Use Windows 2000 Today! | Win2000 With KernelEx In 2020

[@I430VX]

IMPORTANT: Windows Update no longer functions on Windows 2000. To update your windows 2000 in order to install the extended kernel, please follow this easy guide I made: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJWsh4Cti56Aec0

[@matrixcuberoadto6007]

Man time go's by fast i remember when this was first uploaded

[@me67galaxylife]

Are you sure the kernel doesn't contain virus ?

[@icet111]

are there any other options to start x86 Applications like games? I have install this packs like on your videos and i have Pentium 3 and so i disabled SS2 but If i restarted than its loading so long and if I want logged in then it comes an error that the user doesn't exisst anymore but why? Maybe I shouldn't disabled SS2? Or what solution you have to run my OS?

[@Storm_.]

Hi man, I am just wondering. I did fully update my system and I installed the latest kernelex on your site v30? But I don't get any of those advanced options like disable SSE etc. I am running on a pentium 3. How can I even tell if KernelEx is installed? Thanks

[@tvted1351]

I can open it but as soon as I press ok on the update thing it crashes

[@NomadicDmitry]

Best OS from Microsoft. Lightweight, simple, slick UI, stable. And the best feature of Windows 2000 is NO BLOATWARE!! :)

[@xpmyt341]

Obviously because it was for business only

[@bokexd3173]

yeah classic theme does look really nice compared to windows 98 or older

[@xpmyt341]

@@bokexd3173 those use classic theme to , not before windows 95

[@peterenis4107]

The second best feature is NO ACTIVATING. Probably some day it isn’t even possible to activate Windows with the phone option. So for like retro PC’s we are forced to use a pirated Windows XP. But Windows 2000 can (theoretically) used in 100 years with the original CD.

[@NomadicDmitry]

@@peterenis4107 Well, phone activation still works on XP, so it's fine for now :)

[@papeleradereciclaje4375]

Yet still better than Chrome OS

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

Way more versatile

[@ExperiencersInternational]

I could not use Chrome OS, it's literally just a web browser. I think the minimum OS I could live with is Windows XP.

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

@@ExperiencersInternational windows 95 for me probably

[@SharkVaderYT]

@@ExperiencersInternational xp is honestly very usable

[@real2w10]

@@ExperiencersInternational Probably Vista SP2. Maybe 2000 with the extended kernel and core from BWC.

[@2008WindowsVista]

I sent the Microsoft Sam song to you as a joke when you asked what music you should use in the video and you actually put it in... Lmao Nice vid as always

[@ymcooper]

What part does it play the music

[@bokexd3173]

The song actually fits to the video preety well

[@greenhillmaniac]

There are also a few post EOL updates that MS accidentaly released in update compilation ISOs. If I remember correctly, there are updated IE6 and DX9 components.

[@SilverSpoon_]

"end of life" is just a way MS says «buy our new shit that's literally spyware»

[@minelayer26]

@@SilverSpoon_ complain about windows all you want but chromeos is where the spywares at, its literally based off of data munching browser

[@windestruct]

0:18 Computer with old os for christmas. Nostalgic.

[@DarkTaker1990]

Despite the fact that I am using a fully updated Windows 2000 machine using all the steps listed in this video to watch this, i still come back to it from time to time because it's just a pleasure to re-visit. Thanks, i430VX. Because of this video, I have been using Windows 2000 as my every day operating system for a couple months now. Granted I'm also taking extra precautions since it IS unsupported after all.

[@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893]

That hopefully where I am going as well. Looking into some low current Hardware at the moment. I found a 10 watt screen 2022 27", and with a slim unit I think it will be a total of 30-40 watts, the less the better as I'm going to run it from a battery and solarpanels. I LOVED windows 2000 and wanna get back to it.

[@ages2001]

Windows 2000 is the best old windows OS!!! Good video :)

[@LayJD_]

I just wanted to add that I tried installing Windows 2000 with SATA mode enabled and it also works :)

[@brambila9871]

Nice! I'm using a Win2k SP4 on a Sempron 2800, 1,25gb ram and a geforce 4 MX4000 64mb

[@mjdxp5688]

Respect!

[@mtdenardin7604]

yeah man respect +++

[@Bruh-rj5vw]

Respect.

[@Alex-jb5tb]

I still use W2K almost each day in a virtual machine - I still love it. To me it's my favourite OS.

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

This video is so cozy. Especially with the christmas theme and the red walls, :P.

[@win3276]

Actually, most XP-compatible games run with the extended kernel (or not even, many just need an XInput DLL that is left out of the distribution for win2k plus a couple of XP DLLs). I have successfully run Tropico 4 and Democracy 3; GTA IV and Crysis are also known to work. Photoshop CS6 and Vegas Pro 10 (after renaming the error reporter exe) also work fully and do make use of all 12 threads in my workstation. Just be careful if you have something like a Nehalem CPU or above and standby in win2k. The OS stops sending HLT commands to the CPU after returning from standby and as such could get very hot (a Xeon X5670 running constantly at 77 C is bad news). I've tried RMClock and loading XP's CPU driver, nothing has worked. :'( but yeah, the music is good!!

[@I430VX]

Thank you for the detailed report on the games. I just hadn't had much luck gaming on it myself, and hadn't researched much.

[@av28379]

@@I430VX hi, btw i used extended kernel and unofficial service pack 5.1 and firefox 44 works really good, i was able to install it thanks to both of them. Modern internet works really well to like it hen i go to youtube.com it shows the modern laypit and video plays and comments load only thing it doesnt let comment idk why the comment button just doesnt turn blue like it should, I also installed flash player 32 so i played so flash games in the meantime...

[@I430VX]

is there a reason why you chose 44 instead of something newer?

[@av28379]

@@I430VX i dont know id theres newer supported than 44, its just proven that it runs fine without problems

[@connorm955]

There's this unofficial DX10 installer for Windows XP i found somewhere.Do you know about it? Does it work on Windows 2000 maybe?

[@jackwright7419]

I know this comment is gonna be really late, but I just wanted to say I followed this tutorial exactly. Thank you so much, I have no idea how I would've used my 2000 machine without it.

[@alexmihai22]

Very helpful clip, I configured my Opteron 180 based PC, 3GB DDR400, as in the clip and now now I'm watching this clip on Windows 2000. Also the OS runs a bit smoother after the updates.

[@larrybreavman4864]

I do love this system for my old machines such K6-2 or Pentium III. It was a very stable system.

[@frankymuniez9957]

I have watched this video like 10 times in the past year, it was a very-well made video on real hardware which makes it even more exciting. Have you considered making a new updated one to reflect the Windows Update issues, as well as exploring websites and deeper benchmarking data? I have also heard of some universal kernels to emulate newer versions of Windows like Windows 10, not sure if there is anything legit/true there, but would be interesting to find out more about.

[@IrrationalGamer]

Best os made ever by MS.

[@damian9303]

For people with network cards that don’t support WPA2, like my case, I recommend LucidLink Wireless Client. Also, it may be best to mention that the password for the archive with FCWin2k is “kdwkdwkdw” without the quotes

[@aikidoboynj]

i can't get my win 2000 online in any way ill try yours...even plugging directly the ethernet cable. I can see packets sent/received and I can ping but i cannot get any website to actually load. Legacy update can't connect to service. I have my DNS set to automatic but I dont know whats wrong with it. I have tried opera and nothing loads.

[@damian9303]

@@aikidoboynj yeah, after having needed to get my router exchanged by Spectrum their newer one has been giving me problems with the legacy Wi-Fi card inside my system. It’ll just hang the client for awhile before saying it was unsuccessful, ended up just backporting Windows 2000 onto a relatively newer system and although it required some more work to be done to get it all up and running I didn’t run into any problems after that.

[@CEO100able]

I always thought Windows XP was highly capable.

[@harryshuman9637]

It is, but mostly by virtue of being supported the longest. Of course XP was built on 2000 so you can think of it as Win2k with extra interwebs and media stuff.

[@CEO100able]

@@harryshuman9637 Oh, I see what you're saying. Thanks for sharing that interesting information!

[@eduds6]

I love windows XP GUI because of childhood nostalgia and because of how beautiful it is, but 9x 2k gui is far more capable, so i like it more.

[@sollrandomguy]

Windows NT 4.0 Also

[@mats520]

I like both of them.

[@mjdxp5688]

If you want to use Windows 2000/XP as you main OS, maybe consider instead of installing it on modern hardware to install a lightweight Linux distro, installing VirtualBox, installing 2000 in a VM, and setting up Linux to automatically start the VM when the OS boots. This eliminates the trouble you'll have finding drivers for modern hardware.

[@TehChozen1]

Genius

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

Your website is a goldmine of helpful stuff. Thanks for all the help.

[@retroman3075]

I think I have all the updates as I am not getting them anymore, but when I try installing the Kernel EX, All it does is install an IE6 update and then says extraction complete and I need to restart my PC. I restart and nothing happens after that. What am I doing wrong?

[@MichaelRusso]

I am just using Win2000 so I can code protected mode DOS with ease and simple Win32 apps. Win2000 is my favorite too.

[@Remake5182]

Setting the date to 2020 would give this OS a shock.

[@Makslaskabata]

Set it to 2038 January 20 and then you'll actually give the OS a shock.

[@SalveMonesvol]

The perfect build for a windows 2000 32bit pc would be (IMO): AMD FX-62 @3.0ghz (dual core), Nvidia GTX 7900 512MB, 2GB of the fastest ddr2 dual channel ram you can find and a 240gb ssd (a little cheat). With one such machine and a modern pc, you would have a way to play almost any game, either natively or through emulation/ virtual machines.

[@bokexd3173]

My main computer: Intel Core I5 3550 AMD Radeon HD 7850 12GB DDR3 For the GPU I used BlackWingCat's AMD Driver, foe sound I use an external USB sound card, for ethernet.... That was kind of a pain, so I had to install the Extended kernel and the extended kernel core, needed a help with a function in NDIS.Sys, and eventually I got it working, only things missing are Via HD Audio driver, Chipset driver and some USB 3.0 ports

[@user-fr6bp3ct5m]

Wow that's amazing!!! I can believe your still using that thing

[@9852323]

I wish stuff still supported it. So much better than 10 or 11

[@filipa0607]

the Christmas tree looks super AMAZING!!

[@craigdavidson2278]

Wink best OS for retro games. Keep it up.

[@Xyspade]

Well unfortunately this video did not work for me. I'm using a Dell Latitude D620, and everything went smoothly up until the kernel install. After that it takes about 5 times as long to boot up (no big deal), but the real dealbreaker was it broke the Wi-Fi driver, telling me it couldn't find any compatible WLAN cards. I installed the Windows XP version of the driver (which I think is the same), that worked until I rebooted and it went back to not detecting the WLAN adapter. I couldn't install Boingo either, it threw a random error number 2894. Since the only reason I attempted KernelEx is to use MyPal, I guess I just accept that XP is the earliest OS I can use the Internet on. Also, every single direct download link in your description doesn't work due to a KZbin issue: it will bring up the "This site may be harmful" page and when you click "Go to site" it just does nothing. You have to right-click the "Go to site" button and copy the link address, then paste manually, at least on Chrome. Awesome work with the tutorial and your website though, truly appreciate people like you keeping old computers useful and out of the landfill!

[@JaimetheNickFanEst]

when i just run the VC2008 Redist on my Windows 2000 VM, it gives an error: The dynamic link library MSVCR90.dll could not be found in the specific path

[@coffeefox5703]

Perfect. Getting this running on my Compaq Deskpro.

[@omarfracaro]

Muchas gracias!!! , realmente hacia varios dias que estaba trabado con la instalacion wifi de mi W2K, en una pc pentium II 350 con 128 M de RAM. funciono todo !!!! muchas gracias!!!!

[@areman448]

I never thought that there will be some many stuff to install in Windows 2000.

[@mtdenardin7604]

This video deserves 1 million views

[@FelixLantiguaCamacho]

Windows 2000 Professional is the second-best Windows ever made. The first Windows ever made was Windows ME. Many people claim Windows ME gave them so much hard time, not for me, I`ve never seen a BSoD (Blue screen of death) on the computer I had using Win ME, I played many, many games, so many programs, used it as POWER USER. I loved so much Windows ME and Windows 2000 Professional.

[@tipstricksss1453]

I'm running it on an Athlon 64 dual core processor with drivers. The BIOS didn't have any changeable options you mentioned but Windows 2000 is working with no problems.

[@tecneziolinearossa]

About the update Rollup 1: the update rollup that i430VX use and link on the download is an english version, end it's incompatible to other language version of Windows 2000 (as an italian i have Windows 2K in italian). unfortunately, Update Rollup 1 in other languages is a rare file, i found a forum which had the Polish and Italian versions, along with the Japanese version, but the download links have expired. we are in fact talking about discussions that took place in 2012.

[@Josh.Davidson]

Great video! Really like it! I'm going to play around with Win2k on some of my old laptops.

[@ComputerAndTechnologyChannelTM]

Funny seeing you here! I am installing it on my Phenom X4 tower - the "Advanced Server" version.

[@manuelitobeny4677]

Thanks you papi, a pentium 3 is working now with these programs :)

[@BryanChance]

Windows 2000 is incredible efficient. It's using around 50MB of RAM booted up (nothing running). And it's very stable (sp4). I don't know why today's Windows 10 need so much computer power to run.

[@HarleyKeen]

Wait... are you saying just a year ago all the updates were STILL AVAILABLE??? Damn, I thought they've been long removed.. if only I knew there is a way to get them I'd have done it much earlier and getting updates from that ISO is probably... well, not quite legit and it's just an automated all-in-one install with mass file replacement or something?..

[@stuffinfinland]

I genuinely miss Windows 2000 and XP.

[@archgirl]

Libreoffice *is* still being updated... you can get a Win32 version of the very latest version, 6.4.1.

[@I430VX]

Well yeah, but it doesn't work on win2000, or XP, or even Vista...

[@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893]

I'm so stupid that I threw out a working Windows 2000 computer in the past, it was working and doing good and all that I really needed later on. It was maxed out and Rock solid. No idea what I was thinking about.

[@jamescrain8944]

Very nice! Thanks so much for this informative video and the time and energy you put into demonstrating your setup. Cheers!

[@retro4fun358]

it works:) now most of the Windows XP Application worked:) I#m saved thanks to you:)

[@Older-to-newer-videos-playlist]

to open second compatibility launcher go to start ---> programs ---> windows 2000 power shell, 'BlackWingCat'

[@missiondemolition]

It worked! Got Office 2007 to work and some other software.

[@natr0n]

watching 14 minutes with mute on not knowing this had sound. NIce install

[@Jestr86]

Windows 2000 will always be my favorite os from Windows.. Xp comes 2nd

[@user-vm6mr8rd1q]

does the ext kernel require the system to be fully updated? i tried instilling the ext kernel a few times without the updates and it hanged on log on.

[@jondonnelly3]

When I install Kernel Ex I don't get the dialogbox for Extended Kernel option, is there a way to manually start it?

[@RichyKearnsproductions]

I think it's amazing that you got windows 2000 computer to run alot of modern stuff I salvaged a Dell Inspiron 2500 from work a tech guy is getting it up and running for me so I'll be using this video to help me thanks

[@antenadx6175]

Thanks bro!! I really wanted this video

[@cherrieprado1869]

google zilla tube

[@brettwood7314]

I work in a machine shop, many of our cnc machines still use windows 2000 based controls. they should continue to run safe as long as they are not on a network.

[@TheDIMONART]

Very interesting!!!! I want to try MACH3 with Win2000 instead of XP...I heard that Windows 2000 is very stable with CNC hardware and rock solid.

[@JamesJAKAZeldaboy14]

would it be possible to use windows xp's hacked skylake+ drivers on windows 2000 to install 2000 on a skylake processer based machine?

[@qwertymorty]

I had Windows 2000 running on a Pentium MMX 200 a long long time ago, it ran pretty smoothly.

[@markskonecki2050]

I used this operating system for a long long time it was great I never had any problems with it.

[@notkittenaround]

Great vid! got my ibm thinkpad a31 up and running with win2k quite nicely!

[@I430VX]

Very nice!

[@SirBrainChild]

WIndows 2000 SP4 installation media/iso to prevent having to install the services pack 4 directly. To get that, either Slipstream SP4 directly into the Original Install CD, and then burn that as a new bootable CD. There are bootable SP4 installation isos (CD image) that can be downloaded form places like winworld.com since it is such a older OS.

[@victorfigueroa9385]

Little late to the party but this still works!!!

[@larrybreavman4864]

Really good! Thanks a lot for this wonderful tutorial.

[@germanzilla958]

man i love your wideos super chill!

[@therealmeowkitty]

8 Mac Users disliked the video

[@d0nnyr0n]

I tried follwing your update video but I kept getting errors about missing 'MSVCR90.dll' but I had already done some things before so I assumed it was OK. After installing the kernelEx and restarting windows took a long time to get to the logon screen and now says 'The system cannot log you on now because the domain [my user] is not available.' Is my system lost? It's only a virtual machine, but I would still like to know if it can be fixed.

[@leotide1990]

Having the same issue myself. Had previously successfully installed KernelEx using the same ISO, but now when I go to do it, I get this issue too. Haven't changed the process at all either, very strange

[@mtdenardin7604]

thanks for doing this man

[@Sasha-Zuev]

Why Yadisk?

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

Great video! I'm a Linux user but I would love a modern kernel mod for Windows 7, as 7 and 2000 are my favorite versions of Windows and compatibility is the only thing stopping me from dual booting them. For now, I'm stuck with W10 LTSC on a cheap SSD

[@ViceCityMasta]

Thank you for this! Very helpful

[@BLU746]

I like this video, It will help me get prepared to install Windows 2000 on my computer: Here are specs: ASUS P5VD2-MX SE Intel Celeron D running at 3.46 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS 1gb ram 250gb hard disk 1280x1024 monitor AOC Also this pc was a gift.

[@waytoolegit99]

Are you using wired connection or wireless connection? If wired are you using RJ45/ethernet connection?

[@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893]

I feel at home.... Paradise of computing, the golden age.

[@texaslinux]

Windows Update no longer works as of August 2020 :(

[@real2w10]

0:34 that is the same keyboard i use to type with on my win 10 desktop

[@Unrealmassacre]

Thank you

[@texaslinux]

Great video, thank you! One small piece of feedback - that background music is kind of awful and annoying in some spots, maybe keep it a little lower volume wise in the future?

[@connorm955]

Wow you got Windows update to work on 2000! I could only get it to work in vmware.

[@tz8785]

Works just fine with updated root certificates and the settings shown in the video (at least for my virtual machine which was already fairly well-patched to start with...).

[@mineboxgaming2887]

windows 2000 is basically windows xp without the luna theme and missing some features

[@StateCollegeCONELRAD]

When i run the updates, i get the 0x80072EFF error. I did enable TLS 1.0 and uncheck Auto IE Updates

[@TN384]

Windows Update doesn't work anymore from August 2020 on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

[@Rasthro]

Setup could not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make Sure The Cryptographic service is running on this computer. WHY AM I GETTING THIS ERROR WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL THE UPDATE ROLLUP 1?!!!!!!?

[@tommasofiles1446]

Hey Man, I was thinking of asking you an interesting question about a Windows 2000 game with Quake 1 Engine called "Urban Mercenary".... Because in the Windows 2000 I once had I could see a playable map (all white I think for a reading code) and the lights became white hanging on the ceiling and with the grate, while now that map is always the same, but original gray and brown with blue lights? In the past not too long ago, I had tried to play the second version of the game on another PC with Windows XP from running .rar files, and a similar thing happened making my whole map blank but without merging or manipulating objects, this was on the last map, but since I've always had another Windows XP (fixed), and I still play both versions, I don't understand why this reading method doesn't come out also from my Windows XP PC (laptop ), where the textures are colored... It's not like you can help me, my goal is to make the first white map reappear with the lights hanging, I also remember in 2005 that at the end of the map the screen was rotated, do you think it was of a reading error, was it a map taken from the internet (although I remember never playing on the internet in 2005), or is it the windows version? I beg you, for years I've been trying to find a solution! 🙏🏻🪐

[@Yorkfield2008FR]

What was the 1st soundtrack name? I really like it. Please give me a name or a link to listen to it

[@I430VX]

modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=45372

[@Yorkfield2008FR]

Thanks! Btw This tutorial really helped me on my Athlon 64 X2 machine. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@iWalkChris]

Thank you for the video tutorial. What is your CPU on this system in the video?

[@I430VX]

I don't precisely recall at that time what it would be but it would have been either a core 2 duo e8400 or a core 2 quad q9550

[@I430VX]

well it actually says at exactly one minute into the video. it's the q9550.

[@iWalkChris]

@@I430VX Thank you. I am currently installing on a Core 2 Duo.

[@minelayer26]

fun fact: in the 2000s 1080p was the 4k of the 2020s

[@gothicsage955]

Got error 0x80072eff. I checked the 1.0 tls and unchecked internet explorer updates.

[@TN384]

Windows Update doesn't work anymore from August 2020 on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

[@gothicsage955]

That sucks

[@TN384]

@@gothicsage955 Yeah! It sucks also for Windows 95 and 98 and Me, stopped on August 2011.

[@gothicsage955]

@@TN384 that's just stupid. Just leave the updates alone lol. It won't bother others lol.

[@lolfunnycp]

IMPORTANT: the extended kernel version 30 corrupts my system32 iched20.dll!! Many programs including VLC would not install until I replaced it with a riched20.dll from my windows XP installation! If you are getting installer crashes, or complaints about MSVCR90.DLL, you must replace the corrupted riched20.dll (dated july 2015) with one from a working 2000 or XP installation!

[@I430VX]

I cannot speak for your case of a corrupted riched20.dll, but in any other case, including any of my installs, errors about msvcr90.dll means you must install the Visual C runtime.

[@lolfunnycp]

@@I430VX that is a good point, I thought that was the issue at first, but the Visual C 2008 installer (that you linked) also threw a MSVCR90.DLL error when I first tried it! I tried both with and without the compatibility launcher... but only patching riched20.dll allowed Visual C 2008 to install properly! Now that I think of it, I had installed 2000 from a 3rd party iso with all the updates slipstreamed, so maybe that had a corrupted riched20.dll rather than the extended kernel 🤔

[@rebecaberberyan3677]

Internet Explorer 6 doesn't install i have windows 2000 service pack 4 please help

[@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893]

Looking into getting a slim machine and try installing it to. I think I have found my first try! Just need the money and I will order one and start out on the journey.

[@NguyenHoang-pv2xd]

Does Windows 2000 Extended Kernel work with 86box, pcem & QEMU ?

[@I430VX]

It should.

[@reyarqueza7627]

awesome video. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2002... (even if its summer 2022)

[@loganlentz3069]

If possibe, would you be able to do one for windows 98? There was a video on it a few years back, however the original maker set to private or deleted thier account.

[@ItsDoozei]

Real talk tho, that pc is beautiful :3 im always down for sum retro pc's similiar to uwxbill

[@BetaMaster2]

windows 2000 refuses to run on any of my machines (with sse2), including my ide machines :v

[@I430VX]

I am going to need more details than that to help you. What IS happening? What ISN'T happening?

[@BetaMaster2]

@@I430VX what isn't happening is the os installing. im booting from the cd and it shows the "setup is starting windows" and then it bluescreens with the error "INNACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". i know this is a late reply but better late than never i guess btw i just installed 98 then copied the 2k files to the hard drive and upgraded (or clean install) and it works fine, with support for cd. im using 2k on a scsi laptop atm

[@BetaMaster2]

i found out it just really hates sata and some types of ide, the stars have to align PERFECTLY to get it to work

[@BhdRoussos]

I used W2K on my so called Media Server. It is a P3 600 MHz with 1 Gig of RAM. It contains a database, a modified Version of serviio, which connects to that database and a jsp Application on Tomcat, which is used to search for movie titles. Currently I try to migrate all these mentioned Services to Linux mint and got it done. But getting things done in Linux needs a lot more effort. Much more deep diving into the subject, most things on the command line, no graphical tools. Specially for old PC's with Pentium 3 or 4 one core: W2K performs better,boots faster, compared to a Linux Distro like Mint 18.3 Sylvia with xfce desktop. The desktop type you chose will have an impact on performance.

[@powershellaxp64]

If you get an error after updating the Windows Update components from the website just add Windows Update to the trusted website list Internet Options>Security>Trusted Zone>Add and you need to uncheck verification

[@darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893]

Looking at the WYSE V90 for a low current hardware, and hopefully be able to run windows 2000.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

That’s nuts!

[@bluesteel848]

You should mention the importance of the Unofficial Service Pack 5.1. It's critical that some machines have it otherwise BlackWingCat's KernelEX will bork the installation.

[@I430VX]

The time i tried usp5.1, it ruined my install. I've never heard of it being an important step. can you explain more?

[@bluesteel848]

@@I430VX That happened to me as well, USP 5.1 has certain pre-requisites in order to be safely installed and it's a right pain in the ass to work out what those requirements are... Until you see a whole bunch of forum threads outlining them at 3 in the morning and facepalm violently... From what I've seen, USP 5.1 is important on a fair few multi-core machines as it deploys certain patches that allow Windows 2000 to utilize 2 or more cores correctly, in addition to a thermal control KB that allows a multi-core system to run at an acceptable temperature. Supposedly the only other way to properly install these patches without too much run-around is HFS-Slip which the vast majority of users will not be inclined to use. As for Kernelex, on higher performing multi-core computers, without USP5.1 will stop the installation from booting correctly by stalling at the login screen where it's supposed to be loading your session. In hindsight it might be a little bit overly specific but it may be worth leaving a side-note in the description of your video. I'm sure the folks at MSFN would be willing to help in a heartbeat too. Thanks for reaching out to me though. Your video inspired me to do yet another Windows 2000 installation on modern hardware for old time's sake. You're right about it being a daily driver operating system!