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Ok, I'll answer this myself; I think that yes, they are installed. I can see entries in the registry for what looks like most, or all (~250 - 300) updates, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SPnn\KBnnnnnnn\... and the file version numbers in those entries match the files in e.g. \WINDOWS\system32. So I guess that they just aren't (readily) uninstallable. But that doesn't matter right now. However, it certainly screws up Nirsof's WinUpdatesView.exe, though. That now returns a completely blank page If anyone has further info, I'd be pleased to hear it.

I used nlite 1.4.9.3 (which I have used in the past to slipstream some SATA drivers for a laptop) to include OnePiece's update pack (OnePiece_Windows_XP_Post-SP3_UpdatePack_v1.0.9_FINAL_ENU_7A2AC7C5DD72BB4BC0C18D677A8B8FB1.7z) with my original XPSP3 disk. Nlite happily accepted it and created a bootable iso/disk, telling me that it is larger than the original (i.e. now approx 850MB). That disk boots and installs XP without any problems. However, I cannot see any evidence of the updates actually being present i.e. there is nothing in Add/Remove Programs, and there are no $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxxxx in Windows. Are they actually installed? Or did I make some sort of stupid mistake when creating the iso? TIA

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll look into it. I have seen a lot of references to the BWC project, but I'm not sure what the end result is. Do you finish up with something half-way between W2k and XP?, or does it remain W2k, but able to run later versions of some apps, or .....??? My intent in retaining machines with all versions of Windows on my network (I've got W11, W10, W7, Vista, XP and W2K at the moment) is for showing the grand-kids, and great-grand-kids what it was like "in the old days". I've also got my original DOS and NT4 install media waiting for some hardware to run them. The Windows 3.1.1 disks should be somewhere, too, but I can't see them at the moment.

I decided to give my 20-year-old W2K box a birthday and install SP5.1. Everything is fine until I install Windows2000-UURollup-v11-d20141130-x86-ENU. When I reboot, it gets half-way towards Windows, then dies with an UNHANDLED KERNEL MODE EXCEPTION. To cut a long story short, it doesn't like the Matrox G550 video driver. I've tried 4 or 5 versions, from early W2000 to late XP. I can install my other drivers (audio, and network) without ill effects, and I can boot into safe mode, but any attempt to re-install the video driver immediately kills it. i.e. If I leave the system with the default VGA video and simply install W2KSP4 -> MS04-011 -> SP5.1 -> UURollup, then all is good fair (I have a working, updated SP5.1 system, but I have a crappy display). Alternatively, I can install The Matrox driver at any point, but not install UURollup, and again everything is good fair (I have a great display on a working SP5.1 system, but I don't have any updates). I have two questions: 1. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to attack this problem? 2. Is there any documentation of exactly what is in the UURollup? (Yes, I can see the 350+ files that are in it when I unpack it, but I expect (guess) that they are essentially a bunch of repackaged MS KB's / Updates). It would be nice to know what those KB's / Updates are. The hardware is: Video Matrox Millennium G550 Motherboard Asus A7V266-E (Socket A , VIA KT266A Chipset) CPU Athlon 1600+ Memory 1GB Thanks for reading....

I'm a retired EE, I've been around computers for a shade under 60 years now. I should be out in the garden, but I'd rather sit behind my screens and curse M$.