Two queries really. 1. I have reloaded W2k in the past to clear growing problems and uncertainties. This means now downloading updates to SP4 and since ? Maybe they are still available, but is there a way to save all the presently loaded updates, in a clean form? 2. I also wonder, did anyone ever write a "Top Hat" package for W2k to give the best reload possible or add any facility in Xp worth having? To perpetuate W2k, I suppose. I'm "told" these tophats exist for various basic versions of Linux and wonder if there is a parallel for those needing low cost Windows

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Using Windows update won't save updates in a useable form later.  Go here to download 
them for standalone/IT admin install purposes:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/win2k.mspx

so you don't have to use Windows update.  They can be slipstreamed into a new install 
CD if you know how to do it.  Instructions are all over the net, but it does take 
time and can be a pain (so most of us do the process below).

You can also do what most of us do, and that is to image a clean install with all 
of the current updates and whatever software we want, into a new drive image (stored 
either on a CD/DVD or better yet, another HDD) when you do have to reinstall.

Top hat for W2K?  Not that I have seen as there are still security updates being 
applied, but would be interested to know about if it has been done by someone.  W2K 
isn't open source software, but a roll-up package was done by someone a while ago 
for Win 9X, just not sanctioned by MS and you use it at your own risk... 

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Saw a Download at MajorGeeks.com, called Microsoft Windows 2000 Unofficial SP 5.1., which seems to cover it

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Thanks Steve! If others are interested it was download No.931, 231Mb. Not yet sure how it would be loaded on to a new raw W2k CD installation, but will see what the 27 files look like, maybe some readme advice hidden there?

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Thanks C. K. for your input. Your terminology is ahead of me, but let me say how I tried to read it. I could plug in my old clean 6G HDD as replacement HD '0' and run the W2k CD as usual, then adding all the updates/rollups to be found, having saved them, virus scanned, to CD previously. Having then this CD, I'm not sure how the updated W2k O/S there would be transferred to a cleaned 80G HD from the original PC? You will appreciate the limits to my knowledge! Any ideas or related web sites?

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