What's that got to do with it? IE6 SP1 was considered a critical security
update even in Win98 and WinME and has been required to be able to access
Windows Update for quite some time now.
BTW, you may not use IE but Win2K does.
noone wrote:
> My understanding is IE 5.01 is supported as long as Windows 2000 is
> supported, otherwise why would there be regular security updates for it.
> There had been a suggestion on the Windows Update site to upgrade but it
> was a suggestion and not a requirement. If 5.01 is no longer supported
> by Windows Update then a notice to that effect should have been posted
> on the Windows Update site or documented in an information document on
> the main MS site. Even though IE 6 was available I chose not to upgrade
> since the browser was used only for Windows Update. There are better
> browsers for general internet use.
>
>
> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>> Have you been living under a rock for the last 5-8 years?
>>
>> noone wrote:
>>> I had the same problem until I replaced IE 5.01 SP4 with IE 6. Nice of
>>> MS to discontinue support of the browser without informing its users.
>>> Very nice.
>>>
>>> TomP wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Were you ever able to solve this problem?
>>>> I have exactly the same issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "One5860" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hi im trying to update my older laptop with windows 2000 sp4. and i
>>>>> keep
>>>>> getting the 0x800C0002 error. I have done everything it said to do
>>>>> (delete temp. internet files, refresh, close and reopen ie) and i even
>>>>> tryed safe mode with networking and it still didnt work. Our Vista
>>>>> laptop updates without a problem. Anyone know why?
>>>>>
>>>>> One5860
>>>>>
>>>>> Full sys. Specs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows 2000 sp4
>>>>> 384 mb ram
>>>>> Trident Cyberblade AGP 8mb vram
>>>>> 1.0 ghz P3 CPU
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