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foxman98
Over the summer, I used Windows 2000 for a bit (beta 3) and remember toying with a program which allowed one to set a window or application (it was nice for winamp) to be transparent or even tinted a color.


MX300 in W2K: Which drivers?
DaveMan
Um, when I tried to install the MX300 drivers on W2K Pro final, I end up getting an error that occurs when I click OK on the little bitmap logo window (anyone who's installed Aureal ref drivers knows that I'm not insane ).

Mouse Sampling in Win2000
Zaknafein
Is there any way to change the mouse sampling rate in W2k? Going from 200hz in NT4 to 60hz in NT5 kind of sucks. .

HP 4200C Scanner. No driver for W2K ?
midiboy
Hi ! I am wondering wether anyone knows a way to get the HP 4200C USB scanner to work with W2k ? HP doesn´t seem to develop any W2K drivers for it. Does anyone have any news ? Thanks, Alex.

3.69 drivers, Quake3 performance?
Leo V
Hi, From my past experience (using 3. 65 Win2000 drivers), Quake3 and other apps performance was very slow. I was using GeForce DDR and Win2000 build 2195. My Quake3 High Quality 1024x768x32 score was only 43FPS, compared with 65FPS under Windows98 (same settings).

4 SPEAKER WITH SBLIVE...
Michel
PLZ>. . . HELP ME How in the WORLD my rear speakers can work with Sound Blaster Live! Value?? I turned off the rear speakers but it didnt worked. . . . hehe Help PLZ THANK U ALL.

i cant get any 3d shooter to work(no SoF) for me=(
ReV
i cant get any game requireing a 3d accelerator working right. . . graphics r fine but very choppy and i get a ping of 2100 om my own server. . . . and worst off i cant play Soldier of Fortune!!!!i got it and i cant play it.

Has anyone gotten MATLAB 5.3 to work??
Drak0
Hey guys. . . was just wondering if anyone has gotten this to work. It installed correctly for me but when I run it, it locks up my system, and i have to hard reboot it I'm really pissed about this. .

Question about Matrox g400
Clayboy
I found an entry for the g400 in the hardware list and it says the g400 does dual head and Dvd without problems with the 2k drivers from Matrox BUT do the drivers also enable directx for games and/or opengl? Last time i heard (couple of months ago) the beta drivers from matrox do not support directx or opengl so ba ...

Win2k 2195 (final) + Voodoo 2 + Flight Simulator 2000
Michel
I got Win2k 2195 (final) + Voodoo 2 + Flight Simulator 2000, but FS 2000 cant detect my Voodoo 2. . . can someone help me? Also. . . I got a SBLIVE with Cambridge Soundworks 2000 but the rear speakers are mute.

Abit BH-6 + Hybernation ???
5t3ph3n
anyone with an Abit BH-6 (mine is rev1. 0 + firmware FU) who has hybernation support in Win2k final??? p. s. (you can also check an older post in win2k appz w/ subject Auto shutdown in win2k).

Vortex2 Probs with RC3?
Tao
I'm running Windows2000 Pro RC3 with a Vortex2 soundcard(diamond MX300), and I've been having problems with lockups recently. The lockups only occur when sound is playing(i. e. winamp, mediaplayer, games, etc.

TNT problems (still..)
Ubik
Uhhrg. . I've posted about this before, but I still haven't really found a solution. . Everything with my TNT works, except in Quake 3 it's *really* dark. I got it a bit brighter by fooling with the brightness slider (it just sort of 'clicks in' at some point), but it's still unplayably dark.

sharing with older Windows'
vf
I have a Win98/2000 network here, but the Win98 do not see any shares on the 2000 workstations. Is there a trick to make them give access to those? Allowed Users in the 2000 share is everyone with Full Control, Change, Read enabled, should be enough, or? I testwise also enabled the Guest account, didn't help.

How do I find if what version of Win2k I have?
RazoR
Hi, I just want to know what version of windows 2000 I have, such as final retail, beta, rc(What are RC's?) My System panel says: Microsoft Windows 2000 5. 00. 2195 Is this the retail final version?.

No opengl or d3d tabs for driver 3.66
hard1
I have TNT2 ultra running win2k pro 2195. all is fine except that there is no tabs on driver 3. 66 for overclocking or anything at all for that matter. .

3D Sound-Pro HT 1869V+ Drivers NEEDED!!!
tdentremont
I'm using build 2195 of win2kpro. . . . . I have seached for weeks for drivers for this onboard sound chip. . . . . does anyone have a link to beta drivers that will run this audio chip?. . . . also known as Cmedia 8330? Please icq me or email me if you can help 🙂.

User logon
Awaxx
How can i make the user that want to log on to choose in a drop down menu the user he want to log on. I mean, under Mac OS 9, there a menu with all registered users and you just click on the one you wanna log onto and if you need a pwd, it just asks.

NIC in Windows 2000
fargo
Anyone tested Allied telesyn AT2500-TX ethernet card or micronet SP2500R/SP2500K in windows 2000?