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If you want to make it work only for USP 5.* then you can just add "IF EXIST HF\w2ksp5*.exe" like this ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF [SetupHotfixesToRun] IF EXIST HF\w2ksp5*.exe IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK\*.exe IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN* DO ( IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN_ EXPAND -R SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN_ >NUL FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%I IN ('DIR/B/ON SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK\*.exe') DO FINDSTR/IL "%%I" SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.INF>>SVCPACK.INF ) I wanted to make it more universal. Actually, HFSLIP completely ignores the already existing svcpack.inf and overwrites it with its own version. Fortunately there are no files in I386\SVCPACK in any of the official service packs so it's not an issue. Only in USP5.1 there's an EXE file there. I think the universal approach is better though because it will work for other unofficial service packs too (I'm sure there will be other SPs in the future), not only for USP 5.1. It has no effect on the official packages so there's really nothing to worry about it

Opera still officially supports Win2k... http://www.opera.com/browser/download/requirements/ (Minimum configuration)

This is an old topic but I just want to say that the script posted in #1 is wrong. You can't just unpack files and remove their packed versions because there are some files that unpack to different filenames, ex. "wic.dl_" will be unpacked to "windowscodecs.dll". To have it done correctly the unpacked version must be renamed to its original name so "windowscodecs.dll" should be renamed (not packed!) to "wic.dl_". This is the script to do it automatically: FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/A-D/B/S i386\*.*_') DO ( MD TEMP EXPAND -R %%I TEMP\ MOVE TEMP\* %%I RD/Q/S TEMP )

I can confirm BlackWingCat's words that there are no problems with the update on a real computer and also no problems in a VirtualBox VM.

I don't think there's any problem. M$ servers are just not 100% reliable. Maybe you should set the script to do a loop until the file is downloaded? I'm thinking about something like this: :WUA ECHO Downloading Windows Update Agent 7.6.7600.243... wget -nc http://download.windowsupdate.com/WindowsUpdate/redist/standalone/7.4.7600.243/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe IF NOT EXIST WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe GOTO :WUA It won't go further until the file is present in the directory.

I'd try uninstalling each of them one by one to find out the faulty one.

It works here on an NTFS partition and I didn't mess around with the 8.3 filename support. Are short names turned off in XP by default??

As we are talking about applications in my opinion this is one of the most useful ones: Taskbar Shuffle As its name says it allows you to change the order of taskbar and tray icons... but this is only one of its features. The other one is the ability to close applications by using middle-click on taskbar. I find it extremely comfortable and couldn't really use Windows without it anymore.

It's good to know that the problem has been solved Before installing UURollup I recommend installing Update Rollup 2 too as it contains some hotfixes (HBRs) which are not included in USP 5.1.

I've never liked Gecko based browsers I find the engine slower than Presto (Opera) and especially Webkit (Chromium). I've also used Opera for many years and find it the most comfortable to use. The problem is that it's not supported on many websites and also itself doesn't handle Flash and Javascript very well (= crashes often). I did try Firefox many times but really wasn't able to adapt. The most annoying are some very basic things like mouse scrolling which is awful compared to Opera. I tried different extensions to adjust it but the effect was even worse then the default one. I'll probably use SRWare Iron as my main browser as soon as all Win2k incompatibilities are fixed (mouse scrolling is similar to Opera too, maybe even better ). Yes, I know the topic is about XP In XP there should be no problems with SRWare Iron and other Chromium based browsers. It's also true that Chromium is a resource hog but I'd still choose it because of speed and stability (but I do have 8 GB RAM here...). The only thing that I really HATE about it is that extensions don't work in all browser windows, ex. mouse gestures won't work in the configuration page or on a speed dial page, etc. It's really annoying but nothing is ideal. I just use keyboard shortcuts more often which work everywhere. Another problem with Opera is that it lacks many useful extensions due to its low popularity (only ~2%).

You can safely install USP 5.1 over UURollup. After installing USP 5.1 you may also want to install Update Rollup 2 and UURollup-v10 (ENU). If the problem persists even after doing so then please run from commandline: tasklist.exe>tasklist.txt and post the result here. Maybe there's something running in background and blocking your desktop icons. You asked about the repair installation. I don't really recommend using it, especially after you've installed unofficial updates so I really hope the problem can be solved without having to do it. Does the problem occur on other user accounts too? How about checking RevoUninstaller? Does it list all installed programs?

By the way, the new Opera 12.00 is extremely unstable. It doesn't crash as often as the older versions... but freezes all the time, even on the speed dial screen with no pages opened I installed it and after 10 minutes restored v11.64.

You were right about the log-in problem. I've just tested it in a Korean version of Win2k where I forcibly installed your JPN kernel and after that I could log-in into a Google Account from SRWare Iron. Unfortunately it didn't have any effect on the problem described above (#155) The browser still freezed and I don't know if it's a Windows 2000 issue or if there's a problem in the MSFN forum's Messenger.

The Add/Remove programs is dependent on IE. It if doesn't work then maybe something got broken in IE. Supposing that there is IE6 present in your system I'd try to either reinstall IE6 SP1 or install USP 5.1 (IE6 is included in it). Both ways should restore IE6 to the original state. By the way, is Active Desktop switched off?

Just one note - the instructions about packing to SFXCAB posted by WildBill originally come from this topic: By the way, it's a very nice script but I think you forgot to enable "@ECHO OFF" and: and the URL for pcopy02.zip seems to be (temporary?) dead. I found this alternative one: http://geezer.osdevbrasil.net/johnfine/pcopy02.zip

Right I think in your case in order to avoid problems you should install these files: 1. Install Unofficial SP 5.1. 2. Install MDAC 2.8 SP1, WMP9 and DirectX 9.0c. 3. Run Windows Update and install everything from there. 4. Install all UNofficial updates for MDAC 2.8 SP1, WMP, DX9 (there's only one available) and IE/OE 6. Remember to choose ONLY unofficial updates. 5. Install Update Rollup 2. 6. Install UURollup-v10 (you don't need to uninstall the previous version). 7. Install all unofficial updates from here (only those for which ENU/Global version exist) and here (except 2659262 which is already included in UURollup so there are only two files to install). 8. Install all .NET Framework addons listed here (using the "manual installation" method). That should be it. It's not perfect but in your case it's probably the easiest way. It doesn't matter that you've installed a few updates already. You don't even need to uninstall anything but rather you can just go on and install the packages I listed above over the already installed ones.

Thanks for a quick answer. I wonder if this problem is also caused by kernel incompatibilities... I'm looking forward to try the English version of v16 kernel.

BlackWingCat, Can you log in in Chrome / SRWare Iron using a Google account? The browser crashes when trying to do so: 1. 2.

There seems to be a problem in Messenger or the browser but each time I click on the "delete" button the browser (tab) freezes. I've tried with different versions (SRWare Iron 19, Google Chrome 20) but it's always the same. After waiting for some time there's a message about a frozen tab and I can reload it then but the problem is repeated if I try to click on the "delete" button again. On the other hand no problems occur in other browsers (Firefox, Opera). Has anyone got any idea how it can be fixed?

I know for sure that the time zones batch script and cab were removed from the 2K Updates List as soon as I prepared an unofficial time zones update. They were required for 2K because there was no official time zones update released. It's different in case of XP (time zones updates are still released) so I don't know what the reason for using the script was.

Maybe those hotfixes were related to system components available only in Server 2003 x64 and not in XP x64? It's probably the same thing as hotfixes only for Windows 2000 Server or only for Windows 2000 Advanced/Datacenter Server, etc.

Keyboard layouts are absolutely necessary if want to type in several languages using different alphabets, etc. They are NOT useless

There is a bug in HFSLIP. If you use HFSLIP to slipstream USP5 or if you use HFSLIP to process a source with USP5 integrated then (until HFSLIP is fixed) you must add this line to "SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.INF" after using HFSLIP: SETUPUSP.EXE /Q /N /Z

Mimo, There's a bug in HFSLIP related to slipstreaming of USP5 into Windows 2000 source. There's an *.exe file in the USP's "svcpack" folder which should be added to "svcpack.inf" but HFSLIP ignores it. I've prepared a solution. Before: ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF [SetupHotfixesToRun] IF EXIST HFSVCPACK\*.exe ( IF EXIST WORK\HFSLIPCMDP1.TXT ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF HFSLIP.CMD FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%I IN ('DIR/B/ON HFSVCPACK\*.exe') DO ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF %%I ) After: ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF [SetupHotfixesToRun] IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK\*.exe IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN* DO ( IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN_ EXPAND -R SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.IN_ >NUL FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%I IN ('DIR/B/ON SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK\*.exe') DO FINDSTR/IL "%%I" SOURCESS\I386\SVCPACK.INF>>SVCPACK.INF ) IF EXIST HFSVCPACK\*.exe ( IF EXIST WORK\HFSLIPCMDP1.TXT ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF HFSLIP.CMD FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%I IN ('DIR/B/ON HFSVCPACK\*.exe') DO ECHO>>SVCPACK.INF %%I ) Could you add the additional lines to the script? At the moment HFSLIP must not be used with USP5. I think they are useless if you integrate the newest time zones update.

Thank you. Actually, it's just the beginning. I hope to add more things later like a very detailed guide about making SFXCAB archives and many others. Please let me know if there are any errors or if there's anything missing, etc.