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Critical Internet Explorer update Deletion: Hotfix\904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2722913-x64-ENU.exe Replace: # ▼. RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,573,296 . Updated 18 September Addition: # ▼. Hotfix\904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2744842-x64-ENU.exe 43,867,192 . MS12-063 - Cumulative Security Update Added support for Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit with all EMET tested applications being protected (All.xml applied) and the Oracle VirtualBox extension pack (but it won't show as installed until you create your first VM). Speaking of VirtualBox, I got an email stating that my long running problems had finally been fixed with 4.1.22 and to reopen the bug ticket if I was still having problems. Having tried 4.1.20 and having it still hang all the time I didn't hold out much hope but 4.1.22 seems OK. I was going to report that the problem had been fixed but now Oracle won't let me login to my account, oh well. None the less I'll be sticking with 3.0.14 as they started Vista-fying it with the 3.1.x series, by which I mean the settings I change when doing testing are 2 clicks away in VirtualBox 3.0.14 but 5 clicks away in later versions. Explorer09, yep, had the VM running as I headed out the door this morning. EDIT: I'd advise caution before installing Microsoft's EMET as 7-Zip and Skype didn't work for me after installing EMET. I did a survey of all the EMET supported applications in the guide and found that WinRAR and Internet Explorer (64-bit only, 32-bit OK) didn't work either. I've added commands to resolve these issues but can't say with any confidence that there won't be others.

Microsoft's download site has been seriously spotty as of late, they seem to be transitioning it to a new style (again). For instance I had a lot of trouble getting to the download page for KB2736233 (latest ActiveX Kill-Bits), only once out of multiple attempts did it show up on searching. However as the direct link is still active at this time (noting that your page uses the same direct link), it will be updated if it's still stuffing up after next month's updates.

September updates Deletion: RunOnce\WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2695962-x64-ENU.exe Replace: # ▼. RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,575,112 . Updated 21 August Addition: @ . . . RunOnce\WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2736233-x64-ENU.exe . 685,592 . ActiveX Kill-Bits Cumulative Obviously one of those almost mythical months with no Microsoft security updates (the ActiveX Kill-Bits target Cisco software). On the supported application front, the batch files will now remove AVG security toolbar (for I.E.) and the obsolete versions of the Visual C++ runtimes installed by QuickTime Alternative Lite and Avast Anti-Virus. The recommended method for installing Microsoft Office 2007 has been changed with instructions and download links in the file Misc\Office2007.html (but the old method will still work). Also the "Small Business" version is now supported along with the previously supported "Home and Student", however support for other versions will require the help of you dear reader.

Rado, have you tried installing from a USB stick instead of the DVD drive? I ask because on my system if I try to install XP x64 from the SATA attached DVD drive I always get a BSOD, I have to use a PATA IDE attached drive.

OK, so Firefox ESR it is.

August updates Deletions: (all at \Hotfix) 140-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB958644-x64-ENU.exe 200-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB961501-x64-ENU.exe 828-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2698707-x64-ENU.exe 832-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2718704-x64-ENU.exe 864-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2718523-x64-ENU.exe 900-5er_IE8_Addon_2009-03_4_x64.7z 904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2699988-x64-ENU.exe 908-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2510531-x64-ENU.exe 914-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2632503-x64-ENU.exe Replace: # ▼. RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,232,584 . Updated 14 August Additions: (all at \Hotfix) @ . . . 872-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2712808-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,056,000 . MS12-054 - Networking Components @ ▼ 876-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2731847-x64-ENU.exe . . 4,381,704 . MS12-055 - Kernel-Mode Drivers @ . . . 880-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2705219-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,224,192 . MS12-054 - Networking Components @ . . . 884-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2661254-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,687,552 . Minimum Certificate Key Length @ . . . 888-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2732052-x64-ENU.exe .. . . 717,832 . Time Zone - Cumulative # ▼. 900-5er_IE8_Addon_2009-03_5_x64.7z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,194,995 . 5eraph's Internet Explorer 8 AddOn Updated 16 August # ▼. 904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2722913-x64-ENU.exe 43,865,608 . MS12-052 - Cumulative Security Update @ . . . 908-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2706045-x64-ENU.exe . 2,483,712 . MS12-056 - JScript & VBScript Engines Thanks Explorer09, someone double checking is always helpful, especially on things that don't show up on the monthly security bulletin such as "Note: 2661254 + 2728973 (rvkroots.exe) replaces 2718704. 2661254 is not a high-priority update AFAIK." I've decided from now on to leave in the batch files all my hardware specific driver commands but comment them all out as well as some other non-freeware applications I install.

VirtualBox is obviously the big one, but there's also VMware Server 1.0.10 (and other VMware products) and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 (and other Microsoft products). However one concern is will drivers for one version of these VMs work for different versions (by this I mean will drivers for VirtualBox 3.0.14 work on VirtualBox 4.1.18) If they aren't compatible across versions then there's not really any point including them as they'll quickly go obsolete.

Yep, I plan to add info and script install support for Opera 12.01 and Firefox ESR next time I update it.

While I personally only use Windows 2000 within virtual machines these days, I'd suggest including the CPU, Chipset, Mass Storage, LAN and WLAN drivers from the DriverPacks archive. The May 2008 versions (W2K support after this gets a bit dodgy) of these 5 packs only amount to 33.5 MB. Sound and Video drivers take up far larger amounts of space but unlike the 5 groups I nominated they are not necessary to getting a system running and online and hence can easily be added later. Perhaps you might want to consider adding VM drivers as well?

July updates Deletions: Hotfix\770-msxml4-KB973685-enu.exe Hotfix\780-msxml6-KB973686-enu-x86.exe Additions: Hotfix\770-msxml4-KB2721691-enu.exe . . . . . 2,053,704 . Optional, Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 sp3 Hotfix\780-msxml6-KB2721693-enu-x86.exe . . . 958,536 . Optional, Microsoft XML Core Services 6.0 sp2

July updates Deletions: Hotfix\312-msxml4-KB973685-enu.exe Hotfix\316-msxml6-KB973686-enu-amd64.exe Hotfix\472-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2079403-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\780-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2585542-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\836-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2709162-x64-ENU.exe Additions: @ . . . Hotfix\844-msxml4-KB2721691-enu.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,053,704 . Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP3 @ . . . Hotfix\848-msxml6-KB2721693-enu-amd64.exe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,866,312 . Microsoft XML Core Services 6.0 SP2 @ . . . Hotfix\852-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2655992-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,219,552 . MS12-049 - TLS protocol # ▼. Hotfix\856-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2691442-x64-ENU.exe . 12,371,464 . MS12-048 - Windows Shell @ . . . Hotfix\860-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2698365-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,950,976 . MS12-045 - Data Access Components @ ▼ Hotfix\864-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2718523-x64-ENU.exe . . 4,377,600 . MS12-047 - Kernel-Mode Drivers @ ▼ Hotfix\868-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2719985-x64-ENU.exe . . 2,786,784 . MS12-043 - XML Core Services 3.0 # ▼. RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,387,848 . Updated 11 July @ . . . RunOnce\rvkroots.exe .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161,408 . Untrusted Certificate Store

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That's normal behaviour or at least it happens on my system as well, don't worry about it. As far as I can tell it causes no problems on a running system or at least I haven't heard of any. If you're concerned you can always use the WMP11 silent install option.

I guess you may as well give it a try as is, if Microsoft has done their job right the Service Pack should be able to correctly remove those hotfixes.

Strange, my SP1 disk (which is really RtM, XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 were released when Server 2003 32-bit had already received SP1) has a volume label of ARMPXOEM_EN Also there is no SVCpack directory on a default SP1 (or SP2) disk, did you buy an OEM disk yourself (in a plastic DVD style case) or was it supplied with your computer?

OK, I've changed the notice to indicate that Opera is buggy while Firefox no longer supports Windows 2000. If Opera gets their act together I'll indicate that they're the only major browser to still support Windows 2000.

Both, after slipsteaming one should copy the Run*_XP-64.bat files and the AddOns & RunOnce folders to the nLite working directory as indicated in step 9 of the guide. No it is not normal, are you sure that your CD isn't SP2 already? Check the root directory of the CD, if it has WIN51AP.SP2 then the disk is Service Pack 2. Yes you can use the updated version if you like, in fact you can use 5eraph's pack and skip the vast majority of the Hotfixes, needing only DirectX, WMP11 and .Net related ones. You can try it, but I haven't tested it. Considering I've never heard of an x64 capable computer that only has a CD rather than a DVD drive I've never been worried about the size of the various installers. Googling it, it seems to be similar to the old and tempermental Media Transfer Protocol, as it's not a high priority download it's not included in the update list.

OK, I've altered the security warning to: As Windows 2000 has been out of support since July 2010 and no current major web browser (or plugin) works reliably on it, it is not safe to use Windows 2000 on an Internet facing machine.

That might be due to the unofficial kernel you use, with a standard kernel launching Opera as a member of the Users group brings up the following message box: Startup error Opera has failed to access or upgrade your profile. This may have occurred because your computer has insufficient resources available or because some files are locked by other applications. You may have to restart your computer before Opera will start again. OK

Officially yes, try running it in a limited account though.

June update Deletions: RunOnce\dotNet11SP1_UH_Apr12.exe RunOnce\dotNet20SP2_UH_May12.exe Replace: (optional) Runonce\WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe . 6,761,832 Download from MediaFire Hotfix_2000sp5_N_date.7z (.Net 1.1 SP1 & .Net 2.0 SP2) and extract it into the same directory that you chose to extract the Config archive into (see notes part 4 for other options). MD5: 24E94B2C94CE2D3A77F95C7A5167CD08 SHA-1: 59CBFBAD1DD1B5FDEFB169C847E9B077F4DC37A3 Unfortunately over the last month Mozilla and Opera have dropped support for Windows 2000 meaning that no current mainstream web browser works properly on Windows 2000.

June updates Deletions: Hotfix\344-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB970430-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\744-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2641690-v2-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\764-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2633952-v2-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\804-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2621440-x64-ENU.exe Hotfix\904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2675157-x64-ENU.exe RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x_32bit.exe RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x_64bit.exe RunOnce\NDP20SP2-KB2656369-x64.exe RunOnce\NDP40-KB2656368-x64.exe Additions: @ . . . Hotfix\828-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2698707-x64-ENU.exe .. . . 709,376 . Time Zone - Cumulative @ . . . Hotfix\832-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2718704-x64-ENU.exe . . 1,717,216 . Fraudulent Digital Certificates Cumulative @ ▼ Hotfix\836-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2709162-x64-ENU.exe . . 4,365,056 . MS12-041 - Kernel-Mode Drivers @ . . . Hotfix\840-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2685939-x64-ENU.exe .. . . 781,568 . MS12-036 - Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) # ▼. Hotfix\904-IE8-WindowsServer2003.WindowsXP-KB2699988-x64-ENU.exe 43,846,912 . MS12-037 - Cumulative Security Update # ▼. RunOnce\install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe 9,225,928 . Updated 11 June @ . . . RunOnce\NDP20SP2-KB2656369-v2-x64.exe 1,556,416 MS12-025 - XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) # ▼. RunOnce\NDP20SP2-KB2686828-x64.exe 11,962,488 . MS12-038 - XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) @ . . . RunOnce\NDP40-KB2656368-v2-x64.exe . 1,748,400 . MS12-025 - XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) @ ▼. RunOnce\NDP40-KB2686827-x64.exe . . . 4,348,008 . MS12-038 - XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) and .Net keeps BAP, BAP, BAPing along ...

Good point, it will be done with this month's updates. I'll be off at a Sci-Fi con for the next few days, toasting the passing of "The greatest Sci-Fi writer in history". << NSFW

5eraph: You've got to admit, the KB955417 note accurately describes what in fact is fixed and is less obscure about it than most such notes. Explorer09: Yes I did read the description on KB982666 and KB2478953 when they first came out which is why they weren't included at that time. As you might note they are now included only as optional updates, as indicated by the green description note.

Are you able to check if Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) has the same problem? It seems likely as it also has an ASMS01.CAB though obviously in this case at \I386\