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I've deleted the test message on Firefox. I'll see if it is the case in Google Chrome. I'm wondering what's causing the tab to get frozen and causes the extensions to stop working here. Update: I deleted the mail messages via Yahoo! Mail on Google Chrome, but the browser nor the tab doesn't freeze. Instead, you can click on the URL links without having to refresh the page or open a new tab.

I have a problem here. Currently I have already updated to the latest weekly version of UURollup v11 (2012-11-04) and when I try to access websites that require Microsoft Silverlight, the plugin itself crashes. Here's the screenshot of what it looks like: http://twitpic.com/bcqccj/full The same situation happens under Google Chrome and it even crashes the Opera browser. Other plugins work fine. Microsoft Silverlight can be found in the "\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight" directory and the current version that I'm using is version 4.1.10329.0. Is there a way to investigate what could be causing this issue and fix it? Thanks.

It does work now. I can access the Google website just fine.

I'm using Google Chrome 23. All I had to do was: 1. Open up the Chrome2K utility (CHROME2K.EXE). 2. Checkbox select Manual and point to \Chrome\23.0.1271.64\ 3. Click on the Detect Caution Resource button which will display the drop down box as 11543 Auto. 4. Click on the Disable Caution DlgBox to disable the OS check. By doing that, this creates the chrome.dll.bak file which contains the backup file of the chrome.dll. 5. Start Google Chrome as usual. This will have to be done for future versions of Google Chrome.

Okay, I patched the main chrome.dll file, disabled the warning and had to reboot in order for the changes to take effect. After the reboot, the Google Chrome browser works, but it doesn't seem to work correctly. Upon launching the Google Chrome browser, the browser itself gets stuck attempting to load the main page (google.com) and when I press the X button, I get this: http://twitpic.com/bcfevi/full I followed instructions in the video, but I must of done something to make Google Chrome not work correctly upon reboot. Is there a way to fix this? I would like to provide more clearer instructions on how to get Google Chrome working properly on Win2k.

Welcome aboard! There have been numerous topics on how to get Windows 2000 installed as a dual-boot option on your laptop. What are the specs of your Asus laptop? Windows 2000 is a 32-bit OS that will operate with at least 32 MB of memory and will be capable of recognising up to 4 GB of memory with anywhere between 3.25 GB to 3.63 GB usage to the OS with the remaining part of the RAM for a graphics card.. If you try to run Windows 2000 with more than that limit, the first 3.25 GB to 3.63 GB of memory would remain usage to the OS and the rest will probably be made as RAM disk.

I don't think that there are any major bugs here as far as I know. I want to point out a couple of notes here. 1. At startup, it says, "Microsoft Windows 2000 - built on NT technology", but below it says, "Built with Extended Kernel". Brilliant! 2. Opera 12.10 does now work with Windows 2000 with the latest weekly update to UURollup v11 (2012-11-04 release). 3. I can run Google Chrome 23 on Windows 2000. However, I'm greeted with a OS check warning that "Google Chrome requires Windows XP (SP2) or later. Some of the features may not work." - I'm running a portable installation of Google Chrome 23 by extracting the setup file and extracting the contents of the Chrome.7z file to the hard drive and I'm wondering if using either KDW or the Resource Hacker is a good idea to remove the OS check. 4. In the Command Prompt, it says "Microsoft Windows XP [5.0.2195]". I was wondering if it can be fixed to read "Microsoft Windows 2000 [5.0.2195]" via hex-editing, because Windows XP has the version build of 5.1.2600 and Windows 2000 has 5.0.2195. 5. The Windows Task Manager has changed. The memory usage graph is now reported in megabytes and gigabytes (up to 4 GB) instead of kilobytes. There is one bug where the Username shows up blank between the Image Name and CPU tab.

Thank you for linking us to the update of UURollup v11. I was wondering if there is going to be a final version of UURollup v11 soon as people have been reporting that there are still some bugs in UURollup v11.

By the way, there are actually several less known browsers which do support Win2k (even without the unofficial kernel), ex. QupZilla. Thank you for telling me. I'll have a look at the thread in question. Qupzilla is complied with Visual Studio 2008, incase you didn't know.

Sorry to revive this thread again, but it looks like that Opera is the last browser to pull the plug on Win2k in Opera 12.10 (and not Opera 12.50 as previously mentioned). It no longer works at all. The reason is that opera.dll calls GetGeoInfoW and GetUserGeoID do not exist in Kernel32.dll even with UURollup v10c installed. These dependencies are only present on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later. However, without UURollup, the entry point GetAdaptersAdresses does not exist in IPHLPAPI.DLL. If there are any workarounds to fix this either with KernelEx or with the UURollup, let me know.

Well, if I use the Command Prompt to change the attributes for C:\pagefile.sys to Hidden (attrib +h c:\pagefile.sys), I end up getting the following error message: Unable to change attribute - C:\pagefile.sys This is often because the pagefile is locked while Windows NT 3.x/4.0 is running.

For those who are playing around with Windows NT 3.51 or Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation and Server), pagefile.sys sits on the root directory of drive C (or drive D) and by default there is no way how to hide pagefile.sys and if the you set the attributes to hidden, the pagefile.sys will get unhidden at reboot. But I provided a workaround on how to hide pagefile.sys. Here's how: 1. Under Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation and Server), create a new directory called \SWAP. 2. Using File Manager or Windows NT Explorer, set the attributes of the \SWAP directory to hidden. 3. Click on the Start menu and click on Run. 4. In the Run dialog box command line, type REGEDIT to invoke the Registry Editor and locate the following keys: 5. Double click on the following key to edit the keys mentioned above. When that happens, this will bring up the Edit Binary Value dialogue box where it contains the two hexadecimal values which resembles ANSI characters and the Data field. 6. In the Data field, you will need to change the path of the pagefile to reflect this change: In Windows NT 3.51 (Workstation and Server), the procedure to hide pagefile.sys is slightly different from Windows NT 4.0. Here's how to hide the pagefile: 1. Create a new directory called \SWAP. 2. Using File Manager, set the attributes of the \SWAP directory to hidden. 3. In Program Manager, go to File and select Run. 4. In the Run dialog box command line, type in REGEDT32 to invoke the Registry Editor. 5. Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine window and locate the following keys: 6. Double click on the following key to edit the keys mentioned above. When that happens, this will bring up the Multi-String Editor dialogue box. 7. In the Data field, change the directory of where the pagefile.sys will reside: (Optionally, you can set the minimum and maximum file size values (in megabytes). The limit on the size of the registry has a effect on the maximum pagefile size. The maximum value allowed is 4,095.) More information on changing the location of the pagefile: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912851.aspx The pagefile.sys is hidden by default in Windows 2000 and up. If you have any more information as well as workarounds to hiding pagefile.sys, please let me know. Update: I had to change the font size to 12 pixels to make the reading of the text in the workaround instructions more readable.

That's correct. I updated the forum thread as well as the link mentioning the correct KB article for .NET Framework Service Pack 1. That is so absolutely right! By the way, I already manually downloaded the files as seen on the Windows Update website and placed it in a directory on drive D called \Win2KUpdates. The directory has two main-subdirectories, \Prequists and \Windows Update. The \Prequists sub-directory are the files that are need in order for Windows Update to at least work, including applying Service Pack 4 and Update Rollup 1 v2, Internet Explorer 6 SP1, the modified Windows Update Agent and the Windows Update Component Upgrades. The \Windows Update sub-directory consists of two more directories, \High Priority and \Optional. The \High Priority sub-directory inside \Windows Update has all of the historic security updates for components of Windows 2000. The \Optional sub-directory inside Windows Update has a list of updates that are available for Windows 2000 when it was supported years ago. I left the \Hardware sub-directory inside \Windows Update blank as I don't think that there are any hardware updates for the product itself. I'm gonna try to provide more information on how the directories will look like. And if I get the time, I'll try to burn them in a ISO image to see if it as it will fit as a CD-ROM. I also believe that there needs to be a script to manually apply the updates via a batch file. I cannot test it on the host machine as it will screw up the two year old Win2k installation, but I can try to run it on a test Win2k install. The size of the temporary directory is 677 MB and it has 292 updated files in 52 folders.

Thank you so much for compliment. I appreciate it. This forum only mentions installing Windows 2000 Professional from CD-ROM and applies updates afterwords. I'm gonna be doing some more tests of installation of Win2k from MS-DOS as well as from previous versions of Windows (Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium). It is technically possible to install Windows 2000 on the Toshiba Tecra 720 CDT, assuming that the size of the hard disk is large enough. However, the consequences are that the Windows 2000 will require at least 650 MB of free disk space, 32 MB of system memory and laptop will end up getting slow, pretty fast after installing updates and software on the laptop. It is not possible to boot from CD-ROM, because the Tecra 720 CDT has no implemented mechanism to boot from it. This is because, the Tecra 720 CDT is an older unit that was introduced in mid-1996 by Toshiba and at the time the unit was produced, booting from CD-ROM was not possible. It wasn't until at least 1998 or so that booting from CD-ROM started with later Tecra models. Instead, you have either use a previous version of Windows by executing WINNT32.EXE or boot from MS-DOS and execute WINNT.EXE /B for a floppiless installation. WINNT.EXE and WINNT32.EXE can be found in the \I386 directory of the Windows 2000 CD. You will also need to get the largest hard drive possible that will work properly with the Tecra 720 CDT. An 8.1 GB ATA/33 hard drive is recommended and that will be the largest drive that will work with the unit. The Tecra 720 CDT BIOS does not properly support hard disks over 7.8 GB (16383/16/63), because hard disks that were larger than 7.8 GB were not available at the time when the unit was produced. The laptop as a example has a 133 MHz Pentium processor with 16 MB of memory standard (soldered to the motherboard) and it can be upgraded to a maximum of 144 MB, using a 128 MB EDO memory module with 2 MB of video RAM. I forget to mention in this thread that the official KB numbers are KB867460 for .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe). There is no KB number for .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2. I agree. The earliest known Windows Update is an high priority update for Windows Media Player 6.4 (datestamp 2004-01-09). As for installing unofficial updates after applying all of the available updates for Windows 2000, you should be careful how the updates are applied. The one thing is that after a couple of months after I applied UURollup v10c, I was very lucky to only apply .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on the host machine, for which I eventually forgot to do. There are chances that some of the critical files that were applied from UURollup will end up being overwritten with official files from the updates that came from the Windows Update website and the risk are that serious problems with Windows 2000 may occur thus prompting a re-installation of the OS from scratch. All of the updates that I downloaded have preserved the original timestamp. The reason is that I've used Firefox, with an extension called "Preserve Download Modification Timestamp 2011.03.21.22". An extension that preserved the modification timestamp that is sent by the server for downloaded files.

Wow! With the archive almost complete, you're doing a lot of hard work on preserving the updates if Microsoft decides to remove the obsolete downloads for Win2k in the future. Most of the updates that are from Microsoft already have the original datestamp.,while other FTP don't have the original datestamp. However, users who want to know when the file of the update was published on the Microsoft Downloads Center can look at the Digital Signature (by right clicking the mouse towards Properties and selecting Digital Signatures tab) to determine the name of the signer and the original datestamp (date and time) of the publishing of the update file. It would also be a good idea to start collecting links to updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as well.

Thank you so much for the heads up.

Thank you so much for sharing this! While the files that you provided to install IE6 in Win2k are newer, I pointed out the site where you can still get the full version of Internet Explorer, where it doesn't contain the updated files inside the IECIF.CAB, IEW2K_1.CAB, IEW2K_4.CAB and VGX.CAB files. The updates were later applied after onwards. As for the purpose of WinZip and 7-Zip, WinZip is a shareware programme designed to open Zip files while 7-zip is a open-sourced programmed designed not only to open files, but extract them to a appropriate directory. For this reason, I should have used only 7-zip and not WinZip in the first place. But that's why I mentioned them in this thread. On a bit of a off-topic note, after I installed the Visual C++ 2005 and Visual C++ 2008 redistributable packages, I found these last two high priority updates on the Windows Update website: 1. Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB973923) 2. Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (KB973924)Total download size: 1.4 MB Now would be a great time to burn these updates onto a CD/ISO image incase, Microsoft takes down the Windows Update v6 website.

I understand how you feel there. In a response to this thread, I posted a lengthy guile for anyone who wants to install and update Win2k. It's been a long day of having to get everything working right right. I'm gonna be heading for bed soon. It's getting late.

Okay, in a response to my forum thread, "Windows Update on Windows 2000", I have decided to provide a good guide on how to properly install and update Windows 2000. Be warned that this guide on how to install and update Windows 2000 is lengthy and not a easy thing to do. On 4 June 2012, Microsoft updated the Windows Update Agent to version 7.6.7600.256, which is a out-of-band update to deal with the Flame virus that has hijacked and even infected even secure PCs by tricking them into believing its malicious payload is actually an update from Microsoft. And as such, Microsoft implemented a hardened Windows Update infrastructure so that the Windows Update client will only trust files signed by a new certificate that is used solely to protect update to the Windows Update client and by strengthening the communication channel that is used by Windows Update client to protect it in a similar way. However, the latest version of the Windows Update Agent resulted in the error code of 0x800B0109, thus breaking Windows 2000 compatibility. And by default, as Windows Update does not work properly with Windows 2000, users no longer have any method of installing updates directly from the Windows Update website. This is not a limitation for existing installations of Windows 2000 made before 4 June 2012, because the product is no longer supported and as such, no further updates are being produced. However, this is a serious and crippling limitation for anyone re-installing Windows 2000 on or after 4 June 2012. So...to get around this, here are the complete instructions that are required to install and update Windows 2000: A. INSTALLATION PROCEDURES --------------------------------------- 1. Partition, format your hard disk and install Windows 2000 from CD-ROM. Depending on the speed of your computer and hard disk, it should take at least 30 minutes to get the operating system installed. 2. If you use the Windows 2000 with a service pack below Service Pack 4 (such as the original release), you will need to apply Service Pack 4: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4127 (file name: W2KSP4_EN.EXE: 129 MB) (NOTE: If you already have installed Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 integrated, skip this step.) 3. Apply the appropriate drivers for your motherboard that is compatible with Windows 2000. This includes Windows 2000 compatible drivers for video, sound card, chipset, networking, etc. B. COMPONENTS REQUIRED TO ACCESS WINDOWS UPDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Download the full version of the Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 installer: here or here. The file name is ie60sp1.exe has a datestamp of 2002-08-29 and the size of the file is approximately 77.6 MB. Internet Explorer 6 is included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The browser can be installed on Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a (with 128-bit high encryption), Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition and Windows 2000. 5. The latest version of the Windows Update Agent (datestamp 2012-06-04 18:43) will not work correctly with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 (or even Windows XP/Windows Server 2003). If you go to the Windows Update website and see a dialogue box asking you to install the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher, you need to select No and close Internet Explorer. If you select Yes, then Windows Update will not work correctly and will most likely cause Internet Explorer 6 to crash and according to submix8c, you will most likely have to re-start the Windows 2000 installation from scratch all over again. To work around this, you will need to do the following: 1. Download and install Update Rollup 1 version 2 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (KB891861): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18997 (file name: Windows2000-KB891861-v2-x86-ENU.EXE, download size: 31.2 MB) After you install Update Rollup 1 v2, you need to restart the computer. By installing Update Rollup 1 v2, this will stop Windows Update from crashing Internet Explorer 6 even if the browser is no longer officially supported. 2. Download WinZip. I recommend downloading WinZip version 8.1 SR-1 (datestamp: 2003-02-11 08:10:00; filesize: 1.81 MB): ftp://ftp.odot.state.or.us/PONTIS/PONTIS4.4.3/Unsupported/winzip81.exe 3. After installing WinZip, you will need to download and install 7-Zip. Using 7-zip will be needed to extract the contents of the Windows 2000 Root Certificate Update executable. 4. Download the Windows Update Agent v256 (WUAv256.zip) and extract it to an appropriate directory of your choice. I recommend extracting the file, WUAv256.cmd to the \WUA directory. 5. Download the 7-Zip Command Line executable (7za.exe) and extract it to the \WUA directory. 6. Download wGet 1.11.4 and place it in the \WUA directory as well. 7. Execute WUAv256.cmd. This will download CABARC.EXE, PARTCOPY and XVI32.EXE as well as download Windows Update Agent 7.6.7600.243 (WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe). The installer will extract the contents of the WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe file to the \WUCAB sub-directory for which the files will get hex-edited and the \WUCAB sub-directory deleted upon completion. When the batch-running installation of the Windows Update Agent is complete, rename the file WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe to WUA.EXE to install Windows Update Agent 7.6.7600.243. When it is complete, you can delete the \WUA directory. 8. Download and extract the contents of the Windows 2000 Root Certificate Update in a temporary directory. Install the rootsupd.inf file by right-clicking on Install in Windows Explorer. 9. When all of the producers to get Windows Update in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 working, you can now click on the Internet Explorer icon and go to the Windows Update website. Upon accessing the Windows Update website, you will be greeted once again with a Security Warning asking you whatever you want to install and run "Windows Update" signed on 2012-06-04 18:13 and distributed by Microsoft Windows Component Publisher. Click on the checkbox, "Always trust content from Microsoft Windows Component Publisher" and select Yes. If Windows Update continues to operate after allowing Windows Update to install the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher publisher, the pre-Windows Update installation instructions were performed successfully. If Windows Update fails to operate correctly, then (1) remove the WUWebControl Class from the Downloaded Program Files dialogue in Internet > Settings in the Control Panel, (2) remove WUWEB.DLL found in \WINNT (or WINDOWS)\SYSTEM32 directory and (3) re-apply the Windows Update agent in step 7. C. UPDATING WINDOWS 2000 COMPONENTS ------------------------------------------------------ 9. Now that you can access Windows Update under Windows 2000 once again, Windows Update will be required to perform a software upgrade for some of the Windows components. To perform this procedure, click on Download and Install Now to continue. By doing that Windows Update downloads and installs the following: 1. Windows 2000 Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773):http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19949 (file name: Windows2000-KB842773-x86-ENU.EXE; download size: 695 KB)2. Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25(file name: WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe; download size: 2.5 MB)After the software upgrade of the components that I listed above are completed you will need to restart the computer.6. You can opt in and proceed to upgrade to Microsoft Update where you will receive a list of updates for Windows and other components of the operating system. It won't be that big of a deal since Microsoft uses ActiveX to scan the system for software updates. After updating to Microsoft Update has been completed, on the update page, you will need to select the Custom button where it will give you a list of all of the old updates that are available after you performed the pre-Windows Update procedures. When downloading and installation of a update has been completed (and at some cases, the computer has been restarted), you will need to repeat this procedure until downloading of all of the updates have completed. 7. Now that you have accessed Microsoft Update, you will need to install all of the high priority updates first. Here's a huge list of old updates found in Microsoft Update: 1. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB979309)2. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB978601)3. Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB982381)4. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB977816)5. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB980218)6. Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows 2000 (KB980195)7. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB979482)8. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB979559)9. Security Update for Outlook Express 6.0 for Windows 2000 (KB978542)10. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB980232)11. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB981350)12. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB979683)13. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB978037)14. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB977914)15. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB975560)16. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB978706)17. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB971468)18. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB972270)19. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB951748)20. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB974318)21. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB974392)22. Update for Windows 2000 (KB955759)23. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB973904)24. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB971961)25. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB974112)26. Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 2000 (KB958869)27. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB969059)28. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB974571)29. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB956844)30. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB973869)31. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB958470)32. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB973507)33. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB960859)34. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB961501)35. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB970238)36. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB952004)37. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB960803)38. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB959426)39. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB923561)40. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB960225)41. Update for Windows 2000 (KB967715)42. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB954600)43. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB956802)44. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB955069)45. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB957097)46. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB958644)47. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB950974)48. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB952954)49. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB944338)50. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB950749)51. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB896423)52. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB943055)53. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB943485)54. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB937894)55. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB923810)56. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB938827)57. Security Update for Windows Media Player 6.4 (KB925398)58. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB926122)59. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB935839)60. Update for Windows 2000 (KB927891)61. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB920213)62. Security Update for Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5 Service Pack 3 (KB927779)63. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB925902)64. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB928843)65. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB924667)66. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB918118)67. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB926436)68. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB923980)69. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB924270)70. Update for Windows 2000 (KB922582)71. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB923191)72. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB917008)73. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB920670)74. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB920683)75. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB921398)76. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB914388)77. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB913580)78. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB908531)79. Security Update for Windows Media Player Plug-in (KB911564)80. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB900725)81. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB905749)82. Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 for Windows 2000 (KB905495)83. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB896422)84. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB896358)85. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB905414)86. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB899589)87. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB901017)88. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB893756)89. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB899587)90. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB901214)Total download size: 61.4 MB8. Reboot after applying the high-priority updates. After that, check to make sure that there are still any high priority updates left, the next time you visit Windows Update. If not, proceed to installing the optional software components. 9. Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 (download size: 23.1 MB). .NET Framework v1.1 has one high-priority update, .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (KB867460) (filename: NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-X86.exe; download size: 10.2 MB). After installing the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 SP1 update, another reboot is required. After rebooting, go to the Windows Update again and download these two high-priority updates: 1. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 Security Update for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (KB979906)2. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB971108)Total download size: 20.2 MBInstall the updates above. No reboot is required. 10. Next, download and install Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 (download size: 22.4 MB). Rebooting is not required. When you access the high-priority updates again, you see the following: 1. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) (KB110806)2. Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (KB947746)Total download size: 26.8 MBApply the security update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (download size: 3.2 MB) before applying SP1 (download size: 23.6 MB). After that, apply Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, download and install the following updates: 3. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB971110)4. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (KB953300)Total download size: 6.5 MBAfter you apply the high-priority updates, you will need to apply .NET Framework v2.0 Service Pack 2. While Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 SP2 isn't officially available for Windows 2000, it will work. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1639 (file name: NetFx20SP2_x86.exe; download size: 23.8 MB) And after applying .NET Framework version 2.0 SP2, you will need to apply the high-priority updates: 5. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework SP2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB979909)6. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (KB974417)Total download size: 11.7 MB11. Install the rest of the optional components, including the following: 1. Microsoft Base Smart Card Cryptographic Service Provider Package: x86 (KB909520)2. Root Certificates UpdateTotal download size: 860 KB12. Now after that is all done, you will need to download the following two updates that must be installed separately: 1. DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime2. Windows Media Player 9 SeriesFirst of all, the DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 family common components is a 308 KB download and depending on the speed of your internet connection it will take a average of from 4 minutes up to a hour to download DirectX 9.0c onto the hard drive.After the download and installation of DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime is complete the computer must be restarted. And once DirectX 9.0c has been installed, it cannot be removed. After the computer is restarted, Windows Update will show two high-priority updates for DirectX 9.0c: 3. Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB975562)4. Security Update for DirectX 9 for Windows 2000 (KB975560)Total download size: 1.9 MBAfter the security updates have been applied, you will need to download the offline DirectX 9.0c February 2010 End-User Redistributable and extract the contents to a directory of your choice on your hard drive: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9033 (file name: directx_feb2010_redist.exe: 104 MB) After the DirectX 9.0c February 2010 End-User Redistributable has been installed, you will need to restart your computer. 13. Lastly, download the Windows Media Player 9 Series media player. The size of the download is 13.3 MB. After downloading Windows Media Player 9, you will need to get it configured prior to using it. When that's done, there will be the last eight remaining high-priority updates as follows: 1. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB977816)2. Security Update for Windows Media Player 9 for Windows 2000 (KB979402)3. Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9 for Windows 2000 (KB954155)4. Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9 for Windows 2000 (KB968816)5. Security Update for Windows Media Player 9 for Windows 2000 (KB973540)6. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB952069)7. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB941569)8. Critical Update for Windows Media Player Script Commands (KB828026)Total download size: 15.8 MBTotal number of inital updates applied: 118 Total download size of all updates found on Microsoft Update: 189.8 MB D. POST WINDOWS UPDATE NOTES ------------------------------------------- After the installation of all of the base updates have been completed, you will need to remove the uninstallation updates which were made. They can be found either in the \WINNT (or \WINDOWS) directory. Use your right mouse button and delete the hidden directories that contain the $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxx$ where it refers to a update that was applied to Windows 2000. By getting rid of the uninstallation files, 206 folders will be removed and up to 343 MB will be freed. The initial size of the Windows 2000 directory after the updates have been applied will top out at 1.37 GB. On hard disk drive that has 10 GB or less, that is quite a lot. You will also need to consider installing other components, including runtime libraries for Visual Basic 1 through 6, Visual Studio 6, 7, 7.1, 2005 and 2008 as well as other libraries as the software that you install requires them. After running into numerous problems, all of the updates that were available for Windows 2000 were performed in Microsoft Virtual PC with 256 MB of physical memory allocated. Believe me, installing and updating Windows 2000 either on a real PC or in a virtual machine can take hours and it is a lot of hard work to get everything working right. I hope that the instructions are useful enough for anyone who wants to re-install and update Windows 2000. Please consider downloading and saving the updates and burn them on to a CD or ISO image incase Microsoft ever decides to de-commission the Windows Update website in the near future. I'm so terribly sorry that this is such a long forum thread, I would like to thank tomasz86 and submix8c for helping me on how to get Windows 2000 to access Windows Update again. I don't know how much longer that the Windows Update website will remain up, but without your help, updating Windows 2000 would have been an impossible thing to do. If you have any questions regarding this guide on how to install and update Windows 2000, please let me know and I will get back to you! Coming soon, I will provide a guide for installing and updating Windows NT 4.0.

Thanks so much for the help! I will provide a length guide on how to apply updates to Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 in separate forum threads for complete details!

submix8c, I just done a re-installation of Windows 2000 w/SP4 integrated, installed Internet Explorer 6 SP1, applied the BAT-generated Windows Update agent. When I was done, I applied the Windows 2000 Root Certificate Update. And then after that, when I accessed Windows Update again, I got this message: http://twitpic.com/b9g0cr/full If I waited or if I declined the offer, I get this error: If I checkboxed "Always trust content from Microsoft Windows Component Publisher" and selected yes, Internet Explorer 6 would crash again. It looks like that I'm stuck here. I was wondering if installing a older version of Windows Update Agent would help, but no. Microsoft is always forcing the latest version of the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher down our throats lately. Update: What fixed the issue is that I had to install Update Rollup 1 v2 for Service Pack 4 prior to installing the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher when accessing Windows Update. After that, I needed to install the software upgrade for the Windows software components: http://twitpic.com/b9gkfi When that was done, I could finally access the list of the updates that were previously been made available to Windows 2000. After Windows Update scanned the list of updates, there were 90 high priority updates and 6 optional software updates. I'm sorry that I got into this message here, but after I get all of the updates installed, I'll try to provide clearer instructions on how to install updates to Windows 2000 despite the fact that it has not been officially supported by Microsoft in almost 2½ years.

Yes, that is right. I did download Update Rollup 1 v2 for for Service Pack 4 and Windows Update Agent v2.0 to see if this will fix the problem. The good news is that the crash in IE6 was gone, but it didn't fix other problems. I was greeted with the splash screen offering me Microsoft Update as well as Express and Custom Updates. Clicking either of these options resulted in this error: I did followed all of the procedure above, but it didn't even work. The user data persistence in Internet Explorer is already enabled and I'm still getting this error message. What should I do to fix this problem?

The script does work 100% correctly, but it had no effect on fixing the IE6 crash when accessing the Windows Update website. Apparently, Microsoft forced the latest version of the Windows Update Agent (with wuweb.dll version 7.6.7600.257) that caused IE6 to crash and I can't find a way to get rid of it. I'm wondering if anyone here ran into problems accessing Windows Update after doing a fresh install of Windows 2000 in a VM?

Thanks for the help. Okay, I placed 7za.exe and wget.exe in the \WUA directory and executed WUAv256.cmd which brings up the Command Prompt and it did the following: 1. Downloaded CABARC.EXE, PARTCOPY.EXE and XVI32.EXE. 2. Download and extracted Windows Update Agent 7.6.7600.243. 3. Extracted the contents of the Windows Update Agent to the \WUCAB sub-directory. When the downloading and the extracting was done, the \WUCAB sub-directory got deleted. It turns out that the Windows Update Agent didn't to anything to resolve the Windows Update causing IE to crash. I'm sorry I'm failing providing enough information, but I need some more clear instructions on how to get the Windows Update Agent to work properly under Win2k again.

If you had the chance to do a fresh re-installation of Windows 2000, here's the story. I did a clean installation of Windows 2000 under Virtual PC 2004, applied Service Pack 4 and installed Internet Explorer 6 SP1. The problem is that when I attempted to access v6 of the Windows Update website, it attempts to download an updated version of the Windows Update Agent 7.6.7600.256. When this happens, Windows Update causes IE6 to crash: http://twitpic.com/b97jqq/full Here's the following error information regarding the crash: Technical information about the error is as follows: Here's a snippet on why installing Windows Update failed: Is there any way to get around this without having Windows Update force an update of the wuweb.dll file?