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Windows 2000 is a family of Microsoft operating systems comprising four editions, Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server. It was the successor to NT 4.0 and offered a very long list of new features and improvements. Windows 2000 went RTM on December 15, 1999 and to general release on February 17, 2000. It is no longer supported, and went End-of-Life on July 13, 2010.

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Windows 2000 is a family of Microsoft operating systems comprising four editions, Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server. It was the successor to NT 4.0 and offered a very long list of new features and improvements. Windows 2000 went RTM on December 15, 1999 and to general release on February 17, 2000. It is no longer supported, and went End-of-Life on July 13, 2010. No new patches or updates are available for Windows 2000 machines since that date.

Minimum requirements for machines wanting to run Windows 2000 are:

  • An IA-32 CPU, 133 Mhz or higher
  • 32 MB RAM (128 MB for Server editions)
  • 1 GB disk space (2 GB for Server editions)
  • A monitor capable of at least 800x600 VGA and a keyboard and mouse as input devices
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Windows 2000 Remote Deployment/Update

I have about 4000 old machines scattered around 100 offices in different states. These machines are running Windows 2000 Professional (SP1) with IE 5.0 (SP1). I would like to upgrade these machines to SP4 of the OS and IE 6.0 with Silverlight. Are…
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CPU Performance on Virtualised Windows 2000 for Oracle 8.0.5

Can somebody suggest any steps I can take to improve the CPU performance of an Oracle 8.0.5 database on a Virtualised Windows 2000? Update New installed OS, Windows 2000 Server Advanced SP4 Oracle 8.0.5 Vmware vSphere 4 Cpu layout: 4 Virtual…
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Sound on Windows 2000 Server

We have still some Windows 2000 Server / Advanced Server machines running. Is it possible to install audio service or something? It does not seem to have sound capabilities (like the Windows 2000 Professional client machines do.) If possible, how…
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Windows data backups with alternating removable drives?

I have a removable disk drive (RD1000 from Dell), and I am looking for backup software that will allow me to backup every night, and every morning switch to the alternate disk. There is only one directory structure to back up, what I want is two…
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Win XP Pro install CD says it can't upgrade from Win 2K Pro

Everything I've read and heard tells me that I should be able to perform an upgrade from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro instead of a clean install. One blogger went as far as to say that there are only a few files that are different between the…
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VirtualBox WinXP Host - Win 2000 guest internet connection issue

VirtualBox WinXP Host - Win 2000 guest internet connection issue I'm using a NAT network adapter, but I get no connectivity. I can ping websites and get replies but cannot open them in the browser anyone? help!
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Extract list of installed drivers using a linux live disk

I have a quit old PC that was running Windows 2000 but the system crashed some days ago. Now I need to know which drivers have been installed on that specific pc but the system isn't booting anymore and the rescue and recovery options failed. Now I…
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Windows Sever 2000 machine with striped scsi disk to VHD

Currently have a lot of servers running legacy applications that only work with W2k running on very old hardware that needs to be replaced. The plan is to convert each current machine into a VHD and then import the VHD into W2k8 server using…
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Does the Global Catalog Server have to be in the same subnet as the Exchange server?

I have one domain. I have a DC in one subnet and an Exchange 2003 in another. I also have a DC in that same subnet as the Exchange 2003 server. I have to get rid of that DC, the one in the same subnet as the Exchange server. That will leave me…
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Turn off web services in IIS 5 with ftp enabled

I have enabled FTP using IIS in Windows 2000. It is just for receiving files from an FTP server to a directory, and is working fine. I'd like to disable the web component of IIS, but keep this ftp "client" interface working. Currently, I've just…
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IIS FTP client in Windows 2000 setup

Using Windows 2000 Pro with IIS 5. I'm going to have an FTP Server send files to this box to store, and need to set up the FTP client architecture right. The dialogs look easy to setup the box as a FTP server if I wanted to, but not sure what to do…
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W2k Server: delete specific users by console

I want to delete specific user profiles in win2k-Server. I thought I could achieve that with microsofts Delprof. But there I cant specificly declare userXY. So is there an other console way to delete users in win2k server EDIT: DelProf2 isnt working…
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MySQL Service Not Starting

I installed MySQL 5.1.65 on Windows 2000 Server and it got properly installed for the first time. After some time I uninstalled it, deleted all the installation files and then wasn't able to finish the installation. It didn't give me any error, just…
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If I make a transferred DNS zone a standard primary, does that affect anything other than making it static?

I do not want to break anything, but if I have a currently transferred zone, and I want to make it static, do I not just make it a Standard Primary? I have several zones, but this is not one that is in my domain/forest. I do not want to break the…
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What causes a network adapter to have a high output queue length when maxing out a WAN link?

Why do I see a high output queue length in perfmon when the network adapter is saturating a WAN link? If a file is transferred across the 10Mbps link, the server will max out the connection and all other network operations come to a crawl. Ping…
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