Hello, D.l., it is a great day here.

 DLS> Oh well, I may never figure out what is keeping me from
 DLS> downloading  critical updates. LOL I may just have to live with it
 DLS> until I decide to  put in a new hard drive or build a new
 DLS> system.....

        Did you ensure that you were the # 1 administrator on your W2K ?
        You have to be described as: Builtin account for administering
        the computor/domain. This gives you the authority to do anything
        to your system and maybe D/L the Win updates.
        FWIW !

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