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Converting a Windows 2000 Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine
What's the best way to create a virtual machine from an old Windows 2000 machine?
I found VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 which is the last version to support Windows 2000.
Are there any ...
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How do I truncate or clear a file that's in use?
We have a Windows 2000 box running Apache that's running out of disk space. We can't shut down or restart Apache to clear the lock (I'm a UNIX guy, not sure what the equivelant term for Windows is) on ...
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How do I find out what opened the file I try to remove on Windows 2000 Server? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
How do I delete a 'locked' file?
Tool to determine what has locked a file
While trying to remove an empty directory on Windows 2000, I am told that I can't do ...
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How to run virtual machines on top of Windows 7?
I have a couple of Windows 2000 Virtual machines. The virtual machine built into Windows 7 runs WinXP VMs fine, but anything previous to that...the experience is pretty crappy (for one, integration ...
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Lan problem for Windows 7 & Windows 2000
I have gone through all topics specified on Superuser. But none of the information I've found works for me.
My problem is when connecting to a Windows 2000 Server, a security window appears asking ...
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Adding a Windows 7 machine to a Windows 2000 peer-to-peer network (through hub)
We have three Windows 2000 machines talking through a hub, and we are trying to upgrade so we bought a Windows 7 machine to add to the network. All of the Win2K machines can access the public ...
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how to test whether a Windows 2000 registry hive is corrupt
I have an old system that has Windows 2000 on it (yes, I should retire it), that recently stopped booting, with the message "Windows Could Not Start Because the Following File Is Missing or Corrupt: ...
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Windows 2000 - cannot connect
My client computer has windows 2000 my server computer is windows XP should they be able to communicate? My server says "waiting for client" my client says "connecting to SC25" which is the servers ...
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How can I tell when I added a wireless network to my “preferred networks”?
How can I tell when a wireless network was added to my "preferred networks"?
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Where to download “where.exe” tool for Windows XP?
I'm looking for a link to download where.exe tool for Windows XP. It looks like this tool should be included in Windows 2000 Resource Kit but I can't find any links to download this Resource Kit. I ...
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Windows 2000 WiFi Internet Access
I am trying to configure an old laptop to connect tothe internet via a Buffalo USB Wi-Fi adapter. Having installed allof the drivers & wi-fi management softwareI can connect to my router,and to a ...
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Can't finish installation of application on Windows 2000?
Why do some program not complete their installation on Windows 2000?
I don't get any error messages in Windows. Is there anything I can do to complete the installation?
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Home wireless network by bluetooth. Looking for a windows 2000 bluetooth driver
Does anyone knows where I can download a windows 2000 bluetooth driver?
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home wireless network by bluetooth
Does anyone know if is possible to create a home wireless network by a usb bluetooth port between two pcs?
(By the way I have a windows 2000 as operative system running in one of them and windows xp ...
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What is in c:\winnt\softwaredistribution\scanfile?
Running a couple of Windows 2000 boxes, and the above folder keeps being populated with sub folders named like a SID.
What is being generated here, and is there a way to stop it?
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Can you RDP to a Windows 2000 Professional machine?
I have a small home network with 3 machines - a Windows 2000 machine, an XP machine, and a Vista machine. I'm using Remote Desktop to connect between them, which is working fine when connecting to ...
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Why does Automatic Updates service hang on startup with Windows 2000 Server?
I have a Windows Server 2000 machine that has a popup on startup saying that a service failed to start.
In the Windows Event Log there is the following message:
System Log
Source: Service Control ...
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Using syslog to monitor stopped services on Win2k
I am using a central syslog server to capture event logs from Windows machines.
I am specifically interested in monitoring Windows services. This works well under XP machines - each time a service ...
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The procedure entry point DecodePointer could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll
I had this error when opening notepad and sometimes other software until I reinstalled Windows 2000 yesterday. It's come back after I copied a profile over. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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Windows 2000 will be end of life on the next patch day, but will it still receive patches on that day?
I still have a few old Win9x VMs I can no longer reinstall because their update services do not longer work. So, I'd like to use WSUS Offline Update to burn a CD with all Windows 2000 updates after ...
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Multi-boot / Boot Manager problem with Windows 7, Windows XP, and WIndows 2000
Apologies in advance for the long post ... but there are many pertinent details...
I'm having two problems (which I suppose are inter-related) on a PC which I set up to be multi-bootable with Windows ...
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE after installing Linux on same drive
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My PC was configured with two drives: an 80G on IDE 0 Primary that was running Win2K, and a 320G on IDE 0 Secondary that was running Linux (Ubuntu). I decided to pull the 80Gb drive out of ...
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Cannot share files on USB drive between Windows 98 and Windows 2000
I've run into a strange situation where I can't share files between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 using a USB flash drive. Files I put on the Win98 machine can be read by that machine, but not by the ...
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How to get Grub2 to dual boot Windows 2000 and a Bart PE CD?
First, is this possible?
Second, how can I install Grub2? Would it be possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD?
Third, what Grub2 settings would be needed to achieve this?
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W2K INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, with System Commander
I have a system that was originally had Win NT. I added System Commander (SC7) and then added W2K. The relevant partitions are:
0 - Primary - MultiFAT (Has Win NT, mapped to C:)
1 - Extended - with ...
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CTN SuperStore Runtime error 75
ive been using CTN SuperStore EPOS system for many years now and i have come across my major problem with it.
I am running the EPOS on Windows 2000 and when i try to start the SuperStore software i ...
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Restore NTBackup files to Windows 7 computer
I have some NTBackup .BKF files from an old Windows 2000 computer that I'm trying to get restored into a computer running Windows 7. It appears Microsoft does not ship a tool to restore files from ...
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Where does Windows 2000 store whether the last shutdown was a restart or shutdown (switch off)?
Where does Windows 2000 store whether the last shutdown was a restart or shutdown (switch off)?
Is this in the registry or somewhere else?
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Best way to backup a Windows 2000 system?
I need to create a bare-metal exact copy of a Windows 2000 system. I just want to duplicate the system disk to another disk and put it on a shelf in case of emergency. Unfortunately, the current ...
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How can Standard User change file associations in Windows 2000?
One of my clients is still running Win2K server with a host of Win2K workstations. And no net admin, due to the downturn of the economy over the years. I'm sort of helping out. Out of my depth, but I ...
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Windows 2000 uninstall on a dual-boot 2000/XP system
While several questions have already been answered about removing an OS from a dual-booting machine, most refer to Windows 7 vs. Linux/Vista/XP.
I have Windows 2000 installed on my older hard drive ...
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Flash Player 10
I'm trying to install flash player 10 on a win 2000 system that doesn't have web access. Can Flash be installed without it?
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how to setup wifi on windows 2000?
I heard that the configuration of the WLAN(WIFI) is special to windows XP and doesn't exist in windows 2000, is it true?
Did you know a small program who make that? Excuse me for my poor english, I'm ...
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Can Windows 2000 drivers be used in XP?
I have Windows 2000 USB drivers for my PSION WaveFinder DAB radio receiver but cannot find any for XP. Are Windows 2000 drivers suitable for XP? If so, how do I go about using them?
EDIT: Are there ...
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Why does Google Gears only support XP/Vista? [closed]
I want to implement Google Gears in the application which I am developing.
I've been using Windows 2000 for the past five years without any problems. Now for implementing Google Gears I need to ...
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How do you create a 'Folder Shortcut' in Windows Explorer?
I need to create a 'Folder Shortcut' in Windows Explorer in Windows 2000. I don't mean a mapped drive, just a Folder Shortcut to a shared network folder (it will end up as a first-level object under ...
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Microsoft Outlook hangs when switching input language
I have two keyboard languages, Swedish and American English.
Normally, I switch language by hitting [alt]+[shift] and it works like a charm.
However, suddenly Microsoft Outlook has started to hang ...
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How do I replace the stupid Windows XP dog assistance search with the classic Windows 2000 search?
How do I get search in Windows XP back to the way it was in Windows 2000, in one step?
What is the easiest way to do this?
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Trouble Accessing Internet through Wireless Router
I'm having trouble accessing the internet. I can connect to my wireless router successfully, but I can not access the actual internet. However, other computers connected to the same network can. What ...
