Download Windows 2000 .iso Fast and Easy Today!

Windows 2000 is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released on December 15, 1999, though was launched to retail on February 17, 2000.  It is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It was succeeded by Windows XP in October 2001, and Windows Server 2003 in April 2003. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released, Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server.

Features

Windows 2000 introduced many of the new features of Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE into the NT line, such as the Windows Desktop Update, Internet Explorer 5 (Internet Explorer 6, which came in 2001, is also available for Windows 2000),  Outlook Express, NetMeeting, FAT32support, Windows Driver Model,  Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Media Player, WebDAV support, etc. Certain new features are common across all editions of Windows 2000, among them NTFS 3.0, the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), UDF support, theEncrypting File System (EFS), Logical Disk Manager, Image Color Management 2.0, support for PostScript 3-based printers, OpenType (.OTF) and Type 1 PostScript (.PFB) font support, the Data protection API (DPAPI), an LDAP/Active Directory-enabled Address Book, usability enhancements and multi-language and locale support. Windows 2000 also introduced USB device class drivers for USB printers, Mass storage class devices, and improved FireWire SBP-2 support for printers and scanners, along with a Safe removal applet for storage devices. Windows 2000 is also the first Windows version to support hibernation at the operating system level (OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state) unlike Windows 98 which required special drivers from the hardware manufacturer or driver developer.

A new capability designed to protect critical system files called Windows File Protection was introduced. This protects critical Windows system files by preventing programs other than Microsoft's operating system update mechanisms such as the Package Installer, Windows Installer and other update components from modifying them. The System File Checker utility provides users the ability to perform a manual scan the integrity of all protected system files, and optionally repair them, either by restoring from a cache stored in a separate "DLLCACHE" directory, or from the original install media.

Microsoft recognized that a serious error or a stop error could cause problems for servers that needed to be constantly running and so provided a system setting that would allow the server to automatically reboot when a stop error occurred. Also included is an option to dump any of the first 64 KB of memory to disk (the smallest amount of memory that is useful for debugging purposes, also known as a minidump), a dump of only the kernel's memory, or a dump of the entire contents of memory to disk, as well as write that this event happened to the Windows 2000 event log. In order to improve performance on servers running Windows 2000, Microsoft gave administrators the choice of optimizing the operating system's memory and processor usage patterns for background services or for applications Windows 2000 also introduced core system administration and management features as the Windows Installer, Windows Management Instrumentation and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) into the operating system.

Downloads

Windows 2000 Small Business Server (english) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 1) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Professional (RTM) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Professional (RTM) (UPGRADE) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Professional (SP1) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Datacenter (SP4) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Server (SP4) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP4) (English) (.iso) (x86)
Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) (Hungarian) (.iso) (x86)

After that you can just put the files on a Floppy disk or a CD-ROM and install Windows 2000 on a computer, or you can use Virtualbox to emulate it.

Windows 2000 and all of its versions requires a serial key to operate fully. You may use the software for 30 days, after which a product key is required.

Serial Keys

Windows 2000 Professional SP4: G74HG-XXQTJ-RTX64-QKP3F-HKHXP (OR) F6PGG-4YYDJ-3FF3T-R328P-3BXTG (OR) VXKC4-2B3YF-W9MFK-QB3DB-9Y7MB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server: WY6PG-M2YPT-KGT4H-CPY6T-GRDCY (OR) RM233-2PRQQ-FR4RH-JP89H-46QYB
Windows 2000 Professional with SP1: DDTPV-TXMX7-BBGJ9-WGY8K-B9GHM
Windows 2000 Professional (Dutch): MKFTT-B889R-XXYGF-W63WP-8VDYT
Windows 2000 Professional (UPGRADE): TXY8C-9X778-9BJ3T-6F2DC-332YF
Windows 2000 Corporate Edition: DY26P-7W66J-MQQQ7-QGRTQ-X8PHJ
Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (EVALUATION KEY 120 DAYS): RBDC9-VTRC8-D7972-J97JY-PRVMG


Info

Developed by: Microsoft Corporation
Release date: February 17, 2000
Latest version: 5.0 (Released in September 13, 2005)
Source model: Shared source
License: Proprietary commercial software
Preceded by: Windows NT 4.0 (in 1996)
Succeeded by: Windows XP (in 2001)
Windows Server 2003 (in 2003)
Support status: Unsupported as of July 13, 2010
System requirements:
486DX Processor or higher. (Notice: This is the final version of Windows to support a 486. Windows XP and higher will fail to start under one.)
32 MB of RAM
2 GB hard drive that has at least 650 MB of free space.
VGA or higher-resolution monitor

Recommended Downloadable programs
Windows 2000 can download programs. You can click on the links below and simply put the files on your floppy disk or CD-Rom.

• Internet Explorer 6
• Windows Media Player 7
• MetaPad 2.0
• Google Chrome 2.0.173 (Service Pack 4 only)

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