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Hey there! I haven't been using Qemu for a while. I've been trying out Qemu 1.0.1 from this page here and when I used Dependency Walker to look into one of these files, it won't execute on Windows 2000 or Windows XP RTM host by default as it is missing the following dependencies: freeaddrinfo, getaddrinfo and getnameinfo. The three dependencies listed above are required to enable IPv6 internet support and Win2k/XP RTM doesn't have it. I have a couple of questions to answer: 1 In order to compile Qemu 1.0.1 on Win2k, is there a way to replace freeaddrinfo with another Win2k compatible dependency? I already used a hex editor to replace getaddrinfo and getnameinfo with gethostname. 2. Is it also possible to compile Qemu 1.0.1 using Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008? Qemu hasn't been officially supported on Win2k since Qemu 0.9.1 back in 2008. I also got word that Qemu 1.0.1's NAT doesn’t work and I'm wondering if there is also a way to get NAT working on Win2k without using the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo with gethostname IPv6 related dependencies.

Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ pulled the plug on Win2k after eight or nine+ years of support with version 10.1.211.3382. In their change log regarding OS support changes: Let me guess...the Lavasoft engineering team upgraded their compilers to Visual Studio 2010. On the contrary of this issue, I'll bet that Ad-Award 10 didn't even work correctly on Win2k either. The last version that worked was version 9.6.0.

Thank you so much for telling me! Java 6 (which was complied using Visual Studio .NET 2003) is still supported on Windows 2000, but with update 32, the screwed up by adding GetSystemWow64DirectoryA, a dependency that doesn't exist on Win2k, but on Windows XP SP1 and later. As you may have also know this, Java 6 will soon be EOL'd in not too many months from now. Originally, the EOL date for Java 6 was on July 2012, but it has now been extended to no later than November 2012. no exact EOL date for Java 6 has been made at this time. Additionally, extended support for the compiler to the Java Runtime Environment, Visual Studio .NET 2003 (VS 7.1) ends on 9 April 2013.

Interesting that the ActiveX version of Flash Player 11.x will work with IE6. The release notes for Flash Player 11.x state that it requires IE7.0 and above. That's why Adobe had parallel releases of 10.3x and 11.x until very recently, 10.3x supposedly being for those who still used IE6 in XP. It draws a clear distinction between new versions of software that are no longer "supported" under an old OS and new versions that no longer work. Yep the DLLs still work on Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM/SP1 and Windows Server 2003 RTM, but I do agree the SetDllDirectoryW dependency was used to prevent the installer and uninstallers from working on those affected platforms. We have not tested beta versions of Adobe Flash Player 11.3 at this time. As these Flash Player versions are no longer tested on Windows XP SP1 and below, this deprecation will most likely serve as a warning that the support code that made the DLLs work on Windows XP SP1 and below will most likely be deliberately removed in the near future...possibly in Flash 12.

Have you tried to intsall Java 6u32 on a Windows 2000 or a Windows XP-based machine? On my Windows 2000-based PC, it's telling me that for some reason, the installation has failed and the Java website hasn't been a help. This is the error message that I've been getting: Installation Failed The wizard was interrupted before Java(TM) 6 Update 32 could be completely installed. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again. Click "OK" to exit the wizard. On the Java website, it claims that "The actual root cause of this issue is still under investigation. This error indicates that the Java installation process has failed." Is there any way to workaround this issue? Update: I checked the installation sizes of jre-6u31-windows-i586-s.exe and jre-6u32-windows-i586.exe and I found that the size of the installer was reduced by 212 KB to 16.2 MB. I installed Java 6 Update 31 and it worked fine without any problems. I already extracted the installation of Java 6u32 on Drive D to investigate.

I'm running into some sort of a problem with using the Arachne browser under MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I'm currently running it under VMware Player with 64 MB of allocated system RAM which is the most that MS-DOS 6.22 can take...so here how it goes. I'm currently running the Arachne Web Browser...to access the internet under DOS, I have to invoke this command in line 20 of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file for the AMD PCINet packet driver: pcntpk int=0x60 But the biggest problem is using the "net start" command which invokes internet access under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and not DOS, guess what happens. The Arachne web browser hangs for a while and when it's finished, I end up with this error message: When I run Internet Explorer 5 (16-bit) under WFW 3.11, things just look okay: Is there a way to fix this to a point where I should make Arachne work under DOS? I'm sorry if I'm not being clear, but I want to point out the conflicts with using the AMD PCINet packet driver and running the "net start" command.

The change will effect all Mozilla-based apps, including Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. Plus, developers are in the process of removing the now dead-support code for Windows 2000 from Gecko since MSVC 2010 is incompatible with Win2k. more specifically, Thunderbird 13 and Seamonkey 2.10.x will start using MSVC 2010 code, which will officially drop win2k & pre-XPSP2 support. Thank you for telling me. I don't even know if SeaMonkey 2.10 will be renamed SeaMonkey 3.0 due to the use of MSVC 2010 code once it hits beta. MSVC 2010 will also drop support for Windows Server 2003 RTM as well.

The latest version of Adobe Flash Player that last worked on Windows 2000, unofficially was version 11.1.102.55 (dated 2011-11-11). Starting with Flash Player 11.1.202.62 uses a dependency SetDllDirectoryW which will only work on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or newer. There are ways to get around this on a unmodified Windows 2000 machine: 1. From a Windows XP SP2+ computer, copy the following files. Flash32_11_x_xxx_xxx.ocx, FlashUtil32_11_x_xxx_xxx_ActiveX.dll and NPSWF32_11_x_xxx_xxx.dll and transfer it to a Win2k machine. 2.Make a backup directory in \WINNT\system32\Macromed\Flash and call it Backup-11.1.202.55. 3. In the \\WINNT\system32\Macromed\Flash\Backup-11.1.202.55 sub-directory, make a backup copy of the following files, Flash11e.ocx, FlashUtil11e_ActiveX.dll and NPSWF32.dll incase something goes wrong. 4. In the \WINNT\system32\Macromed\Flash subdirectory, delete the old Flash11e.ocx, FlashUtil11e_ActiveX.dll and NPSWF32.dll files and then rename the following files in order to make it work: Flash32_11_x_xxx_xxx.ocx to Flash11e.ocx, FlashUtil32_11_x_xxx_xxx_ActiveX.dll to Flash11e_ActiveX.dll and NPSWF32_11_x_xxx_xxx.dll to NPSWF32.dll In Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 11, test the latest version of Flash Player that you're running and it should run okay. Apparently, Adobe did this to prevent the installer and uninstaller from working on a Win2k machine. The DLL files that I mentioned above are no longer tested on Win2k.

Citation needed. I'd hardly call it that. Not even near. Was it even an OS at all? More like a GUI. It was a GUI operating on top of of MS-DOS or a DOS compatible OS.

Well...I'm pretty sure that not everyone was happy with Windows 3.1 being so clunky, even you. Windows 3.x is just a graphical environment on top of a DOS-based operating system.

JFYI: jaclaz Thanks so much! I appreciate it. I'm currently running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 under VMware right now.

Windows 3.1, the successor to the widely popular Windows 3.0 operating system will mark its 20th anniversary this Friday. The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold and further editions of the OS between early April 1992 to February 1994 (Windows for Workgroups 3.1x, Windows for Pen Computing, Windows 3.2) were released until the series was superseded by Windows 95. Windows 3.1 dropped support for Real Mode (8086/8088 support) and required a 6 MHz 80286 PC with only 1 MB of memory to run. Such a effect of this was to increase the stability over the crash-prone Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1 was the first version of the OS to be distributed on CD-ROM which typically came with MS-DOS 6.22 on one CD in addition to 720 KB, 1.2 MB (5.25") and 1.44 MB floppy distributions. Windows 3.1 required at least 10 MB to 15 MB of free disk space. While Windows 3.1 can theoretically address up to 64 MB of memory in Standard Mode, the OS under 386 Enhanced Mode can address up to 4 GB of RAM even if under MS-DOS 6.x, it can only address up to 64 MB of system RAM and a swap file of up to 256 MB. Furthermore, no single 16-bit application can ever use more than 16 MB of memory. Windows 3,1 was the first OS to include support for the TrueType font system even though similar functionality was available for Windows 3.0 through the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) font system from Adobe. Windows 3.1 included support for Video for Windows as well as Win32s support for limited compatibility with the then-new 32-bit Windows API used by Windows NT 3.x and Windows 95. Microsoft released 16-bit versions of Internet Explorer from version 2.0 up to the first release of Internet Explorer 5 in early 1999 before support was dropped. Microsoft dropped support for all 16-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 3.1 on the 31st of December 2001. The OS found a niche market as an embedded operating system after becoming obsolete in the PC world. Microsoft announced that on the 9th of July 2008, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for the embedded devices channel would no longer be made available for OEM distribution as of the 1st of November 2008. As we look back on the 20th anniversary of Windows 3.1, please share your thoughts of what it was like to use the OS, I would really appreciate it.

I kinda suspect that ESET Nod32 Anti-Virus had supported Windows 95, 98 and Me for a awful long time and almost six years after the later two OSes went out of support. If you want to continue using Anti-Virus software under Windows 98/Me, using ClamWin Anti-Virus (which is built using Visual Studio 2005) is the only viable option.

It looks like that Adobe pulled the plug on Windows 2k and Windows 98 with Adobe Flash Player 11.2. I believe that changeserviceconfig is a dependency that only exist in Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later along with SetDllDirectoryW which first existed in the second update to Flash Player 11.1.

Fixed You mustn't use both at the same time because files will overwrite each other which will cause issues. UURollup has files from both WB & BWC kernels (I chose which ones to include looking at their dependencies and APIs they add). By the way, Pale Moon browser does work with the UURollup installed. Thanks! I'm gonna test the UURollup in a Win2k VM before I try it out on a real PC.

Really? Awesome job on making Mo-Footer the best Twitter client out there! The biggest excuses for developers to get users to upgrade were simply adding the three entry point dependencies that I mentioned in my previous post that prevent the app from executing on Win2k; sadly, I can't blame them for that. Using a hex editor is a to replace the three entry point dependencies that prevent the app from working on Win2k, but sadly...that will most likely make the app not run correctly. Using KernelEx and UURollup are the best options out there.

I'm really sorry to see your eMachine-based Windows XP computer went belly up due to motherboard issues. The same thing happened to my old motherboard from late 2002. It experienced BIOS ROM checksum errors due to a bad BIOS ROM chip and the last straw was that I used one of the USB devices and it caused this error. Pale Moon 9 doesn't support OSes earlier than Windows XP SP2, btw. I'm gonna try the UURollup instead of KernelEx to see how things go from here.

Browncoat, I understand your pain that VLC Media Player dropped support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP pre-SP2. The reason why is that they added three entry point dependencies that doesn't work and it's IPv6 related to WS2_32.DLL, freeaddrinfo, getaddrinfo and getnameinfo...the dependencies that only exist on Windows XP SP1 and later. I don't know if people even tried running VLC Media Player 2.0.x on Windows XP SP1 yet since it is not a officially supported service pack. It's possible to make it work by using a hex editor to eliminate two of the three dependencies, but it's not easy to eliminate freeaddrinfo, because it contains 12 characters, not 11. I tried that once with Qemu 1.0 and it never worked. I'll probably explain that in my next forum thread. I was also wondering that since VLC is open source software, I was wondering if there was a way to compile VLC Media Player 2.0.1 using MSVC 2005 or MSVC 2008 without IPv6 support (freeaddrinfo, getaddrinfo and getnameinfo)?

Thanks for the heads up. I suspect that the new Silverlight 5 component doesn't work, because I believe that it was complied with MSVC 2010 and it requires Windows XP SP 2 if I'm correct. What old component of Silverlight that we're referring to?

I knew it. I sure hope that the stable version of KernelEx v15 comes out real soon. As for the latest Fx13 nightly, the dialogue box was meant to prevent the MSVC 2010-based browser from installing on Windows XP SP1 and below.

Well...the 2012-02-20 build of Firefox 13 nightly did work with KernelEx v13f, but in the latest build, Fx13 nightly (2012-02-29) refuses to run. Developers may add more dependencies that do not exist on Win2k before Firefox 13 moves to Aurora in less than two weeks. I sure hope that there is a English version of KernelEx v14 soon if it is stable enough to use.

Fx3.6 and Gecko 1.9.2 will indeed be dead on the 24th of April which is when Firefox 12 gets released. I believe that starting with Pale Moon 8.1, I'm strongly guessing that they probably switched to MSVC 2010 SP1 before the developers at Firefox did. And the CRT included with MSVC 2010 requires WIndows XP SP2 whatever you're running it as the main PC or in a virtualised environment. MSVC 2012 will not even support Windows XP at all. I do believe that Win2k is the best OS that Microsoft has ever made. With the English update version of KernelEx v14 to fix this, I sure hope that all hope isn't lost.

The version of KernelEx is already up to version 14c and I'm hoping that the OP in question gets the English version up soon. As for Pale Moon itself, they will most likely not continue support after Mozilla pulls the support plug for Firefox 3.6 on the 24th of April and support for Win2k on the 5th of June.

If I may you have TWO separate questions/problems: boot from the PCMCIA (or CardBus)? access contents of the card from "pure" MS-DOS The second (only) may be solved through DOS drivers. Finding dos drivers that work on your particular hardware may be dufficult, but it could be doable. You may find of interest: http://www.quatech.com/support/pdf/pcmcia_for_dos.pdf http://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/systemsoft http://www.tssc.de/index.htm# http://www.cer.com/pages/products/prod_faq_answ.php?faq_id=24 http://www.mail-archive.com/arachne@arachne.cz/msg20538.html http://wayback.archive.org/web/19980715000000*/http://www.datorintensiven.se/dinew/drivers/iqnote/cardwiz.zip http://www.oldjake.co.uk/progs/cardwiz.zip http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=DSHY-3NPU8M It greatly dpends on your hardware, chipset used, etc. ec, and some tweaking may be required anyway, since your hardware loks like "not so easy" one: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/toshiba.html?inline=-1 jaclaz Thanks for the help. As for the chipset used, I'm gonna go back into Windows for a brief moment to determine which chipset the Tecra 720CDT laptop uses. In the meantime, I went ahead and installed the Card Wizard services and I put the following lines in the CONFIG.SYS: devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\sscirrus.exe /skt:2 devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\cs.exe /poll:1 device=c:\cardsoft\csalloc.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\atadrv.exe /s:2 devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mti1.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mti2p.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mtaa.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mtab.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mtatm.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mthb2.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mtsram.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\mtddrv.exe devicehigh=c:\cardsoft\cardid.exe The services started successfully, but when I tried to access the 2 GB flash drive on socket 2, I wound up getting this error message: Additionally, installing the card services consumed a whopping 122 KB of base memory, reducing the available memory to 498 KB! Ouch! How can I fix this and reduce memory consumption for installing the card services under DOS 7.1? By the way, I'm still waiting on Elmar to approve my account... Edit: I would like to update that I tended to post at that forum, but I never had the time to post anything and as a result, my account got disabled.

It looks like that Mozilla developers have added another new dependency that doesn't exist on Win2k and that they recently removed the support code for Win2k from Gecko. Are you still getting the same error message in the regular Fx13 nightly as well? I sure hope that blackwingcat fixes this as I'm ready to test it out on this PC!