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The banner is not present in newer New Moon 28 releases because the default user agent for youtube.com references Firefox 60, so Polymer v1 appears there (and it's much slower than the old layout on my Core Duo T2400 ). As for Serpent, I simply blocked the banner's elements using uBlock Origin.

I use fcwin2k to "tell" New Moon 28/Serpent 52 that they are running on a newer OS so that pages like the one listed in the OP load. This is with Windows 2000 with Extended Kernel v3.0e and with DX10 compatibility enabled in the extended kernel installer.

I had it the wrong way around, as nss3.dll was making calls to various libraries, including libegl.dll, kernel32.dll and palemoon.exe, but usually not the right one, opengl32.dll. "glGetPointerv" was one such call. These calls were only made when loading that site on a system with the DX10 components; no OpenGL calls are ever made when the module is not installed, nor does it make them on most other sites even when installed. I used Dependency Walker to evaluate. UPDATE: Tested on Vista SP2 + Platform Update and mostly the same behaviour as on Windows 2000 with DX10 module, but it loads successfully. I also compared loading times on XP x64 and 2012R2 (Serpent 2020-02-08 and Pale Moon 28.8 respectively, all x64). They were the same on my Xeon X5670 machine at 13 seconds. So hardware acceleration differences are indeed not a factor. But the site is quite sluggish in general. Oddly enough, if you tell the browsers that they're on Vista or 7, the pages load without crashing in win2k.

Correct.

What are these updates? If you were to look up their KBXXXXXXX numbers, you could find them on https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/ and add them to the "HF" folder (IIRC, it's been a couple of months but I think it's the right folder). However, those were probably excluded from the HFSLIP package as they may have been superseded by newer updates or outright buggy.

Yes, it can be installed after Windows is set up.

The HFSLIP 2000 FullPack is the best slipstreaming option around: It includes many updates not available through Windows Update, including post-EOL updates and XP Embedded updates. IE6 SP1 and DX 9.0c are also integrated. Just a few notes: -it works in Windows 10 but UAC should be disabled -run nLite for driver slipstreaming before running HFSLIP However, I currently recommend excluding the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 cab as a program (Vegas Pro 10) broke with the integrated version. You run the HFSLIP script after extracting it, where a set of folders is created. The HFSLIP FullPack has the same folder structure IIRC, so extract everything to the applicable sections and everything should work fine. The extended kernel and core cannot be integrated. Someone made an nLite addon for the extended core. Not sure how it fits in with the HFSLIP 2000 FullPack since that updates some of the kernel-mode files as well. I guess you could use the alternative way of using nLite by feeding it a file explaining file changes (look for posts from late April 2019 in 2000 USP 5.2 thread) or someone could make a package compatible with HFSLIP: The extended kernel could also be integrated in the same way I guess, but its customiziability poses a problem.

I haven't noticed much difference between Windows 2000 and Vista/7/2012R2/10. XP should be equal if not better (unless BWC's kernel is more optimized than XP's), and 2003 definitely has some scheduling improvements over 2000 which allow me to listen to a YouTube video while having MSFN open (in win2k the audio becomes garbled on a Core Duo T2400). Vista with Platform Update and above also have DX11/D2D/DirectWrite for hardware acceleration IIRC, which NT5 lacks, except for Windows 2000 with the BWC-provided wineD3D DX10/11 module possibly. In fact the site in the OP's link seem to make use of the DX10/11-type acceleration as they crash the browsers on my workstation as a result of OpenGL calls being directed to nss3.dll (instead of opengl32.dll). So that may be the missing ingredient for NT5.

Doesn't look like it. Crashes immediately on launch and brings Explorer down with it. A series of _GetPhysicalCursorPosXX functions is missing from user32.dll.

I moved locations and have them back. Must be due to a change in the router settings (which wouldn't have been by me) or something on the ISP end, as machines running Vista and 2012 R2 were also affected at the other location.

In my experiences with guiding less knowledgeable users, I discovered numerous bugs and workarounds that improved the functionality of Windows 2000 with regards to Office 2007/2010. And some of the most unlikely things have been known to break things in the heavily modded OS, as I've reported here and in other places. Yes, most people are going to remain glued to their modern devices and have no use for 9x or win2k, but there are others who wonder why they can't view SHA-2 encrypted documents in Office 2007 after installing it in Windows 2000. No documentation existed about this issue prior to recently. And finding the solution took several hours of replicating the decryption process in XP, reviewing it using dependency walker, then replacing some system files with those from POSReady, hex editing mso.dll to point to a renamed XP file because completely replacing it broke Outlook, and then posting the instructions for all to see, since very few people are going to go to my lengths to fix an issue that can otherwise be rectified by changing the OS. And that is perfectly understandable.

In that case, it appears that BWC installed Player 4.0 in XP to get around the driver incompatibilities. You may try vmx86.sys from 7.1.6, but the likelihood of it working is probably very low. Best case you get a message complaining about kernel components not having matching version numbers, worst case you get a BSOD. Maybe if you were to find a beta version of 8, that could have a working driver which could be dropped into the final release. I have no idea where and even if those are obtainable however. But I'd still look into Workstation 9 and 10.x anyway. It may be just like when I was testing Photoshop and found CS4-6 to be more stable than CS3. On one last tangent, you may look into commenting out the offending call much like BWC did for some ATI drivers. Some x86 assembly knowledge probably needed (which I sadly lack), but a good reference: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/win2kgaming/viewtopic.php?p=763#p763

Windows 2000 must run with a page file. XP doesn't need one though. In my case, I found that setting a min size of 20 MB and a max size of 60 MB works very well. In some edge cases I had to change the max to 100 MB though.

Oddly enough, in both New Moon 28.9.0a1 and Serpent 2020-01-17 with private browsing and only uBlock Origin (Firefox Legacy) 1.16.4.16 and 1.16.4.15, respectively, on Windows 2000, there are no private browsing-related prompts on the Washington Post (Privacy and Performance Die in Plain Sight) website. Instead I get closable but invasive prompts to sign for this and that newsletter! Update: just realized that I'm just mostly regurgitating what others said above. However, you should have the option of blocking the offending page elements by right-clicking them and then clicking "create" to make additional filters.

Canadian broadcasters, which are generally owned by cable/satellite companies, will probably dump OTA before adopting ATSC 3.0. Most of our stations are still analog, especially outside major cities. Or they may drag their feet and keep broadcasting exclusively ATSC 1.0 much longer than in the U.S. Those who can receive Canadian stations (which broadcast lots of American shows) could have an alternative source of programming if ATSC 3.0 proves inaccessible or DRM-infested. I'd also be wise to further media consolidation in the U.S. which may further deteriorate the availability and/or quality of OTA over there. I never used WMC, but I heard that MS never supplied EPG data to Canadian users (or at least around XP/early Vista era). We also never had stuff like cablecards. So it was even more of a non-factor than in the U.S.

And they're gone again. uBlock Origin is disabled on this site for me. I'm not sure if I had any since switching from 2003 back to 2000.

Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend slipstreaming .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 using the HFSLIP 2000 FullPack, as it breaks Sony Vegas Pro 10 with a "failed to initialize script runtime" error. I removed the slipstreamed .NET 2.0, ran the standalone installer and now it loads. Everything else has been running smoothly on my main machines though.

VirtualBox 1.5.6 is the final version officially supported for vanilla Windows 2000, but VirtualBox 2.0.4 is the final version using a modified kernel driver made by BWC. But, if you use the extended kernel and core, you can use VirtualBox 4.1.22 (and possibly up to about 4.1.32 - 4.2 introduces driver incompatibilities). However, you must manually install the kernel/networking/USB drivers from the "drivers" folder in VirtualBox's program folder using the included infs. USB 2.0 passthrough seems to be broken, just like in 1.5.x.

Password reset emails were also affected. After trying for the past 36 hours, I finally got one.

You may be in for a nice surprise, with regards to at least the ethernet (if Broadcom) and audio drivers. I think the Windows 2000 package for the ethernet could also work on Windows NT 4. It seems to be similar to the NIC in my HP Z600, which is officially supported by HP for XP and above, but installs fine in Windows 2000 (Broadcom's readme references NT4 and 98 as well). You also have (pre-HDA) SoundMAX onboard audio. The win2k/XP driver on HP's site would probably not work in NT, but my ThinkPad T41 of a similar vintage has NT4 drivers for what appears to be identical hardware. Download the MIDI and regular sound driver. https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T43.html But I can't find an Intel 915GM graphics driver for NT, so you'll have to use VBEMP NT. Shouldn't be much of a hardship due to a lack of 3D accelerated games and software. The Inside Out Networks USB 1.x driver should also work. Beware, USB transfers had a tendency to freeze on my ThinkPad T41 and almost brought down the OS.

Did you unselect Groove?

@Dylan Cruz The installer broke when I removed the service installation from it with Orca. So the only way to even possibly use Office 2010 on Windows 2000 is to install it in another OS, export all reg entries and copy over the installed folders. PowerPoint Viewer 2010 (which is basically PowerPoint 2010, with editing capabilities disabled) running even standalone on Windows 2000 could only be done through a debugger and still crashed a few times when viewing a presentation so I'm not very enthusiastic to begin with.

Have you tried running the dxdiag tests? The Sims 2 is definitely 98/Me compatible and would probably work on those OSes with good drivers present.

I'm not sure (since I'm not him, of course), but he may have not played around enough with user agents on the other XP browsers to get the newer YouTube design to appear.

Nope. If you were to remove the user agent override from roytam1's browsers, you would see the newer design.