Re: Windows 2000 - what do I use?
- From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:21:38 -0400
Get SP4 installed, reboot twice, then check at Windows Update to install any other updates offered. Chances are that the Roll-up will be one of them.
Hoib wrote:
Msg received and fully understood. Let me just ask one more: Would you
also advise downloading and launching what they refer to as the "Roll up"
update?
Thanks very much again....
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
You're dealing with the equivalent of a "new computer" so see...
Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html
1. Do NOT allow the machine to connect to the internet without a firewall
or via a router!
2. Get Win2K SP4 installed ASAP, then check-in at Windows Update to install
any other criticial security updates offered.
If you don't want to use Windows Update to installed SP4 (which would be a
much smaller download), download this installer (129.2MB; SAVE it, do not
RUN it):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1001aaf1-749f-49f4-8010-297bd6ca33a0
3. Get a functional, fully updated AV app on the box ASAP!
Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/computer/default.mspx
Learn how to protect your PC by taking three simple steps
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3AD23728-4973-4DA5-9836-602954130D38
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Hoib wrote:Yes, PA Bear, it does -- A slew of them!!! That's capital S L E W! We
wanted to avoid WU online because in it's current state, the workstation
has
no firewall, AV or AntiCrudWare and attaches unprotected. Those will get
loaded on later. This is for a small business BTW with about 30 W/S in an
auto dealership.
I know encroachment shouldn't be such a worry but he's concerned about
things like a drive-by and so am I. I suppose I could load on a freebie
like AVG just for temporary use bu then we need to take it off etc. It
just
seemed to me to be a more direct route with a downloaded, saved and
launched
SP4 to do it all in one swoop rather than a day and a half of installing
and
rebooting through the maze. As you may have seen a kind person has let us
know that the SP4 for IT pros is what we should use.
Let me see what you might comment about further. Right now, I think I'm
back on track. I just didn't see anything that clearly indicated what
these
resources were supposed to do. Thanks to the forum, I have a better
understanding...
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Does Windows Update work and/or offer any updates?
Hoib wrote:Hi. I have little experience with Windows 2000 Pro. Friend's machine
has
been re-imaged with Windows 2000. It's for his work and a special Ghost
image was used due to special software requirements. The image is so
old
that it has no service packs. Rather than go through a day or more of
WU
off the net, I thought I could just download SP4, and run it and we'd be
all set. Now I'm faced with choices I don't know how to react to. I
need
some guidance....
I see there is this: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Express Install for
End
Users. I've applied it but I don't know what to do with it now that the
system has rebooted. Does this Express package bring us all the way up
to
the present? It was very quick - about 5-7 minutes of running then it
required just one reboot. Is that IT!!!??? I think there's something
else
we need to do but can't find anything about how to react to the Express
Install. I've looked for it in Programs but can't see that Express
added
anything. Then there is this: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Network
Install
for IT Professionals which we're not using a network. Then there is
this:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) which at 129 mB looks to be the full
install versus the "Express" install. Do I run this in addition to the
Express?
If we're successful in bringing up SP4, does that include IE7? Does
anyone
know what else I need to add to get this into the current state?
Thanks.
.
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