How to obtain the latest Windows 2000 service pack

Updates and fixes to Microsoft Windows 2000 are distributed in service packs. Service packs keep the product current. Service packs include updates, system administration tools, drivers, and additional components that are conveniently bundled for easy downloading. Service packs are cumulative. Therefore, each new service pack contains all the fixes that are included in previous service packs together with the new fixes. You do not have to install a previous service pack before you install the latest service pack. For example, you do not have to install Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) before you install Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4).

Windows 2000 service packs are for Windows 2000 Professional, for Windows 2000 Server, and for Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Review the following information to find out how to obtain the latest Windows 2000 service packs.

Windows 2000 Post-SP4 hotfixes, updates, and security updates

For more information about how to obtain hotfixes, updates, and security updates for Windows 2000 post-SP4, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Update Rollup 1

Release date: June 28, 2005

How to obtain

For more information about how to obtain Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Update Rollup 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Fix list

For more information about the problems that are fixed by Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Update Rollup 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Release date: June 26, 2003

How to obtain

To obtain Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Fix list

For more information about the problems that are fixed by Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Release notes

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For more information about the problems that were fixed by these Windows 2000 service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: