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Notepad++ 6.7.5 for Windows 2000

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qre0qbpcu9udhuk/Notepad-675.exe/file

#Win2000 #Windows2000 #Win2K #NotepadPP

@kiwa@bitbang.social Granted I do have to hand it to #Win2k for the reliability factor. Hardly ever crashed on me the way #Win98 / #Win98SE did. Then came #WinXP and blew everyone out of the water…

good shit
https://youtu.be/8zdoRI-B4kk

#win2k #frutiger-aero

Oh, fuck off

#VirtManager #Windows2000 #Win2k

SPICE Guest Tools installer

Drivers only available for Windows XP or newer

Removed a bunch of hardware on the VM and installation seems to be progressing further

I thought #VirtManager was smarter than this.

#Windows2000 #Win2k

no dice with Windows 2000

#VirtManager #Windows2000 #Win2k

Installing Devices with 100%, is stuck there but I can move the mouse and summon the command prompt.

setupact.log

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setupapi log

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Heute genau vor 25 Jahren erschien #Windows 2000 (NT 5.0). Mit der Grundstein für alle nachfolgenden Windows Versionen wie #XP, #Vista, #Windows7, etc.
https://heise.de/-10282913
#Win2K #W2K #Millenium #WindowsNT

lol windows 2k would run on this:
133 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU.
64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum; more memory generally improves responsiveness.
2 GB hard disk with a minimum of 650 MB of free space.
Windows 2000 Professional supports single and dual CPU systems.

it was 32-bit, 3y later w2k3 had 64-bit and I ran that on workstations at work around 2004/2005 and it was also competent but not as fun as win2k.

#Win2K

Ruminating on a thread from @malcircuit some time this week about how tech companies can't let things be done and thread from @HeavenlyPossum about how instantpot is dead because they couldn't grow exponentially forever and then a video about turn of the millenium computing from Cathode Ray Dude…

• • •

There have been a few points where I felt computers were like fun enough and just sort of worked and weren't shit up and down and then of course a tech company needed to make line go up and here we are.

But for me those times were like BeOS around 1997/1998, Windows 2K from about 1999-2005 (we had them warez beta copies in college) and OSX from about 2011-2014.

• • •

MacOS is my daily driver these days and I'm dreading the next forced upgrade because this version has been lousy. I've got a linux backup computer setup at this point but that's necessity and not particularly for fun or even having an expectation of good functioning.

If I have have a point to all that I guess it's I've seen cycles of very nice software that gets fucked up and fails to stay nice or gets obsoleted because of lack of updates and it's sad because I could happily be using a security updated version of windows 2K today and it would be as useful and fast as it was then on absolute garbage hardware by today's standards.

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As an aside, I was reminded of how little power desktop computers used to draw by CRD's video. Like a modern gaming rig can draw 1KW, wtf. You can play doom on a fuckin' pregnancy test. Photorealism has played us for fools.

#Win2K

Yeah!

#Assembly #asm #RetroComputing #Windows2000 #win2k

Updating my websites.

#IBM #retrocomputing #FrontPage #Win2k

2 of Unofficial Windows Update Services will make your Vintage PC look Nicer.
#windows #windows2000 #win2k #windows95 #win95 #update #90s #2000s #nostalgia

I just had a sudden but very strong memory of the time I upgraded my #win98 machine (which was upgraded from #Win95) to #Win2K. That was a special #os for me. It was neat because for the first time it seemed like #windows might be capable of stability and usefulness. I really liked the trash icon.

Funny enough, years later, I downgraded a server from w2k to w95 (as a joke/dare), and hosted a swath of early web2.0 stuff on it via Apache.

Good times.