You did well, sir, con gratulation Now could you tell me how to install, or what changes to make if I simply replace the hard-drive with one that has NT 5 installed on it ? The machine I would like to install win2k on: Compaq Presario CQ56, AMD V160 Since 2006 I used Win2k on a Toshiba Satellite A110. I made the installation disk following Fred Vorck's instructions, to make it IE-less. (the lid of this laptop is cracking, need to replace machine) Why do I use NT 5 ? Because it is the last version over which I may have some control. After removing wininet.dll, shdocwv.dll, urlmon.dll I can go online without firewall, without virus protection-- not that I go online using windows too often. It is bad enough that I had to pay for XP and 7, I don't have to use them. (On this Presario win7 is about as slow as ME on Pentium I.)