Windows 2000 on FAT32, anybody

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Just wondering, is anyone running Windows Defender on Windows 2000 SP4 with a
FAT32 partition? I had some trouble on a Windows 2000 install (it wouldn't
update), but not on any others, and the only difference was what. Thanks in
advance.
 
I doubt that's the issue, but I am not sure about a couple of 2k
workstations I've got it installed on--will check on them.

I'd looke at the IE proxy settings--check or uncheck automatically detect
and see if it changes things.
 
Thanks for the reply. No, the problem is much worse than that. I posted a
couple of days ago, but I got a message that pointed strongly to
Cryptographic services not running on the computer. However there are no
symptoms of that, as Microsoft Update/Automatic Updates work fine. After
installing Windows Defender, neither Microsoft Update nor Automatic Updates
ever "saw" Windows Defender. Windows Defender never would update, citing a
0x800b0003 error about trusted forms (hence the cryptographic services
suspicion). There never has been a proxy, everything is configured for
straight thru connection to the internet. The only difference between this
PC and the others is that it is on a FAT32 partition. I went back to MSAS
Beta 1 for the meantime, which of course, works fine.
 
W2KSP4 and FAT32 here ... update occured, but not gracefully. Had to click
STOP (was that it?), EXIT and restart and it said I was "up to date".

A bigger problem was when running either a short scan OR a full scan it
NEVER stopped running ... up to 400,000++ files ... clearly over my situation
... and when I stopped it, no summary was forthcoming.

The install on my XP machines went as expected.
 
One message I saw indicated that WU brought in Windows Installer 3.1, which
fixed a non-updating condition. I wouldn't expect this to be missing on
most machines, but it may be worth checking on.

I forgot to check the filesystem on the two Windows 2000 machines I have in
one client office--both are chronically infected with AbetterInternet type
stuff, and I'm trying to see if Windows Defender can actually clean them.
So far it finds a LOT more stuff than beta1 did, but doesn't succeed in
getting them clean. I may get another look at them on Monday.

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Did it have any useful findings when you stopped it?

I was startled (and quite pleased!) to see that when I halted a Windows 2000
sp4 scan today it had a list of found stuff and attempted to clean a good
bit of it. I don't know if that's a fluke or a feature--it was definitely a
feature request in these groups--keep results found thus far when a scan is
halted.

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Thanks for the tip. I verified that Windows Installer 3.1 was already
installed on the system in question. It still refuses to work.
 
In my case, there was nothing. My XP machine (falsely) found UltraVNC and
RealVNC both of which are installed on the W2K machine, so I expected it to
at least find them.

Does someone from Microsoft corporate read these threads to know about bugs,
or is there another way to do such reporting ??
 
There are definitely folks closely involved with the development effort
reading these threads. I wouldn't expect responses from them, although
there have been quite a few in recent days--but they are reading.

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