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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. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. While I don't recommend such an older version of Microsoft Office, version does work on Windows Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 4 people found this reply helpful. I ended up re-installing Windows 10 and reinstalled Office , still got the same error message.

I clicked on Ignore,. When I try to reinstall Office , the following message comes up Error DLL failed to register. Contact your support personnel. I have the same question Software languages. Author Microsoft. Updated Over a year ago. Last revision More than a year ago. Ok We use our own and third-party cookies for advertising, session, analytic, and social network purposes.