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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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How can I manually determine the CodePage and Locale of the current OS

Is there a way that I manually have a user look up the current Codepage and locale of their windows OS? Is there a registry setting that stores that information? It would also be useful if the technique worked all the way back to Windows 2000.
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In windows systems, is renaming files functionally similar to deleting them?

According to my understanding of the Windows filesystem, a program can read a file according to its path, if this path is changed, then whatever program used to read this file, can no longer do so. This would mean that, to any programs in the…
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Unable to map a network drive from a Windows NT PC, to a Windows 2000 PC

I am trying to set up a test rack of legacy satellite communications equipment, and part of the configuration requires that I map a network drive on a PC (in this case, it's an IBM eServer xSeries 305 running Windows 2000 Professional), pointing to…
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Where to get working Sysinternals tools for Windows 2000?

Yes, I know Windows 2000 will run end-of-life in this year, but we still have a lot of Windows 2000 boxes we try to migrate but no idea if all of them can be migrated this year... Recently I downloaded a new Sysinternals Suite (most recent file date…
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Access denied error 3221225578 with file sharing to Windows server

i'm trying to access the shares on a server. The credential box appears, and i enter in a correct username and password, and i get access denied. The silly thing is that i can Remote Desktop to the server (using the same credentials), and i can…
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Security concerns about Windows NT 4.0

My company is (amongst many other things) responsible for a small network with a few servers and about 50 workstations. They want me to help out the current administrator of that network. The network consists of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000…
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Windows 7 Pro can't connect to Windows 2000 Pro Workstation

I recently put two new Windows 7 Professional machines into a dated network environment. The server is running Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation, not server) and I can't get the Windows 7 machine to connect to it. There is no domain for this…
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Exact extent / meaning of "Log on as a service" permission (W2K, W2K3)?

Let's say you have an active directory domain, and you want to have a service account run a certain windows service on multiple machines on the domain. The service account needs to be the same account on all the servers because it needs certain…
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Windows still thinks profiles are mandatory even when they are not

A couple of weeks ago, we experimented with mandatory profiles for users, but due to some issues with one piece of software, we had to revert back to roaming profiles. However, even though the ntuser file is now a .dat, not a .man, the local…
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Virtualizing a Windows 2000 host for use in Hyper-V

I'm looking for a way to successfully import a Windows 2000 host (running several legacy applications that do not work on newer editions of Windows). I normally like to use Disk2VHD for making a quick VHD of a live server. However it doesn't work…
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How to monitor the size of files in Windows folder?

What are some of good ways to automatically monitor the size of files in a directory and send warning email if they get close to a certain limit on a Windows server? I have a Progress DB installation to keep in check, and last week we hit some…
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Are windows sids same from Windows 2000 through Windows 7?

I've got some code that checks for a user to be in the admin group based on the SID. Is this code going to work if the SID is hard-coded for Admin. for Windows 2000 SP4 through Windows 7?
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RD Gateway to connect to windows 2000 terminal server

We have a legacy product that end users access by connecting to a windows 2000 terminal server on our premises. To circumvent corporate firewall issues on the end user side, we have a Citrix Gateway (which tunnels the RDP traffic over HTTPS), for…
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Replacing 2000 DC with a 2008 DC

We currently have a 2000 DC and a 2003 DC. We want to remove the 2000 DC completely and replace it with a 2008 DC. Can we promote the 2008 DC using the 2003? I believe i've read you can not from a 2000 server? Any insight here very helpful.
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Does UNC work between two Intranet domains?

We have some servers which will move to a new Windows 2008 domain, and some Windows 2000 servers which I would prefer to keep in their current domain for a while (until we have the resources to test and reinstall them as Windows 2008 systems in the…
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