It was definitely a reliable and secure version of Windows at the time

Even now, wth is gon hack a pc with windows 2000 pro?

That’s basically what this is, albeit longer than 10 minutes. Give or take like a few days or a week almost. That’s what this computer is in. Fortunately it’s only short term, so a simple restart "fixed" it for some reason.

Well, read the description. Restarting it "fixed" it for some reason. It just so happens it does that when it has not been given power for so long, especially since the battery in this is long dead now. But still. I’m no expert so I may have to either just trash it or just take it to a repairman to do it for me. But again, this is a laptop that I have used as a kid back then, and it’s kind of hard for me to get rid of it because yeah.

Yeah, back when you had to do so, for various reasons. For example, if a program that worked on a prior OS but doesn’t work properly on a newer OS. That’s where it’s possible. Again, various reasons for multi-booting.

Sometimes I miss XP

To be real though, only enterprises and those in business are affected. Us home users and consumers will never be affected by this because CloudStrike is enterprise-level security.

I can see where you’re coming from. I do have some old laptops in the collection, which are late 2000's ones that can at least run XP at best with the correct drivers.

Thanks! It was an interesting feat for me to fit at least more than one OS on a single hard drive, at least back then. And for your question, no, but you may have briefly seen it in my 100th video special; I might do a proper overview video on them at a later time, but not now. You might also see the three computers in future videos as well, so be on the lookout for those if they ever arrive, due to the way that I usually upload videos from time to time.

To answer your question, this is just me. I just like to have multiple versions of Windows and multiple versions of Office together, even if it's just a very stupid idea for me to do so. The main reason for all of this is just because *I can*. I just like doing things that I like, as that's what my content here on the channel shows. If you don’t like it, then that’s fine.

Oh ok!

Yeah, it definitely is a bit much considering that Office 97 & 2000 are already covered by the 98SE installation. Office 2003 follows the XP design language more so that’s where I’d rather use it, just because _you can_ doesn’t always mean you _should_ when it’s wasting up hard drive space

For the lastmost option in the boot menu, that was the slot for Windows 98 Second Edition, however I can't boot into it at the time of writing as it goes into a screen that says "Invalid System Disk". In particular, that option went into the original Compaq OEM install of Windows 98 Second Edition that I had installed on using the QuickRestore media, and I had several things installed on it over time. I'm already starting to plan on reformatting and restructuring the OSes on this computer anyway, so that might not be much of an issue for me, at least.

Agreed. Also that background is indeed based on a comic/cartoon (or manga/anime) series that is exclusive to Japan, which on several comments of my videos overall will give you the answer.

For your former question(s), I know on my end that the dv9000 series came with XP first, as they came out in 2006, a year before Vista came out in 2007. And yes, I do have a restore disc for my dv2620us laptop that my parents created back in October 2007 (I mentioned this in the vid). Also interesting to know how Dell had options for XP during the Windows 7-8 era, as I've used the 980's service tag to kind of confirm it myself. For your latter question, I've never even heard about those restoration projects myself! I've never had them, though, but I would like to try it myself one day when I have the time!

I've used XP for at least about 4 years, from 2004-2008.

I've already have kzbin.infonH0FWdn19BM?feature=share

Yeah, I believe that prior to the 3DS online servers being shut down, launching Miiverse when it closed in November 2017 would show up that aforementioned discontinuation message like the ones now seen when connecting online in several games, but now that the 3DS online servers have indeed shut down back in April of this year, a different message shows up about the service being no longer available. I've even mentioned something like this in the video.

Ah yes the V5000 series of Compaq Presario laptops... Never had one but might look into it one day. Of course, the model numbers seem to kind of cause some confusion, as the desktop 5000 series and the laptop V5000 series are all named similarly via the same number, but are substantially different from each other.

To answer your question, this computer has six (O_O) operating systems installed, it being 98SE, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP Pro, XP Home, and of course, WEPOSReady2009.

@@johnnycha Wow. that is kinda useful lol

@@nijebitno8710 The drivers for the sound card I have here are built in (or included out of the box) with Windows XP, especially since XP included built-in drivers for most hardware that were available at the time of XP's release. Newer hardware after XP's release don’t have built-in drivers for XP as they are not included on the disc media. This also includes third-party sound cards and many newer sound cards (including those integrated ones) both before and after XP's release.

Wow, you've acquired an old Compaq computer almost 10 months after I've gotten my first retro Compaq computer earlier that year! And BTW I also have two Compaq computers but they're both towers. Never had a Compaq laptop though, but that may come on my radar very soon. Also, I've got the first one at the beginning of 2022 (in February to be exact) and I've acquired the second one in June of that year. Both are the same model computers (with some differences to each other).

At the time I created this channel, the COVID-19 pandemic was still an ongoing occurrence when it happened back in early 2020 (the first reportings were back in late 2019), and I was staying safe and sound during the pandemic just to let you know. And side note, I remember the day when I found out that we were going to be in a stay-at-home order back in March 13, 2020; this was back when I was a senior at high school at the time. And BTW, I have never uploaded any videos on my channel from the years 2020 to 2023 because I wasn’t that confident enough to upload anything that I was interested in at the time, but upon getting my early 2000s Compaq systems in 2022 that kind of got me a spark in doing content that would suit for this channel, which would become a reality in May of 2023, which was last year. Thanks for asking anyway.

The image that I've used as the background wallpaper of my Windows 98 install on this Intel Compaq was based on Cyborg Kuro-Chan, an obscure Japanese manga/anime series from the late 90s. This image in particular shows Kuro (the titular character) and Nana (the robotic lamp rabbit), with Kuro wearing a scarf. The original image was made by another person on Colors Live, which you can find here: www.colorslive.com/details/3341264 For my variation(s), I changed the color hues to match Windows 98 (and Windows 2000)'s background color and set it as my background wallpaper. And for a bit of technicality, I've decreased the color depth to 16 colors for some variations (mostly for the one I've made for Windows 2000). And I've gotta say, it looks pretty neat to me. Thanks for asking! This is starting to become a common thing for my curious viewers to notice.

Yes there is, it can be accessed by this combination at startup: RIGHT+B (basically like the grayscale combination code except with "RIGHT" instead of "LEFT" for the D-pad)

Thanks, this light switch probably came with the house when it was built

At least for the majority of consumers, since enterprises and some businesses are the ones that had those problems as they have the software.

Wow. That Mac when it was new in 1995 and being used up until 2002, interesting. You know, my family was no stranger to Macs, since we had that Mac Classic for a long while and even one of those "pizza-box" style Macs from the 90's. This was before we were lucky to get our Compaq computer around 2001 or so (and I wasn't even around yet back then).

Hello there. I may have already asked this question before, but at the moment I currently have no plans to install Vista on this machine. That may be partially because I wanted to get a graphics card that makes use of the Aero capabilities of Vista, which I don’t have a working, non-problematic example of that on hand. If anything, a GeForce FX 5200 or a 6200 would work for that, usually with 128 MB of memory. I’ve had used 256 MB and 512 MB 6200 cards before with Vista and other Windows OSes to varying degrees of success, oftentimes having problems down the road. In short, I currently have no plans to install Vista on my Intel Compaq anytime soon.

Long story short, I’ve found this laptop on an eBay listing a while back, and I kind of wanted to have a laptop that was like my old 2007 HP laptop that my family had but with a bigger screen and extended keyboard, and so I went ahead and bought it (along with the parts that I need to get this laptop in working order).

Probably, that might be the cause. But hey, it's not like I wanted a Hiren's BootCD-like thing but with Windows 98 on it anyway, cause I've just wanted to check this out myself for fun after I've backed up my files off of the Intel Compaq and put it on a CD-R for archiving.

FYI I deliberately made this video as is to evoke the sense of nostalgia and feelings of a time when KZbin was in its early days back in the mid-to-late 2000s. It’s the same reason why I recorded the video using an early-2000s DVD camcorder, because camcorders like the one I had were used in most early KZbin videos, especially DV camcorders as that was the norm back then.

@@editname0063 The Cyborg Kuro-Chan background that I’ve used in my Windows 2000 Professional install came from this site here: www.colorslive.com/details/3341264 I’ll provide you with a direct link to the image here if you’re interested: s3.amazonaws.com/colorslive/png/3341264-HLEqqBfICpnPhks4.png For my variant, I just changed the colors a bit to match the default background color of Windows 2000. The rest of the original image was made by someone else, and not me.

thanks also the videos on your channel look great I'm gonna watch them soon

This is a genuine install of Windows 98 on a CD-R, that I’ve created for archival and reference purposes. After I’ve created the disc though, I’ve had a thought about trying to boot up the install from disc using my Windows 98 OEM disc, which is what this video is about.

Funny that you should say that, because I did install Windows Vista on it years ago after I got my Intel Compaq back in mid 2022 as part of an experiment. For a TL;DR, let’s just say that it worked okay for a while. I had a capable graphics card to take advantage of Aero and desktop compositing that worked for a while, but with some issues. Over time, I’ve lost interest with the experiment as I’ve done several different things to it as far as OSes go, and eventually took the Vista partition out. I would like to have Vista back on it someday, but not right now. Windows 7 is also another candidate for a future experiment, but that’s for another day.

I’m glad you’ve already knew!