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not only 'appear' but they ARE faster. There is no DRMs built-in into the code of W2K (as opposed to XP). Thats the sole reason why.

Probably its not what OP want to hear, but IMHO best option is to go with any NT-based windows and NTFS. There are hardly any good and irreplaceable Win9x-only software out there, so for a 'video recording' machine get over 9x and find that old Win2000 CD and make use of it

links are DEAD

That is not Windows or registry problem, but your Via driver. I had few times same problem. Remove primary and secondary ide channels in Device Manager, install latest Via 4-in-1 driver, restart, let it detect them again and hope it works. One of the reasons why I always avoid Via chipset-based mobos if possible...

all very expensive IMHO

Well, there is nothing you can do on the machine itself if the user is in admin group me thinks, you can play with registry but it all will be overwritten once she reinstall msn messenger, so the only solution is blocking her ports on company server, or/and IP addresses (because dont forget even if you block ports messenger uses, she can always go to messenger website and use live messenger like a normal webpage there; not to mention ports redirectors etc). PS: If its a small company and you guys just share router (no server there) and you can login as router's admin, you can do the same there too, with the main difference that these rules (blocking ports or IPs) will apply to all the machines, so don't forget that you'll prevent everyone from using messenger if you block it on router.

If your machine boots fine without such service (only bitches about it failing to run) just set the service to 'manual' or 'disabled' on startup. However it is not a proper solution, since it eliminates the message about given service that failed, not the problem why it failed

Why not uninstall it since you don't want anyone to be able to run it?

Thats not a good sign... Assuming you'll *find* your WINNT folder, I attached copy of my explorer.exe v.5.0.3700.6690 (there are too many links in the search on this forums, Im too lazy to go through all of them, sorry) Extract it to i.e. floppy, boot in command prompt, delete existing explorer in \WINNT and copy or move this explorer there. It is virus-free etc, dont worry (but scan it on another machine since you never know what can happen on forum ) However, it is kinda pointless, since you haven't restore your explorer from CD or didnt uninstall any windows update patches (that might have 'restored' older explorer from its backup). I think you did something with with your windows folder since you cannot find \WINNT directory, you probably deleted it somehow, and if you dont have any backups of hdd image or such - you'll need to reinstall windows I'm afraid :/ Anyways, good luck and let us know whats up explorer_5.0.3700.6690.rar

few years ago I found a store liquidation on the web, they had dozen of brand new fujitsu 8gigers. I bought them all for $50 including shipping I doubt you can find'em nowadays, but 40gigers should be available. And check out all the small computer stores in your area too, sometimes they have such old junk and they will be more than happy to get rid of it for a low price

Perhaps try to boot with "Last Known Good", but I doubt it will help if i.e. your version of Explorer has been somehow 'restored' to older version (when you were uninstalling and cleaning things). F8 at boot when you see selections (W2K and another W2K if you don't have any other OSes there). edit: more info HERE If that won't help, try to boot in safe mode with command prompt. Delete and copy correct explorer.exe version to your \winnt dir If you kept your W2K updated, you probably had the latest common version 5.0.3700.6690, but remember that restoring it from original CD restores the much older version, so if you restored it from CD thats why you have this error. If you didn't make any backups, you can download explorer.exe from other threads on this forum (search for patched with 256-col icons). If it works out for you, I suggest to download and install ERUNT (set it for autobackup daily) and Cobian Backup 8 (set it for daily backup of windows dir too). Those 2 saved me many times from troubles like this.

I bet many XP users are like "what priviledge? what are they talking about?!" (since most of home users run their XP just as Administrators... LOL)

depends what youre using this machine for? Just email / browsing the web and you dont keep your machine running 24/7? the built-in XP fwall (past SP1, not the original) is OK enough. but if you do more, and i.e. download thru P2P such as torrents/etc? get a real firewall (and PeerGuardian too if you download stuff), because your machine acts as informal server already...

Youre in for a lot of hassle and no satisfaction in the end. You can make usable installation down to ~60MB, but no matter how "lighted", Win95 will still crawl with this amount of memory (and forget NT entirely). Yes, K-Meleon will work, 1.02 or even latest 1.1 too, but no matter what - youll be in for loooooooooooooooong wait until it even starts... I doubt you'll really use it, Im sure you'll get tired of "THE wait" all the time. Unless you get more RAM, IMHO that system belongs to Windows 3.11 & DOS only. RAM is everything.

Works with Industry Standard Architecture (bus type) devices. Im sure google will show plenty of results...

PnP is only as good as the drivers library, so even much newer windozes have same PnP problem as nt4 without PnP. Basically every windows in few years after its release doesn't have drivers for any newer hardware, thats why IMHO the whole "plug'n'pray" is just a smoke and mirrors See Vista not supporting any newer devices just in about 2008... Yes its nice to have many drivers on the OS disc, but it works only with hardware older than the OS itself obviously. NT4 has "ISA PnP" which have to be manually installed. (it is there: [NT4cd]:\DRVLIB\PNPISA\X86\PNPISA.inf right-click on inf and install)

Apologies accepted You are right, of course! My apologies I think I've had more experience with ASUS A7V600s, A7V400s and Soyo K7VTAs than is healthy, but they were rather popular around here, are pretty robust... and have issuses with ACPI/APM that usually go undetected because they mainly affect uptime... But, more recently, I've found a scenario where this problem is easy to detect: if one installs eMule, and it consistently crashes the system after about one and a half hour or less, this is also due to the ACPI/APM issue! But much easier to detect! Anyway, I think I've had more bad experiences with ACPI/APM than would be my fair share... More than month ago I setup system based on A7V600. I included emule as well (owner is a polish guy and he said this is the most popular filesharing soft among Poles, thus he need it to get polish-language content) and as always I enabled ACPI/APM on this box. I haven't heard any complaints from him so far, last time we spoke his box was running smooth for 3+ weeks straight (emule). Are you sure? (edit: I fortgot this is 9x forum; I set it up with Win2K, perhaps thats why it works fine)

awergh, NT4VU1.1 installed and running fine here. Didn't notice any bugs so far (of course I'll post if I find any). THX

Strange. IMHO NT4 is the easiest and simplest Windows OS ever, even easier than 95/98 were. Just few minutes and its installed and running if you prepared yourself and gathered all the drivers first.

Well, what did I say about contacting Msoft?

URL is URI too, dont forget, but maybe in that case it really was 'URI' indeed (Unidentified Resource Ientifier )

By default, members of the device's local Administrators group and the device's local Service account are assigned the "Impersonate a client after authentication" user right. The following components also have this user right: Services that are started by the Service Control Manager Component Object Model (COM) servers that are started by the COM infrastructure and that are configured to run under a specific account When you assign the "Impersonate a client after authentication" user right to a user, you permit programs that run on behalf of that user to impersonate a client. This security setting helps to prevent unauthorized servers from impersonating clients that connect to it through methods such as remote procedure calls (RPC) or named pipes. MORE INFO Also there was a patch for enabling pipe create instance for non-admin users AFAIR, but I dont remember details. Check it on msoft kb

NOD32 for years is best AV on the market. And it is one of the smallest resource hogs from them all too. some comparisons: edit: note how many viruses AVG missed - 745 vs. NOD32 missing none ( 0 ) ! Anything else but NOD32 is just very distant second...

Hibernation is great. I cant live without it. I enable hibernation on every box, and most of people like it too once I explain it to them. How can you not like being able to stop everything, shut it down, and return to exactly same moment few hours or days later? perhaps in a different location too if its a laptop Specially with slow booting OSes like XP - why wait 2 minutes (on older machine) until everything loads and starts, if you can have it back and running exactly where you left off in about 20sec? I really dont see your point marxo, and I have been setting up quite few legacy crapsters too. Actually I just wish it would be possible to 'transplant' hibernation to NT4 since W2K's hibernation (and XP's) is completely independent from ACPI.

Thank you I will test it out this wekend on an old notebook.