Renewing XP support (was Re: W2K issues; hitherto unknown SP 5 (was Re: W2K - Harry has it!))

["Carl Distefano" cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Bill Troop  Sun, 05 Oct 2014
23:00:55 +0100

> This is great!

Sure is. I guess next on the to-do list will be XP on VBox, with
automatic updates!

I'm almost home with W2K. In addition to SP4, I've installed Rollup 1
and SP5.1 (from the nifty page you posted yesterday). I've got Firefox
10 running (in addition to IE6), and Adobe Reader 7, which is the
latest version I could find that would run on W2K. Dropbox is
installed locally and assigned to drive X:. Xy4 runs nicely, except no
Python functionality (yet).

The last thing I tried was to install the latest version of Python 3.
The installation aborts with a message that a necessary program file
is missing from MSInstaller. I assume that SP5.1 includes the latest
available MSInstaller for W2K, but I nevertheless tried installing
Win Installer 3.1 Redistributable v2
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=25.
Same error message, unfortunately.

Any suggestions?

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx