Winfile for Windows 2000.
https://github.com/blackwingcat/winfile_nt5

#Winfile #Win2000 #Win2K #Windows2000

Iru Intro – Beeper and keyboard

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/07/iru-intro-beeper-and-keyboard.html

#retrocomputer #notebook #windows2000 #soft #beeper #unusualkeyboard #pcidriver #tech #digretro #oldcomputer #pcwindows #2000s #specialfeature #freedos #win2k #nosound #sounddriver #shortcircuit #learncomputers #computersstuff #retro

Notepad++ 6.7.5 for Windows 2000

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

#Win2000 #Windows2000 #Win2K #NotepadPP

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

Oh, fuck off

#VirtManager #Windows2000 #Win2k

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

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