by boco » 18.12.2019, 17:50
The Windows Update Agent of XP has now become incapable of working with the current MS catalogs. Thus, the WOU version for Win XP is essentially worthless; the installation will not install any dynamic update, as the OS WUA cannot detect any missing updates. Newer XP with the POS trick applied seem to work still (using WUMT), as their WUA is more recent.
Windows 2000 updates will be gone from MS servers, for the major part. Additionally, W2K will have the same problem XP has, its WUA is even older.
For both XP and W2K, you need a finished ISO someone created when it still worked. We had such an ISO shared for XP, recently, maybe we can do the same for W2K.
Microsoft update catalog: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/
Windows Install media download: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/15088/windows-create-installation-media