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I wanted to run it on my old Athlon XP 2800+. I like to benchmark things

Strange... It just works here. No errors at all. Oh, maybe it needs SSE2

Any hints on how you got Cinebench 11.5 to run in 2000? I tried it with SP5.1, update rollup2, and UUrollup installed but it does not start (gives message "... has generated errors and will be closed by Windows").

I had never heard of this before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs Not entirely clear on what is missing compared to standard XP. Have any of you used it before?

Judging by the posted specs, your computer should be able to run XP very well. The OS should only take up a few GB, so if you have a 320GB drive that is a very small slice of the pie. Is there a particular reason you think it needs to be tidied-up?

just guessing, but are 32-bit disk access and virtual memory enabled? Maybe try it with those turned off.

I would say that 98 is a bit leaner and quicker, and has better compatibility with DOS games. But 2000 is more stable, has support for newer hardware, and you can change network settings without a mandatory reboot (that always bugged me on 9x). On a 1GHz CPU I'd go with 2000. My Dell Latitude L400 has a P3-700 and 256MB RAM and is great with Win2K. It's possible to install multiple versions of Windows on a single FAT32 partition, but if you currently have one partition with NTFS you would have to repartition to be able to install 9x or ME.

That is correct. Unfortunately, I can't even test whether any of the drivers work with Win2k setup because apparently it expects to load the "F6" driver from an actual floppy drive. It throws an error if there isn't one.

I think it is the last one. It's basically the USA version of the Let's Note T9 but without a slot for FeliCa cards

These are the ways I have done this in the past: 1) With two functional OS installs. Add the second disk to the PC, boot up and use win explorer to copy everything except the Windows system directory (since some system files will be locked and can't be copied). Then restart and boot a different OS (or possibly a Live CD) so that you can now copy the remaining files. 2) Slave the disk to another PC. Take the disk out and put it in another PC (as slave on an internal IDE interface or via USB-IDE adaptor) and use that machine to copy the files. 3) Create a sector copy or disk image. Even if the destination disk is a different size than the source disk, this could still be the way to go if you have only one PC with one installed OS. You can write a disk image to a larger disk. From there you can either use 3rd party software to resize the partition to match the larger disk, or create an additional partition to fill the available space, or just grab the unlocked copies of system files before repartitioning and copying everything else as normal. In any case, you might want to unhide all files first to make sure you don't miss something: ATTRIB C:\*.* -h -r -s /S Also should mention that you may need to use the SYS command to make the second disk bootable (unless it was done already during format), as well as using FDISK to set the partition "active." I don't recall if you can run FDISK from within win98, if not you would have to boot to a DOS prompt or use a sector editor to set the partition "active" (It is literally one bit in the partition table)

I think you could look at it either way. An OS that is no longer updated may have vulnerabilities that leave it open to an attack targeting the particular OS. But since Windows 2000 market share is so small at this point, who is actually targetting it? In a way it could be considered security through obscurity. From what I hear the vast majority of malware infections result from: 1) user doing something dumb 2) browser or plug-in vulnerability Avoiding those risks will rule out most threats. Properly configured firewall should take care of the rest.

Oh they went back to calling it just sndvol huh? This one is kind of rubbish, since it can't be minimized and there is no left-right balance control but it is better than nothing

Finding drivers using google is not much better, what with all the fraudulent link farm sites that dominate the results (been this way for a long time too) I think this might be something: http://communities.intel.com/thread/27703?wapkw=82801ibm The linked file appears to have files needed for every Windows version starting from 2K and every Intel chipset starting from 85x. My machine is a Panasonic Toughbook T8 (Core 2 SU9600)

These programs are missing from win7. Typical MS, adding multiple GB of stuff that has no discernable purpose and taking out 200KB of programs that were actually useful I was delighted to find that sndrec32.exe from win98 works (has to be from 98, none from NT/2K/XP will work). Mixer wouldn't work right though. Any alternative for adjusting the volume using keyboard shortcuts?

thanks for the tips, I will try to figure this out

So from what you guys are saying, a driver would be needed to get past the BSOD. Laptop has the GS45 chipset and no option provided in the BIOS for IDE mode. Intel's website is terrible btw, so I am not sure if they provide a driver for 2K or below, but I will wait and see if I run into any programs that refuse to run in Win7. Maybe I can get by without an alternate OS install.

I have a CF card setup to boot 2K and another that can boot NT3.51/NT4/98. And I now have a newish laptop with SATA/AHCI on which I created a FAT32 partition. I booted a win98 floppy disk image using PXE (that's how I formatted the partition as FAT32, using the WinME FDISK which shows horribly incorrect numbers but works never the less) and used SYS on the new partition. So it has the option to boot to a win98 command prompt now. I didn't try booting the full win98 because I didn't want to sit through hours of "installing new hardware" or whatever. I tried to copy NT4 and 2K installs to the drive and make those bootable but it resulted in a blue screen with "inaccessible boot device" even after editing the MountedDevices in the registry. This sort of thing is tricky to begin with, but I am wondering if the whole AHCI business would stand in the way of these OS from working? All my other computers have been PATA/IDE.

I got a laptop which came with Win7 and it is setup to automatically vary the CPU speed depending on load. The only problem with this is that some programs (mostly games and emulators) will always show full CPU usage (on one core) no matter what, causing the CPU speed to max out and the fan to rev up, even though the game only really needs a Pentium II or whatever. So I would like the CPU to stay at minimum speed to conserve battery and reduce noise but without having to go into the power options and change the config because that is too many steps. On my desktop PC I have CPU speed scaling disabled under Windows and I use CrystalCPUID instead, but I don't think it fully supports the laptop CPU.

whoa this is a tough one... have you looked at the MS knowledge base article? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314063/en-us also, I seem to recall buggy ACPI BIOS implementation causing trouble like this back in the day, maybe try disabling ACPI support? http://tweaks.com/windows/36989/fresh-install-with-no-acpi/

Is the sis6326 an AGP card, and if so do you have a PCI video card that you can try? What service pack is on the XP CD?

hi msfn (and happy holidays), I`m a longtime Windows (and DOS) user, the only other system I could get into was Amiga but that isn`t too useful these days. My main system: NEC VersaPro VY10F\BH-L with 768MB, 40GB HDD boots: Japanese WinXP, command prompt (win98-based), and NT 3.51 (just for the heck of it) all on a single FAT32 partition main desktop: Athlon X2 4850e with 2GB, 2x 80GB HDD boots: Windows 2000, and command prompt from first drive (FAT32), Windows 7 64-bit from second drive (NTFS) I consider 2000 to be the peak of Windows development. It took some of the good parts of 98 and added them to the stability of NT. XP is pretty close to 2000, but the EULA got a lot uglier, and Vista and 7 seem to have added a lot more complexity and system requirements with not much to show for it IMO.

I used WSUSoffline to download all of the updates last year (about 1GB worth). After installing and verifying that everything seemed to work I backed up the entire HDD (also had a backup of the original OS install without updates), and haven`t checked for anymore updates since then. Also an Opera user btw, but I have stuck with 9.25 for the past five years. I will not give it up until they un-break the image browsing capability http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=968982&abc=&page=4&skip=150&show=&perscreen=50 edit: lol after posting I decided to do some more research and found out that this behavior can be fixed by editing image.css