Re: w2k alpha

[Alexander Huemer <alexander huemer sbg ac at>]

Oliver Falk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Vesselin Kenashkov wrote:
> > I have only b2031 which I thought was the last one for alpha, but 
> > obviously not.
> > I'm interested in any one of the most recent builds.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Alexander Huemer 
> > <alexander huemer sbg ac at <mailto:alexander huemer sbg ac at>> wrote:
> >
> >     i have the following versions:
> >
> >     microsoft windows 2000 professional    build 2000 (original msdn cd)
> >     microsoft windows 2000 server          build 2031
> >     microsoft windows 2000 advanced server build 2031
> >     microsoft windows 2000 professional    build 2072
> >     microsoft windows 2000 advanced server build 2072
> >     microsoft windows 2000 professional    build 2128
> >
> >     i am willing to provide iso's if anyone is interested.
> >     who has a build i don't have?
>
> So what's the truth now? Do they expire or not? Not that I'm planning 
> to  actually *really* use it, but reinstalling it all the time doesn't 
> make much sense as well :-) Having a spare disk with an installation 
> Windows for Alpha at hand sounds good. I've seen some tools that work 
> on Alpha-Windows that I'd like to give a try...
>
> Best,
>  oliver
>
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to be honest, i don't remember if they expire.
i used these things a very long time ago, but afair i had no problems.
i remember a tool named tweakNT that worked on the w2k/alpha too to get 
rid of timebombs.
maybe setting some crazy date initially does the trick too, i don't know.

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kind regards
alex