Questions tagged [windows-2000]
Windows 2000 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft, released on December 15, 1999.
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How activate option to export to OVF
How activate option to export to OVF, I need export a virtual machine the Windows 2000 for use in virtual box but this option is disabled:
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How to print to PDF without half toning? (Windows 2000)
I want to convert some documents from Micrografx Designer 4.1a for Windows 3.1 to PDF. So I set up Windows 2000 in a virtual machine and installed Adobe Acrobat Pro 7. This lets me print to PDF. ...
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Convert SMBv1 to newer SMB without modifying the server
A friend who is a medical doctor has a medical imaging device that exports small jpg files by providing a Samba share. It runs a heavily modified version of Windows 2000 and only supports SMBv1. SMBv1 ...
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What happens if you install 2 updates that update the same file without rebooting, and what happens if you install updates out of order?
I have an old Windows 2000 computer whose hard drive crashed, and I would like to restore it. I have the original Windows 2000 CD plus backups of all the Windows service packs, individual Windows ...
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Mapped drives are not visible for administrator in Windows 2000
I've a laptop (without internet connection) that still runs with the good old Windows 2000.
I'm logged in with the user 'John' and I map a network drive: net use x: \\myserver\myshare. When I do net ...
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Windows 2000 Pro SP4 Repair
I have a Windows 2000 Pro SP4 that is giving the BSOD screen.
I am using the windows repair function to try to repair the hard disk.
After booting from the "Windows 2000 PRO SP4' CD
and going to ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 2000 onto a bootable USB-Drive?
I have got a gigantic collection of old games for Windows 2000 from a friend. I really wanted to try those so I instantly tried to install the ones I'm interested in. I tried to install them to my new ...
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Windows 2000 disk image: was ACPI enabled?
I have an old (2005) industrial PC running Windows 2000. It operates a CNC machine, so almost every bit of it is proprietary, except Windows and basic hardware standards (ISA bus etc).
All of a ...
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Sort by type while retaining numerical ordering in Explorer
Windows XP and later OSes have a NoStrCmpLogical API that allows sorting numerically rather than lexicographical.
All references say this is not supported until after Windows 2000, yet, somehow that ...
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How to run newer software on older operating systems?
This is a kludgy problem, but I'm hoping there's a way to do this:
Windows 2000 doesn't support the level of encryption that allows writing to encrypted Office documents. It can read them, it just ...
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Prevent last logged on user's wallpaper from displaying on logon screen
I'm wondering how one can disable the last logged on user's background on the logon screen. Currently, bginfo runs as part of the logon script and writes the computer name and username to the desktop. ...
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How to manually associate product key with Office 2007?
With some difficulties, I've been able to install Office 2007 onto Windows 2000.
After patching the environment variable to fool Office into thinking it was running on Windows XP, the annoying ...
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Disable Internet Security Warning when opening Outlook
Every time I open Outlook, I am greeted with the following dialog:
To add insult to injury, it doesn't pop up once, but twice for every single email account I have connected to Outlook, and with ...
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Windows 2000 Cloned HDD Won't Boot
I have a weird old issue. I have an IDE HDD that is on the point of failure the in access control computer in my building. It is running Windows 2000. I went ahead and cloned (using Macrium) the IDE ...
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Audio issue with Windows me and Windows 2000 guests in VBOX
I'm running two VMs on Virtualbox. Windows ME, and Windows 2000 (2k from now on.) They both have an audio problem. All audio played is extremely choppy. Both VMs have 1024 MB Ram, 64 MB VRam, 4GB HD, ...
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