Windows Updates

[FlyingAce]

How do I determine which updates were last installed on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server? My boss, in his infinite wisdom, descended to turn on automatic download/install of Windows updates and it crashed one of my components in a Web application.

 

[itsp1965]

If you go to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel under Change/Remove Programs --> click on the show update check box. This will show you all patches/hotfixes and the date they were installed. Hope this helps

 

[paulhthomas]

you can either do as above or check the system event log.
I think all patches have an event source like "NT ServicePack".
if you open those events it'll tell you what patches were applied.

Paul Thomas
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[Mitvongnam8487]

My home PC is equipped with Windows 2000 Prof. SP4. It constantly halts, and yield blue screen with memory dump address while surfing on the net.

I want to reload the OS and apply latest fixes, SP, etc.. Is there any list of sequential steps I must go thru to load? By the way, This home comp. is mostly used by my 2 little girls. Thanks in advance. Regards;

 

[itsp1965]

Mitvon, you'd be best served to create another thread since this is not related to the original post. But in a nutshell
- Load the OS
- Connect to Windowsupdate.microsoft.com to have it install your patches
- Install your Antivirus software and proceed to update it
- Install your applications

Hope this helps