When i setup a new site on Windows 2000 without installing ImageMagick, the following program is detected as ImageMagick : C:\WINNT\System32\convert.exe

The problem is in setting.ini :

[imagemagick_program]
unix_Executable=convert
unix_SearchPaths=/bin;/sbin;/usr/bin;/usr/sbin;/usr/local/bin;/usr/local/sbin
unix_ExcludePaths=
win32_Executable=convertim.exe;convert.exe
win32_SearchPaths=
win32_ExcludePaths=convert.exe@Windows/system3

The win32_ExcludePaths parameter is not valid on Windows 2000.

Perhaps a better solution than the exclude path would be to launch convert.exe to see if it is really ImageMagick