win32

I think he's referring to the design that is pushed to Firefox 45/52+. roytam1's browsers have a user agent override for Firefox 42 on YouTube so we get to see an older design that is less bloated and thus not a nightmare on old (Core Duo) hardware. Chrome 79 on Windows 8.1 seems to have the same design as the one that other newer browsers get.

@Dylan Cruz Yes, I previously used the default wallpaper in my Server 2003. I tried using bginfo and changed the background to the one it created. When logging out, it reverted to the default wallpaper. Have you tried the command line switch "/all"? Apparently it configures bginfo for each user on the system, which may prevent the issue you are describing.

@Dylan Cruz My desktop still has a win2k partition, but the laptop will be staying on 2003. 2000 and XP presented too many inexplicable bugs on there. You really need to make new threads since this is so far removed from MS Office, so someone who knows their way around group policy and domains (which doesn't describe me unfortunately) doesn't have to dig through a seemingly completely unrelated thread to answer your question.

@Dylan Cruz I haven't tested the XP patch but the EternalBlue exploit relies on Terminal Services, which doesn't exist in Windows 2000 Professional. In Server you should just disable the service. A WannaCry patch is included in one of the newer extended kernels.

It's been happening to me ever since 2020 started in UTC 00:00 (so around 7 pm on December 31 for me).

I now see it at 2.25%, so we're above Linux and Mac OS 10.13! The numbers in the table seem to update constantly, and show Windows 7 at 33.1% when the December share is stated as 26.6%. I'd like to say that business PCs are considerably more likely to have Windows XP and 7 than home PCs, but it's New Year's Day. I wouldn't think that many people are working today.

The new year (and decade) has just arrived in UTC -05:00 (eastern continental United States as well as Ontario, Quebec and eastern Nunavut in Canada*) I am pleased to report that there doesn't seem to be an undocumented "2020 bug" in Microsoft Windows. My Windows 95, Server 2003, Vista and 8.1 installs have successfully entered a new decade. And no mass failures of XP either it appears. *Not including northwestern Ontario communities such as Kenora and Quebec's Magalden Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

What versions of disk.sys and partmgr.sys do you have? Are there other drivers attached to the large disk in device manager?

The error that would appear when running x64 apps on XP and 2003 x86 would refer to the executable being "valid, but for a different type of machine". Even if the odds are stacked up against Vista in this case, it is running under Vista x64 for me as well. It appears they chose MSVC 2015/17 as their compiler, which are both still very capable of targetting everything down to XP, and used a subset of Vista-compatible functions provided by the Qt framework. It seems to be a relatively simple application, after all.

That apple software update thingy always nagged on my mother's computer. With XP and now 8.1... But yeah, that would go well with this Christmas installation over here: I have no idea why they picked those two letters. And for more evidence that Windows XP dominated Christmas 2019: https://www.neowin.net/news/the-new-windows-ugly-sweater-has-a-windows-xp-theme

@blackwingcat has all of the solutions for your problems. Go to http://www.w2k.flxsrv.org/wlu/wluen.htm, then click "Manual Update" on the left sidebar, select "Drivers" in the "Kind" box and search for nVidia or AHCI (Intel Matrix Storage Manager) or whatever you need. To use PAE to its fullest extent, select "Additional function" in the "Kind" box and search for "Extended Core". Look for KB979683, v16a.

The minimum OS listed on its site (https://cancel.fm/ripcord/) is actually Windows 7. I have no way of confirming as I'm stuck with a Core Duo right now, but a change of PE subsystem could do the trick for XP x64.

I think that the branding for the three browsers should reflect the main platforms they run on: Borealis -> Neptune (Windows 2000) New Moon -> Whistler (Windows XP) Serpent -> Longhorn (Vista) Visual design isn't my specialty, but I've come up with these potential logos/icons for Longhorn. They could be refined, but software that runs on a Cyrix 6x86 MX doesn't need the fanciest icons:

Have you tried this driver? https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/REALTEK/Realtek-RTL8185L-Wireless-Lan-Driver-1097.shtml

The Encrypting File System (efsadu.dll) only exists in XP Pro and higher. wer.dll and mpr.dll are red herrings though; dependency walker always whines about them. You won't need them. But I think 2003 SP1's kernel32.dll is adaptable to XP. Anyone know of an update that contains it?

@NoelC and others reported that file system operations are faster in 8 than 8.1. 8.1 was 5% slower than 7, and I believe 8 was quite close to 7.

The original Chinese version connects to state-owned servers, but the Russian repack in blackwingcat's link has the telemetry stripped out (confirmed using Kerio firewall connection requests). Aside from that it doesn't seem to have a negative effect on the OS.

If you have problems with booting XP, you might want to consider Server 2003. My laptop originally came with XP, but without a working battery it gets stuck on the boot screen when fading in 95% of the time (doesn't matter if it's base SP3, USP4 applied, or all POS updates applied). This also affects Windows 2000, but only about 10% of the time. Server 2003 never fails to boot though. But obtaining it for a good price can be very difficult. You may want to wait it out and focus on getting hardware working with XP than taking a gamble on a different OS, since your hardware is completely different from mine.

hmm, this appears to be 7/8: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/62124/photos/62208 The systray area looks kinda like Luna, but the start button? the icons don't really look like XP to me either. Or he is just proficient at skinning XP. He always seemed like a win2k guy to me. Anyway I saw XP in a dry cleaner's shop on Friday, located in one of the halls leading out of Central Station in Montreal. As it was the evening rush hour things were moving along briskly so I couldn't take a photo.

It would work in XP x64 since it is Server 2003-derived. 2003 x86 can also be converted to XP but I don't think many people would go to the trouble of doing so.

It works in Server 2003 x86, with all updates installed. I get "your computer is safe, Microsoft security update is already installed" I guess there are missing APIs in regular XP (MS messed up the resource tables, which is why the ctrl-c message appears in non-English editions). But you should be good as long as you installed the May updates.

@Dylan Cruz Yeah, turns out there are missing API functions in shell32.dll when I copied my Movie Maker 2.1 (x86) over from the XP x64 host. And get this: Office 2007 now poses the same problem as on my ThinkPad T60. And drag-and-drop broke after the extended kernel was installed. (resolved) This is with VMware Workstation 10.0.1. The only extraneous thing I did in the case of Office was replacing riched20.dll, but I think that it wouldn't have installed without it. And now for some reason, BWC files are getting replaced with win2k SP4 files!!!! I'm going to have to rebuild the testing environment on a ThinkPad T41 because something isn't right in VMware.

@Dylan Cruz Even with NNN4NT5 you were unable to run to successfully run the installer? They are packaged as MSIs, they can also be edited with Orca by dropping the "LaunchCondition" table.

I am also using a VL edition, which of course uses reg keys to store its licensing details. Movie Maker 2.6 has been demonstrated as working with KDW (predecessor to extended kernel) by BWC. I can't remember if I got it to work with the extended kernel. That was just RTM. I consider its real birth to be on the day of general availability. There are many variants of Server 2003: Web Edition, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Home Server, SBS, XP Pro x64 etc. Given that BWC's extended core can break the hardware limits of the lesser servers, and the higher ones seem to offer not much more than clustering support, I think the base win2k server should suffice.

You did save it in pemaker, right? I did it and it shows 5.1. The problem is that the installer is bootstrapped and contains another installer that also has a PE subsystem of 6.0. You will have to use a program capable of extracting files from inno installers, like the ones listed in this post: update: I just used innounp and it extracted the program contents, but not another installer.