Although not doing a slipstream at this time, am having problems updating Windows 2000 SP4 with the 954600 hotfix. Also, very strange: Belarc Advisor seems to think that I need: KB952069_WM71 even though am running Windows Media Player 6.4 954600 I run this file WindowsMedia64-KB954600-x86-ENU.exe (MD5 = 287c62f7da267b7bb5a4caa181a9c540) and get no errors. But the update doesn't appear in "Add/Remove Programs" or qfecheck: C:\WINNT\system32>qfecheck | grep 9546000 Looking into it further, by extracting the file, WindowsMedia64-KB954600-x86-ENU.exe /x looking into the resulting file, update.inf and the appropriate Micrsoft link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954600), I find that the affected files are: logagent.exe msv1_0.dll netlogon.dll sp3res.dll strmdll.dll Comparing the versions in the update with the existing ones on disk, I find that most files on disk are newer, 2 the same, and 1 older: logagent.exe Update: Version: 4.1.0.3937 Date: 2008 June 19, Thursday, 07:39:26 Size: 65,055 bytes MD5: f5d23e5b355389eae2ef3ce0a409b876 Disk: Version: 9.0.0.3287 Date: 2005 December 26, Monday, 23:50:44 Size: 103,936 bytes MD5: afa5ef36f9a027a4264e198e88dd793a msv1_0.dll Update: Version: 5.0.2195.6926 Date: 2005 April 7, Thursday, 15:21:18 Size: 125,200 bytes MD5: 1dfa06dea950dff34c57d04b7392d29e Disk: Version: 5.0.2195.6926 Date: 2005 April 8, Friday, 09:51:18 Size: 125,200 bytes MD5: 1dfa06dea950dff34c57d04b7392d29e netlogon.dll Update: Version: 5.0.2195.7011 Date: 2005 April 7, Thursday, 15:24:32 Size: 366,864 bytes MD5: be8fc3c74ab5212cd4067e8973764ad6 Disk: Version: 5.0.2195.7011 Date: 2005 April 8, Friday, 09:54:32 Size: 366,864 bytes MD5: be8fc3c74ab5212cd4067e8973764ad6 sp3res.dll Update: Version: 5.0.2195.7151 Date: 2008 February 29, Friday, 05:26:00 Size: 6,276,608 bytes MD5: 2ad9fd55b4798ad8964afee0158a8fbe Disk: Version: 5.0.2195.7295 Date: 2010 June 5, Saturday, 14:32:25 Size: 6,350,848 bytes MD5: bf075d9ebe37a2541eb7594ef2769ee9 strmdll.dll Update: Version: 4.1.0.3937 Date: 2008 June 19, Thursday, 06:28:12 Size: 247,326 bytes Disk: Version: 4.1.0.3938 Date: 2009 August 21, Friday, 17:06:52 Size: 247,326 bytes So, my questions are: A. How to get 954600 to apply and show up in "Add/Remove Programs" and qfecheck? B. How to get Belarc to not show the problem with KB952069_WM71. I'm running 6.4 WMP not 7.1 C. Should I manually update the 1 older file? Thanks much in advance for any light you can shed.