Ximonite

Nice to see you're still around checking MSFN! I had no idea you would see this so quickly XD I see the updates themselves hosted on MEGA, but I'm specifically wondering if you have the symbols corresponding to them around. Here's an example of what I mean:

This might be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone still has the hotfix files linked at https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/ I'm specifically looking for the symbols, which are usually packed inside the self-extractor programs. I noticed @tomasz86 linked to these directly (named ######_LOCALE_i386_zip.exe), instead of just the SFXCAB update files (named Windows2000-KB######-x86-LOCALE) used by security updates. If anyone happens to have these files around, please let me know! I downloaded what's available from archive.org already and would like to expand this collection with whichever of these files have survived this long.

Oops That was the last thing in my clipboard before I tried to (but didn't actually) copy the forum link.

As of recently, MSFN is in a dire state and the amount of time we have left here is unknown. If you want to stay up to date on any projects of mine, I recommend you visit EclecBoard, which is a forum created by a friend of mine. Even if you're not specifically interested in my works, you should still check EclecBoard out, since they have been getting many new members recently.

Yes, I recommend BlackWingCat's kernel for now, but I'm aiming to have development versions of the major KernelXE upgrade I have mentioned from time to time here available for people to test in the next few months.

I am fairly close to being able to test keyed events and have lots of smaller additions ready to test. I hope to have a technical preview KernelXE available sometime in June and a full release done before September. I also plan on making a page on my website for KernelXE because I don’t want KernelXE to suddenly become unavailable because of something happening on MSFN, like server maintenance.

Here is a working link for it. https://mega.nz/file/8kckyRhA#jEP0wP56a5Cu19nUHbh6MrStRMtOEjLMBHV2TZSWb30

eBay.

Are you installing KernelXE lite over full KernelXE? That's definitely bound to cause problems cause BlackWingCat ntdll. Also, I plan on adding the newer version of devmgr.dll to full KernelXE. It's not needed in KernelXE lite cause it's made to install on top of BlackWingCat's extended kernel, which already contains the new devmgr.dll

You can install KB2479629-v3 and KB2508429-v17. Those are the important 2 WildBill updates that are required.

I am definitely still working on KernelXE. The main thing I'm doing that's taking so long is adding keyed events. Keyed events are very tied into existing ntoskrnl code and it's gonna take a while to adapt existing stuff to work with them. Lots of stuff uses keyed events, so when this is done, it will be very good for Windows 2000 users. Here is a list of ntdll functions that use them: RtlAcquireSRWLockExclusive RtlAcquireSRWLockShared RtlReleaseSRWLockExclusive RtlReleaseSRWLockShared RtlRunOnceBeginInitialize RtlRunOnceComplete RtlRunOnceExecuteOnce RtlSleepConditionVariableCS RtlSleepConditionVariableSRW RtlWaitOnAddress RtlWakeAddressAll RtlWakeAddressSingle RtlWakeAllConditionVariable RtlWakeConditionVariable TpAllocPool TpAllocTimer TpAllocWait TpAllocWork TpDisassociateCallback TpPostWork TpReleaseCleanupGroupMembers TpReleasePool TpReleaseTimer TpReleaseWait TpReleaseWork TpSetPoolMinThreads TpSetTimer TpSetWait TpSimpleTryPost TpWaitForTimer TpWaitForWait TpWaitForWork I'm planning on adding all those functions and the kernel32 functions that rely on them. January has been very busy for me, but I hope that February is lighter so I get more time to work on KernelXE.

Try profiling it with Dependency Walker and post the log. You could also try installing Visual C++ 2019, which might help, since it can load concrt140.dll

You probably shouldn't have a download link to the whole OS. That might be bannable.

??? I definitely remember this being your project. I just did a few quick things so you could look around in IDA and figure out the basics.

Which version of UMDF are you trying. UMDF 1.0 doesn't have this file and it isn't included in Windows 2000. Definitely not. I'm pretty sure it isn't even possible on XP.