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Well, modifying this Start Menu with my extremely limited skills is a pain. Changing the position of the buttons and renaming them is very easy. That's why I could just move the "Log off" button to a new submenu and have its functionality retained simply because the "Log off" button is present in the original Start Menu (you can choose whether to show it or not depending on a registry settings).

The case with "Help" is different. It's possible to change its function because there's something like this in the String Table of explorer.exe:

732, 	"hh.exe>%systemroot%\\help\\windows.chm"

so I just changed it to:

732, 	"shutdown.exe>/t 0"

The icon needs to be changed in shell32.dll.

The problem with all the other buttons is that each of them just runs a particular function, ex:

MENUITEM "&Run...", 401, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "S&ynchronize", 553, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Log off", 402, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED

Everything would be extremely easy if I only knew what the numbers are for restart, standby, hibernate, etc. I've googled it but couldn't really find any useful information. I did manage to find some interesting websites:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/forum/topic/17384-help-start-menu-mod/

http://www.virtualplastic.net/msgboard/thread.php?forum=1&thread=355

http://codescript.vdsworld.com/Webpages/Tray_messages.htm

https://github.com/dblock/resourcelib/blob/master/Docs/Menu.md

http://virtualplastic.net/html/icn_strt.html

http://computertruths.blogspot.kr/2007/06/interesting-hacks-using-resource-hacker.html

http://unlockforus.blogspot.kr/2012/09/right-click-menu-for-shutdown-log-off.html

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/CLSID-List.htm

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/add-enhanced-shutdown-button-to-the-windows-xp-start-menu/

http://www.askvg.com/list-of-a-few-locations-in-windows-xp-system-files-to-be-hacked-using-resource-hacker/

http://forum.pcekspert.com/showpost.php?p=405962&postcount=448

and

http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/archives/759

The last one is probably the best but I just haven't got skills to do the programming.

I'm looking forward to hear your opinion on the nVIDIA drivers :)

@acus

Absolutely right :blushing: I've just uploaded a new daily version with synceng.dll included.

Scsiport.sys 5.0.2195.7072 comes from BlackWingCat and fixes this issue.

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There are three releases of UURollup today!

  1. A new weekly release of UURollup-v10d. It's almost exactly the same as the last daily. The only change is EULA which now is exactly the same as the one used in test versions of UURollup-v11:
    UNOFFICIAL UPDATES ROLLUP FOR MICROSOFT® WINDOWS® 2000
    IMPORTANT: THIS IS NOT A MICROSOFT PRODUCT. This software is released as a tribute to the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 family of operating systems and as a tribute to Microsoft Corporation. This software consists of an unofficial compilation of Microsoft files.
    USE OF THIS SOFTWARE MAY INVALIDATE ANY GUARANTEE AND OR WARRANTY EXPRESSED IN YOUR WINDOWS® 2000 END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA). USE OF THIS SOFTWARE DOES NOT SUPERSEDE OR PROVIDE ANY REMEDY FOR ANY GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY THAT MAY BE INVALIDATED. ALL LIABILITIES FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THIS SOFTWARE LIE WITH THE END USER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS," WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROVIDER BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF THIS SOFTWARE. ANY SOFTWARE IN THIS PACK IS THE COPYRIGHTED WORK OF ITS RESPECTIVE OWNER(S). IF YOU CHOOSE TO PROCEED WITH THE INSTALLATION, YOU DO SO ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
    Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, and are used in a non-trademark descriptive sense only. Windows 2000 is produced and licensed by Microsoft Corporation.
  2. A new weekly release of UURollup-v11. It's based on the last daily release but it's not exactly same.
    There are a few differences:
    • Terminal Services related files aren't present in it.
    • The 3rd party tools (7-Zip commandline tools, ProcessExplorer, etc.) aren't included (PROBLEMCHYLD should like it :w00t:)

[*] A new daily release of UURollup-v11. I've prepared something special this time. This is a simple script called "Application Compatibility Launcher". What it does is to launch a file with Windows XP compatibility. It's the same thing what BlackWingCat's KDW does but I've always thought of it as little too much complicated. I wanted to have something very simple.

This is how it works:

  1. This is a message which you normally see when trying to install new versions of Firefox (or Thunderbird) in Win2k:
    5w5Tyl.jpg
  2. Open Start Menu and go to Accessories. There will be "Application Compatibility Launcher" there:
    FcFlCl.jpg
  3. Open it and drag & drop the program file onto it (you can also type the full path but dragging & dropping is easier).
    BW1Zql.jpg
  4. If the full path is displayed like this just press ENTER:
    oHU1ql.jpg
  5. Firefox installer will now start normally (it's thinking that the system is XP SP3):
    7PezGl.jpg
  6. After the installation has finished you can choose whether to save the settings or not. Saving them in case of Firefox is useless because it's only the installer which doesn't support Win2k but there are other applications like Dexpot which won't work without adding this compatibility setting:
    1ochWl.jpg

That's basically it. I'd be very thankful if you could test the launcher and let me know how it works and what kind of problems you've encountered.

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I'm looking forward to hear your opinion on the nVIDIA drivers :)

Well, after testing the drivers for several days, I haven't found a single thing wrong with them so far. I've run a couple of 3D programs and I haven't had any issues. I'll keep testing them and report back if there's any issues.

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Good to know that :) I've also been using exactly the same drivers on my computer and have experienced no issues so far. I'll try to prepare a fixed version of those 306.81 drivers in the near future.

I've just uploaded a new daily release of UURollup-v11. One bug has been fixed in this version. I've also added some small cosmetic fixes related to icon display. Icon Cache should also be refreshed automatically after installing UURollup.

The new Start Menu (explorer.exe) is included in it too:

uG0N6.jpg

"Sleep" means both "stand by" and "hibernate", i.e. the system will hibernate if hibernation is turned on and will go to stand by if it's turned off. This is a system limitation. I'm unable to add other / new buttons without modifying the code of the Start Menu which I'm not capable of doing. The standard shut down menu will be displayed when you double-click on the "Shut Down..." button.

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The website is still not available... Just in case this is an alternative address:

http://tomasz86.zxq.net

There are a lot of changes this time so make sure you check the changelog. I'll just list the most important ones:

  1. UURollup-v10d released (bug fixes & Application Compatibility Launcher added).
  2. Information about Application Compatibility Launcher and instructions about how to use it added to the main page.
  3. Programs section reorganised (updated and URLs tidied up).
  4. Updates List for HFSLIP updated. UURollup has been added and the English-only unofficial updates included in UURollup have been removed. Global (multilanguage) updates and updates available in more than one language are still available.
  5. Superseded updates are now hidden by default on the Updates List.
  6. About / Changelog section updated.

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Maybe it's still under review because they can't get their hands on a good ol' Windows 2000 computer since they're probably fanboys and girls of Windows 8. XD

More seriously though, you cannot upgrade from UURollup-v10d if you're using the latest weekly release, otherwise you'll get a kernel32.dll error. If you uninstall the weekly update (at least it happened for me), you'll still get a blue screen as it complains about LdrLoaderLock or something like that cannot be found. I found at least an unofficial fix though, at least to get you back into Windows if this happens. Since I had installed UURollup-v10d before uninstalling the weekly version and it didn't work, I uninstalled it via recovery console but it leaves the uninstall information behind. Well, when I went into Windows to uninstall the weekly pack, i'd get a blue screen since it was looking for dependencies that weren't there. So, I got back into the recovery console and 'uninstalled' UURollup-v10d again. However, what happens is it had the original files from the weekly UURollup stored and it restore the files, which basically reinstalled UURollup-v11 weekly. I hope this information and trial and error comes in handy for someone who might brick their system accidentally.

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What do you mean by "upgrade from UURollup-v10d"?

Did you install UURollup-v10d over the latest weekly? This is not going to work... UURollup-v10d can be installed only over UURollup-v10c (or any older release). The current daily and weekly releases of UURollup-v11 use a completely different set of files (UURollup-v10(x) uses WB kernel while UURollup-v11(x) uses BWC kernel) so you can't install the older version over the new ones.

If you're using the weekly or daily versions of UURollup-v11 then UURollup-v10d is NOT for you. It's targeted at people who have been using UURollup-v10c and want to stick with stable versions only.

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Yes, good points, and I did know that the v10d was different from the weekly/daily packages.

But yes, I did install UURollup-v10d over the weekly version, which I actually didn't think was going to work and I ended up with the kernel32.dll blue screen. So I uninstalled and went back to my weekly version, no problems. However, since I wanted to try out the stable v10d, I decided to uninstall my weekly version to go back to a somewhat native environment, but that also resulted in a blue screen which I outlined earlier, saying that it couldn't find LdrLoadLock or something like that in ntdll.dll. Why that happened, I had no idea. So then I was stuck with a system that wouldn't load. But since I had nothing to lose, I went into the recovery console and tried the uninstall of v10d since earlier I had installed it over the weekly version which meant before it installed originally, it saved copies of my weekly version's system files, and initiating uninstall of it once again restored the good system files and I was able to use the system again as it was before anything happened.

So basically, rather than pointing out my stupidity of seeing what happens when you experiment with certain things, I posted that just in case someone else might try doing something like what I had done or similar and how they could get their systems back without having to wipe the drive and start all over again.

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Hmm, it's hard to say what exactly happened and where the LdrLoadLock error came from :}

Basically speaking, this is how the three release channels work:

  1. Stable channel:
    • only files proved stable included
    • no experimental files or settings
    • replaces all previous stable and weekly (but not daily!) releases
    • possible to install over all previous stable and weekly releases (but only weekly releases of the same version ex. all previous weeklies of UURollup-v11, etc.)
    • slipstreaming supported

[*] Daily channel:

  • released very often (not not more often than once per day :P)
  • all newest files and changes included therefore very experimental
  • used mostly for testing purposes
  • does not replace any previous releases therefore it's required to uninstall the previous daily before installing a new one
  • slipstreaming not supported

[*] Weekly channel:

  • released not more often than once per week
  • based on daily releases but only stable changes are included
  • replaces all previous weekly releases of the same version
  • possible to install over previous weekly releases of the same version
  • does not not replace previous daily or stable releases
  • slipstreaming supported

I understand that this may be confusing but I find this kind of development very useful and practical for testing because once a stable version is released I'm sure that's it's really stable.

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I'm going to change my hosting permanently to http://www.zymic.com (zxq.net). Up to know I've been using http://www.000webhost.com but what's going to at the moment is a joke :realmad:

You are seeing this page because the system administrator of 000webhost.com is currently checking this website for malicious content. This redirect page will be removed once we finish manually checking all files on this account. Since we check over 100 websites per day, it can take about 2-4 hours to complete. If you are the owner of this website, you will get an email confirmation once it's done. If you are a visitor, please come back later.

It's been like that for 3 days...

I'm working on redirecting from http://www.windows2000.tk to http://tomasz86.zxq.net. At the moment the website is accessible on the latter address.

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@tomasz86

Hi Tom is good to know that your host is working :yes: !

I've some questions for you about the translation of kernel32.dll...

I was trying to check with Resource Hacker version 3.6.0.92 the String Table of kernel32.dll version 5.0.2195.7187 included in UURollup-v11-d121108-x86-ENU

and the number of strings exceed (differ to) the number of strings contained in kernel32.dll version 5.00.2195.7135 (ITA)

the strings table directories:

1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,2821,3102,3203,3426

doesn't exist in kernel32.dll version 5.00.2195.7135 (ITA) and the strings it seems to contain countries data of some sort

e.g. stirng table dir 1876 contains the following strings :

30002, "17.146$-61.821$AG$ATG$Antigua and Barbuda$Antigua and Barbuda"

30003, "33.833$66.025$AF$AFG$Afghanistan$Islamic State of Afghanistan"

30004, "28.214$2.655$DZ$DZA$Algeria$Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria"

30005, "40.356$47.869$AZ$AZE$Azerbaijan$Azerbaijani Republic"

30006, "41.111$20.027$AL$ALB$Albania$Republic of Albania"

30007, "40.292$44.937$AM$ARM$Armenia$Republic of Armenia"

30008, "42.551$1.576$AD$AND$Andorra$Principality of Andorra"

30009, "-12.333$17.539$AO$AGO$Angola$Republic of Angola"

30010, "-12.435$-169.965$AS$ASM$American Samoa$American Samoa"

30011, "-35.63$-65.159$AR$ARG$Argentina$Argentine Republic"

30012, "-25.585$134.504$AU$AUS$Australia$Commonwealth of Australia"

30014, "47.589$14.14$AT$AUT$Austria$Republic of Austria"

Do you know if there's an easy way to find all these missing string already translated in ITA ?

regards

hackeronte

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