Comments on: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 2000

By: Eric D L

Eric D L — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:29:57 +0000

Thanks for all that Charlie, but the forum page you posted is down. Any chance of re-uping it elsewhere?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:01:54 +0000

i started a forum page about using the installers to install on 2k so i dont have to spam this man’s blog:

http://win2kgaming.site90.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=721&p=2522

Charlie.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:54:40 +0000

the .net installer runs on the XP machine but not on the 2000 machine. the error is “is not a valid win32 application” (and the setup inside it) so it looks like this is as far as i can get unless maybe i can contact the wrapper guy to see if his things can fix it.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:57:55 +0000

i dunno how to run the net 4 setup it may be compiled for 64bit even tho its for both systems. might try the client instead.

also a 2000 to XP wrapper may be needed for other programs to run. which may work for Paint.NET which was my .net test program!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:30:38 +0000

i omitted why orca could help install virtual box. and that was to remove the operating system limit!!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:57:49 +0000

firstly to get vs_setup, i extracted Netfx35_x86 (i dont think this is for 64bit)

in orca i found under the CustomAction table an Action called CA_BlockDirectInstall_MSI .. .. .. so i cut it out then saved the file.
and it works.

i first got orca to try to install virtualbox (which didnt work) but downloading that kit paid off afterall!
so now i have .NET framework 3.5 SP1 and elsewhere i have the Hotfix for .NET framework in add/Remove.

now for NET4 and direct X 10/11 – which may actually have needed .NET.
Charlie.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:47:55 +0000

and the dot net 3.5 i cant do so have to do it your way
the files are not individual, selecting vs_setup.msi (3.5sp1) tells me to run setup.exe and setup dont want 2k. the MSI file is editable by orca and there is alot of stuff in it…

Charlie.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:28:18 +0000

i checked the individual items and they were made before service pack 2. so no need to chase up on this cumulative update thing…

a side note if there is a problem with installing programs that require you to not have windows 2000 (perhaps because of .net), there is a MS tool that you can use to change the prerequisites of a MSI file or maybe other files, and that is Orca, also called Windows Installer 3.0 Table Editor (which is with some dev kit)

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:19:54 +0000

i guess i am providing the more details people have asked for, the moderator probably Wizz might have to combine all my messages.

ideally after running the 3.5 update and it sits on the error-windows 2000, we need a program to actually install all the files while it has them extracted!
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well i have done the 3.0 folder, i moved all the files containing 64 so i dont install the wrong ones, if you have a 64 computer there are files that have nothing and 32 and 64, i am not sure if you need the nothing ones, do them first then the 64′s.

do note that i dont think you can uninstall these updates… but interestingly i do see “Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2″ in my add/remove programs……

i first did the MSI files, then the MSP files and i got no error except with WPF_Other_32.msp where it says i need sufficient privileges to install system services.

there is subfolder beside the subfolders with 20,30,35 called msp and it contains the cumulative updates for 2.0 (which you have probably done already) and 3.0 which you probably need to go to the MS site and install individually see KB948610 as i cannot make sense of the CAB files within the update.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:35:12 +0000

the NET 4 file i cannot open with izarc but maybe with another program…