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...does it all!

@GTwannabe The last time when I installed Win2k (7 Days ago on my primary system) I just rebooted 3 times to finish the installation (win2k, office and a sh..load of apps..) Now Windows Update shows me no more Downloads (expect the one I dont want to load!) and my system runs fine.. Well and I didnt install from a SP2 disk. Clean Win2k install and then installed all the fixes (4 or so.. Sp2, Sp2SRP1, DX8.1 ....) and with the same "reboote phase" I installed 20 apps on my computer and didnt restart after each app wanted me to do so! PS: I also stay with win2k because XP is just to coloured for me.. (sure you can switch that of.. but .. who needs XP anyway? just too much annoying helpers everywhere). And like its with every MS OS just wait for the first SP to install it

Crossfader is no Output is no problem here (win2k sp2) but the Agent also had some serious problems for me.. so be sure to have this thing disabled...

Try Powerquest Drive Image... it Images my Win2k SP2 Partitions with no problem... (also restore works

What Version of Winamp? 2.x or 3.0 Beta?

I need some tips what this could be: When I start my Win2k Pro Sp2 (On P4-2Ghz, 1GB Ram and U160 SCSI HDD) it just pauses the startup for 5 to 10 minutes.. Right after the Startup Sound my windows stops doing anything (before loading the desktop icons but after loading half of the tray apps and the task bar) for about 5-10 min. I can normaly browse trough the Start Menu and also launch the Task Manager which shows me a processor use of 0 - 3% in this time my win2k sleeps.. After the 5-10 minutes it continues to start so if never anything had happend... All Programs start without any error message... What could this be?? PS: Reinstalling the Win2k SP2 didnt help! Thx in advice..

I know what it is.. Its ZoneAlarm Pro blocking the starting SVCHOSTS.EXE (which also starts the "netman" service) So does anyone know of this or is anyone else here who got the same problem and knows how to fix it? (I think I have to enable some Port for some Protocol so that netman can talk with the network? --> anyone knows which protocol and which port netman needs?) I have granted svchosts.exe full rights in ZAP and it doesnt help.... please keep helping me.. (I think its just a little step left before everything works again!)

Nemesis: It is allready set to manual.. and also I didn't change any of this settings before the StartUp Delay happend first time. The strange thing is that only one part of this Service seems to fail (part name "netman") Thats what my event log says and also when I try to start this service manual it says that "netman" failed to respond through timley matter (or something else..) anyway it works after 5 mins..

I investigated it futher an come to the conclusion the the service "network connections" is the thing that needs ages to start (the service that manages network and dial-up folder things) In special the "NETMAN" part of this service is what fails to start for 10 times or so (it has a timeout of 30 seconds and it needs 5 min to start so you can figure out how ofte it needs to try to get started..) When i disable this service I have no network or dial-up items.. (also no internet) so I need it.. What can I do to get "netman" back to the state of starting allmost instantly? Like I said before it worked all the time and someday it just stopped working and began to sleep at startup (btw. the startup sleep is allready disabled so I can work just right after startup but I have to wait for about 5 mins to get my Dial-Up Networking and LAN access thx in advance once more... please help me out..

Yes it is Networked (just workgroup no domain) But Up[censored] the network card driver didnt help. Also there is just one network card in my computer and this one got a fix IP (needs fix IP for ICS) Well still hanging around trying all your tips above...

How do you set Transparent Icon Backgrounds under win2k? I know its standard under XP but how do I get the same Effect under Win2k? Thx and CU

Does anyone know why the at.exe command to schedule task under nt4 or win2k does kill other windows apps runing. I want to use this at.exe command to synchronize my clock with the local timeserver but everytime at.exe executes the batch file (which I told him to do so) it crashes my POS-Programm (Point-Of-Sale) running on the same computer. Does anybody know why or how to prevent this? I would like to use at.exe cause I could use it for some more things than time synch. Thx and CU

Sure... I tried this under Win2k SP2 and NT4Sp6 Both Versions -- Same Effect