Cababs wrote:To get Windows 2000 to work with windows updates you need to download a newever version of root certificates. also some of the links have been changed for some utils. as far as i am aware windows 2000 updates are still included on windows updates. i am not curruntly at my computer, when i do get there i will upload my copy of WOU for Windows 2000. you will still need to download the files in the cleint folder. my copy included optional updates which WOU doesnt include by default. i will include the new version of Root Certificates within my version of WOU.
Thanks a lot for your answer and for going to upload your extended WOU archive.
What I did was (SP4 and Rollup already done):
1. installed Windows Installer 3.1 V2 manually
2. installed Windows Update Agent 2.0 manually
3. installed KB 842773 (Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1) manually
I still got script and /or "need to update to latest servicepack" errors.
Then I realised I am still using IE5
, so updated to IE6SP1.
Sript errors were gone but still the "missing service pack error" or sometimes a completely empty page.
Finally I got aware of the outdated root certificates myself, found a working link, updated again manually ... and resulted in an http error 404.
Visting
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupda ... aspx?ln=de manually using a Mozilla based browser resulted in a "Use your Start menu to check for updates" message (in German of course).
However, after having inatalled the updates from Deniss' archive I got one single additional file by the Windows 2000 update agent (btw: it was only hardware related).
So, you seem to be absolutely right and my only problem left was the root certificates.
The updates seem still to be available - but the 'hard' way only!?