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For some reason Windows Update stopped working. I selected the patches to install and the Dialog Prompt showed up, but it would hang on "Downloading...".

i fixed this by manually downloading and installing the latest Internet Explorer patch. You can probably find the patch you need here.

Is your Windows 2000 slow to shutdown and seems to hang for a really long time before is restarts? I had noticed on several machines that after i installed the routine windows security updates, it took forever for my machine to shutdown when i was running as a user with administrator privileges. It would hang for several minutes on the "Saving your settings..." dialog box.

Update: Windows Service Pack 4 has been released and fixes this problem. It is strongly recommended that you install the service pack rather than using this old hack.(see comments below)

Time for some testing. I wiped a hardrive on a laptop and reinstalled windows 2000. Everything was fine. Then one by one i installed the critical updates and tested them out. As soon as i installed the 329170: Security Update (Windows 2000) update, that's when the problem of long startup and shutdown times returned. Once i uninstalled this update, everything was working fine again. I downloaded and installed all the other updates.

To determine if you have the same problem as i did, do the following:

1. On the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, click Start.
2. Point to Settings, and then click Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer.
3. Click on Application Log.
   Look for an Error whose Source column is Userenv and Event column is 1000
4. If you see this row, double-click on it to display the following dialog box:

How to Uninstall the Q329170 Hotfix

I figured it out! For the last two weeks sending mail in Eudora caused windows 2000 to crash. I would get a BSOD saying DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. The error reports it as happening in the file NDIS.SYS and that it is now BEGINNING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY.

Also, about two weeks ago i installed the latest drivers for my Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4) network card. This was the problem. Apparently, ndis.sys doesn't always play well with others. So i reinstalled the original drivers that came with my card, once again regaining my email proficiency.

02/18/2002 UPDATE