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Tommy

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  1. I didn't get that error message. All it did was it acted like it was going to hibernate but once the screen turned black like it was off, it just came back to the desktop like nothing happened.
  2. @Hackeronte Happy new year to you too!! I scanned sfc.dll with AVG, no issues reported. @tomasz86 Hibernate doesn't work for me either. I never actually used it but when I did enable it and tried it out, the screen goes black and just goes right back to the desktop and starts up again. Apparently it is a major bug.
  3. Update: I'm still having issues here, but I left it long enough and it came up with the kill page since it was taking too long to respond or something wasn't responding and it asked if I wanted to wait or kill the page. Any suggestions because this is very very annoying.
  4. Does that basically mean me? XD I absolutely LOVE this idea! It'd be great if you could make it where it's as easy to use as the Windows Firewall. Something very basic and easy to configure.
  5. I'm not sure if you can back up your account settings, i've never tried. There must be some way of doing it but I really don't know since I just use gmail and I have all the settings memorized. Do you use a special company type email or a web email for Outlook?
  6. There's really nothing different about my system as it has ever been. Just Windows Defender and AVG 9 like I've been using for years. I haven't had this problem until maybe about a month ago.
  7. On my Windows 2000 machine, I have the latest version of Google Chrome installed. However, it seems to lag now for some reason. You type in where you want to go, press enter or click if it show up in the menu, then it just does nothing. It acts like it is thinking about it, but it doesn't do anything. Usually I have to open a new tab and try again. This is getting extremely annoying now since it does it quite often. Iron does the same thing. There is no difference.
  8. I would love to! Just let me know when you have something compiled and ready for testing.
  9. I really don't own any mobile device except an iPod touch, but I think that would be a good idea since mostly everything requires XP by default these days in order to work. I don't even know how I missed this thread in general, but I can list some of the drivers I have to install manually. nVIDIA GeForce 8600GT SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Realtek HD Integrated Audio Intel 825xx 10/100 Platform Network adapter
  10. It's interesting, Wikipedia says that Shadow Copy is available for Windows 2000. Whether it is what you need or something a little different, I'm not sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy Nonetheless, it says that it is available.
  11. Did we ever try System Restore? I think that would be a super helpful thing for many people.
  12. Well, even if it does disable all your sound, simply reinstalling the extended core once again seems to correct the problem. At least with tomasz86's UURollup which has the latest extended core built into it, as long as I reinstall the pack, all my sound devices come back.
  13. @blackwingcat I've discovered something about your kernel core extension v13. It seems that if you plug in any sound device and it installs the drivers for that device, that it overwrites the new sound files or something to that effect and either it'll revert to Windows 2000 originals or it disables sound all together. The only way to get it back it seems is to reinstall kernel core extension. I have a webcam that I plugged in after installing kernel core extension and after I restarted I had absolutely no sound or audio service at all. The webcam has a microphone driver which I think triggered this effect. However, I installed my onboard audio after installing the v13 extension and in Skype, it had the audio problems like it did before installing v13.
  14. I would say wait on releasing a stable version too, especially to iron out a few of the bugs we're investigating now as well. I still sometimes have random explorer crashes but I can't remember exactly what you told me to run in order to figure out what causes them. They don't happen all the time but at times I click on my external drive and I just get a random critical stop error and it either just closes the current window or it takes the entire explorer.exe down with it.
  15. Since nobody has answered this I'll take a slight stab at it even though I never dealt with Outlook 2007 before. I use Outlook 2003 and when I want to backup my outlook.pst file, I simply type in %appdata% in the address bar and for Vista, you'd have to get out of the roaming folder and go into the local folder, then I think it's Microsoft\Outlook, and copy the .pst file. However, I think in order to get it back into your install, you'll have to go through the File/Import in Outlook in order to have it transfer correctly (I think just copy and paste caused several problems for me). But I think your other settings will be lost and all that'll be preserved in the pst file is your email, contacts, calendar, etc. You'd have to set up any email accounts all over again. Good luck if you haven't figured this out already.
  16. I think you guys are right. I couldn't remember the name exactly but I knew it had something to do with Ldr and Lock. Seems to me I got the error also when just using blackwingcat's kernel extension about a year ago when that's what I was using. But it didn't result in a blue screen but rather as critical stop messages in Windows.
  17. I'm not really sure what it could be. My nVIDIA driver is actually one supported as of right now and doesn't require and additional patches. I'm not so sure about the Realtek driver. I never tried installing it on a stock system. Everything else that starts up with Windows I believe is stuff designed for Windows 2000. The only thing in question now would be the Realtek drivers but I wouldn't think that should cause any issues to prevent it from ever seeing the login screen at the very least.
  18. I'm going to throw this out since I've been collaborating privately with tomasz86 for a long time on this project and I'd like some feedback, possibly to fix a problem that has been plaguing me for a while. Since daily UURollups are meant to be uninstalled before you install the new copy, doing that for me causes a blue screen upon bootup with the error message LdrLoadLock is missing from ntdll.dll. What is causing this issue? Why does it need LdrLoadLock especially when it worked fine with it before. That must mean something is requiring it and it can't find it anymore. I've been thinking about this for a while now and I haven't even brought it to tomasz's attention yet, but I have installed his latest .NET Framework 1.0 through 4.0 package. Is it possible this update is calling upon LdrLoadLock and it's not there so it crashes with this BSoD message? I personally have no idea what .NET Framework needs in the line of dependencies. But there has to be something that changes from the time I install my system until then. I also use his latest HF_SLIP compilation of Windows 2000 updates.The only other update that I go ahead and install myself after installing Windows 2000, the latest daily UURollup 11....is .NET Framework.
  19. I can't say if it's compatible with i7, but it seems that blackwingcat has a couple of i5 machines running Windows 2000.
  20. That's strange, it should be dual core compatible. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz and it works just fine with both cores operational. What kind of errors do you get when you install it with both cores enabled? Have you tried re-enabling dual core when you finish installing?
  21. I think at least half of the new parts you buy can still work with Windows XP drivers when installed on Windows 2000. Some problems you may have are webcams which I'm currently investigating myself, and also wireless network adapters. Blackwingcat and tomasz86 have unofficial drivers for ATI and nVIDIA cards. If you stick with Realtek onboard audio (if that's indeed what the board comes with), their latest high def drivers do work with Windows 2000 with no problems that I've found. Or if you prefer a sound card, I'd go with a SoundBlaster X-Fi, which I have myself and I love and works just fine. Wired network cards aren't always that picky either, but that may have changed in the past year or two. If I were you, I'd post what you're interested in and we might be able to point you in the right direction. As for RAM, unless something changes, it'll only recognize about 3GB. PAE was in experimental stages but there were some issues with it. As for installing Windows 2000, unless you have access to a Windows XP disk that you can use to cheat with on drive creation and formatting, you need to have SP4 and a few other updates so that setup will read the entire 500GB disk, otherwise it'll only see 137GB. As for software to go with it, the latest things that can work with Windows 2000 with kernel extension or unofficial update rollups are: Microsoft Office 2007 (might not be full suite, can't remember) Latest Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox browsers Latest FotIt PDF reader Windows Media Player 10 (11 will work but is slightly broken still) Latest VLC Player Windows Defender FastStone Image Viewer (If you prefer a free Windows Fax and Photo Viewer alternative with more bells and whistles) Hopefully this list will get you started on a decent up to date machine.
  22. I opened it in Dependency Walker, it doesn't seem to have any issues what so ever as far as dependencies are concerned. I think the best way to find out is by trial and error. I am using the latest daily version of UURollup 11, so that might also be why there's no issues. I doubt it would work on a stock W2k system.
  23. @tomasz86 Hey bud, know anything about this? Second chance exception 0xC0000005 (Access Violation) occurred in "COMCTL32.DLL" at address 0x72721014 This is when I try running the latest Who Wants to be a Millionaire PC game on my computer (the Ludia version). It used to work as long as I had the DirectX 9 expansion installed but now I get this error everytime I try launching the game. Let me know!
  24. This adapter is based on the Netgear WNA3100M, but it doesn't seem to work on Windows 2000. There is actually evidence that it *should* work since Windows 2000 is directly shown in the driver file itself but it isn't detected by Windows 2000 without a minor adjustment to the driver file. So, this is where the problem begins. It goes to install the driver but as it does, I get a BSoD with an error code 0x0000007F, UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP. @blackwingcat Maybe you know what's going on here? I do have a crash dump saved and the driver file itself if you'd be willing to take a look at it to see what's preventing it from working. I had tomasz86 look at it and he can't figure out why it would crash as he said it appeared to be Win 2k compatible. I would be grateful if someone with a bit of knowledge in that field could help me out here.
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