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Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. However, at present we will be concentrating on the Windows ISO version and how one can reuse this vintage operating platform by downloading the former for free.
We witnessed a wide-range of functional changes with four versions of Windows doing rounds. Be it the Advanced Server, data server, professional server or a version that combines all the utilities, Windows is one OS that offered several choices to the individuals. At present, we are looking at the existing choices and how to get hold of the ISO version of the same. Now when we have enlisted all the essential features associated with Windows , it is important to ascertain the efficacy of the ISO version and take a close look at the downloadable links.
Downloading the standalone or rather offline setup of this OS version is possible with the ISO module on-board. One author is supported and the developer name for the same is Microsoft. The functionality of Windows OS is best experienced if the machine comes across with a minimum storage capacity of 2GB.
Every modern day computer is sufficiently empowered when it comes to installing the ISO version of this operating system. With technical specifications, feature sets and system requirements out of the way, it becomes important that we finally come to the downloading part. 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.
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