Win 2000 Service Packs

[meeja]

A quickie here....

I am upgrading my father's PC tomorrow, and updating him from Win 95 to Win 2000

I plan to download the service packs at home, and burn them to CD, to install on my father's PC, to save downloading time whilst at his house.

Can I just download SP4, or will I need SP1, SP2, and SP3, and then install them in order?

[neilus]

You just need SP4, and not the preceeding packs.

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1001aaf1-749f-49f4-8010-297bd6ca33a0&DisplayLang=en

Neil.

[meeja]

Thanks Neil,

That's what I thought, but when I looked at the info for SP4, it says that minimum requirement is SP2?!

[atom290]

Isnt there a SP6? for 2000

Best thing to do is go on to the update site, as it will have all the security patches too.

[meeja]

I thought that SP4 was the most recent for Win 2000

I plan to put SP4 and a few of the security updates (to avoid blaster etc) before I connect his machine to the internet. Then I'll do a "windows update" to bring it bang up to date.

[ErnestM]

meeja said:

I thought that SP4 was the most recent for Win 2000 I plan to put SP4 and a few of the security updates (to avoid blaster etc) before I connect his machine to the internet. Then I'll do a "windows update" to bring it bang up to date.

Good plan!

ErnestM

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atom290 said:

Isnt there a SP6? for 2000 Best thing to do is go on to the update site, as it will have all the security patches too.

sp6a was the last official sp for Nt4 (sp7 was promised but cancelled). sp4 is that latest for Win2k

DJ