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Sure : http://www.plop.at/ http://forum.plop.at/ jaclaz Thanks again. I found this page regarding the discussion of attempting to boot from a PCMCIA-based compact flash drive: http://forum.plop.at/index.php/topic,313.0.html Unfortunately, it only dealt with attempting to boot lightweight Linux distros such as DSL and Plop Linux and it wasn't much a help. I'll try to ask Elmar to see whatever it's possible to boot from a PCMCIA card as it as MS-DOS 6.22 installed on it.

Thanks for the help. Does Elmar's website has a forum where users can report their experience with booting from compact flash drives connected to a PCMCIA slot? I'm totally new to using Plop Boot Manager, so I'm going to be using this feature at my own risk as it is strongly possible to lose data if misused.

Tried Plop Boot Manager and it didn't even recongise the PCMCIA devices (compact flash drive and external hard disk) from DOS. When I messed around with the program, it destroyed all of the data on the internal hard drive. I had to start over as a result of this. If I want to use Plop Boot Manager to try to boot off of the PCMCIA compact flash drive when the BIOS won't even allow it, how can this be done?

Hi all! It's been a while since I posted anything new here. I'm trying to find ways to boot MS-DOS 6.22 from a 2 GB Compact Flash card connected to a PCMCIA adapter on the Toshiba Tecra 720CDT laptop and so far, no such luck. The BIOS has no support for booting from PCMCIA, so I'm gonna have to find ways how to get around it without running into difficulty. And doing a search for booting from PCMCIA or from a CF card connected to a PCMCIA adapter yielded little or no help at all. The unit has two PCMCIA slots and I recently had both the hard drive upgraded and maxed out the RAM, by the way. And looking at the PC card (PCMCIA) properties, the IBM TravelStar 8E hard drive (Drive D:) is on Socket 1 (bottom) and the 2 GB CF card (Drive E:) is on Socket 2 (top). While Windows 95 OSR2 does recognise the PCMCIA devices on the fly, when rebooting into MS-DOS mode (MS-DOS 7.1), it doesn't even recongise it at all. How can I get the PCMCIA devices recognised in MS-DOS mode and how can I find ways to successfully boot to the compact flash card on Socket 2 when the BIOS doesn't support it? Thanks!

Thanks for the help. I uninstalled KernelEx v13e2 and tried out v13f. Here's what has happened so far. I would like to update that the KernelEx project for Win2k is starting to seriously improve! I was able to use the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet and install Flash Player 11.1.102.62 without any problems. I even managed to reinstall Java 6 Update 31, however when I installed Java 7 Update 3, I was told that the previous version of Java was already reinstalled. To get around this, I used the NT Registry Optimizer to clean out any unused entries, restart the computer and Java 7 Update 3 installed and ran sucessfully! Awesome work so far! Is it possible to install a newer version of KernelEx ontop of the previous version without uninstalling it first? As for the effects on USB devices and older hardware that I have installed, I'm gonna post a separate forum thread before I apply KernelEx on the host PC.

You're welcome! I can't wait for v13f to come out to fix the broken Add/Removal Programs control panel app as well as the latest version of Flash Player and Oracle Java not installing properly.

Really? I didn't know that by now.

You probably haven't heard about this, but Microsoft has quietly extended consumer support for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 for five more years!

I tried that and it was no help. I'm currently trying to get Flash Player to work with KernelEx 13a2 and the Flash Player installer even failed to initialise properly returning the error code 0xc0000005.

Okay, I tested KernelEx 13e2 and when I attempted to add or remove programmes, the Add/Remove Programs feature (appwiz.cpl found in \SYSTEM32 directory) no longer functions. Additionally, when I tried to execute the installation of either the Flash Player plugin/ActiveX component, I get the following error message: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xC0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application." Is there any way to fix this by setting the compatibility mode of the application designed for Windows XP or later? Also, Microsoft's version of their legacy JVM and Oracle's version of Java both cause both Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox 10 to hang. And that I can neither reinstall Java 6 Update 31 nor Java 7 Update 3...getting a "Internal Error 2753 - regutils.dll". But ironically, only the Microsoft Java VM works. Can anyone confirm this? On the bright side, I test out the 2012-02-20 nightly of Firefox 13 and it works and so does VLC Media Player 2.0.0!

I fixed it. To install Adobe Flash 11.1.102.62, I get the SetDllDirectoryW not being found in KERNEL32.DLL. How can I patch the latest Flash Player files to make it work?

Okay, when I try to run your KDW/FCWIN2k utility, I'm getting a missing entry point PrivateExtractIconExA (a function only available in Windows XP SP1 and later) that could not be located in the USER32.DLL file. This comes after running diskern.cmd and disuser.cmd. How can I fix this? I'm running this in a Win2k VMware Player VM for the time being and I should have backed up the hard disk image, incase I screwed up. Also, I'm new to using KDW ya know.

Thanks for the help! How can I change the SetDllDirectoryW under KDW? Thanks for the help! I appreciate it! I'll take a look at that site to see what I can come up with. I will need to install it in a VM environment first before I apply it to the host machine.

That sounds awesome! I sure hope that the English version of KernelEx is stable enough to use on Win2k!

Thanks for the help! How can I change the SetDllDirectoryW under KDW?

The latest update of Adobe Flash Player 11.1, 11.1.102.62 fails to install on Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM or Windows XP SP1, throwing the error message upon installation: Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 is the latest that would still work. Looking into the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MACROMED\FLASH directory on the Windows XP VMware VM, the SetDllDirectoryW is also found in FlashUtill11f_ActiveX.exe and FlashUtill11f_Plugin.exe files. The other files do not have that dependency. If there are any hacks and workarounds to replace the SetDllDirectoryW entry point, please let me know. For about a year, Win2k support had been deprecated since the release of Adobe Flash Player 10.2 and I believe that they will most likely pull the plug on support for that OS in Adobe Flash 11.2.

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.

If a company is not going beyond Firefox 3.6, they'll be very unhappy to learn that Firefox 3.6 will be EOL'd on 24 April after 3.6.28. I also don't know if Pale Moon will be able to build versions of their browser after version 12 since the switch to MSVC 2010 affects all Mozilla-based apps.

I agree...but I don't know if contributors will be able to also build contributed versions of Firefox for OS/2 or eComStation after Firefox 12 and Win2K support both hit EOL. I still have the Windows XP VM running under VMware Player. It's unclear to me if Firefox 13 will run on a processor that only has SSE2 instructions or that it will start requiring SSE3 (found on Pentium 4 HT processors or later). If Firefox 13 requires SSE3 users on Windows XP and Linux running on a computer that only has SSE2 support is going to be in a lot of trouble. I pretty much will most likely have to switch to Opera soon unless there are volunteer contributed hacks and workarounds to make VS2010-based Firefox working on Win2k. I did too download WB's KB2393802 and I'm still looking for the direct link for blackwingcat's custom version of MSVC++ 2010 that will work on Win2k. Starting next week, RelEng will be getting ready to remove the Win2k support code from Gecko, because the code in the trunk is now dead since they switched to MSVC++ 2010 in the trunk Nightly.

The SeaMonkey suite and all Mozilla-based apps are affected by this change. The announcement was made through mozilla.dev.apps.firefox and cross-posted elsewhere. The announcement regarding SeaMonkey can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/4dbd921b2565f33a

Thanks for trying to run the 2012-02-03 trunk Nightly build of Firefox 13 on Win2k with the Kernel v11 environment! I was hoping that there is a English language version of Kernel v11 soon. Along with EncodePointer and DecodePointer what other entry point APIs will it use that don't exist on Win2k? :\

Thanks for the help. I downloaded KB2393082 and I will need to back up the data incase I screw up. Now, I'm gonna try to find BlackWingCat's MSVC++ 2010 SP1 files also.

Can I have the link to the files in question? Thanks. I will need to install it in a VM first before I do it on this PC. I will need to back the VM up incase that I screwed up. By the way, here are the links to the trunk nightly builds of Firefox: Trunk nightly: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ ZIP file: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-13.0a1.en-US.win32.zip Installer: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-13.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe With BlackWingCat's MSVC++ 2010 SP1 runtime and special kernel, I don't know if it's going to work or not. Mozilla developers are now expected to remove the dead support code for Windows 2000 from Gecko.

Browncoat, the actual announcement is on Asa's webblog. When I posted this forum thread, I found that the URL link was broken. So, I fixed the link for you. In the short term, the upcoming beta version of Firefox will be Firefox 11 beta 1. Mozilla is apart of the open source community and has apparently been that way since it started work on Firefox way back in the end of 2002. One thing for sure is that I've been running Windows XP under VMware for quite sometime to take advantage of some of the modern features (even though Windows XP has been obsoleted since it left Mainstream Support in April 2009). I managed to get some of the extensions working under Firefox 4 and later by extracting the XPI file and hacking the install.rdf to make it run on later versions of Firefox. As for the app that has been holding you back, I believe that it will only run properly on versions of Firefox (up to 3.6). Speaking of Firefox 3.6, the support plug will be pulled when Firefox 10.2 ESR gets released. Windows XP does require product activation to work and I've been through this before.

Hey, everyone! You might remember this forum post from nearly six years ago when Mozilla made a decision to drop support for Windows 9x/NT4/Me from Gecko 1.9. After several months of wondering off in bugzilla.mozilla.org as well as mozilla.dev.planning Google newsgroups, I'm starting to feel pretty adventurous to see as if there are some developers here who have good knowledge of C++ programming with interest to keep Windows 2000 alive on our own accord, I've been thinking that this would be the right place to post. Well...as you might not have already noticed, Asa Doltzer, Mozilla software developer and community coordinator for Firefox marketing projects has called on the Mozilla development team to end all support for Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM, Windows XP SP1 and Windows Server 2003 RTM. This change will impact all Mozilla-based apps (including official builds of Firefox) off the Gecko 13 branch and beyond. Products built on the Gecko 12 branch will be last to support Windows 2000. When Firefox 13 gets released on 5 June 2012 (less than 18 weeks from now), our options will be limited. With Firefox 13 (the current version in trunk Nightly) and any Mozilla-based apps built on Gecko 13, developers switched to Visual Studio 2010 which means that the upcoming version of Firefox (and any Mozilla-based apps) will start using EncodePointer, DecodePointer, newer compiler features with numerous entry point dependencies that do not exist on Windows 2000 and older versions of Windows. Here are the references, if you're interested: 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563318 2. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end_of_firefox_win2k.html 3. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/be7d06905e82157f/016ae0cc2a331b8d 4. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/a6fcb6210f8b3d62 5. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/ab0164a039e425e4 That's why there are projects (such as KernelEx for Win2K and KDW/FCWin2K) to help keep Win2K alive. Wouldn't it be interesting to help contribute and try to develop a compatibility library or a custom version of Firefox (or any Mozilla-based app) for Windows 2000? Well...with less than 18 weeks remaining, there is still a lot of time do this and I've been thinking that it would be a good idea to get discussions started early. Let's see if anyone here is interested in helping out! Sadly, I don't have any knowledge of C++ programming, but I'll be glad to see what is going on here. I can't wait to test out some stuff under VMware Player soon to see if it works.