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The unmodified UMDF 1.0 installer for XP does not run on Windows 2000 as it complains about digital signing whenever it runs. So if you use the WMP 11 installer for XP, I guess it skips that part. The WMP 11 installer for 2000 omits it entirely I believe. So you still have WMP 10's MTP drivers which WMP 11 considers outdated. WildBill's updates use a modified update.exe that does not care about signing or catalogs but even if I replaced the update.exe with that one it still complains about not being able to find one of the two INFs (one is for copying files and the other is for setting up services; the latter one can't be found). So that update probably needs to be repacked.

Welcome to the MSFN! Feel free to try out the best operating system around, Windows 2000.

It appears that BWC hasn't actually uploaded KB979683 (Extended Core) to his site, so here is the latest English version: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://w2k.flxsrv.org/cgi-bin/dl.cgi?file=Windows2000-KB979683-v16a-x86-ENU.exe You can get UMDF 1.0 by opening a Windows Media Player 11 installer with 7zip and extracting umdf.exe from it. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to get that hotfix to work with Windows 2000 yet.

Are you using WMP10? The MTP support with WMP10 is quite poor and only works properly with files => 100 000 KiB or 100 MiB. The only solution is to install WMF (or WMP) 11 + UMDF 1.0 (or some other XP-compatible version). But the latter thing has been impossible to do so far, as the installer whines instead of installing (I'm going to attempt a possible solution soon). And extended core may be necessary to get UMDF to work.

I'm certainly helping as I made my ThinkPad T41 my daily driver and dual booted 98SE and NT 5.1 on it, instead of my preferred NT 5.0 (not sure if external WLAN would work on it) or 5.2 (router hates its older crypto libraries it seems turned out to be an issue with an older driver that affected xp as well). When I compared to Q4OS based on Debian 10 with Trinity, XP has much lower RAM consumption (350 MB vs 120 MB) and I only have 512 MB of DDR400 in the laptop. So while Linux keeps moving on into a 64-bit abyss, 2000 and XP stay around to serve older hardware. All of the casual XP users I know left it years ago (some lost the eye strength necessary to use a computer or upgraded to W7 in 2012, while some hung around through to W10 in 2016) but I'm still really pleased with the performance of the Pentium M on XP x86, let alone the Xeon X5670 running Windows x64 (lots of driver documentation refers to Windows XP x64 as just Windows x64, since it is a pioneer OS). I started using XP in November 2002 and I can't believe that I'm still using it now, even though I still resent the changes made to it with SP2 (like "Open File - Security Warning" and removing "Professional" from the startup screen). Using a 16 year old computer would mean using one from 1986 at the time, so I guess no one would think that XP would last that long!

And also "Liberty biberty". They're not nearly as bad in Canada. Canadian commercials are generally far more conservative than American ones. But we now have all of these companies clamoring about how they are there for their customers during the pandemic. Very generic virtue signaling stuff. Though there is one for a brand of chips airing here which talks about "bodegas". The problem is that "bodega" is NYC-area slang for "convenience store" and probably doesn't make much sense to air here. At least McDonald's has abandoned "i'm lovin' it" and the associated jingle. Not that I'm ever going there again anyway.

Was the error message "potplayer.dll has been modified or hacked?" The x86 version doesn't work on Windows 2000 exkernel or Server 2003 x86 because of this stupid error when it should work perfectly on both platforms. Last I checked it worked on XP x86 and x64 though. There was 1.7.17792 (?) or something that was the latest version at the end of 2018. I ran it successfully on Windows 2000 and then I reinstalled the same version a few weeks later, in 2019, and then I started getting that error.

I just went through that with my father's ASUS Kaby Lake laptop. It could probably run W7/8.1 but no one wants to buy extra licences so I tried Linux and had issues with the several distros I tried. One of the GPUs seemed to keep crashing Xorg or the WM. Tried GhostBSD but the touchpad didn't work. So it was back to W10. Open-Shell has definitely improved on the classic start menu, but I do feel that the way it implements its explorer modifications is quite strange, being inside the ribbon interface. So I would prefer the Windows 2000 shell, especially with an option to have the taskbar the way it was before Windows 7 (the grouping of items is odd to me, as is the mixing of "quick launch" items with other taskbar items). Maybe we should recompile Calmira as x86-32 or x64? Or maybe we can run NewShell from NT 3.51 since that is probably native win32. I think there's also an IBM Workplace Shell for NT, though that would be like using OS/2.

I wonder what sparked the change in vernacular from "Private Messaging" to "Direct Messaging", as most young people refer to DMs instead of PMs. Probably as an admission by whoever pushed it that once-private messages are no longer private. A person I know has recently had their Facebook account compromised. They vehemently claim that no phishing took place and that the password was dissimilar to other passwords and somewhat complex. But they had previously used several of the games based on the site. Since these applications have been known to access plenty of user information, I wonder if some may have fallen into disrepute and sold to unsavoury characters who are now exploiting the user data, or perhaps Facebook itself has other vulnerabilities that have yet to be disclosed. Dealing with MS isn't terribly difficult nowadays if many of the diagnostic services are disabled and an external (as in not part of Windows) firewall is used to block the OS from communicating to MS. But it still irks me that there are services that cannot be disabled, at least through the service UI, many of which are not needed to run the OS (maybe Server 2019 would be better in that respect?).

When I was watching the news, I found this recent image of someone using a laptop running Vista with one of the last "XP" versions of Chrome. It was covered up at that airing but when the image aired earlier in the day the laptop's palmrest was shown with a "designed for Vista" sticker. Someone needs to tell them about New Moon and Serpent!!

Nope, it only supports USB 1.1 natively. Personally, I prefer to use the USB 2.0 support included with the 98SE USP3. Open up the executable with 7zip, open SP3.CAB and extract U98SEUSB.EXE. I find the best and most stable USB support package since it uses the Windows 2000 SP4 USB stack. On my laptop with an 855PM chipset using native 98/ME files causes me to get constant freezing and slowdowns when copying files as well as occasional BSODs when inserting USB devices. 2000 SP4 files work just as well as on 2000 SP4, which is perfect.

Why do several programs that run in 2000/XP fail in 9x with this card? The game "Scrabble" (2001) fails to load, as does the "Snow for Windows" desktop overlay (that happens even under Windows 95 with a VESA driver so it may not be an issue with a specific driver).

On hardware from 2011, definitely. Especially on a mac since there's no BIOS settings that would allow you to enable IDE compatibility mode. But wouldn't a USB install work if you slipstreamed AHCI drivers (assuming the error was 0x7B)? BWC's latest IMSM 8.9 would be a good place to start if not the official Intel driver for whatever chipset it's using.

I solved one today in Serpent x64 2020-03-20, But I don't get what they mean by this: Do ESRs count or what? In any event, try setting a user agent override for Firefox/68.0 for google.com.

Is it 360 Extreme Explorer version 12?

The difference between 241 and 251's sunmscapi.dlls is that the latter relies on ncrypt.dll, which doesn't exist in NT 5.x. One-Core-API has a wrapper for it.

I thought this commercial was quite funny, and for a change does not make any reference to the "crown" nor the "we" paradigm (the ultimate in corpospeak; see Windows 8+ message wording). I've watched it a good 25 times and it's still making me crack up.

The latest version of virtualdub (certainly works on win98) has a screen capture utility. I can get a good frame rate going at decent quality with that utility and the Lagarith lossless codec, though I use a version that seems to support a minimum of XP (2000 exkernel). I'm sure that an earlier version works with 98, as the inf is signed "$CHICAGO$".

Welcome to the MSFN! The boxes prove that bigger is better.

Definitely. The local bus service has buses that were introduced early this year as well as ones that were definitely around in 2005, and they all have tracking computers running on Windows 10 IoT.

I wouldn't say that there is a severe disadvantage, at least for NT 5.2. I just dredged up some Cinebench R11.5 x64 results from my Xeon X5670 (6C/12T) PC: Server 2008 SP2: 8.04 CPU pts XP x64 SP2: 7.98 CPU pts Windows 10 Pro 1803: 7.50 CPU pts (this is probably due to software Spectre mitigations, which were not applied to 2008 and don't exist for 2003) I did hear that the CPU scheduler was improved between XP and 2003 (which is designed to be used with many CPU threads and even has a "compute cluster" edition for supercomputers), though. And I always find 2003 to be smoother, especially the x64 port.

Probably because many people are blocking ads or are sponsors (hopefully!). It only happens when ads are unblocked.

Link goes back to this thread. but it's nice to see that XP-compatible hardware is still in production. now if only the titan XP would actually support XP!

They probably realized that it's such a downgrade from 2003 that it would be embarrassing to release it!

That's probably not due to SATA controllers. It's due to your crappy UEFI firmware. You should try replacing your acpi.sys with this one: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1974336.html