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Hey tomasz86, thanks for the SP5 software. I've just managed to use it correctly, and I hope you'll not interpret this as "whining" or not being grateful, but HFSLIP is hard for a novice to use. It's easy and robust once you figure out where the download is, what the software does, and how to run it, but all of that information was hidden from me behind pages and pages of forums postings. There is too much learning required to use your tool, versus the level of learning required to install official Microsoft service packs (just double click). To make your program easier to use, I would do these three things: Update your original post on this thread (which has a high google ranking vs your website) to more obviously point the user in the correct direction for someone who arrived by searching for "Windows 2000 SP5". Either take out the apology for SP5.2 not being completed and history behind the project, or hide them underneath a bolded "Go here for the current best Windows 2000 SP5 Solution" with a link to your website. Users shouldn't have to read so much. I only figured it out after going to the last page in the forum and reading the above mention of the "HFSLIP 2000 full package" and googling that. Let the user know the exact steps necessary to run HFSLIP 2000 Once I found the download link for the HFSLIP 2000 full package, I was confused because there was a "full package" and also a folder of updates. I found the obsolete HFSLIP directions you link to on archive.org, which mention that you have to place the updates in various HF directories. With the HFSLIP 2000 Full Package, this is not necessary; you helpfully bundled only updates applicable to windows 2000 and placed them in the proper directories for us. I didn't realize this fact until after downloading many updates. The documentation must be updated. Let the user know what HFSLIP 2000 actually does I was personally surprised once the program finished that HFSLIP 2000 only created an iso to install Windows 2000 SP5, not actually install it on the system that HFSLIP 2000 is run. Reading that HFSLIP 2000 would also install some updates from Windows XP, I was worried that "maybe this is bad and will make things unstable". But once I read the short descriptions of each update on the main page where you (confusingly, given that the Full Package exists) offer the option to download each individual update one at a time from archive.org hosted microsoft updates, I was put at ease that "these are actually pretty small things and probably do work well with Windows 2000. You should make a summary of all those non-windows-2000 updates and offer "only windows 2000 updates" and "windows xp updates that seem to work fine with windows 2000" as two different packages. Additionally, to expand your website, consider that a user just installing SP5 now would probably be interested in software that supports Windows 2000. Many projects have discontinued support for Windows 2000, and having links to the newest versions of the software that still have Windows 2000 support (can link to archive.org) would be helpful. e.g. Firefox 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.12, notepad++ 6.7.5, jre 6u27, putty 0.61, teamviewer 8, K-Lite Codecs 7.10... go to ninite.com and look for other useful utilities there. Even links to useful software that still support Windows 2000 like 7zip 1801 would be useful, but more difficult to maintain... I would just say "as of $DATE, the latest 7zip found here still works with Windows 2000" for those programs that are still supported. If you want any help implementing any of these changes, reach out to me on discord: Logg#0886. I can help write initial drafts of this documentation for you to revise, and can edit/expand website files.