W2K issues; hitherto unknown SP "5" (was Re: W2K - Harry has it!)

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Most important of all, Carl, I wonder if you could document the
problems you had with W2K and send them in as a bug report to the
VBox people, because, after all, we will never get these issues fixed
if we don't submit bug reports.


Re W2K issues, looking for a best browser I found this interesting page

http://windowsforum.com/threads/windows-2000-pro-still-a-usable-os-after-all-these-years.77246/

which contains a link to an unofficial very last "sp 5" version of
W2K which may be of interest. I have downloaded it and will report at
some point.


There is some advice here on which versions of which browsers to use
- - I know there are sources for older versions of nearly every
browser. Given in 2012, the advice was, in short,


"Now for a decent browser. Except for Windows Update, I highly
recommend to stay away from IE6. The latest Mozilla Firefox (version
10) & Opera (version 11.61) browsers runs perfectly fine on 2K. You
will need the latest Flash for both that W2K supports, and IE, as
well as Java for some sites. Currently, the latest version of Java
that will install on 2K is "jre-6u30-windows-i586". Flash (non IE,
version 11,1,102,55, IE, version 11,1,102,55). Latest Adobe Reader
supported is 9.4 Ultra Defrag 5.02 is about the best defrag software
available."



At 04/10/2014 20:05, you wrote:


Reply to note from Kari Eveli  Sat, 04 Oct 2014
19:51:31 +0300

> I worked with Harry Binswanger to get his W2K CD up and
> running.

Thanks, Kari. Based on Paul's and Bill's reminders -- something told
me to fish for information! -- I did some Googling and found a
working copy of W2K-SP4, with serial number, here:
https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-nt-2000/final.

Last night I installed it in VBox, with Guest Additions, and got Xy4
running. As Bill predicted, it's zippy -- and it's SO nice to have a
working Alt-Enter window/full-screen toggle! However, there are two
issues, and they are biggies. First, of course, is the inability to
display remote directories using Xy's DIR command. I had thought
this was small potatoes since the DOS DIR command works and you can
easily import DOS DIR listings into XyWrite (U2 frame BDIR), but I
see now that the problem goes deeper than that. It turns out that
remote directories are invisible to XyWrite's EXIST command. This is
a major issue for me. I run XyWrite on three (physical) computers
with wildly different directory-tree structures. A lot of my
personal XPL programming depends on using the EXIST command to allow
XyWrite to detect which machine I'm using and operate accordingly.
Although we have a U2 EXIST that does work with remote directories
and LFNs, it would be a major hassle to redo my personal programming
to use it instead of the native EXIST command.

This would be a non-issue if I could get Dropbox working in W2K.
Although I installed IE 6, there are still many websites that won't
load, Dropbox being one of them. (Firefox is my browser of choice
and, needless to say, I can't install that, either.) I could copy my
Dropbox folder to a local drive, but, without the Dropbox software
running, I'd have to manually sync it with my "real" Dropbox, which
would be a pain.

Technical glitches aside, there's a more basic issue for me. XyWrite
is my launching pad for websites and other Windows programs, and I
use it to compose, send, and receive email. Running Win 7 in VBox
allows me to install the latest 32-bit Windows software, and to run
an anti-virus program in the VM as well as on the host machine. In
short, I need the VM to be able to connect fully to the Internet,
and any OS earlier than Win 7 seems to throw up formidable obstacles
to that. So I doubt that W2K will be able to lure me away from my
current setup. But it's been fun trying.

Best,

Carl

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx