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Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« on: January 11, 2009, 12:33:35 PM »
Hello all,

Since I installed SP2 on my XP machine the performance got a serious hit. It got worst when recently one of my memory chips  died and the PC is "running" at 256MB RAM.

I'm seriously considering go back to good old Windows2000 + SP3 but I'm wondering if the Automatic Updates thing still sends patches theses days...

Anyone still using win2000 can confirm this please?

Thanks
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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2009, 01:15:29 PM »
It appears that Windows 2000 SP4 has an end of support date at July 13, 2010.  Windows Update should be working correctly until that point.  

Keep in mind, since there have been updates to the 'Windows Update' service and 'Background Intelligent Transfer', you may need to manually install SP4 and SP4 Security Roll-Up 1 before you can connect to Windows Update for the rest of the updates to bring you to current.

Once I manually applied SP4 and Rollup, my old laptop running Win2k Pro (P2/333mhz/192MB RAM) connected to Windows Update fine, as recently as a few weeks ago.
 

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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2009, 02:00:20 PM »
OK thanks.
I'll have one more year of bug fixes I guess. That should be enough until my PC definitely dies (it's already refusing to boot sometimes :) )
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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2009, 02:02:04 PM »
Stick to XP but shut down all the effects and features. Running with 256MB is gonna be the same for Win2Kpro....slow.
 

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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 10:07:36 PM »
I can't imagine trying to run XP on 256Mb. I just upgraded my daughter's computer to 2Gb for only $40.00 (two Crucial 1Gb sticks).
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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2009, 10:52:04 PM »
I was running XP Pro on 128MB (!) for almost a year. A fresh install was quite tolerable, but as the registry got bogged down with garbage it became quite frustrating.
 

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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2009, 11:16:44 PM »
Bare install of win2k uses up about 55MB of RAM, 256MB leaves plenty of room for stuff like web browsing. I'm using it right now on my laptop. Even XP won't take much more than 100MB until you run other stuff on top of it. I've found that geforce and radeon drivers have a considerable memory footprint, but if you're playing 3D games then you need more than 256MB anyway.
 

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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2009, 11:33:27 AM »
Good resume DamageX.
2K-SP4 consumes here 400 mb without launching any apps (just drivers and antivius...)
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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2009, 11:49:50 AM »
In my experience the step to SP2 makes XP much more memory hungry. You need 1Gb to make it run smooth; even for simple stuff like browsing and Office.
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Re: Does Win2000 still gets automatic updates these days?
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2009, 12:26:15 PM »
Today I've installed in an old IBM server W2K server SP4 and system has been updated with about 80 updates (security, removal, malicious software and more).
W2K is not Win XP but i can do everything that i do win XP.
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