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That sounds great! Drivers really aren't my department sadly so I won't be able to answer too many related questions to drivers and whatnot. I have slight knowledge about modifying them to work in Windows 2000, but I can't figure out how to make them totally compatible. But we're here to help and it's great we have someone else interested in Windows 2000 and keeping it alive. I think it's the best OS Microsoft created and it's simple enough to not be resource intensive or bloated.

My pleasure I've been working with Windows 2000 for about 10 years now so I've gained quite a bit of knowledge about the operating system. As Tomasz pointed out, I would try slipstreaming your USB drivers on your installation disk if they aren't already done so. As for your BIOS, it would detect your mouse as it's configured to do so but sadly, Windows 2000 doesn't detect USB3.0 by default. I think blackwingcat figured it out or is in the very beta stages of doing so. You might want to take a look at his site and see for yourself, http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat (Most of it is in Japanese but Google Translate does a decent job of letting you get the gist of what he's saying). This site might also help you as far as his newer drivers: http://w2k.flxsrv.org/wlu/wlu.htm Good luck!!

This is very strange, I have nothing but USB mice/keyboards and they all work during the installation process. What type of mouse do you have? It is slightly possible maybe you have USB3.0 which might not work during setup? It's a very longshot of a guess but that's the only reason I could think that it would not work. Can you use native USB support from the BIOS? Is this a custom built computer? If so, can you link us to the motherboard or to the computer you purchased from an OEM? I'm actually the main tester for tomasz86 so I can try assisting you as best I can with your problem.

What you do is unzip the archive using WinRAR, go into where you unzipped the archive and go into the update directory, then launch update.exe. Then just follow the update wizard.

Thanks, not a problem! Just thought I'd give you someplace to start looking. I tried TeamViewer on both regular machine and virtual machine. I could connect to my main machine via virtual but it didn't work quite right, I didn't have a mouse pointer and I couldn't capture the window right unless I disconnected. My main machine would not connect to the virtual machine at all, saying the authentication was rejected.

On another note, I just installed the newest daily 10e UURollup. What in particular do you want me to test out?

Your new version of the daily UURollup works great, no problems so far. Testing NFS High stakes, I get a stupid error when explorer.exe crashes, this particular one says unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the application at location 0x77f45a9a.

Hey bud, I'm having a few issues actually. I haven't upgraded to the new daily version yet so this is the last daily 11 UURollup, which I doubt makes a difference. Anyway, when I go to launch Need For Speed High Stakes, Windows gets extremely buggy. Explorer.exe crashes constantly. It gets very very annoying. It never used to do this on a clean MS update only system. Any ideas what might be causing this? I'll test out your packs when I get the chance, I've just been very overloaded this week with other things.

I have not been able to try it yet I will set up a virtual machine later on and test it out for you.

I used to be SearanoX, I just recently changed my name so that could be why you might've missed me. Yes, I'm one of the main testers of UURollup for tomasz, he has the skills to compile all this stuff and I have to ability to test it all out for him. I also have my little side projects like taking advantage of newer programs like WMP11 which requires UURollup to be installed.

I cannot stand all these Windows 7 and 8 fanboys that insist it's just time to move to those platforms. There is no reason to! As long as Windows XP or in my case, Windows 2000 serves our purposes, why upgrade? The only thing we're doing by upgrading and listening to those jerks is providing MS with more revenue thus creating a larger monopoly. The tech industry is becoming way too competitive and I want no part of it. So no thanks Windows 7/8 fanboys, I will not be upgrading to your garbage OS, I'm stickin' with my Windows 2000 forever.

Nothing really specific at the moment Maybe you could check whether Skype 5.9 works? I can definitely vouch Skype 5.9 works since I use it to communicate with my girlfriend all the time, messages, voice, and video all work!

Not running into any issues here so far, if there's any specifics you want me to look into, let me know!

Is there anything you want me to look into for you at this time, bud? I have a virtual machine I'm just waiting to break.

I know people will continue to use Windows XP long after the cutoff date, simply for two reasons. Either they cannot afford to upgrade, or like me, they think the latest versions of Windows from Microsoft are absolute garbage. As long as Windows XP 2009 Embedded lives on, I think people will be able to mod those updates and make them work on regular Windows XP machines. If not, I'm sure someone like blackwingcat will come around and make projects just like he does. I really can't even use Windows XP since our projects for Windows 2000 make it nearly far superior than Windows XP simply because of the new extensions added to critical system files. But I'm positive will see people using Windows XP even up until 2020. Even though I still prefer Windows 2000 over anything, I think Windows XP was the last decent version of Windows Microsoft pushed out. Now all they care about is their stupid little tablets and mobile devices and making it look flashy in place of productive and useful. As for drivers, I'm sure some clever hackers will figure out how to mod drivers to be compatible with XP, similar to how we take very late XP drivers and mod them for 2000.

I've been trying out the 2-24-2013 UURollup v11 daily update and I haven't found any problems. If I may ask, what benefits will I see with the new XP SP3 files you added over the past ones, specifically winsta.dll?

I'll test it for you bud, but I'm going to do it in a Virtual PC, I'm not going to risk breaking my system again. I'll let you know how it works out.

I know it's extremely weird but unless there was something different installed on my system, that was the case. I still haven't had any issues with the bluescreen at all. Didn't you say in the last release 2-23-2013 that blackwingcat changed something? Maybe whatever was changed in there is just causing a few problems with tcpip.sys. I've never ever saw that bluescreen in my life and ever since I wiped the drive and reinstalled Windows with the 2-16-2013 release of UURollup v11 daily, I haven't had any issues at all. There's also another minor issue I've just noticed. I use the calibri font for email and it's not installed by default with Office 2003 or Windows 2000, but it is with Office 2007 and sometimes I email a few times before I install Office 2007. I know that calibri is included in your UURollup pack, but it's never available to choose from in Office even though it's there. If I manually go to copy and paste it into the font folder, it says it's already there and to uninstall that version before installing a new version. Upon doing that however, I can then select the calibri font to use. Weird. =/

I'm using the same source I have been for months, it was your November 2012 HF_SLIP compilation. Here's what I did differently this time. Instead of installing UURollup v11 2-23-2013, I installed UURollup v11 2-16-2013, both being daily versions. I also installed the NVIDIA package I outlined in the last post instead of the 190.38 I did on the last install, which I don't think makes much difference. But since then, I haven't run into the issue anymore. At least as of right now I haven't had one bluescreen yet.

Okay another issue with the tcpip.sys bluescreen. The exact error code is 0xD1 and this time it popped up in Chrome when I was accessing my gmail web client. I went to uninstall the latest daily UURollup but it resulted in the LdrLockLoaderLock bluescreen upon bootup so I decided to wipe the thing once again and I installed the older UURollup, it was 2-16-2013, I made a mistake in my old post. That was the one I used before the newest 2-23-2013 version. As for the NVIDIA driver, I'm using an older one again on my new installation, I can live with the 1440x900 unless you do know how to add custom resolutions via the registry but I won't worry about it too much for right now. The driver package I'm using right now is 175.16_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.

I think the only difference was I had the 2-14-2013 daily release installed and then I just installed the 2-23-2013 release on top of that, I skipped yesterdays update. I will test all this stuff again however I just wiped the system since I was having other problems with it. But I'll test out the other things you pointed out and see what happens. Also, I have another issue and I was suspecting of this for a while now. I'm using the NVIDIA 190.38 driver package and it seems the display driver works just fine but when the control panel is installed and you reboot, the computer hangs painfully long at Preparing Network Connections..., any ideas why this would be? I can be patient but this'll hang for at least a minute and a half to two minutes before I can even log in.

The problem only began after I installed the newest daily update. I'm also using FIreFox 11. For some reason, the one I tried in the link you posted, it's almost completely unusable. Everything in the window turns black. I don't know what's going on with it.

http://www.9and10news.com/category/221407/radar-temp-maps I've tried it three different times and as soon as the page starts loading, it crashes to a blue screen.

Okay, there's a slight problem. In FireFox, when I visit my local news station website and view the weather page, I get a Driver IRQL not less or equal bluescreen and it lists the file tcpip.sys on the page as being the problem. Any ideas? It doesn't seem to happen with IE.

Alright! Way to go tomasz! I shall download now! <3