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[jaclaz]

hey! some very awesome work is being done on a native mode command prompt!!

check out this out!! Native shell — command prompt that starts before Winlogon and Win32 subsystem

Nice find!

Possibly an evolution of these thingies here:

http://reboot.pro/3537/

http://reboot.pro/3791/

in the end, we will win!

Here lies the problem, there is no "we" , personally I ALREADY won, since more than ten years, as well as - I am told - several satisfied Win2K users, you seem like the only one having these problems (or considering the whatever you have as problems or refusing to follow simple troubleshooting steps or insisting in attributing these problems, whatever they are, to strange conspiracies).

You are probably trying to do all together something that you never did, with a non-standard setup, adding to it each and every possible kind of things that may cause the problems.

The fact that you come not (like most satisfied Win2K users) from a NT 4.0 background may play a part in some of the issues you describe, though, expecially those related to Admin or "plain user" authorizations and privileges.

I was trying, in an as nice as possible way , to send the message that there is a non-trivial amount of probabilities that you managed to create a somehow "botched" install, by either implementing "queer" settings or installing "bad" apps.

Keep also in mind that there is very little need, with a decently sized system partition and for a single user, to have the system partition NTFS formatted,

Once again, my personal advice:

• describe your hard disk partitioning/settings AND the actual hardware you are using
  
• FORGET about ANY app
  
• just make a new, plain, simple, "naked", install of 2K, DO NOT install ANY other software
  
• try - next time - to just answer the questions other members may ask (they are intended to better understand the situation/problems and to try and help you)
  
• try - still next time - to just follow the advice other (more experienced with 2K) members may give you, once they will understand thanks to the above, WHAT the problem may be
  
• report what happens after following the above advice (and doing nothing else)
  

jaclaz

P.S.: On the new, "naked" install try following this:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

the 1.5x value may be nonsense (depending on the amount of RAM you have)

Just in case:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255205/en-us

Edited July 19, 2011 by jaclaz

[tomasz86]

check out this out!! Native shell — command prompt that starts before Winlogon and Win32 subsystem

Have you tried to run this tool under W2K? It seems it's for XP/2K3 only. I got a bluescreen saying sth about missing functions in ntdll.dll. I had to manually remove the file %systemroot%\system32\native.exe using a Linux LiveCD in order to be able to boot the system.

Edited July 30, 2011 by tomasz86

[Molecule]

I never tried it ... wonder if kernelX would help, or conflict?

I had thought XP was pretty much just a bloated 2K, but now I see lots of little stuff is XP only. The DX9 addon builder at ryan works with XP, but it fails for 2K DX9 addon packages.