Details of the 675 bugs that are fixed in Win2k SP 4 can be found there. Too many to copy them all here.

Finally! Downloading

Hope it will support USB 2.0 now...

And here's their page that actually has links to the downloads:

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=1212...9&category=main

The instalation fails in my system when i try sp3, so i stayed with sp2 and simply did some updates avoiding SP3 entirely. Wonder if SP4 will do... Otherwise i need a clean format to try again, but is it worth it? I don't think so...

I think it is worth it. 2 weeks ago I accidently installed the crappy internet explorer 6 over internet explorer 5. I never really had a problem with v5, but v6 seems to crash every 5 minutes. Anyway, I downloaded sp4 and installed it. I have been using it for over 1 day not, and internet explorer 6 hasn't crashed once

Still using IE? LOL

i have a spetial service pack for the IE problems ... it's called Mozilla

And I prefer Opera. Not to mention XP Server 2003.

Yeah, and it adds some new features too

Just installed it - no problems so far, except that it for some reason didn't want to restart right after installation (installing over SP3).

Just rebooted with SP4 from SP3 - everything went well - scary to think MS might be getting things right after 15 years

I kept with IE5 after the last re-install - several sites didn't like IE6 and I prefer the look or feel if IE5.

Did notice that my firewall said that OE5 was updated but not IE5? I keep IE5 up to date with the latest patches but found that a little odd.

If something goes wrong you'll be hearing about it, so far so good

Release notes say that it updates IE 5 to IE 5.01 SP4 (or something like that).

Anyway, I use Mozilla (Firebird), so I don't care too much about it...

Yeah the best one is how SLOW! it is .

I believe USB 2.0 was supported with SP3.

Edit: USB 2.0 Drivers have been updated.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;819332

And I have another, better service pack - Mozilla Firebird.
It's less buggy than IE anyway and much faster than Mozilla.

*cough* http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/ *cough*

(try that in Opera - won't last for long)

So, um... any trouble with SP4?

Not as far as I can tell.

SP4 works fine for me

I got lucky. About 20 seconds after the install was complete the power went out for about an hour. But the install still went well, MS is doing great.

I installed it on both my desktop PC and my portable. It works flawlessly on both.

Shutdown is much faster now on my desktop PC, thanks to this fix.

Edit: stupid link fux0red the URL tag.

So DOES USB2.0 work now?
I also had trouble with USB2.0 in Windows 2000. I connected a USB2.0 HD but the speed was like USB1 . So now i have Windows XP, but i'll probably go back to Windows 2000 if USB2.0 works...

I want to know this too. I actually bought a firewire card because I got fed up with the USB 2.0 troubles I got with my HDD.

Now that SP4 is out, I'm going to try to connect the HDD to USB again. If it works fine, I can remove the firewire card again.

I'll post my results here.

Maybe it's the new USB 2.0.

</joke>

Bleh, no good. My external HDD still doesn't work properly: I get "delayed write failed" on many occasions. Anyway, soon after I made my previous post I was already thinking that it would be wishful thinking hoping that this servicepack would solve my problem, because I've also had these problems in WinXP SP-1.

I'll just stick to firewire. However, if anybody here is actually succesfully using a Maxtor 5000XT drive on USB 2.0 on Win2k/XP I'd like to hear it.

I've upgraded to sp4 as well and once again I'm facing the 16 color tray icon bug. I know the cure lies in hex editing the explorer.exe, but the one offset I found on the web was no good. Now I remember a page dedicated to just this problem. They had pre-edited ready to run explorer.exe for download, but I can't find this page anywhere. Please help!

I think this is the page what you're looking for: http://www.dr-hoiby.com/TrayIconIn256Color ..unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist anymore.

Thanks alot! Indeed, the link is dead . I wonder what I'm doing wrong googling because it didn't show up. I tried all sorts of combinations of "explorer.exe color system tray icon windows 2000 sp4". Alas the page was still in Google's cache and I could check out the manual instructions. They are for sp4 so it can't be all too long ago that the page was still online. I'll just post the instructions here so they won't get lost as easily. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! If you fuck up, it's nobody's fault but your own.

This applies as follows: make a copy of explorer.exe to work on somewhere outisde of the windows dir. Make a backup!!! Hex edit as demonstrated above. Start a command prompt or any program that will allow you to copy files (ie. NC clones). Use task manager to kill all runnig instances of explorer.exe. Copy your manipulated file, overwriting the originals, to the following locations (order is important):
%windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386\
%windir%\system32\dllcache\ <-- neccessary only if explorer.exe is actually present in that directory
%windir%\

Now use the task manager, your command prompt or your NC clone to launch explorer.exe.

In case you are missing some icons in the system tray, logoff and relogon.
Viola!

edit: the above url is now pointing to (dunno if it was like this before): http://212.27.35.116/TrayIconIn256Color

I had problems with my ISDN card after installing SP4 - it simply wouldn't load any web pages (but Kazaa would connect for example).

The 16-color bug has been there for ages... nice to see that it's possible to get rid of it.