Re: Win2k Version To Service Packet 4 Windows 7 Free Download
Kat Guinnip
Way back when, when I was installing NT a lot, I got Terminal Server. It had SP3 already integrated -- it came that way from MS. Anyway, I manually replaced loads of files with the SP5 versions (file drivers I assumed to be most important). I got BSODs... so I scaled back and back until I had replaced maybe half. Once installed, the OS was not stable until I installed SP6a and all hotfixes. I recall it took forever finding the right balance of original versus replaced files to get a version that would install without a BSOD. I would say 'don't bother trying to do this manually' with the exception of replacing file driver files. In case you were going to try this manually
This is what I used to do in a previous life. Install NT4 on generic Intel Dell hardware, install SP6 and IE6 IEAK, any updates that were left, and then image it via ghost. Once the image was down on a new machine, ghostwalker was then run to change the SID and a script changed the machine name before booting into NT and scripting app installs.
While microsoft made a commercial decision not to provide support for slipstreaming in NT4 (it first appeared in SP2 of w2k), it is none the less possible to reduce the pain of installation of NT4 on modern hardware.
Essentially, you put *some* of the files of NT4sp6a into the base install, and then patch sp6a. What this effectively acheives is an NT4 that has every update patched in the service pack. When you follow the instructions as given in the post, you can install NT4 on modern hardware, as long as the system drive is completely in the first 8 GB. The first install should use the SP6a versions of NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, but you can replace these with a Win2k or XP version in the actual service pack.
You can, for example install NT4 before or after any of the other versions of Windows. The only really dependant thing you have to keep an eye on is to ensure that you put SP6a on before you boot Winxp/2k, and that you end up with a boot loader from the latest version of windows you may want to use (eg win2k3 if it is in the offing).
You can also integrate one of the early fix-packs as well, into the base install, at the same time the service pack goes on. This is useful for replacing bits of NT4 with later features from different operating systems, adding DLL files etc. For example, the cmd.exe from W2K works quite well under Windows NT4, and has an extended command set. SOL.EXE is also worth the upgrade, too. QBASIC can be upgraded to v1.1 from MS-DOS 6, as this supports the help.com command.
You can also build a source for installing extra features, which contains the latest files in an i386 directory. Doing this means that you do not have to redo the servicepack every time you change something.
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and designed for businesses as the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0. It was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999,[2] officially released to retail on February 17, 2000, and released on September 26, 2000, for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. It was Microsoft's business operating system until the introduction of Windows XP Professional in 2001.
Windows 2000 introduces NTFS 3.0,[6] Encrypting File System,[7] and basic and dynamic disk storage.[8] Support for people with disabilities is improved over Windows NT 4.0 with a number of new assistive technologies,[9] and Microsoft increased support for different languages[10] and locale information.[11] The Windows 2000 Server family has additional features, most notably the introduction of Active Directory,[12] which in the years following became a widely used directory service in business environments.
Four editions of Windows 2000 have been released: Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server;[13] the latter was both released to manufacturing and launched months after the other editions.[14] While each edition of Windows 2000 is targeted at a different market, they share a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system administration applications.
Microsoft marketed Windows 2000 as the most secure Windows version ever at the time;[15] however, it became the target of a number of high-profile virus attacks such as Code Red[16] and Nimda.[17] For ten years after its release, it continued to receive patches for security vulnerabilities nearly every month until reaching the end of support on July 13, 2010, the same day that support ended for Windows XP SP2.[5]
Windows 2000 is the final version of Windows NT that supports PC-98, i486 and SGI Visual Workstation 320 and 540, as well as Alpha[18] in alpha, beta, and release candidate versions. Its successor, Windows XP, only supports x86, x64 and Itanium processors.
Windows 2000, originally named Windows NT 5.0, is a continuation of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems, replacing Windows NT 4.0. Chairman and CEO Bill Gates was originally "pretty confident" Windows NT 5.0 would ship in the first half of 1998,[19] revealing that the first set of beta builds had been shipped in early 1997; these builds were identical to Windows NT 4.0. The first official beta was released in September 1997, followed by Beta 2 in August 1998.[20][21] On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the name of the final version of the operating system would be Windows 2000, a name which referred to its projected release date.[22] Windows 2000 Beta 3 was released in May 1999.[20] Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1 was similar to Windows NT 4.0, including a very similarly themed logo. Windows NT 5.0 Beta 2 introduced a new 'mini' boot screen, and removed the 'dark space' theme in the logo. The Windows NT 5.0 betas had very long startup and shutdown sounds, though these were changed in the early Windows 2000 beta, but during Beta 3, a new piano-made startup and shutdown sounds were made, composed by Steven Ray Allen.[23] It was featured in the final version as well as in Windows Me. The new login prompt from the final version made its first appearance in Beta 3 build 1946 (the first build of Beta 3). The new, updated icons (for My Computer, Recycle Bin etc.) first appeared in Beta 3 build 1964. The Windows 2000 boot screen in the final version first appeared in Beta 3 build 1983. Windows 2000 did not have an actual codename because, according to Dave Thompson of Windows NT team, "Jim Allchin didn't like codenames".[24]
Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 was codenamed "Asteroid"[25] and Windows 2000 64-bit was codenamed "Janus."[26][27] During development, there was a build for the Alpha which was abandoned in the final stages of development (between RC1 and RC2[28]) after Compaq announced they had dropped support for Windows NT on Alpha. From here, Microsoft issued three release candidates between July and November 1999, and finally released the operating system to partners on December 12, 1999, followed by manufacturing three days later on December 15.[29] The public could buy the full version of Windows 2000 on February 17, 2000. Three days before this event, which Microsoft advertised as "a standard in reliability," a leaked memo from Microsoft reported on by Mary Jo Foley revealed that Windows 2000 had "over 63,000 potential known defects."[30] After Foley's article was published, she claimed that Microsoft blacklisted her for a considerable time.[31] However, Abraham Silberschatz et al. claim in their computer science textbook that "Windows 2000 was the most reliable, stable operating system Microsoft had ever shipped to that point. Much of this reliability came from maturity in the source code, extensive stress testing of the system, and automatic detection of many serious errors in drivers."[32] InformationWeek summarized the release "our tests show the successor to Windows NT 4.0 is everything we hoped it would be. Of course, it isn't perfect either."[33] Wired News later described the results of the February launch as "lackluster."[34] Novell criticized Microsoft's Active Directory, the new directory service architecture, as less scalable or reliable than its own Novell Directory Services (NDS) alternative.[35]
Windows 2000 is the last public release of Windows for PC-98, i486 and SGI Visual Workstation 320 and 540 as Windows XP runs solely on IA-32 only. Windows 2000 was initially planned to replace both Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0. However, this would be changed later, as an updated version of Windows 98 called Windows 98 Second Edition was released in 1999.
On or shortly before February 12, 2004, "portions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code were illegally made available on the Internet."[36] The source of the leak was later traced to Mainsoft, a Windows Interface Source Environment partner.[37] Microsoft issued the following statement:
Despite the warnings, the archive containing the leaked code spread widely on the file-sharing networks. On February 16, 2004, an exploit "allegedly discovered by an individual studying the leaked source code"[36] for certain versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer was reported. On April 15, 2015, GitHub took down a repository containing a copy of the Windows NT 4.0 source code that originated from the leak.[38]
Microsoft planned to release a 64-bit version of Windows 2000, which would run on 64-bit Intel Itanium microprocessors, in 2000.[39][40] However, the first officially released 64-bit version of Windows was Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, released alongside the 32-bit editions of Windows XP on October 25, 2001,[41] followed by the server versions Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition and later Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition, which were based on the pre-release Windows Server 2003 (then known as Windows .NET Server) codebase.[42][43] These editions were released in 2002, were shortly available through the OEM channel and then were superseded by the final versions of Server 2003.[43]
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