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If you decide to use update packs then the two choices are good to start with: Onepiece XP Post-SP3 AIO Update Pack or XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack for Windows XP Post-SP3 The first one has everything (system updates, IE8, WMP11, DX, Silverlight, etc.) while the second one contains only system updates.

You can upload it without creating an account to http://www.ge.tt/.

@ Could you use DriverGrabber to grab the installed driver and upload the files?

Of course I was thinking about buying Athlon II X4 631 + FM1 board + DDR3. It would still be a lot (60-70$) cheaper than the slowest i3 2100. PS Athlon 631 is very different from the older X4 630/640 ones. Its performance is similar to A6-3650 but without integrated graphics.

Isn't Athlon II X4 631 a better choice if someone wants an inexpensive upgrade? It's slightly slower in general but costs half as much as the i3 and is better everywhere where all 4 cores are used.

They don't really offer anything special in the lower segment of the market though. If you compare two cheap motherboards (same price) - one from ASUS and one from ASRock then in most cases it'll be much better deal to choose the latter.

@xpclient I wouldn't be so sure about it... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137714/Microsoft_Patching_Windows_2000_infeasible_

Aren't the files included in Windows 7 SP1? If yes then even people who don't own a Win7 copy can easily download them Later edit: Then again, an even better solution is decribed below:

I also think that ASRock is underrated. They've got decent motherboards for very reasonable prices.

Hotfixes are perfectly fine and do help sometimes (like on this machine where I can't use standby without installing one of them). Of course there's always possibility that some hotfixes may be buggy, and the problem is that the only list of updates where hotfixes (HBRs) are included is the bristols' list for Win2k. There's no list of HBRs for XP/2K3. This is an old Gurgelmeyer's opinion on hotfixes: Trust me - I know what I'm doing. I've worked closely with Microsoft PSS for many years in the past, and I think it's fair to say that I know at least as much - if not more - than many of those guys. Don't get me wrong - they do a great job, and they are very nice ppl. But I'm still fixing their bugs. I'm sorry, but I disagree. Check out pubforum.net - this guy applies hundres of hotfixes to dozens of Terminal Servers, and never experienced any problems at all. USP 5 has fixed many BSOD's and other issues on many production servers. There are a few pre-sp4 hotfixes that still apply, but those have been rebuilt, and I'm including the rebuilt versions. (Those are not security updates availble for public download). Best regards, Gurgelmeyer B) Anyway, there seem to exist two up-to-date lists for XP: http://xdot.tk/updates.html (already mentioned) and http://mimo.zxq.net/updatelist.htm

Does the problem happen when you use 16-bit icons too? May you try to set the display mode to 16 bit colours in Desktop Properties while also changing this registry setting: HKCU,"Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics","Shell Icon BPP" from "32" to "16" (reboot is required)?

I've uploaded several new experimental versions of the merged .NET Framework installer. I'll be very thankful for testing the newest one and this time I'd also like to ask for an additional step: - after performing the "standard" testing procedure please go to Windows Update and check if there are any .NET related updates available (there should be none but....). In order to use Windows Update you must have IE6 installed (it won't work in IE5) so you'd better install USP5.1 in advance (IE6 is integrated in it). If WU still doesn't work then you may need to install Windows Update Agent manually before accessing it.

Could you try to install v10b? There was a bug in the v10a installer which prevented the new shell32.dll from being installed. Edit: And please check version of shell32.dll after installing UURollup-v10b.

I hope you didn't install BlackWingCat's kernel after UURollup... If you did then don't even try to uninstlall UURollup first You need to uninstall them chronologically so first BWC kernel, then UURollup, and then you can reinstall the kernel.

Thanks, dencorso I'll try it out as soon as possible. I've prepared an updated/fixed version of the script I posted above: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET SOURCEDIR= SET DESTINATIONDIR= IF EXIST "%DESTINATIONDIR%" ( FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/A-D/B "%SOURCEDIR%"') DO ( IF EXIST "%DESTINATIONDIR%\%%I" ( FOR /F "tokens=5" %%J IN ('FILEVER "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I"') DO IF NOT "%%J"=="-" ( FOR /F "tokens=5" %%J IN ('FILEVER "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I"') DO SET SOURCEVER=%%J FOR /F "tokens=5" %%J IN ('FILEVER "%DESTINATIONDIR%\%%I"') DO SET DESTINATIONVER=%%J FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=." %%I IN ("!SOURCEVER!") DO ( SET SOURCEVER1=%%I SET SOURCEVER2=%%J SET SOURCEVER3=%%K SET SOURCEVER4=%%L ) FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=." %%I IN ("!DESTINATIONVER!") DO ( SET DESTINATIONVER1=%%I SET DESTINATIONVER2=%%J SET DESTINATIONVER3=%%K SET DESTINATIONVER4=%%L ) IF !SOURCEVER! EQU !DESTINATIONVER! ( XCOPY/DY "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL FOR /F %%J IN ('XCOPY/DY "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" ^| FIND "0"') DO IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I DEL/Q "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" ) IF EXIST "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" IF !SOURCEVER1! GTR !DESTINATIONVER1! ( MOVE/Y "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) IF EXIST "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER1! GTR !SOURCEVER1! IF !SOURCEVER2! GTR !DESTINATIONVER2! ( MOVE/Y "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) IF EXIST "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER1! GTR !SOURCEVER1! IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER2! GTR !SOURCEVER2! IF !SOURCEVER3! GTR !DESTINATIONVER3! ( MOVE/Y "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) IF EXIST "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER1! GTR !SOURCEVER1! IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER2! GTR !SOURCEVER2! IF NOT !DESTINATIONVER3! GTR !SOURCEVER3! IF !SOURCEVER4! GTR !DESTINATIONVER4! ( MOVE/Y "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) ) ELSE ( XCOPY/DY "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL FOR /F %%J IN ('XCOPY/DY "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" ^| FIND "0"') DO IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) ) ELSE ( MOVE "%SOURCEDIR%\%%I" "%DESTINATIONDIR%" >NUL IF !ERRORLEVEL! EQU 0 ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) ) ) ELSE ( MD %DESTINATIONDIR% COPY %SOURCEDIR%\*.* %DESTINATIONDIR% >NUL FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/A-D/B %SOURCEDIR%') DO ECHO %SOURCEDIR%\%%I ) PAUSE Be careful because this one actually moves some of the files.

As the .NET Framework 4.0 compatibility and usability is extremely limited I'm considering not integrating it until (?) there is any workaround available. Accordingly, I'm also thinking about using BlackWingCat's kernel instead of the one from WildBill. BlackWingCat's kernel supports more APIs and has been very actively developed. It also allows to have uxtheme.dll present in %systemroot%\system32. The only disadvantage of using it is that .NET Framework 4.0 applications don't run at all (there's an error on startup). On the other hand, with WildBill's kernel they do start but still only very simple ones (like this one) work while others don't work anyway Together with switching to BlackWingCat's kernel32.dll it will also be possible to use some other files depending on it. What do you think about it?

@ This is a quote from my website...

I've just uploaded UURollup-v10b. There was a bug in the installer of v10a.

This is a problem related to .NET 4.0 and Win2k compatiblity It's got nothing to do with the particular application.

I've just released UURollup-v10a. Could you try it and tell me if any of the issues are fixed? Edit: UURollup-v10b has been released.

I've changed my mind and there won't be UURollup-v11 but rather UURollup-v10a. You can find it here. All bugs should be fixed now.

UURollup-v10a is ready. All bugs reported in this topic have been fixed. No other changes have been done. By the way, there's a new security bulletin today and many Win2k compatible updates have been released. I don't plan neither to modify the packages nor to add them to UURollup (as UURollup is final; only bugfixes may be released). If there's anyone willing to repack them for Win2k then feel free to do it I'm going to include them in USP5.2 later.

You can take the HDD out of the notebook, connect it to an another computer and install Win2k on it there. After that you can put it back. Of course it would be the easiest if you used IDE mode. It's a very unrecommended way but in fact works. I've practiced it myself It's the third mainboard I'm using with the same system.

Thank you rulman. There's also a new IE Cumulative Update though, and the one for MDAC installs many more files from QFE.

Does this mean that you can use PAE with all editions of Win2k? What's the highest limit? Is it 8 or 32 GB?