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My first PC ran 98SE about 13 years ago and I also still use it today on a ThinkPad T41 with USP3. It reminds of a simpler time when everything had (literally) more depth.

uMatrix (latest version) works, but the browser became even slower and I couldn't even make it to MSFN. Its only use appears to be for DRM-protected content that Pale Moon/New Moon can't handle.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to properly install any version of UBO, going back to 1.14. The earlier versions broke the browser. It will be shown as installed, but it can't access the dashboard page. Maybe it works on XP, though I don't think such an issue should be at the OS level.

I just installed it on my main Windows 2000 workstation (extended kernel v3.0a) and I had many issues. I manually installed uBlock Origin v1.18.6 and it didn't work I noticed that it made connections to servers under these domains: -cloudflare.com -tencent.com -e10.net (eNom, LLC; maybe that one shouldn't be blocked) -163data.com.cn (China Telecom Group Corporation; state-owned) -akamaitechnologies.com (they also host some of M$' win10 telemetry servers if I remember correctly) Once I put them all in my hosts file the browser would crash on bootup and removing them had no effect. New Moon is still the best browser.

Too big? That is good reason to go after Google. Give them the AT&T treatment for trying to monopolize the web. I guess the open sourcing of Chromium gives them a leg to stand on this time, though I'm still uncomfortable with their grasp in other places like search engines and video hosting. This is a discussion for another thread, but I wonder how long it will be before Bing and Yahoo! become facades for Google Search? Just look at its market share: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

I also have some bad news: one of the XP POS machines at my school was replaced with one running a different OS. The cashier is ignoring the remaining XP desktop and pushing us to the other one. The good news is that it's running Windows 7.

Many of the win10 machines at my school display this on the taskbar: Clicking on the placeholder just launches more instances of M$ Edge. And I just looked over my system restore points and found this: I don't get it. This is a Kaby Lake laptop with only Intel HD Graphics 620 so, unfortunately, I can't replace it with the extremely superior Windows XP Professional. I never really encountered bugs in Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 or 7, but 10 is a real piece of work. Shall I go on about the win32 calculator from 7 that crashes whenever I try to convert units? Or the dark theme trying to take on the control panel? I'm on the February level of updates. Maybe I'll update next week.

I just installed it on Windows 2000 and it works great, aside from the fact it seems to render lots of Western-signed HTTPS certificates invalid. MSFN was also affected; click the hyperlink on the (far) left to proceed to the site. It also makes all these connections (and a few more); they seem to be American cloud servers. New Moon makes only like 5 connections with a page of MSFN open.

After installing the original HFSLIP-created ISO in Hyper-V, I noticed that IE6 and DX9 reported as such. I failed to state that I deviate from this form of installation by integrating AHCI drivers in nLite and then installing from USB on real hardware. Sorry for leading you on this wild goose chase

Unfortunately, that method nor installing uniATA did anything, which means I'm stuck in IDE mode. In reality, performance doesn't seem to be too bad. USB-HDD transfers are still faster than 2003 on AHCI. Thank you for your assistance.

OK, here you go: https://mega.nz/#!U0synYDD!HKbkV6VvRxKPLGOkOD3Iy9m2uQoKLBrDHEqJCOLePDc I installed the copy made with the new HFSLIP last night and it still identified IE as 5 and DX as 7. Maybe I should try HFSLIP on Windows 2000 instead of Windows 10?

Not surprising, considering that DX9 is DX9 regardless of OS, If you look at the old win2kgaming board there is an endless list of "XP-only" games made in the late 2000s that only need a few DLLs to work on Windows 2000 (before the extended kernel was conceived). Interestingly, the vast majority of my games have XP x86 or below as their minimum OS requirement (except for Cities: Skylines, which is XP x64) and don't make use of Steam DRM so I think I'll copy those from my Windows 8.1 system and try them out on my HP Z600 (if IDE mode doesn't make much of a difference). I just got the game "News Tycoon" (released March 2017) to work. It's supposed to be for Windows 7 and up according to Steam but it launched on Windows 2000! Unfortunately it ran out of memory and crashed while loading, so I'll have to set /3GB now. Democracy 3 does work fully, and I'm quite pleased.

I've been trying to install Windows 2000 in AHCI mode on an HP Z600 Workstation (5520 chipset + ICH10R) from USB. Setup only shows the USB flash drive and not the actual HDD. 48-bit LBA is enabled and I've tried numerous AHCI drivers: BWC's 7.6 drivers, then integrated extended core v16 to try BWC 8.9 drivers and even some later ones that work on 2003 x86 (9.6). The same thing keeps happening! I'd be ecstatic if I could get this to work. I'm weary of a performance hit in IDE mode, though when I tried that it still worked great, but I could still be missing out on good performance in AHCI.

Here is the HFSLIP-info from the new version of HFSLIP. The SETUPREG.HIV in this case is very close if not the same as the one from my SP4 source: https://mega.nz/#!stsnGAjQ!pk3XQYhngBHX91_xOmbNnwuTx5O1lLv5iMB-VLv7GNo

Here are the setupregs: https://mega.nz/#!Zs91kIyY!L4wzc00mdutMqkgQYz4as3q-Kp7iME8P90tbBJTHcq0 And I'll try running the new version tomorrow.

Here is the result of the script: https://mega.nz/#!MtdXHCKS!WFdzcRe3pIA7fWsj22YlV171hI4R9wg2GHSEvAntj00

Yes, I'm willing to run such a script. Anything for the proliferation of Windows 2000

OK, here is the log. I am running Windows 10, not Vista:

Looking at the log in the ISO, I did use 1.0.2 from the FullPack, and it does indicate that DX9 and IE6 were slipstreamed. I'll have to try using it again.

It is just as stable as vanilla Windows 2000 and still very fast, though competing with Server 2003 x86 (and apparently XP x64) in performance. On my ThinkPad T60 I get "unknown hard error" dialogs from time to time, though the OS never crashes, and the software rarely does.

All of @roytam1's browsers work with the extended kernel, as do most XP-compatible software titles, and a few smaller utilities for Windows 7 and up (Throttlestop, Acrobat Reader DC off the top of my head). The universal Boingo WLAN client supports more EAP methods than the XP SP2 native client. If you don't do DX10+ gaming or need modern MTP support, Windows 2000 still goes very far.

I see those win10 lookalikes and raise you Q4OS + XPQ4. https://q4os.org/index.html https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/ In Live CD form dumped onto a USB on a ThinkPad T60 it's not much less snappier than server 2003 on the TP's SSD.

I think it may have something to do with this: I guess it was only partially fixed. I remember reading something more recent (2018) which indicated that such issues persisted but can't put my finger on that particular post.

If you followed my corrected instructions where the sys directly hooks the XP/2003 (renamed) ntoskrnl.exe, there is the possibility those three exports may rely on ones missing in 2000's hal.dll, which means you will have to do another wrapper to hook XP's hal.dll. As I've heard, hacking up the kernel to accept drivers meant for newer OSes is probably the hardest part of the OS extension process. If you give us the details of the BSOD you get when trying to install the drivers, hopefully @blackwingcatwill be able to help.

Forget my earlier instructions. All you need to do is get the XP/2003 ntoskrnl.exe (which has to be renamed), edit the sys with CFF explorer by adding the necessary imports, then you should hopefully get somewhere. Keep it handy in the same place as the 2000 ntoskrnl