Xming V7.5.0.13    Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by guinness on 16 Dec 2009 19MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1026) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (9) - Post comment - Permalink

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 jimmy: When i try to run Xming-portable-PuTTY-7-3-0-15-setup.exe on my windows 2000 machine, it tells me that I need NT version 5.01 or greater. Anyone else with this problem?
-j [2008-04-03 07:08]

 dannygjk: Hi Jimmy,
Note that even if you have a machine that says, 'Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000', it must actually have an NT operating system installed.
dannygjk [2008-04-06 09:51]

 dgd: Description is essentially inaccurate; this is an X11 server that provides a display for applications running on other machines. [2008-07-15 20:34]

 Oliver: Note that doiung this way does not build a strictly portable app, because of the reference to the font directories in file font-dirs.

Create a file xming.bat in the base directory with following content:
%~d0
cd %~dp0
set FONTDIRS="%~dp0font-dirs"
echo # Generated dynamically > %FONTDIRS%
for /d %%i in ("%~dp0fonts\*") do echo %%i >> %FONTDIRS%

start "" "%~dp0xming.exe" %OPTIONS%

And then use this batch file to start xming [2008-07-16 06:10]

 vjiyh: i also have windows 2000 on my machine (with service pack 4). and no its not just on the sticker, it actually has win2k installed. i also get the problem with the xming installer saying it won't install on anything less than windows nt 5.01 (which is windows 2000 with service pack 1) [2008-12-10 21:31]

 Michael51: There is another application called "MobaXterm" ( http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net ) that provides an X server for Windows but also a lot of extra Unix tools and a great terminal that are really useful. It is already portable so it may be interesting for anyone using Xming! I loe it and use it everyday!

It seems to be completely stealth but I am not sure as I am not a portable software guru... [2009-12-16 17:17]

 kgshadows: This is not freeware, and I doubt it's open source.
Only the really old (6.9 from 2007) version is free download.
Update description or downgrade version. [2010-01-18 17:23]

 John Doe: I get this Windows 2000 error and it is really annoying. I cannot extract the package with 7z, thus I will try the MobaXterm program, above. Thanks Michael51. [2010-05-19 19:51]

 marked: I'm also running win2k (with service pack 4). Been running this same OS on this same computer since 2003 without a single reinstall... and I intend to keep using it for a while longer. No resolution to this problem yet? I see the first mention of this "NT 5.01" bug was posted over 2 years ago. I just installed the MobaXterm referred above. Excellent solution! thanks michael51 for the link! [2010-06-18 20:16]

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