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Tutorial: VirtualBox 1.6.6 On Windows 2000 (Without Updates/Extended Kernel)


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You will need:
Orca MSI Editor
Windows 2000 (for obvious reasons)
VirtualBox 1.6.6 (also for obvious reasons)

Note: This was done on Service Pack 4.

1. Download and install Orca.
2. Right click on the VirtualBox MSI file, Then select "Open With Orca" 
2a. Make sure you have unchecked "Read Only" In Properties
3. Select the "LaunchCondition" Table, Then right click then "Drop Table"
4. After Dropping the table, Save it then install Virtualbox.
4a. Make sure you close Orca.


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Everything Works! 
If this doesn't work, try change the VersionNT=500 to VersionNT=400
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I'm Assuming they blocked Windows 2000 so people would switch to XP. 

Edited by Nerdulater
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This is from a note I made for myself back in 2010:

v1.6.6 is the last version to work on Windows 2000 but BlackWingcat modified Vboxc.dll and Vboxdrv.sys in VirtualBox 2.0.4 so that version works in Windows 2000.


1. Download VirtualBox 2.0.4
2. Run the install, when it errors out leave the error up.
3. Go to the TEMP directory in your profile and make a copy of the VirtualBox .msi.
4. Edit the .MSI with Orca and remove the LaunchConditions.
5. Install VirtualBox 2.0.4.
6. Download "vb202-4w2k.zip" from BlackWingCat.
7. Reboot.
8. Extract the contents of "vb202-4w2k.zip" to their proper locations.
9. Execute VirtualBox.
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On 7/19/2022 at 10:47 AM, DosFreak said:

This is from a note I made for myself back in 2010:

v1.6.6 is the last version to work on Windows 2000 but BlackWingcat modified Vboxc.dll and Vboxdrv.sys in VirtualBox 2.0.4 so that version works in Windows 2000.


1. Download VirtualBox 2.0.4
2. Run the install, when it errors out leave the error up.
3. Go to the TEMP directory in your profile and make a copy of the VirtualBox .msi.
4. Edit the .MSI with Orca and remove the LaunchConditions.
5. Install VirtualBox 2.0.4.
6. Download "vb202-4w2k.zip" from BlackWingCat.
7. Reboot.
8. Extract the contents of "vb202-4w2k.zip" to their proper locations.
9. Execute VirtualBox.

Did not know there was a modifed version, When i tried 2.0, I got errors about VBoxSVC, I tried using the 1.6.6 version which even if it were to launch it wouldn't work.

On 7/19/2022 at 10:50 AM, DosFreak said:

You are still better off with Vmware Player 3.01 or Vmware Workstation v7.1.3 but to each their own.

I agree, but my problem is the early versions of VMware have a anti-vm which i haven't gotten around yet. I could use VirtualBox to install VMware, But i found VirtualBox to be slower then VMware.

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