>>>>I think VFP8 requires at least SP3 to be installed for W2K. Have you installed your OS service packs?
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>>>I remember I had VFP8 installed on a W2K SP1 machine two years ago, no problem.
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>>>It's Office 2003 that required SP2... and my machine was never the same again. I started getting BSODs again, which I haven't seen for all the years when I ran w2kSP1.
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>>Could be.
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>>I have an old laptop that's stuck on W2K/SP2 because everytime I've tried to update it, it just screws up. Good thing I don't use that one much anymore. I did try to upgrade it to XP once, but I can't get the network drivers to work with the no-name network card I've got. Even the no-name XP driver doesn't recognize their own card, but W2K works fine.
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>Sooner or later, all of our machines will go the way of that 286 that one of our customers wanted to give to the local school. I had to find an old 5.25" floppy (probably 8 years old) to find the setup.com - as then the setup was often loadable, not in the CMOs - so the machine would be able to boot... into DOS 5.0.

I don't have anything lower than a P200 that still is in service. The laptop is an Athlon K6 333Mhz, but I've upgraded it several times from 64MB to 128MB to it's max 256MB ram, and I bumped the harddrive from 4GB to 10GB. It's still quite usable, but the LCD is now starting to fade. The battery long ago gave up the ghost so it's not very mobile anymore as it must be plugged in at all times. Not too shabby since it's been in use since '97.