This is a screenshot guide walk-through of Windows 2000 Professional Setup.
You can download Windows 2000 Professional Setup Screenshots in ZIP at Windows 2000 Setup Screenshots Download
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NOTE: This post will have a lot of screenshots. Lower bandwidth connections beware!
This is a visual walk through of Windows 8 installation. I ran this setup to provide screenshots using Windows 7 Professional 64bit with Oracle’s VirtualBox 4.1.2 and installed Windows 8 from the Windows 8 Developer Preview 32bit ISO.
You can download Windows 8 Setup Screenshots in ZIP at Windows 8 Setup Screenshots Download
Error setting write page mode
When trying to burn an ISO to a CD-R earlier today using UltraISO Trial software, I (of course, when in a hurry) received the following error:
Error setting write page mode
Ah, I remember running into this last time I reinstalled Windows 7 Professional 64bit.
I pulled up my notes and found a link to EZB’s forum which talked about this issue and made mention that the driver needed updated.
Here’s the EZB Forum Link discussing the “Error setting write mode page” that I found useful.
I ventured out to Lenovo’s support website as I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p desktop unit and grabbed the driver.
Intel Matrix Storage Manager (Windows Interface Console) driver
A reboot after the installation (it was only 9.6MB not 9GB to download — I notice they have many typos like this on the website) now has me working with UltraISO.
Lesson here is that after a Windows install — Make sure you update drivers from Manufacturer! Windows’ drivers usually aren’t the best, of course.
Note: I did come back to this problem to fix it. I used Windows’ Disc Image Burner software (Right-click Open With -> Windows Disc Image Burner)
Windows 8 Developer Preview Explorer Screenshots.
Check out Windows 8 Task Manager Screenshots also!
Explorer - Home Tab
Explorer - Share Tab
Explorer - View Tab
Explorer - File Menu
Explorer - Create New Folder
It works for me.
First, what is “syskey”?
SYSKEY is a utility that encrypts the hashedpassword information in a SAMdatabase in a Windows system using a 128-bit encryption key.
SYSKEY was an optional feature added in Windows NT 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against offlinepassword cracking attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from BindView found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of cryptanalytic attack is possible offline. A brute force attack then appeared to be possible.
Microsoft later collaborated with BindView to issue a fix for the problem (dubbed the ‘Syskey Bug’) which appears to have been settled and SYSKEY has been pronounced secure enough to resist brute force attack.
According to Todd Sabin of the BindView team RAZOR, the pre-RC3 versions of Windows 2000 were also affected.
So this is pretty cool, right? Well, I really like the idea of keeping this on Floppy so that it requires a floppy disk (a sort of 2 factor (hardware/software) authentication?).
Naturally I wanted to go a bit further and use this on a USB drive instead of storing to a Floppy. I can’t see myself carrying a floppy and a USB floppy drive around with me. After all, this provides another layer of security.
NOTE: I haven’t tested copying data from 1 USB to another USB to see if it works as a backup. This way you could lock up a USB drive as a spare if needed.
Here’s how to get this to work using a USB drive.
1. Insert your USB drive into your system and wait for it to be recognized and install any necessary drivers.
2. Fire up disk management and re-assign the drive letter it was given to “A”.
Start up disk management by clicking Start and typing diskmgmt.msc
Right-click the USB drive and choose to assign driver letter or path.
Assign it to letter "A"
Accept the warning message (but pay attention to it - JIC)
Now your USB drive is "A"
3. Run Syskey and save encryption to USB Drive “A”
Click Start and type syskey followed by hitting Enter
Syskey launched; Click "Update"
Choose "Store Startup key on floppy disk" and click "OK"
You'll be prompted to enter your diskette. Make sure your USB drive is inserted and writable.
4. Reboot and have fun. Don’t lose your USB disk! Also, to revert this, you can run syskey again and choose to store it locally instead of “on a floppy disk”.