Installing either Windows 2000 SP4 or SP3, an error that the Windows Installer is not digitally signed will pop up. Clicking the "OK" button results in "An unexpected error occured" and the setup terminates.will occur and the set up fails. Thinking maybe it's an oudated Windows Installer-Msiexec.exe is the cause, installing Windows Installer 2.0 also fails. Downloading from Microsoft SP4, SP3 sites, saving it on my pc and then executing them results in "SP4 (or SP3)Setup determined that the following downloaded SP4 (or SP3)files are corrupt". Please help. Thanks.

I think windows installer is up to version 4.0

If you are currently running SP2 download Windows installer 3.1, which is the latest version that will work with Win2000. Find it at the link below. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...

Executing Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable (v2)from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/... results in error message that it needs Windows 2000 SP3 or SP4 and thus fails to install as I have windows 2000 SP2. Any other ideas?

Do you already have Windows Installer 2.0 installed? If so it may be corrupt. Remove it from add/remove programs and reboot. Below is a link to the redistributable version of 2.0. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/... Other options would be to slipstream both Windows Installer 3.1 and SP4 into your current version. Your current version must have SP1. You can update directly from SP1 to SP4. No need to install SP3. For information on how to slipstream SP4, Windows Installer and any other updates look at the link below. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.... You can also download a program called nLite to accomplish the same thing.

DonaldJ Please refrain from reopening old threads. If you must give some relivent helpful advice. In the last 24 hours you have responded to numerous old threads and some of your advise is just plain bad. The original posters may not know good advice from bad. If you are not sure about something don't post.

DonaldJ, I'm with OtheHill. Although your posts & responses are amuzing, they're hardly helpful. If the person who's asking the question(s) doesn't know bad advice from good & follow your suggestions, they may end up with even more problems than they started with. "Pull battery half an hour" - why? There's no reason to reset the BIOS. Even so, where's the advice explaining what to do afterwards? And FYI, the BIOS will reset in a matter of seconds provided you unplug the power cord before pulling the battery. And why pull the battery when the majority of motherboards have a ClearCMOS jumper? "Format with W98" - why would you format for Win2K using a Win98 boot floppy? Besides the whole FAT32 vs NTFS debate which I won't bother getting into, all the partitioning & formatting can be done with the Win2K CD. You then suggest to "format with W-2000 CD" - why is it necessary to format twice? "and the four boot floppies" - what do you need boot floppies for? If your Win2K CD isn't bootable (which is the case for many pirated copies), simply use nLite to create a bootable CD...while you're at it you can slipstream SP4 & add drivers, the product key, etc. That way, it will be easy to reinstall the next time you eFF up, err, I mean, the next time the hackers or Microsoft attack your OS. "get all your updates at majorgeeks, the SP5, and the rollup" - I'm not familar with SP5. I know it's an unofficial release & *should* just be a compilation of all the patches & fixes released by M$ since the release of SP4, but why SP5 AND the rollup? Everything in the rollup *should* be contained in SP5. "and never so much as think-of visiting a microsoft website..." - your paranoid delusions are showing again. Persecutory disorder? Time to refill your script for Thorazine.