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@dencorso I know how Bell Labs/System V was not at all about freedom, but Linux (and derivatives) should be. The GNU approach on one side is a very good one in theory, in practice it creates more damages than needed. as a matter of fact its license is either non-enforced or non-enforceable, noone can really be sure to comply with it, giving it's verbosity, complexity, different versions/revisions, etc. the whole "fork" approach is something that may have been good in the good ol' days but currently the main effect is of having a zillion versions of everything (none actually working as it should of course) and an increasing number of difficulties in dealing with real devices in real world. Of course it is not the fault of the good GNU people, I am only commenting on the actual, real (terrible) situation we live in. The BSD license is IMHO much better, still it allowed the abomination that Mac OSX represents, a "free" OS that gives you not any degree of freedom. Android for certain aspects is even worse. jaclaz

So, since in your specific case the problem was fixed we shouldn't leave any hint/suggestion for other people that - having a similar problem - may actually need those patched files? Btw, my post hinted that WHEN: a hotfix is not downloadable AND MS has not a link to the hotfix e-mail sending service page,you can try to access that page nonetheless, and in SOME cases it still works: hxxps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=<actual KB number>&kbln= As a side note: the thread is not titled "Please help me with all the issue I am having and will have installing Windows 2000", in order to keep things as easy to find as possible it would be nice if you could start a new thread for this new, different issue. It seems however that the issue was - at least partially - with your "WPA supplicant" and its configuration, just in case (and for other readers landing here): And also: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ Linux but there is also a Windows binary, cannot say specifically if it works on 2K. , let alone on a specific machine, it is largely a hit and miss game (with a lot of misses) when it comes to Windows 2000 and newish hardware/protocols. jaclaz

Well, you just deleted by mistake some 80 Gb of precious files, you are understandably preoccupied/under stress, it is unlikely that you would remember that, as well most - if not all - people will continue fiddling with the computer for hours, while I was trying ot make the point that the best (in the sense of action that provides the most probabilities of recovering deleted or lost files) thing to do is easy, pull the plug, as soon as you can, even shutting down the device through the OS could make things worse. Every hour, minute, second the machine is on there is a higher risk of *something* overwriting *something else*. jaclaz

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