word, power point..' on XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Require : msxml 6.0 service pack 2 .

Unstable thing:

the unstable thing is that when you finished work and you want to close the word as example you should after close it's window with default 'X' to end the process with taskmgr to be capable to run powerpoint in next time as example ,this is video to explain what i mean : https://t.co/46v3mBvOi5

@blackwingcat if you have any news about the installer please tell us here .

any one has problem about this topic please post here and you can tag any persone .

To resolve this unstable thing you should to use my created program :

https://www.mediafire.com/file/882xrdvu886u9u5/O10KWIN2000.zip/file

The other issue is the office 2010 with fcwin2k uses with many uses , some time after reboot the office 2010 it will doesn't start , then in this case you should to extract again the office 2010 portable.zip again , and run it with XP sp 3 and save compat.

Last Versions of Software for Windows 2000

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:15:44 +0000

Hey, I was just wondering, I know there's a list for Windows 98SE, but I dunno if there's one for Windows 2000... Anyway, here's my list so far... It can also mean 'unofficially', so long as it works still, to an extent...

LAST EDITED 31 MAY 2009

SUPPORT DISCONTINUED; FINAL VERSIONS (REQUIRES BASIC OR NO EDITING, I.E. ORCA)
Adobe Acrobat 8.1.5 Professional
Adobe Bridge CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop Album Starter 3.0 (3.2 does not work)
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3
AOL Desktop 9.1
AOL ICQ 5.1
Apple iTunes 7.3.2
Apple QuickTime 7.2 + Security Update (UNOFFICIALLY; REQUIRES EDITING OF INSTALLER)
Apple Safari 3.0.3 (BETA)
Corel Paint Shop Pro 11.20
FileZilla 3.0.11.1
Foobar2000 0.9.4.5
Google Picasa 2.7.37.63
Google Toolbar 4
HP Photosmart Essential 1.12
Kapersky Internet Security 7
Logitech SetPoint 3.1
MessengerPlus! 3
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 / 1.1 SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.0.0820
Microsoft Office 2003 SP3
Microsoft Reader 2.1.1
Microsoft Tweak UI 1.33
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (REQUIRES EDITING OF INSTALLER)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft Windows Defender 1.1.1593 (REQUIRES EDITING OF INSTALLER)
Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 1.2.1
Microsoft Windows Search 2.66
Microsoft Works 8.5
Microsoft XPS Viewer EP 1.0 FINAL (REQUIRES INSTALLED FILES EXTRACTED FROM AN XP OR 2003 INSTALL; REQUIRES MSXML 6 AND GDI+)
Mp3tag 2.39
Nero 8
Paint.net 2.72
QuickTime Alternative 1.9
RealPlayer 10.5
Stardock WindowBlinds 4.7
VMWare Workstation 6.5 (REQUIRES REGISTRY EDIT TO SAY XP)
Yahoo Messenger 8.1.421
ZoneAlarm Firewall 7.0.483.0

SUPPORT ONGOING
4nt v 8.x
uTorrent
Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash Player 10
Adobe Reader 9
aMSN
AOL AIM 6.8
Apple Bonjour 1.0.6
AutoIt v3
BVRP Connection Manager Lite
CachemanXP
DAEMON Tools Lite
eBoostr 3
FileZilla (unofficially)
GamSpy Arcade
The GIMP
Google Earth
Hamachi
IcoFX
IE7Pro
InfranView
K-Meleon Browser
Mathon Browser
MediaMonkey
Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c March 2009
Microsoft IntelliType 6.31
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack SP2
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0
Microsoft Windows Live Toolbar
Microsoft Windows Messenger 5.1.x
Mozilla Firefox
OpenGL Extensions Viewer v3
OpenOffice 3.x
Opera
OrcaBrowser
PC Tools Firewall Plus
Pixia
RMClock
Sandboxie
Skype
Softmaker 2008
Songbird 1.1.2
Stardock Objectbar 1.6
Steam
TeamSpeak
total command 8.x
TrueTransparency
VLC
Webroot Desktop Firewall 5.8
Winamp
Xfire

REQUIRES DLLS, I.E. KDW OR OLDCIGARATTE'S PACK
Apple Safari 3.2.2
foobar2000 0.9.5.x
Google Chrome
Microsoft MSCONFIG.EXE from XP SP3
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.1/8.5
Microsoft Windows Media Player 10

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 (Works but is slightly broken i.e. Library and titles do not show correctly, no CD burning support)
Mp3tag 2.43

Pale Moon 25.4.1
QuickTime 7.5
Real Player 11.0.0.372

Windows NT 4.00 / NT 3.51 video subsystem issues

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:08:25 +0000

All revisions (ALPHA/I386/MIPS/PPC) of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT 3.51 has issue with maximum possible total video mode count limit and it is around 296 modes. Any mode provided by driver above 296 will be cutted down. It is not depended on driver issue, this bug is inside Windows NT system itself. Windows 2000 and later does not have such issue.

Here it is a binary patch for Windows NT 4.0 (I386, any SP/edition, language) for SYSTEM32\WIN32K.SYS :

Change 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x00 0x00 0x6A to 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x03 0x00 0x6A
Change 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x00 0x00 0xFF to 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x03 0x00 0xFF
Recalculate checksum, f.e. EDITBIN.EXE WIN32K.SYS /RELEASE

Here it is a binary patch for Windows NT 3.51 (I386, any SP/edition, language) for SYSTEM32\WINSRV.DLL :

Change 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x00 0x00 0xA1 to 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x03 0x00 0xA1
Change 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x00 0x00 0xFF to 0x68 0xB8 0x00 0xFF 0x03 0x00 0xFF
Recalculate checksum, f.e. EDITBIN.EXE WINSRV.DLL /RELEASE

This will increase total limit to 1190 modes. Below are results in screenshots, before and after.

KernelEx for Win2000

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:00:18 +0000

Happy new year.
I planed to customize Windows 2000 kernel32.dll.

Download site(Japanese)

v2
kernel is only prevent from appear ".exe is not a valid Win32 application".
v5
kernel extends some functions.
v10b
kernel extends more functions and add customized wtsapi32.dll.
* English version released on 1st Feb(v10/a has bug. please download v10b).
* Italian version released on 26th Jun.
* Traditional Chinese version has problem( v10b3 Fixed Jun 26th)
v11e
Added RtlCaptureStackBackTrace, GetSystemWow64DirectoryA, GetSystemWow64DirectoryW and GetHandleContext in kernel32.dll.
Advapi32.dll supported SystemFunction036 and TraceMessage(stub),fixed SetServiceStatus.
Packed with ntdll.dll and setupapi.dll
v12b
Added WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId, in kernel32,
　Fixed user32.dll null pointer problem.
v13i
Added FreeAddrInfoW, freeaddrinfo, getaddrinfo, getnameinfo in ws2_32.dll.
Added RemoveVectoredExceptionHandler, AddVectoredExceptionHandler in kernel32.
v15
Added WSANSPIoctl in ws2_32.dll.
Added RtlCaptureContext, GetGeoInfoW, GetUserGeoID in kernel32.
Added GetAdaptersAddresses, Icmp6CreateFile, Icmp6ParseReplies, Icmp6SendEcho2, IcmpCloseHandle, IcmpCreateFile, IcmpParseReplies, IcmpSendEcho2, IcmpSendEcho, CancelIPChangeNotify in iphlpapi.
Added CryptStringToBinaryA, CryptStringToBinaryW, CryptBinaryToStringA, CryptBinaryToStringW int CRYPT32.
Added IsUserAnAdmin, SHParseDisplayName, SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirW, SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems in Shell32.
Expanded SHFolder My Music, My Video, CDBurn, OEMLink Folder.
Added IsWindowInDestroy, DefRawInputProc, GetRawInputBuffer, GetRegisteredRawInputDevices, GetRawInputDeviceInfoA, GetRawInputDeviceInfoW, GetRawInputDeviceList, GetRawInputData, RegisterRawInputDevicesGetWindowRgnBox, MessageBoxTimeout in user32.
Added FlushTraceW in advapi32.dll
v15l
Added rpcrt4.dll (based on WildBill's hotix)
Added GetGeoInfoA in kernel32.
Added DnsFree in dnsapi.
Added A_SHAFinal, A_SHAInit, A_SHAUpdate, MD5Update, MD5Final, MD5Init in advapi32.dll
v15p2
Added SHSetUnreadMailCountW and SHEnumerateUnreadMailAccountsW in Shell32
Added MD4Init, MD4Final, MD4Update, CredFree, CredWriteW, CredEnumerateW, CredDeleteW, CredReadW in advapi32.
Fixed SystemFunction036 compatibility in advapi32.
Added GetProcessImageFileNameA/W in psapi
Added GetSystemTimes in Kernel32
Added GetAddrInfoW in ws2_32
Fixed SystemLink Class in User32.dll
v15q
Added RpcServerInqCallAttributesW in rpcrt4
Added SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirA in shell32
Added GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeNameA/W in kernel32
Supported NoStrCmpLogical
v15r
Added IsProcessInJob in kernel32
v17c
Added Customized Userenv
Added AES128/192/256 support.
Added esent(XP)/esent97(XP) for migrated for Win2000.
add stubbed CoInternetIsFeatureEnabled, CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled urlmon.dll
add EngIsSemaphoreOwned and EngBugCheckEx in win32k.sys
Add dblhelp.dll
v17h
Add the following functions in setupapi.dll
pSetupFree
pSetupMalloc
pSetupRealloc
pSetupIsUserAdmin
pSetupUnicodeToMultiByte
pSetupMultiByteToUnicode
pSetupAcquireSCMLock
pSetupAddMiniIconToList
pSetupAddTagToGroupOrderListEntry
pSetupAppendStringToMultiSz
pSetupCaptureAndConvertAnsiArg
pSetupCenterWindowRelativeToParent
pSetupConcatenatePaths
pSetupDoesUserHavePrivilege
pSetupDuplicateString
pSetupEnablePrivilege
pSetupFreeStringArray
pSetupGetCurrentDriverSigningPolicy
pSetupGetVersionInfoFromImage
pSetupHandleFailedVerification
pSetupInfIsFromOemLocation
pSetupInstallCatalog
pSetupInstallStopEx
pSetupOpenAndMapFileForRead
pSetupOutOfMemory
pSetupQueryMultiSzValueToArray
pSetupRegistryDelnode
pSetupRetrieveServiceConfig
pSetupSetArrayToMultiSzValue
pSetupShouldDeviceBeExcluded
pSetupStringTableAddString
pSetupStringTableAddStringEx
pSetupStringTableDestroy
pSetupStringTableDuplicate
pSetupStringTableEnum
pSetupStringTableGetExtraData
pSetupStringTableInitialize
pSetupStringTableInitializeEx
pSetupStringTableLookUpString
pSetupStringTableLookUpStringEx
pSetupStringTableSetExtraData
pSetupStringTableStringFromId
pSetupStringTableStringFromIdEx
pSetupUnmapAndCloseFile
pSetupVerifyCatalogFile
pSetupVerifyFile

Add the following functions in iphlpapi.dll
DisableMediaSense
GetBestInterfaceEx
GetExtendedTcpTable
GetExtendedUdpTable
RestoreMediaSense
GetIpErrorString

v15y/v17n
added the following functions in ntdll

RtlInitUnicodeStringEx
NtDeleteBootEntry
NtModifyBootEntry
NtAddBootEntry
NtEnumerateBootEntries
NtQueryBootEntryOrder
NtQueryBootOptions
NtSetBootEntryOrder
NtSetBootOptions
NtEnumerateSystemEnvironmentValuesEx
NtTranslateFilePath
NtSetSystemEnvironmentValueEx
NtQuerySystemEnvironmentValueEx
RtlCaptureContext
vDbgPrintExWithPrefix
vDbgPrintEx
DbgPrintEx
RtlInterlockedPushListSList
RtlFirstEntrySList
RtlInterlockedFlushSList
RtlInitializeSListHead
RtlQueryDepthSList
RtlInterlockedPushEntrySList

fixed the problem of GetExtendedTcpTable and GetExtendedUdpTable.
and added GetUdpExTable2FromStack and GetTcpExTable2FromStack in iphlpapi

Added RpcServerUnregisterIfEx in rpcrt4

Added in advapi32 the following functions
SaferiChangeRegistryScope
SaferComputeTokenFromLevel
SaferGetLevelInformation
SaferCloseLevel
SaferCreateLevel
SaferIdentifyLevel
SaferSetPolicyInformation
SaferGetPolicyInformation
SaferRecordEventLogEntry
SaferSetLevelInformation
FlushTraceA
UpdateTraceW
UpdateTraceA
StopTraceW
StopTraceA
QueryTraceW
QueryTraceA
IsTokenUntrusted
EnumerateTraceGuids
GetInheritanceSourceA
TreeResetNamedSecurityInfoW
FreeInheritedFromArray
GetInheritanceSourceW
CredWriteDomainCredentialsW
CredpDecodeCredential
CredpEncodeCredential
CredIsMarshaledCredentialW
CredpConvertCredential
CredpConvertTargetInfo

Added SHGetImageList and SHCreateShellItem in shell32

Added the following functions in kernel32

GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeNameW
GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeNameA
IsProcessInJob
GetCurrentActCtx
GetThreadId
GetDllDirectoryW

v2.0a

added CoRevokeInitializeSpy and CoRegisterInitializeSpy in ole32.dll

* Sorry , v16 is still Japanese only.
English and Traditional Chinese and japanese version v15y and v2.0a are released.

But I can't debug English version.
Will anybody check if they work ?
(Don't install different language patch !)

Although I think there is no problem in v2 kernel, not sure about v5 kernel
Because of the risk, I hope that you install it on VMWare.

* The following is Action when BSoD appears,
- Enter Edit mode the Virtual Machine.
- Select target Hard disk.
- Select Map in Utility.
- Uncheck Readonly
- Copy kernel32.dll from Z:\Windows\$NtUninstallKB935839-v5$\ to to Z:\Windows\system32\ (Perhaps not Windows but Winnt).
- Close Z Drive
- Unmap Drive

Following functions. are extended on v5 kernel.

- DecodePointer
- EncodePointer
- GetNativeSystemInfo
- GetProcessHandleCount
- SetDllDirectoryW
- IsWow64Process

Following functions. are also extended on v6/7 kernel.

- IsWow64Message
- CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent
- SetDllDirectoryA
- GetModuleHandleExW
- InterlockedPopEntrySList
- InterlockedPushEntrySList
- InitializeSListHead
- InterlockedFlushSList
- QueryDepthSList

Following functions. are also extended on v8 kernel.
(You must use customized msvcr80.dll and msvcr90.dll in v8 package)

- FindActCtxSectionStringA
- FindActCtxSectionStringW

If v5 kernel has no problem, some programs which compiled on VS2010 work on Windows 2000.

And Kernel Core Project.

added the following functions

videoprt.sys
VideoPortUnlockBuffer
VideoPortLockBuffer
VideoPortFlushRegistry

ntoskrnl/ntkrnlpa
_alldvrm
_alloca_probe
_aulldvrm
_vsnwprintf
DbgPrintEx
ExfInterlockedCompareExchange64
IoCsqInitialize
IoCsqInsertIrp
IoCsqRemoveIrp
IoCsqRemoveNextIrp
IoSetCompletionRoutineEx
KeAcquireInStackQueuedSpinLockAtDpcLevel
KeDeregisterBugCheckReasonCallback
KeFlushQueuedDpcs
KeRegisterBugCheckReasonCallback
KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLockFromDpcLevel
RtlGetVersion
RtlRandomEx
InterlockedPopEntrySList
InterlockedPushEntrySList
ExGetCurrentProcessorCounts
ExGetCurrentProcessorCpuUsage
KeGetRecommendedSharedDataAlignment
PsGetThreadId
PsGetThreadProcessId
PsGetCurrentThread
PsGetCurrentThreadStackLimit
PsGetCurrentThreadStackBase
PsGetCurrentProcess
ObSetSecurityObjectByPointer
SeTokenObjectType
KeAreApcsDisabled

hal.dll
KeAcquireInStackQueuedSpinLock
KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLock

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exceeding max_path (path length > 260 characters)

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:53:01 +0000

Hello,

as you are probably aware, Windows has problems with long paths (total length > 260 characters).

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In old Windows versions there is the "\\?\"-trick, which helps in a few situations:

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The "\\?\" prefix to a path string tells the Windows APIs to disable all string parsing and to send ... it straight to the file system. For example, if the file system supports large paths and file names, you can exceed the MAX_PATH limits that are otherwise enforced by the Windows APIs.

... it turns off automatic expansion of the path string ... but not all file I/O APIs support "\\?\" ... Unicode APIs should be used ...

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Starting with Windows 10, it is possible to allow specific applications to use longer paths.

According to the documentation, Microsoft modified specific functions of the API to allow using longer paths for specific applications in Windows 10. So the list of functions is rather interesting. And here it is:

CopyFileW
CopyFile2
CopyFileExW
CreateDirectoryW
CreateDirectoryExW
CreateFileW
CreateFile2
CreateHardLinkW
CreateSymbolicLinkW
DeleteFileW
FindFirstFileNameW
FindFirstFileW
FindFirstFileExW
FindFirstStreamW
FindNextFileNameW
FindNextFileW
FindNextStreamW
GetCompressedFileSizeW
GetCurrentDirectoryW
GetFileAttributesW
GetFileAttributesExW
GetFinalPathNameByHandleW
SetFileAttributesW
GetFullPathNameW
GetLongPathNameW
MoveFileW
MoveFileExW
MoveFileWithProgressW
RemoveDirectoryW
ReplaceFileW
SearchPathW
SetCurrentDirectoryW

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Is anyone aware of any pioneer work that has been done to improve the situation with Windows versions older than Windows 10?

released: bug fix for win32k.sys/fsg_RunPreProgram (execution order)

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:42:12 +0000

Hello Windows 2000 fans,

when using vanilla Windows 2000 with a rather new version of win32k.sys, there is a bug in the function "fsg_RunPreProgram" which reduces that drawing quality of some fonts. This bug was fixed with the version 5.00.2195.7610 by Microsoft. However, it was reintroduced into the operating system shortly afterwards, so it still exists in the newest version of win32k.sys (5.00.2195.7640).

To fix this bug there are 2 ways:

Use Extended Kernel 3.1H or newer. Blackwingcat fixed this bug.
If you don't like or can't install Extended Kernel, there is now a second option available: WINDOWS2000-OTSKB3037639-V1-X86-INTL.exe

There is an article in the knowledge database available with more information on the nature of this bug.

There is some more auxilliary information available, which I do not plan to distribute among end users: code.htm

The patch updates the file "win32k.sys"

from the version "5.00.2196.0001"
to the version "5.00.2196.0002".

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If someone likes to help with an upcoming Windows 2000 update: I am looking for Windows XP updates which contain a version of win32k.sys. My list of known updates is currently pretty short:

KB3013455 contains version 5.1.2600.6712
KB3034344 contains version 5.1.2600.6755
KB4039384 contains version 5.1.2600.7334

Thank you.

Is it possible to install Win NT 4.0 on LGA775 chipset?

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:33:28 +0000

Is it possible to install Win NT 4.0 on LGA775 chipset? Will there be any problem?

Also, is it possible to install drivers for GeForce 7800 since it also use ver 77.72?

NT4 + SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum SB0090 - Sound is working only right after installation before reboot, but not after reboot - silence

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:53:27 +0000

Hi,
im trying to make Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum SB0090 on Windows NT4 - SP6 on IBM x235 (socket 604) server converted to retro gaming rig.

This machine has only free PCI-X slots so i cant use just some PCI sound card, i have only 2 PCI cards which are able to work in PCI-X slots (slot notches/holes) and Windows 98/ NT4 - SB0090 and SB0570 (this maybe can work within Win98/WinNT - have tried to force some drivers, there is not exclamation mark on devices - but only got noise sounds as at least 1 more user it the same situation ). Card is Working fine in Windows 98/XP/2000 - to Windows 2008.

I so far have only find drivers in the form of bundled CD images - their date is - 2001, July 7, expected that there would be updated drivers with fixes, but so far i did not found some.

Problem is strange, right after i install drivers, without reboot sound is working fine, but after reboot i there is second part of installation and after that no more sound, even after addition reboot. If uninstall drivers, reboot, install them again, sound is working again.

Other problem is that i cant install drivers just by pointing them to drivers directory with inf file (Win NT had not Device manager or Add New Hardware Wizard) from Multimedia control panel, its simply not accept folder with driver as source, its like folder does not contain driver.. In sound device description is strange text Sound Blaster ... (emulated).

So only way how i can install driver is use *.exe installer (CTZAPXX.exe). I checked devices - services which are running right after start, i have tried to simulate the same state but stopping device services, or removed devices right from registry to reach the same services state (only 2 are running after install when sounds are working), but sound is still not working even after reboot.

There is no error in Event log, because system consider driver as running fine, device is processing data from Control panel Windows sounds, or Winamp, Diablo 2 demo etc as i case of working sound card, bu not real sound is produced.

The i try Scitech audio driver installer (snapaudio-winnt-1.1.2-.exe) - recommended by BearWindows, i get only not supported card found message.

Im no sure is problem is not connected to Direct X3, afaik NT4 are limited to DirectX3, newer versions (5 or 6) are supported only some unofficials installers. I have to dive yet into it.. When i checked some Dxdiag replacements there was not Sound devices with DX3 - only after i installed new DX hacks - but that threre was Primary sound card driver and SB Audigy 220 emulated, but sound was still not working.

As WinNT are not Dos based, i guess some PCI registry hacking (save state right after install and upload it after reboot ) would probably not way how to fix it.

I dunno if its matters. but before restart its name of Device in Multimedia control panel - Emu10Kx Audio [2200], but after restart its Sound Blaster audigy [2200] emulated.

Pictures from the working state after install before restart, all CT* devices are related to Creative drives (only 2 device "services" are actually running):

PowerStrip on Windows NT 4.0 SP6

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:40:03 +0000

Latest version working on WinNT 4.0 is 3.63 but this not support write EDID. I tested other versions and they install OK but do not want to work:

3.64.555 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager
3.65 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager
3.75 - nothing but pstrip.exe in task manager
3.83 - Access violation
3.85 - Access violation

P.S. All these versions work in WinXP and I can write EDID.

https://www.upload.ee/files/18871199/PowerStrip3x.zip.html

It is the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under >>>
every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to the x64-bit edition of Windows 7 <<<

https://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm

released: bug fix for win32k.sys/CreateXlateObject (buffer overflow)

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:21:40 +0000

Hello Windows 2000/XP/Embedded fans,
while I was working on a graphics driver, I noticed random crashes (blue screens) which were hard to reproduce. They don't happen often, but when using a display mode with 16 colors (for example 640x480x16 colors) they seem to happen more often than with other color depths.

Eventually I was able to narrow down the problem and came to the conclusion, that the root cause is a buffer overrun in the function "CreateXlateObject" in the file "win32k.sys". This buffer overrun sometimes caused a random crash. In the most cases it happened within win32k.sys.

I observed, that this issue is not fixed even in the newest version of win32k.sys from a Windows 2000 update from April 2016. An old version of win32k.sys from Windows XP has the same problem. I don't know which Windows XP update contains the newest version of win32k.sys for Windows XP, so I could not validate whether this issue was ever fixed - and if so: how.

So I thought about what to do and came up with the idea, to write a Windows update of my own to fix this bug.

So far I gathered necessary information and wrote a help file which contains most of what I know about the nature of this issue and how it can be fixed:
OTSKB.chm

There is some more auxilliary information available, which I do not plan to distribute among end users:
code.htm

Eventually, I fixed the win32k.sys from Windows 2000 manually with a hex editor to test the proposed solution:
5.00.2196.0001.zip

The update, which would do this automatically and then install the new file automatically, is not written, yet.

I would appreciate some feedback before I continue writing the update. Please let me know what you think. Maybe I just got it all wrong, don't know.

Edit: The title has been changed from "request for comment" to "looking for a beta tester".

Edit: The title has been changed from "looking for a beta tester" to "released".

Edit: If you don't want to read everything but only grab the released files:

OTSKB.chm (if you like a newer version than the one that is included in the update)
WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000001-V8-X86-INTL.exe (for Windows 2000)
WINDOWSXP-OTSKB000001-V3-X86-INTL.exe (for Windows XP (32 bits))
WINDOWSXP-OTSKB000001-V3-X86-EMBEDDED-INTL.exe (for Windows Embedded for Point of Service (32 bits))

The patch for Windows 2000 updates the file "win32k.sys"

from the version "5.00.2195.7640"
to the version "5.00.2196.0001".

Intel 82579LM Gigabit WIndows 2000 drivers

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:40:32 +0000

Hi,
im looking for Windows 2000 driver for Intel 82579LM Gigabit . I have found Blackwing cat drivers, but not made them working..
http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1881426.html

Drivers installs fine, but there is code 31 - This device is not working properly Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device.
unable to initialize device, in other OSes its working fine.

GDI+ installation

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:58:02 +0000

Whilst trying to install the new Windows Defender Beta 2 program on my win 2000 machine I keep getting the following message in a little pop-up box

"This software required GDI+. Please load the Windows

2000 Security Software PreRequistite Pack."

Now, of course I tootle off to google and have a search, but nothing is found, so I pop onto the microsoft site and do a search, nothing found. So now I am at a bit of a loss as to where to find this PreRequisite Pack.

If someone could point me in the right direction to download this (or whatever it is I need to install the GDI+ libraries) I would be most grateful.

Cheers.

Is it possible to boot Windows 2000 on UEFI?

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:16:43 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to boot Windows 2000 on UEFI? I know it is possible to boot Windows XP and Whistler Beta 1 on UEFI, but wanted to know if it was possible to boot 2000 on UEFI. One person was able to boot Whistler Beta 1 on UEFI, but struggled with 2296. I tried this on Windows 2000, and followed the same steps shown in NTDEV'S XP UEFI video. When I try to boot it with the Vista 5219 files, I get the 0xc000000f error. What would need to be done to get 2000 running on UEFI? If it isn’t possible, why?

Windows 2000 how to install AMD / ATI catalyst control panel, its possible to install it somehow standalone?

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 05:47:44 +0000

I made BlackWIngCat ATI/AMD drivers working for 3D in Windows 2000 with extended kernel, but they are only barebone drivers.. i would like to set some image quality settings.

Here are details, you have to autotranslate it:
https://win2k.org/blog/2009/09/30/571484/

BlackWingCat description mentioning Catalyst, but there are not details, im not sure if its possible get only standalone installer, or extract it from XP drivers etc, i have tried some wild kernel of his driver and XP package, but installer crashed, even installer with original driver crashed.

Have tried ATI tool, its running but developement ended in 2006 and ATI try tools generate blue screen, right after install.

Windows 2000 UEFI Boot

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:45:36 +0000

I managed to boot Windows 2000 with Clover UEFI32 and Longhorn 5472 boot files on real hardware.

Only problem is, no screen. But sound and disk activity exist and heard Windows sounds. Even GTX980 driver does not display (both in legacy and UEFI boot with longhorn files. But displays normally with ntldr). This problem does not happen in XP. It displays correctly.

@reboot12 @Dietmar maybe you guys can solve with patches.

For NT4, it wants kdcom.dll and bootvid.dll. If these files bypassed or patched, it can boot with UEFI.

EDIT: Display worked when I switched DP to HDMI for win2000! For NT4, I managed to bypass kdcom.dll but this time, 0xc000007b bootmgr kernel error (not BSOD). Maybe it requires ACPI or bootmgr should look non-ACPI hal.

EDIT 2: Tested also with QEMU and it worked. Video: https://youtu.be/NLW0Eg1nDNU

Windows 2000 Extended kernel -how much work would be add XP+ like System protection features? Or its there some 3rd party alternative to do the same?

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:51:46 +0000

Windows 2000 with extended kernel and all new improvement are great user experience, well expect web browsing - we need Windows 2000 Superium port, i only missing a few other features.

Most Windows XP, restore point and system restore, it saved my skin countless times and it would be really nice feature to add to Extended kernel, im really sure how much work would be needed and it could be somehow backported from Windows XP..

Or if there is 3rd party software which could do the same - track files chances on selected volume.. and use for it max give disk space, be able to rollback changes / snapshots from some boot cd.

Im not sure if Microsoft was first company with this idea, probably not.

Any way of using Windows 2000 with 11GB of RAM?

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:54:01 +0000

I Already know that Microsoft Windows 2000 will only support up to 8GB of RAM using the Advanced Server Editions, does anyone know if you can use up to 11GB of RAM?

I am trying to create an extended kernel for NT4

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:11:57 +0000

I'm trying to create an extended kernel for NT4, but I'm having trouble finding the real base Address .
The reason for searching for the new base address I know is because I got this error after adding function:

I was able to get Memory.dmp by running nt4 on an old real computer but I couldn't find the real base Address. I tried entering the base address ollyDumpEX specified for me but it didn't work :

but the error changed :

kernel32 can not relocate address, so if i move it to the working address , it goes BSoD , at first , kernel32 use critial base address, so it goes BSoD suddenly. at next kernel32 use bad base address so it tried to move address , but kernel32 does not allow relocate address , so it shows such BSoD.

I think the range of the addresses not to use for Kernel32.dll.

Dealing with NT4 is difficult and it is not as easy to handle with it unlike 2000 and XP. But I am really surprised how @junior600 finds the real base Address .

He was saying he's working on CFFexplorer like I do !