[Ham-Computers] Problem with Windows Update

[Fr. johnny]

Hi sorry your having problems...I may be wrong but I think I remember 
that MS announced that they are no longer supporting Win 2000 thus if 
you try to install updates there would not be a site to gain updates 
from and you would get an error.I did do a Google search for service 
packs and there are several sites that have them other than MS. 73 
Johnny KD5LWU

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> OS is Windows 2000 Pro.  I don't recall exactly when this problem first 
> started but it was at least several weeks ago.  Sporadically the Update icon will 
> appear in the System Tray to install Update Rollup 1 for W2K SP4.  When I try 
> to run it, it fails immediately.  Last night I uninstalled all security fixes 
> and hotfixes and tried to install everything back from scratch (since SP4).  
> When it got to the rollup, it failed again.  Today, I tried again, uninstalling 
> everything and then going to the Windows Update site and trying to download 
> and install only the rollup on the theory that there have been so many hotfixes 
> since the rollup, maybe it would no install over one of them.  That was only 
> partly successful as after clicking the million or so security fixes to change 
> the + to - (and I thought only download and install the rollup), the updater 
> still downloaded and installed (or tried to install) the whole lot.  It moved 
> the rollup to the #6 position from dead last but it still did not work.  The 
> first thing the system did after the re-boot was to pop up and tell me I needed 
> to install the rollup.  Which failed again.
>
> I've tracked down (I think) all of the files on the machine that have the 
> KB891861 number in them.  But I'm hesitant to do something like deleting all of 
> them as I have no idea what I'm doing at this point.  I'll mention one 
> suspicious thing I did find.  There are two files in the \Download\long alphanumeric 
> string\ folder that I wonder about.  One is susdl.rq0, the other sus.rq1.  The 
> first has 40+ lines.  The second has about 6, which are exactly the same as 
> the first 6 in the first file.  So wondered whether possibly the second file is 
> incomplete and causing the problem.  But that's just a straw I clutched at.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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