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Works very well. I tried posting some screenshots but attachments don't work. Why? ... but you need older Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64

I have IE6 SP1 original CD from MS, I will offer it to the universe... although it seems that some of the unofficial Service Packs include IE6 and much more.

You can check MS' struct definition for maximum string lengths. Or maybe stuff an extra long string in there and see if it ends up truncated in the registry.

I used Robocopy to copy an entire partition, everything worked as usual but the comments columns in Windows Explorer are all blank. I thought that comments, album, artist, etc. are part of NTFS file attributes that Robocopy will copy with /COPYALL option. How do I copy comments along with the files?

Uhm, not exactly Windows2000-UURollup-v10-x86-ENU.exe and Windows2000-UpdateRollup2-x86-ENU.exe can be installed manually or slipstreamed with HFSLIP. OnePiece_Windows_2000_Post-SP4_UpdatePack_v5.0.2_FINAL_ENU.7z can be integrated with nLite but do NOT unpack it. You just integrate it as it is. nLite checks for file versions to determine which files is newer. The content of the update pack and Update Rollup 2 is similar but not the same. There are more updates / hotfixes integrated in Update Rollup 2 than in the update pack. On the other hand the Update Pack covers not only system updates but also IE, MDAC, WMP and other components. That's why I included all of them in the "basic method" because they are complementary. Thank you. I used Nlite and integrated: -- Gurglemyer’s SP5 -- OnePiece_Windows_2000_Post-SP4_UpdatePack_v5.0.2_FINAL_ENU.7z, simple one-shot, it worked, like you said. -- blackwingcat’s iata76_cd2kd AHCI driver but... AHCI mode gives blue screen (inaccessible boot device) and IDE mode still hangs at the "Welcome to Setup" screen. XP works OK, but only in IDE mode. I run Win2000 just fine in VM, but I want to use it to manage NTFS partitions, chkdsk and defrag...

OK, I read and here’s what I understand: Windows2000-UpdateRollup2-x86-ENU.exe -- Has everything but it only updates a running system, which I don’t have, I’m trying to create a complete boot-up install CD. So, NOT usable for my purposes? OnePiece_Windows_2000_Post-SP4_UpdatePack_v5.0.2_FINAL_ENU.7z -- Works, has the same content as above, and CAN be integrated using Nlite: Unpack archive, Select “Integrate Hotfixes, Add-ons and Update Packs” and “Create Bootable ISO”. For the 3 problem files, when prompted select to “overwrite”. (Just curious -- How does Nlite know what to integrate? It will look at all the INF files?) Do I get it?

Thank you, I didn’t know all this. I’m not an IT administrator, I’m an inventor/industrial designer, so I find this “too much info”, HF, HFSLIP & RVMi mean nothing to me. -- Is there a single file SPx that I can run to integrate everything into SP4 in one shot? -- OR a collection of KBs that I can download, unzip into a single directory and ask Nlite to integrate them all at once and prepare a final ISO?

Next question - are you referring to this in tomasz86' signature (link inside that link back to MSFN Topic for it)? No, I used Gurglemyer’s original SP5, it is missing some 30-60 official KBs, I wish somebody would nlite them into SP5+ or something..

Thank you. Has Blackwingcat confirmed whether the iata76_cd2kd AHCI driver works on the z77 platform? The z77 is very new, the mobo manufacturers are still working on the BIOS, and you’d need the very latest Linux kernel to support it.

I’m running Win2k in VM on the Z77X-UD5H right now, also XP and Win7. Virtual machines cannot see the hardware, so I doubt that would work because Win2k would still have no drivers, though I’m open to ideas.

No, but XP does.

I have mobo Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H with Intel Core i5-3570K. Nlite Win2k SP5 with blackwingcat’s iata76_cd2kd AHCI driver. [Drivers] ..\iata76_cd2kd\Winall\Driver\iaAHCI.inf,iaAHCI_10R ..\mb_driver_chipset_intel_7series\INFUpdate\All\2008s4el.inf,0 Win2k doesn’t complain that driver is “corrupted”, but hangs at the first installation screen, “Press Enter to install Windows”. Any ideas?

Me again, with another question regarding the above. I just purchased a very inexpensive Socket AM3 board (mostly to have a spare) - the first MB I've bought in a long time that wasn't nVidia-based but rather on AMD 770 / AMD SB710 - an ECS IC780M-A2 (V1.0A). The Win2K installation seemed to go fine, but when I attempted to install the nVidia 197.45 graphics driver for the GIGABYTE GV-N210SL-1GI GeForce 210 it claimed that no suitable video card was present (I had just successfully installed this driver for that card on a Win2K installation on another MB, so this was unexpected). At that point I thought I'd better install the chipset drivers (which I'd casually tried to from the MB install CD, but which had failed). Turned out that while the overall CD installation failed each individual driver (chipset, LAN, and sound - apparently all that were present, given that on a subsequent XP installation it only listed those three options in the overall install menu) happily installed on Win2K and in fact seemed to indicate that they were intended to (so there seemed no need to explore, say, BlackWingCat's drivers). But still the 197.45 nVidia driver claimed that no suitable card was present. I then discovered that the adapter support (from Display properties) was Vgasave (which I'd never encountered before), with no option to update the driver to something else. In fact, Device Manager didn't list ANY display adapter as being present. Hmmmm. Just in case it was the video card itself (though it had just been working in the other machine) I swapped it out for an old GeForce6200LE and redid the Win2K installation from scratch. Same result, even though the 6200LE's support CD appeared to install successfully rather than complained that it couldn't see the card as the 197.45 driver had. I was beginning to think that the problem must be with the MB, but figured I should try an XP installation to check. While the basic install still left me with Vgasave in Display Properties and no adapter at all in Device Manager, when I installed the 6200LE's support CD, lo and behold, the Display Adapter appeared and all seemed well: apparently, despite the fact that the card's support CD claimed to support both Win2K and XP, something in the nature of the support (or possibly something which the MB's install CD quietly installed from the top-level installation, which wouldn't run on Win2K) was sufficiently different to resolve the problem on XP. Just to complete the process I installed Win7, and in that case the basic install recognized the 6200LE right off with no need to install a driver independently. I looked around here for discussions about installing Win2K on boards with AMD chipsets (e.g., ) but found nothing that seemed to shed any light on this (which seemed a bit strange, given the number of different MBs people here have tried Win2K on). Am I overlooking something obvious, or does this at least ring a faint bell with someone? Thanks for any insights you may have. Edit: One more thing I did try was choosing 'Enable VGA mode' in the F8 boot menu, a suggestion I found somewhere while trying to investigate this. Still no joy, though. Sorry for the late reply, I didn't see your post. Here's some info and my favorite links: NVIDIA no longer supports Win2000, but their packages are still online, even though you won't find them through searches. The latest version that works in Win2k is 18.11 (download here) GeForce Release 175 also works. You can also get 14.10 here. You can also browse NVIDIA's ftp. Most XP packages work in Win2k with small changes. See this thread, follow the instructions, it works! The bundles typically include: Ethernet Display IDE SMBus SMU You can install each manually, or slipstream and Nlite the whole package for your favorite NVIDIA mobo and burn to CD. Or you can let Win2k search the drivers on CD through Device Manager. NVIDIA is my favorite and they also have better support for Linux. //

The small system file created on completed windows 2000 setup. So you must reinstall all drivers and services. If your problem will not resolve, you restore from backup. so, it may be hardware problem. Thank you, it may be hardware problem. I’m using a new NEC PA-series monitor, these have a built-in KVM Switch, “DisplaySync Pro”. I plugged in a different win2k machine and have the same problem. I can no longer wake the machines from suspend S3 by keyboard or mouse. I have to press the chassis power button, then the machine resumes from S3 but the keyboard repeat rate goes to default. So... Win2k does NOT power the USB hub during S3 but Win7 and Linux works ok. Any ideas?

Thank you. %systemroot%\repair\system is from 2008 and less than 1MB in size. The current registry, %systemroot%\system32\config\system is ~6MB. Will that be a problem?

Every time the machine resumes from S3 the keyboard repeat rate goes to default. I have to open “keyboard properties” in Control Panel and press OK to set the repeat rate/delay again. Also, if I plug-in a new keyboard it is not recognized, so system boots without a keyboard. I have to plug in a 2nd registered keyboard, reboot, re-detect & install the new keyboard. It worked fine before, but it looks like the driver or the keyboard registry setting is messed up or corrupted. I tried reinstalling driver from CD, also used Logitech kbd driver to no avail. Any ideas?

and a lot of other system files too: http://bristols.zxq.net/windows2000/updates/ or if you're lazy http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9254 Thank you, I found the ryanvm.net thread. Where does one download it from? All the links point to servers that require a paid membership.

Thank you, what does it mean? There's actually a modified/updated kernel32.dll?

The installer complains about some missing API. No more Flash support for Windows 2000? The uninstaller "uninstall_flash_player_32bit.exe" doesn't work either.

I too prefer win2k response/acceleration. You could try the Logitech or Microsoft drivers. Most intuitive of all pointing devices is the Wii Remote under Linux, but you can use the GlovePie driver in Win2000

Thank you, maybe FM2 will work too. USB3 driver doesn't work, but AM3 USB3 wasn't BIOS bootable, so not very useful. Also when I connect HDMI cable Win2k crashes, not sure if the problem is with BWC's driver.

They're both dogs. I would pick Ubuntu Linux 64-bit and/or Windows 2000.

I'm running a Windows 7 VM on a 20GB disk and only 512MB of RAM. I suppose if you install enough apps you'll run out of space.

I didn’t research all the causes. Some apps are not reading unicode filenames correctly. But Linux is definitely creating file names with illegal chars, or 2 files named “FileName” and “filename”. And Firefox will save any Flash movie you’re watching on YouTube with its original name. Also Drag some URLs from the browser and you’ll see... I just opened Nautilus and created a new file named “\\new> file |”.

Thank you. I can't read Polish GUI. I have a collection of european movies and I don't want to risk deleting anything. But bookmarks containing illegal chars should probably be converted to EN.