#Windows2000

Jun Nergahak ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบnergahak
2025-06-17

Nergahak Font Pack 1.04
This package containing all Windows 11 fonts and some extras like Fira, Noto, Open Sans and IBM Plex for Windows 2000 and later.

mediafire.com/file/5ri5dz1412e

My intention is simply to provide more modern fonts for older versions of Windows. Ideal for those who enjoy retrocomputing running Windows on a VM.

โš ๏ธ Installer only tested in Windows 2000 and XP.

Jun Nergahak ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบnergahak
2025-06-11
Zach Nocturnal Artistzachnocturnalartist
2025-06-07

A painting of a brunette Japanese geisha/geiko/geigi woman I made on my Windows 2000 (2K) Gateway desktop computer in KidPix Deluxe 3 Studio. I made this Geisha woman painting at about 2 am this morning

Brunette Japanese Geisha woman in Kid Pix Deluxe 3
2025-05-22

This is XFCE with the standard Adwaita theme and Win98SE icons. A nice, Windows2000-ish working environment without much ricing.. the Win98 icons alone make for such a clean simplicity IMHO. ๐Ÿ™ƒ It's always a joy to work with this VM.. I'm mostly using it for network maintenance wherever I need it.

#linux #xfce #unixporn #sysadmin #windows98 #windows2000 #retrocomputing

Screenshot of XFCE with Adwaita theme and Win98SE icons
2025-05-14

Iโ€™m developing an irrational affection for #Windows2000. ๐Ÿซค Especially the Explorer (of all things โ€ฆ). It hit a sweet spot between simplicity and features. (And it was awful in many regards, but weโ€™re going to ignore that.)

Win2k was also the last Windows before that โ€œproduct activationโ€ nonsense. That was the point where the complete enshittification of everything began, imho.

The closest thing to Explorer that we have on Linux/BSD might be XFE โ€“ without the integration into the rest of the system, obviously.

(Other similar file managers like PCManFM also still exist, although they have adopted the current ultra flat UI even more than XFE.)

#Retrocomputing

Screenshot of my desktop.

Windows 2000 and the Explorer running in QEMU. It shows C:\WINNT.

On the right, we have XFE, showing part of my ~/work/C directory.

Both file managers have a tree view on the left and a detailed panel on the right.
Jun Nergahak ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบnergahak
2025-05-13

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the strangest of the whole family.

genstar.serviceGenstar@meow.social
2025-05-13
SPICE Guest Tools installer

Drivers only available for Windows XP or newer
genstar.serviceGenstar@meow.social
2025-05-12

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

I thought #VirtManager was smarter than this.

#Windows2000 #Win2k

genstar.serviceGenstar@meow.social
2025-05-12

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.setuplog.txt

Word wrapping is enabled.setupact.log

text is cut because I forgot to enable word wrapping here.setupapi log

text is cut because I forgot to enable word wrapping here.
Jesse Spielmanheavyimage
2025-05-11

Pure insane (emulated) joy. I know this video is a few years old but thank so much @ActionRetro

youtube.com/watch?v=gTsRD8QlYUY

2025-04-25

Found an old installation of mIRC.

This was a curious time. I was using IRC basically 24/7, mIRC was my โ€œhomeโ€, and so I naturally made extensive use of its scripting facilities for many years. Much of it had nothing to do with IRC โ€“ for example, I apparently had a shortcut on Shift+F6 that swapped MP3 codecs around before launching a game.

In a nutshell, mIRC was my supplement for shell scripting. ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿคช (And I know of at least one coworker who once confessed of doing the same. ๐Ÿ˜…)

(Also, this obviously predates things like Git, so thereโ€™s a ton of dead commented code, earlier versions, โ€ฆ chaos.)

#Nostalgia #Windows2000 #mIRC (almost #RetroComputing)

mIRC running on Windows 2000. The script editor is open, showing some code for swapping MP3 codecs.

Not connected to an IRC server, because I guess thatโ€™s rather bad idea in 2025.
2025-04-19

Windows drive lettering is dumb. It randomly mingled the Zip and CD drives in amongst hard drive partitions? ..ok?

And now for some light reading while formatting a 60GB partition ๐Ÿฅฑ
There's actually some interesting info in here about unattended installs.

#Windows2000

Windows 2000 setup showing the boot drive as C, Windows 98 as E, and the new drive as HThe Windows 2000 โ€œgetting startedโ€ guide book held up in front of the Windows 2000 drive formatting screen.

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