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I also had problems accessing the site. This was both in normal web browser and also in Opera Mini (where data comes through Opera servers).

It's only a wild guess but it seems that V3 thinks the system is Windows XP (or maybe even newer) due to some APIs in the modified files, tries to use some of those functions and crashes. Anyway, I don't really know any reliable AV+FW all-in-one solution. The best way would probably be to use two different applications. When it comes to AV, Avast still supports Windows 2000 so you can use the newest version (remember not to install the so called "Software Updater" because it doesn't work with UURollup and is kind of useless anyway). As for FW, you can use Malware Defender (available at my website in Programs). Many people also recommend Comodo Firewall 2.4 but I myself had issues with it (details here).

Still, I think at least some "hard" data would be required to prove your point. I don't really see any significant difference when running same applications under Windows 2000, XP and 7/8 on the same hardware configuration which was listed above. Benchmarks also don't show any large difference, and when there's a difference it's always favourable for the NT 5.x line (I think Windows 2003 Server actually scores highest but I've got no numbers to show at the moment). Multiple cores and gigabytes of RAM are really nothing new to Windows. Even Windows 2000 is technically capable of handling up to 32 CPUs (cores) and 32 GB of RAM.

Could you give some examples (specific applications, benchmarks)? I'm no expert but I did some benchmarking myself and the results show that Windows 2000 is faster than Windows 8. Not a big difference but still...

My website is now hosted on Google Drive (Google actually recommends using it for hosting). This should guarantee almost 100% uptime and fix all the other issues I've had with all those free hosting services (starting from completely unreliable http://www.zymic.com, and ending on http://www.4ove.com which added custom analytics script to all html files uploaded to their servers with no option to switch it off which itself wouldn't be such a big problem except for the fact that the script caused error on older IEs ). I'm now trying to configure my domain (windows2000.tk) to work with both www present and without it. At the moment you still need to input the whole address with www to be able to access the site. As I mentioned some time ago already, I've been working on an updated version of the site and I hope to be able to somewhat finish it in the next few days. It will be much easier to navigate (adjusted for large and small screens) and read (improved colours & larger fonts), and I'm also going to regularly add a lot of new useful information to it.

I'm changing hosting once again. At the moment it works but you need to use www.windows2000.tk (won't work without www)

Thanks, dencorso It's very useful finding. I haven't done any more tests yet so can't tell more about the details so far, but: This is because in the other patch ntkrnlpa.exe is hex edited like this: If you set it to 4000 then it's no surprise that the maximum amount of RAM gets set to 16GB. You could probably experiment with other values. I've got only 8GB of RAM here so can't test anything more than this myself.

I didn't ask for help with removing parts from the HTML file because I can do it myself. The only problem I had was that exclamation marks were absent from the final file due to delayed expansion enabled, and that's why I asked the original question. You actually gave the answer already which is: and I modified the script so that it works with delayed expansion disabled. I was just curious whether it was possible to somewhat escape the exclamation mark while leaving delayed expansion enabled.

There's no larger script this time. The script posted above is the only one I tried to use on the HTML file but then realised that it didn't work with exclamation marks. That's why I posted the question Once again, this is a completely different thing than the other script about merging updates. It's got nothing to do with that. I'm writing a script to process a HTML file in order to remove some parts from it. I've got no other issues with it. I just wanted to ask whether it was possible to process exclamation marks with delayed expansion enabled but it seems that the simplest way to solve the problem will be just disable it and use CALL. Anyhow, thank you for the answer (post #3).

I'm sorry for not providing the actual file but I don't think it will really change anything. I'm processing a HTML file and I wanted to replace all special characters with {#}, {##}, etc. This was the original script I tried to use: SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSIONFOR /F "delims=" %%A IN (index.html) DO ( SET Line=%%A SET Line=!Line:{#}=^&! SET Line=!Line:{##}=^?! SET Line=!Line:{###}=^<! SET Line=!Line:{####}=^>! SET Line=!Line:{#####}=^^!! SET Line=!Line:{######}=^|! ECHO !Line!)but I encountered the problem just in the very beginning with the first line of the file which is:

I've done it this way: FOR /F %%A IN ("!") DO ( CALL :FIX %%A)PAUSEEXIT:FIXSET Line=%1SET Line=%Line:!={#}%ECHO %Line%GOTO :EOF:EOFSo I guess it's impossible with delayed expansion enabled? Using CALL is extremely slow when processing hundreds of lines like that.

SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /F %%A IN ("!") DO ( SET Line=%%A SET Line=!Line:^^!={#}! ECHO !Line! ) Is there a simple way to make it work?

I can't really say much about all of those applications since I haven't used them but it'd be probably better to wait for test versions of USP5.1 before doing more serious troubleshooting. At the moment there are too many packages involved to be able to easily find out what exactly is wrong. My website is definitely online: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/windows2000.tk You're the second person to say this though I think there might be some problem with access from certain areas. Could you try using other browsers, and also check through proxy, ex. Hide My Ass?

It seems to me that by the so called HAL problems he means exactly the USB driver issue, i.e. that with HAL from SP1 the USB driver worked: It seems that it was someone from China to mention the patch for the first time. At least here is the oldest entry from Google about it: http://www.unpack.cn/thread-27735-1-1.html As for the HAL itself, here is a good M$ article about it: How to Troubleshoot Windows 2000 Hardware Abstraction Layer Issues I'm sure I tried to use the correct one which is halmacpi.dll (ACPI Multiprocessor PC) in my case. Of course I'm going to do more trials in the future. At the moment I don't see any other issues except for the USB driver problem. I used PAE in Windows 2000 for a few years so I know more or less what to expect. Still more time is needed to check for everything.

I've read the blog. You can use more RAM just by patching the kernel file. I don't know whether the older HAL fixes the USB driver problem because in my case it just doesn't work. Trying to use HAL from SP1a causes infinite reboot loop. Ramdisks have different use I like to split the RAM so that I can have 5GB for the OS and 3GB for a ramdisk. That's what I did in Windows 2000 and I'm trying to do now in XP. And yes, there are situations where running several programs at once or just one multi-threaded application can use all of the available 5GB RAM.

It looks like this for me: Are you using a non-default theme?

If anyone's interested, I've managed to find these URLs to full packages of SP1a for all language versions of Windows XP. These links are not available anywhere publicly on M$ websites. ARA http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_E31FA91A89A658F3D586AA1C9992B01AF3E11FE0.EXE CHS http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_8BD1BDE300DF00E7BD6831AC37CB87E437E2B729.EXE CHT http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_98472ED83897EC104C8496FCD661E6F289EF5090.EXE CSY http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_57F0CAA259089B1477A162F220D08B1C4BC86010.EXE DAN http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_619CC6CF6A98F75D18F4D6EDDB662EBFE4A44223.EXE DEU http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_CB7D182645EA1019741D9D94732C29251294ACDC.EXE ELL http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_47666B37340D6224EEB40F67AE16DA3E457E64E0.EXE ENU http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/xpsp1a_8441053935adbfc760b966e5e413d3415a753213.exe ESN http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_E675D08B12D20CA372BA6D3B502074000981870F.EXE FIN http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_8A254D89DAEB22F4F4CCB9B0861E83CB5EA66196.EXE FRA http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_FE557A68AED45003151F647189767AEB2BED53A9.EXE HEB http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_499EE7440DBA140909FE4D3A86FFFD8EC4A1D473.EXE HUN http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_9F24000EB4B69AAA975EDEB578B4CD22F971318B.EXE ITA http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_4F5AA5833BEE00C3309FC03D6EAFCC6E6F4E2EEA.EXE JPN http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_A03D9D2AD30A478CA4C2A51C1DE26EACA021E4D1.EXE KOR http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_E79E224EF297B77C0A23A9440F919C8D64E6554A.EXE NLD http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_F1A0183DDC01376D27F374B69FA9364647B336B2.EXE NOR http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_487A5BBFCF9164A0CDA2BBE31F9D4AED6C5455A2.EXE PLK http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_D2A89787C9AC8ED660684686930513663BC723BA.EXE PTB http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_87EC9B54CE8B93F7319B2158CBB0FA1DE47D48DF.EXE PTG http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_625BC5EBCC1306C2632C1B1A60A6F8F30F230CB9.EXE RUS http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_B5151F669462B3154FAF93D48E10BEAE1B0339AA.EXE SVE http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_8F11213E01D65C883A95B8871B6134E179E09941.EXE TRK http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/XPSP1A_A2BC3DA0F0A3D366C78D4C51EA6AABBB2DD0D545.EXE

Agree (with XP) but what about Win7 and Vista??? Its a patch and gets the job done I know it's an old thread but I somewhat disagree with Kelsenellenelvian's opinion. The solution is exactly the same in case of both XP and Vista/7. You just remove the artificial limitation imposed by M$ about how much RAM the system is able to use with PAE enabled. I don't see anything nasty in it You can know that it's 100% artificial just by looking at Windows 2000 kernel files which are exactly the same in case of all different editions. The only difference is in the registry - when it's set to Professional you can use only 4GB of RAM, when it's set to Advanced Server you can use 8GB, and when it's set to Datacenter Server then you can use 32GB. There's no difference in the system files themselves. In case of Windows 2000 the situation is similar when it comes to how many CPUs / cores the system will use as the number differs according to the Windows 2000 edition you're using. blackwingcat has removed those limitations in his patches, and that's why you can use more RAM and utilise more CPUs / cores with his kernel installed. I'm experimenting with XP at the moment and you can remove the max amount of RAM limitation by editing the kernel files. There's a problem though that the system default USB driver doesn't work after doing that. However, there's a way to work around it. 3rd party USB drivers do work which means that you can still use USB 3.0 so (as long as your PC has USB 3.0 ports) you can just use it for all USB devices and leave USB1.1/2.0 ports unused. X64 may be "the future", trendy, jazzy, etc. but the real problem is that a lot of older hardware simply don't work in 64-bit systems due to lack of proper drivers. I'm definitely not going to throw away a perfectly working printer and scanner simply because they're not supported by the new OS

It's my pleasure Simply speaking, there are some bugs in Update Rollup 2. Those updates are included in it, but for various reasons (incomplete registry entries, etc.) Windows Update wants to install them again. Update Rollup 2 is going to be replaced by the USP5 so I'm not going to spend any more time on it. In one word, you just shouldn't use Windows Update after installing UR2 / UURollup. You need to use 7-Zip to unpack the archive and then run 'update\update.exe' to start the installer. It's recommended to always have a backup copy of the system partition before using daily packages since they're experimental.

Not exactly related to the USP but

Generally speaking, there's no reason not to install them unless the update specifically causes problems in your system (for various reasons like the update being buggy itself or other programs having issues after installing it, etc.), especially if we're talking about a home computer.

Still offline Just in case, you can view a snapshot from 8 May through the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mimo.zxq.net/updatelist.htm

Zymic is still down, and (as usually) no news from them about the current situation. Mim0, if you're reading this, I'd suggest looking for a different hosting provider. Zymic was OK in the past but starting from this year they've become extremely unreliable.

@Hackeronte Nice to see you again! The project is still alive, so don't worry I've been doing as much as I can to progress with the USP. You can expect some more information in the next few weeks. I've just changed hosting for my website. The old one (http://www.zymic.com) became extremely unstable and, as you've probably noticed, the website was unavailable very often recently. I hope that the new one (http://www.4ove.com) will be better. Of course, the address http://www.windows2000.tk is the same. Just as a side note, Mim0 also uses Zymic for his site and that's why it's offline at the moment.