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Try requesting it here: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=822568&kbln=it jaclaz

Yep, it is likely that would explain the lost 10 Gb, though usually (but not always) the just deleted files are not overwritten, most probably that happened because you had a rather full volume and/or the single files were rather big and/or the volume was not (or was too recently ) defragmented. With Windows 7 (and later are much worse) the "background" or "idle" defragmenting/optimizing of the file system may also have played a part in that, the only "safe" way to prevent modifications on a mounted volume is to (literally) pull the plug out (or remove the battery in the case of a laptop) immediately cutting power off the device (whatever theoretical damages the file system may suffer by stopping the system this way, like non flushed cache, etc. are very likely to be less destructive). jaclaz

And WAS it userinit.exe ONLY in previous versions of Windows? Try running Autoruns: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx jaclaz

@dencorso, to be fair I have some difficulties in finding anything further from the concept of "freedom" than current implementations of both iOS and Android. jaclaz

Yes, that would be nice . About the multicore, maybe you could see if there is some updated (inside a possibly seemingly unrelated KB) hal/kernel. Though anyway - if I recall correctly- it will "see" at most a dual core. (but that may be limited to "Professional" version). Anything worth of mention in the logs? Try following: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/315396 jaclaz

For the record, there is no actual 260 characters path limit in NTFS (there is one in some Windows API calls), it depends on the actual program/tool in use of course, but SUBST or UNC names have always worked in those rare cases, NTFS in itself allows to up to around 32,767 characters. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx Usual misinformation by the Windows 10 fans, and Just For NoelC's Interest (as Visualstudio user) interest: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/2156195-fix-260-character-file-name-length-limitation an exceptionally lame (beside false) excuse. And some good ol' (rare nowadays) Common Sense: https://blog.codinghorror.com/filesystem-paths-how-long-is-too-long/ jaclaz

Well, as a matter of fact, one of the stupidest things (usually done by default by the good MS guys and by all or almost all OEM's) is to have not separate partitions for operating system and data. What is recommended instead (whenever possible and of course using some grains of salt) is to have the OS on an "own" volume (that should be as small as possible) and have everything else on other volume(s). The idea here is that any "volume wide" or "filesystem wide" operation (like defrag or chkdsk) will take AGES on large volumes, and this kind of operations are much more likely to be needed on the volume holding the Operating System (as compared to a volume holding mainly data, and particularly "static" data). Same thing applies to other less common operations (as an example a dd-like image) and SFC/WPF checks. Depending on the amount of users, also "user profiles" can be moved to another volume. Using a mountpoint (or softlink if you prefer) solves also issues with the programs that actually *need* a c:\ starting path in most (like 99.99% of cases). jaclaz

Everything is well that ends well jaclaz

Got it fine with Opera (Presto) 12.15.1748. Uploaded it here: http://wikisend.com/download/375374/58e775d9-672b-420b-8523-f4d3c52af9a2.zip JFYI, you cannot really use "only" for a 8.7 Mb file which is seemingly little more thatn a glorified keyboard driver, heck!, it is 4 times Doom install size (a random unit of measure):

Probably yes, though the issue right now is that without mouse it will be difficult to deal with the machine, i.e. I was suggesting to have a PS/2 mouse in order to test the XP usbhub20.sys )in XP the corresponding file is usbhub.sys, I believe) , though the actual culprit may be not the usbhub20.sys itself, but rather some other component driver (still connected to the USB, of course, the "hub" in itself should be "standard", but uUSB support is made out of several drivers "interconnected" between them) it is more likely that the issue is with the PCI to USB bridge, but cannot say. You could try to use this (unrelated) KB files: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/838989 (just to see if they change something). Another idea is to make a (temporary) install of XP to see which drivers are actually used in it/which specific hardware (VID/PID, etc) is on the board. jaclaz

Out of curiosity, is it common to write in Japanese to cousins in India? Interesting almost integral copy and paste of a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata (without mentioning the source, of course) however. jaclaz

You will need to detail the specific hardware you are trying to use. Maybe a 2k compatible driver is found (in some cases it has been possible to backport/use an XP driver). Since your keyboard seemingly works, it must be a PS/2 one, so the motherboard likely has two "normal" PS/2 ports especially during the troubleshooting/experiments, it would be a good idea if you could procure a PS/2 mouse or an USB one with a PS/2 adapter (AFAIK the USB mouse needs to be "compatible" with PS/2, i.e. not all USB mice are compatible with those adapters). jaclaz

Workaround: Right click on the image. Select "Size and position" Adjust it. But I believe you want to make a default, see if this is what you want: http://www.guidingtech.com/24859/change-default-image-paste-insert-word/ jaclaz

As a side-side note (and for future readers) a "normal" install of 2K Professional (but I don't think that Advanced Server is that much different) takes about 650 Mb of hard disk space, when doing experiments a 3 or 4 Gb partition/volume, 10 Gb if you really want to overdo it, is much more than enough, there is no real need of 48 bit LBA support nor of "huge" partitions/volumes, just leave the rest of the disk non-partitioned, the time needed to create the partition and format will be minimal. jaclaz

Hoppalong, I believe that MrMaguire question/suggestion is worth a try much more than your (with all due respect "crazy") idea of the double shortcuts. It is possible that your current account has been somehow corrupted (I am thinking of either *something* in NTUSER.DAT or a permission issue on the actual folders). As well it is possible that some "start up" items are conflicting. Even without rebooting, you can well list running processes and kill (a few at a time) them to pinpoint which one is "hanging". Creating (temporarily) a new user is fast, costs nothing and at least it would "exclude" the current user profile from being part of the problem ( if the same happens then the issue is more likely to be connected to the "All Users"). jaclaz

A working install/setup should. A migrated/moved installed system won't. If the setup (I would try WINNT32.exe) does not work for any reason, the "migrated install" should be as simple and with as little detected hardware as possible. Since you have already experienced that XP works, you might want to make a dual boot 2k/XP and use the XP to change/correct/edit/etc. the 2K install. Mind you it is very possible that I am more pessimist than what I should really be, but I am not at all familiar with those Mac machines and have no idea how "portable" to the Mac Pro that "Mini" method is, what makes me suspect it to be not easy-peasy is the fact that I could find only those two reports, I would have expected to find tens of related posts. jaclaz

@JorgeA Here is an adjective : crappy feel free to insert it between "another" and "tool" or between "disable" and "GWX", personally I added it in both places to be on the safe side while reading. jaclaz

Likely it won't work :unsure:. Nothing against VMWare fusion, but historically VmWare (virtual) hardware needs specific drivers whilst Qemu virtual hardware is "as legacy" (in the sense of "good ol' plain") as possible. Usually the first issue with an install/migration is the (lack of) basic "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE controller" (I believe that VmWare uses LSI logic virtual controllers). For XP and 2003 there is Fixide: https://www.foolis***.com/free-tech-tools/fixide/ but I cannot remember a similar simple tool for 2k. Of course the above only makes sense if the Mac BIOS (or whatever) has a "IDE compatibility mode" or similar. jaclaz

Sure, MBR of course. XP doesn't really support GPT disks anyway (only 64 bit version has some support). Yep, making a 2k install in a Qemu virtual machine (I am saying explicitly Qemu and more specifically good ol' Qemu Manager) will create a "generic enough" Windows 2K install. Then a "changing motherboard" *like* routine might work: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html Whether this will work (or work better than setup) is to be seen of course, in any case I would try a "install from hard disk" (as opposed to "install from CD/iso"). Just in case Qemu Manager should still be available through Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20120607071209/http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20120506095037/http://www.davereyn.co.uk/qem/setupqemuk70.exe But right now they are having some form of misconfiguration and when the "original" site times out, the Archive.org seemingly assumes that there is a robots.txt preventing the archiving (which is of course not true, the links above were tested). Find it here: https://wohlnet.ru/soft/Virtualisation/QEMU/ https://wohlnet.ru/soft/Virtualisation/QEMU/setupqemuk70.exe jaclaz

The actual issue is not at all about the apologizing, it is about the interrupting. jaclaz

Yep, though the issue is of course about the actual hardware and the existence of suitable Win2k (or backported XP) drivers for it. The single/multi processor might be solved(actually worked around) with an installation with multiple HAL's/Kernel's to choose from in BOOT.INI. Personally I would attempt first an XP install, and only later attempt a 2k (if the first is successful) but possibly I would rather try a "base" or "universal" generic image of the 2K. While it is true that with this latter approach you will likely have more issues with device drivers, this way you would by-pass possible issues (limitations) of the Setup program. I recall that in the good ol'days - as an example - it wasn't possible to install 2k in Qemu and there was later a "hack" developed to allow it. jaclaz

Someone (reportedly) did it: https://macosx.com/threads/boot-camp-windows-2000.291782/ This is documented (Mac Mini though): https://web.archive.org/web/20060901003632/http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1096 http://intelmacminiw2k.blog64.fc2.com/blog-entry-1.html#more jaclaz

Sorry to interrupt, but this is important. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3173040 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/04/microsoft-windows-10-full-screen-upgrade-notification-pop-up-reminder jaclaz

Well, I would guess that it depends on what exactly you posted, maybe you overdid it or posted something like : I don't remember to have ever seen this three posts rule, maybe it is an anti-spamming precaution for new members . Yep, and more generally whining on another board won't help much. jaclaz

A protocol is not a server/service. Hint #1: 1) Disable/stop IIS 2) try sending and receiving an e-mail through Outlook Express. 3) Does it work? Hint #2 (historical note): Millions, maybe billions devices have been running XP WITHOUT IIS for years and still they managed and still manage to have SMTP mail (through Outlook Express or other mail program) working nicely. Final hint: You open the mail account(s) on Outlook Express and check what is in the SMTP server field. If it is a local IP, then you have a configured local SMTP server (which might or might not be based on that IIS instance), if you have a non-local IP address (rare) or more likely a web server address such as (example) mail.authsmtp.com you are NOT using IIS SMTP (virtual) servers and you don't §@ç#ing need them (in any case they are not working anyway). You have smtp.verizon.net (on port 465). Do you believe it to be local or belonging to Mr.Verizon ? Do you believe that shutting down a (non working) local virtual server that your Outlook Express does NOT use will affect e-mail sending or receiving capabilities? jaclaz