A lot of disks will not install unless you have Windows XP Service Pack 2. Many disks have requirements that W2K does not have... they are found in Service Pack 1 in some cases, Service Pack 2 in others. And soon Service Pack 3, where security upgrades require it now.
A lot of software with graphics, games, and images or security features to prevent theft require Windows XP and usuallhy Service Pack 2. Windows 2000 ended on March 31, 2000. Windows 2000 End of Life was June 30, 2004. Someday, you guys in Thailand will have to face the future. Windows 2000 was great, but it has been gone for nine years awreddy. ----- This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Oscar Wilde On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:09:26 Jeffrey Race wrote: > > I bought a CD which will not load in my 600X on W2K; if I load the > > executable the machine hangs. The same happens on an Acer running W2K. > > > > However when I place it in the drive of my T43 running WXP, it auto-runs > > perfectly. > > > > Questions please: > > > > What can I do to diagnose the problem of not running on the 600X? > > > > How can I get it to run on the 600X? (Perhaps implicit in above.) > > > > Can I copy the files to the T43's drive and put on a thumb drive or > > something, if I can't get the disk to run on the 600X? > > > > Tks for all help > > Jeffrey Race > > If you can run the programs off that CD on some machines you have a > good indicator that the CD itself is good, or at least marginal. This > means > that you ought to be able to take the code from the CD and stuff it onto > something like a USB stick and run it from there, assuming that it doesn't > have some sort of copy protection scheme. > > I have a few CD drives that are "weird". One in particular that drove me > buggy for a while cannot read data from the middle area of a CD. At the > start and end yes but not the middle. Maddening and it cost me time to > figure out why. > > However, you do mention Win2K and WinXP, so that could be your problem? > Try putting the code on a USB stick and verify that it works on the XP > machine, and then try it on the Win2K. If that doesn't work let us know. > I'm not sure I've heard of a program crashing on Win2K before that was > made for XP. > > Maddening.... > > --STeve Andre' > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
