Forgot your password? Okay, in a response to my forum thread, " Windows Update on Windows ", I have decided to provide a good guide on how to properly install and update Windows Be warned that this guide on how to install and update Windows is lengthy and not a easy thing to do. And as such, Microsoft implemented a hardened Windows Update infrastructure so that the Windows Update client will only trust files signed by a new certificate that is used solely to protect update to the Windows Update client and by strengthening the communication channel that is used by Windows Update client to protect it in a similar way.
However, the latest version of the Windows Update Agent resulted in the error code of 0xB, thus breaking Windows compatibility. And by default, as Windows Update does not work properly with Windows , users no longer have any method of installing updates directly from the Windows Update website. This is not a limitation for existing installations of Windows made before 4 June , because the product is no longer supported and as such, no further updates are being produced.
However, this is a serious and crippling limitation for anyone re-installing Windows on or after 4 June Depending on the speed of your computer and hard disk, it should take at least 30 minutes to get the operating system installed. EXE: MB.
Apply the appropriate drivers for your motherboard that is compatible with Windows This includes Windows compatible drivers for video, sound card, chipset, networking, etc. Download the full version of the Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 installer: here or here. The file name is ie60sp1. The browser can be installed on Windows NT 4. If you go to the Windows Update website and see a dialogue box asking you to install the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher, you need to select No and close Internet Explorer.
If you select Yes, then Windows Update will not work correctly and will most likely cause Internet Explorer 6 to crash and according to submix8c, you will most likely have to re-start the Windows installation from scratch all over again. To work around this, you will need to do the following:. EXE, download size: After you install Update Rollup 1 v2, you need to restart the computer. By installing Update Rollup 1 v2, this will stop Windows Update from crashing Internet Explorer 6 even if the browser is no longer officially supported.
Download WinZip. I recommend downloading WinZip version 8. After installing WinZip, you will need to download and install 7-Zip. Using 7-zip will be needed to extract the contents of the Windows Root Certificate Update executable. I recommend extracting the file, WUAv Download the 7-Zip Command Line executable 7za. Download wGet 1. Execute WUAv The installer will extract the contents of the WindowsUpdateAgentx When the batch-running installation of the Windows Update Agent is complete, rename the file WindowsUpdateAgentx Download and extract the contents of the Windows Root Certificate Update in a temporary directory.
Install the rootsupd. When all of the producers to get Windows Update in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows working, you can now click on the Internet Explorer icon and go to the Windows Update website. Upon accessing the Windows Update website, you will be greeted once again with a Security Warning asking you whatever you want to install and run "Windows Update" signed on and distributed by Microsoft Windows Component Publisher.
If Windows Update continues to operate after allowing Windows Update to install the Microsoft Windows Component Publisher publisher, the pre-Windows Update installation instructions were performed successfully. Now that you can access Windows Update under Windows once again, Windows Update will be required to perform a software upgrade for some of the Windows components. To perform this procedure, click on Download and Install Now to continue.
By doing that Windows Update downloads and installs the following:. You can opt in and proceed to upgrade to Microsoft Update where you will receive a list of updates for Windows and other components of the operating system. It won't be that big of a deal since Microsoft uses ActiveX to scan the system for software updates.
After updating to Microsoft Update has been completed, on the update page, you will need to select the Custom button where it will give you a list of all of the old updates that are available after you performed the pre-Windows Update procedures.
When downloading and installation of a update has been completed and at some cases, the computer has been restarted , you will need to repeat this procedure until downloading of all of the updates have completed.
Now that you have accessed Microsoft Update, you will need to install all of the high priority updates first. Here's a huge list of old updates found in Microsoft Update:. Reboot after applying the high-priority updates. After that, check to make sure that there are still any high priority updates left, the next time you visit Windows Update. If not, proceed to installing the optional software components.
Install Microsoft. NET Framework version 1. NET Framework v1. NET Framework 1. After installing the Microsoft. After rebooting, go to the Windows Update again and download these two high-priority updates :. Next, download and install Microsoft. NET Framework version 2. Rebooting is not required. When you access the high-priority updates again, you see the following:. Apply the security update for Microsoft.
NET Framework 2. After that, apply Microsoft. After you apply the high-priority updates, you will need to apply. NET Framework v2. While Microsoft. And after applying. Now after that is all done, you will need to download the following two updates that must be installed separately:. After the download and installation of DirectX 9. And once DirectX 9. After the computer is restarted, Windows Update will show two high-priority updates for DirectX 9.
After the security updates have been applied, you will need to download the offline DirectX 9. After the DirectX 9. Lastly, download the Windows Media Player 9 Series media player. The size of the download is After downloading Windows Media Player 9, you will need to get it configured prior to using it.
When that's done, there will be the last eight remaining high-priority updates as follows:. After the installation of all of the base updates have been completed, you will need to remove the uninstallation updates which were made.
By getting rid of the uninstallation files, folders will be removed and up to MB will be freed. The initial size of the Windows directory after the updates have been applied will top out at 1.
On hard disk drive that has 10 GB or less, that is quite a lot. You will also need to consider installing other components, including runtime libraries for Visual Basic 1 through 6, Visual Studio 6, 7, 7. After running into numerous problems, all of the updates that were available for Windows were performed in Microsoft Virtual PC with MB of physical memory allocated.
Believe me, installing and updating Windows either on a real PC or in a virtual machine can take hours and it is a lot of hard work to get everything working right. I hope that the instructions are useful enough for anyone who wants to re-install and update Windows Please consider downloading and saving the updates and burn them on to a CD or ISO image incase Microsoft ever decides to de-commission the Windows Update website in the near future.
I'm so terribly sorry that this is such a long forum thread, I would like to thank tomasz86 and submix8c for helping me on how to get Windows to access Windows Update again. I don't know how much longer that the Windows Update website will remain up, but without your help, updating Windows would have been an impossible thing to do.
If you have any questions regarding this guide on how to install and update Windows , please let me know and I will get back to you! See your other topic - tomasz86' USP5. Also please note tomasz86 provides a list that maybe needs matched to yours?
Thank you so much for sharing this! While the files that you provided to install IE6 in Win2k are newer, I pointed out the site where you can still get the full version of Internet Explorer, where it doesn't contain the updated files inside the IECIF.
CAB files. The updates were later applied after onwards. As for the purpose of WinZip and 7-Zip, WinZip is a shareware programme designed to open Zip files while 7-zip is a open-sourced programmed designed not only to open files, but extract them to a appropriate directory. For this reason, I should have used only 7-zip and not WinZip in the first place.
But that's why I mentioned them in this thread. I'm collecting links to maybe put up something similar to -X- for XP updates. Bear in mind that HFBR aren't included as you can see. With the archive almost complete, you're doing a lot of hard work on preserving the updates if Microsoft decides to remove the obsolete downloads for Win2k in the future. Most of the updates that are from Microsoft already have the original datestamp.
However, users who want to know when the file of the update was published on the Microsoft Downloads Center can look at the Digital Signature by right clicking the mouse towards Properties and selecting Digital Signatures tab to determine the name of the signer and the original datestamp date and time of the publishing of the update file.
It would also be a good idea to start collecting links to updates for Windows XP and Windows Server as well. This is a really detailed guide, ppgrainbow! The difference is that his is about preparing an updated Win2k source while yours focuses on updating an already installed system. Thank you so much for compliment. I appreciate it. It is technically possible to install Windows on the Toshiba Tecra CDT, assuming that the size of the hard disk is large enough. However, the consequences are that the Windows will require at least MB of free disk space, 32 MB of system memory and laptop will end up getting slow, pretty fast after installing updates and software on the laptop.
You will also need to get the largest hard drive possible that will work properly with the Tecra CDT. I forget to mention in this thread that the official KB numbers are KB for. There is no KB number for. I agree.
As for installing unofficial updates after applying all of the available updates for Windows , you should be careful how the updates are applied. The one thing is that after a couple of months after I applied UURollup v10c, I was very lucky to only apply.
There are chances that some of the critical files that were applied from UURollup will end up being overwritten with official files from the updates that came from the Windows Update website and the risk are that serious problems with Windows may occur thus prompting a re-installation of the OS from scratch.
All of the updates that I downloaded have preserved the original timestamp. An extension that preserved the modification timestamp that is sent by the server for downloaded files. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Can't Update Windows Thread starter RocketFast Start date Aug 16, RocketFast Gawd. Joined Apr 3, Messages I just did a fresh install of on an older Pc.
Installed service pack 4, the bootleg SP5 one, and even the windows update agent. Did a net framework install and java. I searched high and low and found nothing. Before the format it worked fine.
The error number is 0xB Well I found an answer in a weird place. First off, let's make it clear that even though 2K is EOL, that only means that MS does not develop or deploy new Security and other updates to the general public for it. In fact, when I explored all the links in the error dialog box while trying to update a clean install of 2K Server, the supported OS list implied that under extremely extraordinary circumstances MS might consider a new security update for 2KSP4.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for one to come out though! Back to the current problem. In a nut shell, the problem is not with the latest WU agent or any of it's components. The issue is a clean install from CD of any version of 2K has antique Root Certificates, which can no longer be used to validate the code signing of the current WU components. So here's how to get around it: 1. After you do the clean install, go to WU. When you get there, start the procedure.
It will fail as we have seen , however if you look closely at the popup dialog box, it's telling you it can't validate the ActiveX control in addition to asking if you want to install and run it. Click on the Microsoft Software Publisher link at the bottom of the dialog, and force IE to install the certificate. At this point the web control should work and WU will start the scanning process. However, there's another gotcha. The first thing the scanner does is DL a cabinet file which contains information WU needs to figure out what updates you require.
Of course this has to get validated as well, but the problem now is that WU doesn't give you the opportunity to ram the certificate down Windows throat like it did for the ActiveX control.
If you recall, the Root Certificate updates for 2K were and still are classified as "optional" ones. Worse, I couldn't find it when rooting through the Windows Update Catalog catacombs!
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