Windows 2000 service pack3

MonsieurEvil

<div class="IPBDescription">Now available</div>The full install (124MB) can be downloaded

<a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/SP/SP3/NT5/EN-US/w2ksp3.exe" target="_blank">Right Here</a>

The smaller incremental installation (for specific OS versions) will not be available until tomorrow.

The list of changes and fixes in this patch can be found

<a href="http://www.activewin.com/win2000/sp3bugs.shtml" target="_blank">Here</a>

Some of the more interesting (to typical gaming users) updates are:

260233 Support for ATA 100 (Mode 5 ) in Windows 2000
263939 Fix: Disk Performance May Degrade Over Time
Q290410 Fix: Not Able to Install Game Controllers on Some Windows 2000-Based Computers
Q298896 TCP/IP Performance Enhancement by Optimizing the TCP Segmentation Offload Feature

f3rret

Thanks for the deets. I'll wait until it actually goes live tomorrow, though.

I thought I was the only one running 2K. I thought everyone had changed over to XP by now.

MonsieurEvil

I personally use both, depending on the PC. I haven't gotten around to installing XP Pro on my primary home PC yet though.

Sinister

Bah! Who needs 2K or XP when you have 98? <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

horror_kid

I swear this post was aimed at me. I am currently troubleshooting a Win2K comp with a few of the problems this fixes. Thank you MonsE for helping me look good to my client.

MonsieurEvil

Update:

The smaller speciality SP3 update is now available:

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp3/download.asp" target="_blank">Service Pack3 Downloads (both big and small)</a>

And Horror, glad to be of service for a fellow Misfits fan. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

Banan

Weee, Thanks for telling MonsE, had been waiting for that service pack quite some time now <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

MonsieurEvil

I will now be in Service Pack hell for the next month at work, getting this thing tested and deployed to 200 servers and a few thousand PC's. If only everyone would use Citrix, I could avoid all those damned workstations.

Oh well, it pays the bills

Nemesis_Zero

Thanks for the heads up.

Now all I have to do is go through their whole EULA and search for palladiumesques :/

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310510 Playback and Copy-Protection Issues When You Try to Play the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DVD Movie

Gee, I'm happy they finally fixed it![/edit]



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Llama_Killer

I know this is off topic but i found that i could play little of my games on WIN Xp prof i had to get home edition for my "gaming" uses... Anyone else have this problem?

MonsieurEvil

Llama - you need to download the application compatibility update. Microsoft release one every quarter or so, and it adds support for games that were written before XP certification was possible:

<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q319580" target="_blank">WinXP Compatibilty Updates</a>

You can also reference this article on how to setup an app to run properly if it does not like XP:

<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301911" target="_blank">Manually configuring apps for XP Compatibility</a>

Llama_Killer

Thx ill try...