This might be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone still has the hotfix files linked at https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/

I'm specifically looking for the symbols, which are usually packed inside the self-extractor programs. I noticed @tomasz86 linked to these directly (named ######_LOCALE_i386_zip.exe), instead of just the SFXCAB update files (named Windows2000-KB######-x86-LOCALE) used by security updates.

If anyone happens to have these files around, please let me know! I downloaded what's available from archive.org already and would like to expand this collection with whichever of these files have survived this long.

If they're not available on the Wayback Machine, I believe all of them should still be at https://twilczynski.com/windows/archive . The Wayback Machine is safer, because you're essentially downloading files that were archived directly from Microsoft, while if you use the Archive, you have to trust myself (instead of the whole Internet Archive team). I'd still suggest to make sure that hashes match the original files from Microsoft (as long as the hashes can still be found somewhere…). In retrospect, I should've added the hashes to each update information on my site when they were still available, but it's too late now.

9 hours ago, tomasz86 said:

If they're not available on the Wayback Machine, I believe all of them should still be at https://twilczynski.com/windows/archive . The Wayback Machine is safer, because you're essentially downloading files that were archived directly from Microsoft, while if you use the Archive, you have to trust myself (instead of the whole Internet Archive team). I'd still suggest to make sure that hashes match the original files from Microsoft (as long as the hashes can still be found somewhere…). In retrospect, I should've added the hashes to each update information on my site when they were still available, but it's too late now.

Nice to see you're still around checking MSFN! I had no idea you would see this so quickly XD

I see the updates themselves hosted on MEGA, but I'm specifically wondering if you have the symbols corresponding to them around.

Here's an example of what I mean:

 

I'm still around, just not very active . I do get email notifications when mentioned on the forum.

Unfortunately, if the Wayback Machine hasn't got them in their storage, those symbol files may likely be gone forever. Unless there is some other archive service that has saved them…

Edited March 10, 20251 yr by tomasz86

On 3/9/2025 at 7:09 AM, Ximonite said:

This might be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone still has the hotfix files linked at https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/

I'm specifically looking for the symbols, which are usually packed inside the self-extractor programs. I noticed @tomasz86 linked to these directly (named ######_LOCALE_i386_zip.exe), instead of just the SFXCAB update files (named Windows2000-KB######-x86-LOCALE) used by security updates.

If anyone happens to have these files around, please let me know! I downloaded what's available from archive.org already and would like to expand this collection with whichever of these files have survived this long.

Try asking hunterkll in the Win2000_Dev_Community Discord server ,he had a lot of stuff of MSDN that isn't on the net now.

Edited March 10, 20251 yr by windows2

@tomasz86

Thank you. That's a veritable goldmine. Keep it online, please.

Edited April 30, 20251 yr by Start Me Up

On 4/30/2025 at 5:53 AM, Start Me Up said:

@tomasz86

Thank you. That's a veritable goldmine. Keep it online, please.

I do plan to keep the site up as long as I'm around . I've also got some plans to at least try to update the non-working URLs to use the Wayback Machine linked to the original, now obsolete, Microsoft's sources. This way you won't need to trust myself when downloading them, e.g. from the Download Archive, as it the case right now.