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JSI Tip 6890. What is fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4?
Jerold Schulman
June 26, 2003
16 Min Read
Windows service packs are cumulative, SP4 contains all the fixes in the previous service packs.
NOTE: You DO NOT have to apply any earlier service pack before installing SP4.
NOTE: See 260910 - How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack.
The following list of fixes, arranged by category, are included in SP4:
Number | Title | Category |
|---|---|---|
Disk Performance May Degrade Over Time | Base operating system | |
No Global Groups Are Available Creating File-Share Resource Permissions in Cluster Administrator | Base operating system | |
Backup Takes Much Longer When PAE Is Enabled | Base operating system | |
The Windows File Checker Utility Cannot Restore Protected Operating System Files | Base operating system | |
EnableTrace() Function Requires Trace Providers to Be Registered Before Enabling Them | Base operating system | |
GetNtmsObjectAttribute() Does Not Return ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER | Base operating system | |
File Appears to Be Deleted Although You Do Not Have Permissions on the OS/2 Warp4-Based Server | Base operating system | |
An Error Occurs in Usbhub.sys If It Is Used as a Composite Driver | Base operating system | |
Cancelled URB May Not Contain the Number of Bytes That Were Actually Transferred | Base operating system | |
No Audio on a Web Camera When You Resume from Hibernation | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000 Post-Service Pack 3 Active Directory Rollup Hotfix | Base operating system | |
Redirector Does Not Cache Files When the SPARSE Attribute Is Set | Base operating system | |
Problems Transferring Highly Fragmented Packets in NDIS | Base operating system | |
You May Receive a "Tape Drive Requires Cleaning" Error Message When You Try to Back Up | Base operating system | |
Certain R2 PC Cards Are Incorrectly Enumerated as Memory Cards | Base operating system | |
FRS Does Not Replicate Files or Folders If the System Account Does Not Have Full Control of the Directory Tree | Base operating system | |
Peripheral Hardware May Not Be Initialized During the Startup Process | Base operating system | |
The NET TIME Command May Report the GMT Bias Incorrectly | Base operating system | |
Event ID 49 Entry Is Added to the System Event Log When You Use the 3GB Switch in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
You Cannot Open a File That You Moved to a DFS Share | Base operating system | |
Event Log Replication Entries Fill Windows 2000 Cluster Log | Base operating system | |
CPU Usage Rises to 100 Percent If You Charge the Battery Slowly While the Computer Is On | Base operating system | |
You Receive an "NTLDR Is Missing" Error Message When You Start Your Computer | Base operating system | |
You Cannot Take DFS Replica Members Offline | Base operating system | |
RIS Setup Stops Responding at "Setup is Starting Windows" Screen | Base operating system | |
One-Hour Delay Occurs During Startup with a USB Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse | Base operating system | |
Modem Settings Are Missing After You Remove and Re-Insert Your Modem | Base operating system | |
Raytheon RayLink Wireless PCMCIA LAN Adapter Does Not Start with a Code 12 | Base operating system | |
RRAS Dial-on-Demand Interface Does Not Establish a Connection | Base operating system | |
Banner Page Always Prints When a Service That Needs to Print to a Novell NetWare Print Queue Prints | Base operating system | |
Phantom Connection Count When Keep-Alive Connections Switch Host Header | Base operating system | |
Administratively Created DNS Records May Not Be Security-Enhanced | Base operating system | |
An Access Violation Occurs in Spoolsv.exe | Base operating system | |
Disk Management Snap-In Does Not Show a Disk with a Large Number of Partitions | Base operating system | |
You Cannot Make Floppy Disk Controller Physically Probe Floppy Drives | Base operating system | |
Delayed Write Failed Error Message When You Write a File to a Server | Base operating system | |
L2TP May Not Use the Default IP Address | Base operating system | |
Input Language of Terminal Server Client Does Not Match That of Terminal Server Session | Base operating system | |
Service Pack 3 Adds Updates to Several Windows 2000 Support Tools | Base operating system | |
You Cannot Access Protected Data After You Change Your Password | Base operating system | |
Computer Is Unresponsive When Hibernating | Base operating system | |
UPN Credentials Cause CSNW to Omit the NDS Tree for Changing Your Password | Base operating system | |
IEAK User Rights Deployment Build Is Not Installed If Windows Installer 2.0 Is Installed | Base operating system | |
WM_TIMER Messages May Stop Being Delivered to Programs in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Disks Are Not Detected Correctly When You Add a Disk As a Cluster Resource on a Cluster Node | Base operating system | |
Access Violation Error Message in Explorer.exe | Base operating system | |
GlobalAlloc() in Ntvdm.exe May Return A Memory Handle That Is Not Valid | Base operating system | |
Logical Disk Partitions Are Lost or Damaged After You Upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
MS02-055: Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility May Allow Attacker to Run Code | Base operating system | |
Delegation Wizard Only Reads One CONTROLRIGHT in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
ASP Generates a New ASP SessionID Cookie for Every User Access | Base operating system | |
Cannot Remove a Computer from a Domain Because the Computer Name Is Not Found | Base operating system | |
Error Message if Windows 2000 Server Is Running Citrix Metaframe That Is Configured in a Load-Balancing Farm | Base operating system | |
Dumpfile Header and Header Size Information Are Incorrect | Base operating system | |
The Specified DNS Retry Interval Is Not Used | Base operating system | |
The DisablePagingExecutive Setting May Cause Windows 2000 to Hang | Base operating system | |
Access Violation in Lsass.exe Because of LDAP Version 2 Search with Referrals | Base operating system | |
Printing to a Redirected LPT1 from Windows XP to Windows 2000 Prints Multiple Separator Pages | Base operating system | |
FIX: DM_USER_DEFAULT Flag Is Not Set in the DOCUMENTPROPERTYHEADER Structure | Base operating system | |
Certificate Does Not Display the Ampersand (&) in a Company Name | Base operating system | |
Plug and Play Devices Are Not Detected After You Restart Your Windows 2000-Based Computer | Base operating system | |
A Network File Cannot be Opened if the File is Locked | Base operating system | |
Computer Enters Standby During IR File Transfer in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000: Drive Letter Changes After You Restart Your Computer | Base operating system | |
No Files Are Displayed on Backup Tape or You Are Repeatedly Asked to Insert a Tape | Base operating system | |
FIX: Memory Leak in Remote Procedure Call Server Service (RPCSS) | Base operating system | |
The WinNT Provider Returns an Incorrect Number of Domains in a Network | Base operating system | |
Installing a Non-Plug and Play Driver for a PCI Device May Cause Problems | Base operating system | |
The Cluster Service Detects RPC Errors 1726 and 1722 | Base operating system | |
Maximum NT User Handles Per Process Is 10,000 in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000 NAT May Reuse TIME-WAIT Connections Before the 2MSL Period | Base operating system | |
Hibernation Problem with Computers with One Gigabyte of RAM Under High-Stress Conditions | Base operating system | |
MS02-045: Unchecked Buffer in Network Share Provider May Lead to Denial-of-Service | Base operating system | |
The Clusdisk.sys Driver Does Not Permit Disks to Be Removed by Plug and Play | Base operating system | |
IAS Logs List an Incorrect IP Address for the Network Access Server Device | Base operating system | |
Index Server 3.0 Does Not Correctly Index Some Excel Files | Base operating system | |
Error Message Occurs When You Start Disk Management After Extending a Hardware Array | Base operating system | |
DFS Alternate Is Modified Unexpectedly | Base operating system | |
MSMQ: A Version Mismatch Between Mqmig.exe and Mqmigrat.dll Causes Primary Enterprise Controller Migration to Fail | Base operating system | |
Files May Appear to Be Empty with an Older Redirector | Base operating system | |
Removable Storage Recognizes the Tape Drive but It Does Not Recognize Any Media in the Drive | Base operating system | |
Preventing Users from Putting Compressed Files on a File Server | Base operating system | |
Redirected Printing Through a Terminal Services Session May Not Work with Windows 2000 SP3 | Base operating system | |
Removing USB Hub Causes STOP 0x0000001E | Base operating system | |
Adding a Print Separator Page May Cause an Error Message | Base operating system | |
The Microsoft Message Queue Server Migration Tool Deletes the MsmqServices Object | Base operating system | |
An Access Violation Occurs When BizTalk Server Is Under a Heavy Load | Base operating system | |
Task Scheduler Jobs Do Not Work and Generate Error Code 0x8004130f Intermittently | Base operating system | |
List Is Cleared If You Accidentally Enter a Blank Line in the "Run Only Allowed Windows Applications" Policy | Base operating system | |
CreateMultiProfileTransform() Stops Working After 1,000 Calls and Then Leaks Memory | Base operating system | |
MS02-070: Flaw in SMB Signing May Permit Group Policy to Be Modified | Base operating system | |
Security Group Policy Is Applied During Every Startup Process | Base operating system | |
Integrated Technology Express Devices May Not Work with Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
An Access Violation Occurs in Rsvpsp.dll | Base operating system | |
A Handle Leak Occurs in Mstask.exe | Base operating system | |
MSMQ: The Bind Syntax Is Not Correctly Interpreted | Base operating system | |
FIX: RPC_S_CALL_FAILED When You Use COM Server to Call Multithreaded Client Application | Base operating system | |
An Access Violation Occurs in Unregmp2.exe When You First Log On to Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
You May Receive a "Stop 0x1E" Error Message Intermittently in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Error Reported When ADSI MoveHere Function Runs Against Third-Party LDAP Server | Base operating system | |
MS02-063: Unchecked Buffer in PPTP Implementation May Permit Denial-of-Service Attacks | Base operating system | |
FTP Transfers by Using Network Address Translation May Not Work | Base operating system | |
Stop 0x7B Error Occurs If You Disable Diskperf When Other Filter Drivers Are Loaded | Base operating system | |
Intermittent Program Unresponsiveness Occurs When You Use Performance Monitoring | Base operating system | |
A "Stop 0x0000001E" Error Occurs in the NetWare Redirector | Base operating system | |
Intermittent Name Resolution Issues and Event IDs 5501 and 6524 Are Logged to the DNS Server Event Log | Base operating system | |
COM+ Leaks Non-Root Transaction Objects | Base operating system | |
Files Larger Than 4 GB Are Truncated During a Restore If an EMC Device Is Used | Base operating system | |
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Error Message when You Dismount a Volume | Base operating system | |
Active Directory Passes Incorrect Security Descriptors to Programs | Base operating system | |
Mqbkup.exe Does Not Support a Virtual Cluster Service | Base operating system | |
DHCP Vendor-Specific Options Longer Than 124 Bytes Are Not Sent | Base operating system | |
DF Bit Is Incorrectly Set to Zero on All Packets Sent From a Windows 2000-Based Computer | Base operating system | |
Slow Disk Performance When Write Caching Is Enabled | Base operating system | |
Active RPC Connections Are Closed | Base operating system | |
Stop 0x0E3 Error Occurs When Redirector Thread Tries to Release a Lock | Base operating system | |
The Computer Appears to Stop Responding When a Program Sends Large Blocks of Data Through TCP/IP Sockets in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Universal Serial Bus Devices Are Not Detected Intermittently When You Start or Resume the Computer | Base operating system | |
Network Adapters Are Missing or Incorrect in Device Manager After You Run NTBackup to Restore System State Data | Base operating system | |
File Server Stops Responding (Hangs) When You Rename a File | Base operating system | |
Disabling Site Awareness for Windows 2000 DFS in a Windows NT 4.0 Domain | Base operating system | |
Server Intermittently Stops Responding During High Disk Activity | Base operating system | |
Stop 0x00000051 REGISTRY_ERROR Error Message When You Log On | Base operating system | |
User Authentication to Services Such as Microsoft Exchange Server May Time Out on a Member Server | Base operating system | |
USB Storage Device Is Not Recognized After the Computer Resumes from Hibernation | Base operating system | |
Improvements in the Post-Service Pack 3 Release of Ntfrs.exe | Base operating system | |
Cannot Play Video CDs on Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
A "Stop 0x0000001E" Error Occurs in Win32k.sys in Windows 2000 | Base operating system | |
Issues That Are Fixed in the Post-Service Pack 3 Release of Ntfrs.exe | Base operating system | |
Stratus ftServer-Based Computer Stops Responding (Hangs) After a Surprise Removal of OpenHCI USB Host Controller | Base operating system | |
Debugging a Process Might Cause Handles to Leak | Base operating system | |
Cannot Restore Backup Media That Is Created by a Backup Operator | Base operating system | |
Paged Pool Memory Decreases as You Add RAM | Base operating system | |
Memory Leak in Winmgmt.exe When You Run Monitoring Tools | Base operating system | |
Multimedia Device Does Not Work After You Update Its Driver | Base operating system | |
Terminal Services Program May Run More Slowly on Windows 2000 Than on Windows NT 4.0 | Base operating system | |
Problems When Your Computer with Multiple ATA Drives Enters the S1 Power State | Base operating system | |
Opportunistic Locking May Not Be Granted If Windows Is Installed by Using Sysprep | Base operating system | |
DFS Manager Does Not Show DFS Roots | Base operating system | |
BackupRead() Cannot Read a File with a 0-Byte Alternate Data Stream | Base operating system | |
Only One Function Is Enumerated and a Code 10 Error Occurs in Device Manager When You Insert a Multifunction PC Card into a PCMCIA Slot | Base operating system | |
SCSI Pass-Through Mode Sense Command May Crash the Computer | Base operating system | |
Windows Does Not Detect a SCSI Device After a Surprise Removal | Base operating system | |
Cannot Install Driver Updates from the Windows Update Web Site | Base operating system | |
Windows Terminal Server Client Cannot Connect to the Terminal Server | Base operating system | |
FIX: Cannot Resume from Hibernation When Devices That Are Behind a USB 2.0 Hub Are Removed | Base operating system | |
List of Base Operating System Fixes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 | Base operating system | |
Unknown Error Error Message When You Create a Backup Over Your Network | Base operating system | |
Your Windows 2000-Based Computers Stops Responding While You Work with Multiple Programs | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000 Stops Responding When You Press a Key to Bring Your Computer out of the Hibernate State | Base operating system | |
Clustered Disk Drive Letter Unexpectedly Changes | Base operating system | |
Code 28 Error Message and a Yellow Exclamation Mark Next to a USB Device in Device Manager After Your Computer Resumes from Hibernation | Base operating system | |
Computer May Experience a Stop 0x50 (Pool Corruption) Error in NT!ObGetObjectSecurity | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000 Crashes with a "Stop 0x000000d1" Error Message | Base operating system | |
Rate of Page-Zeroing Process Is Unexpectedly Slow | Base operating system | |
The Scsiport Driver May Not Read Registry Parameters That Are Specified for Miniport Drivers | Base operating system | |
FTDisk May Cause a "STOP Error 0x000000D1" Error Message When You Shut Down Your Computer | Base operating system | |
Windows 2000-Based Computer with NTFS Boot Disk Does Not Start and Appears Stuck in Loop | Base operating system | |
When Starting with Both the /PAE and /3GB Switches, the System May Not Start | Base operating system | |
You Receive a "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" Error Message | Base operating system | |
Name Collision in Active Directory Causes Replication Errors | Directory services | |
License Logging Service Decrements Licenses for Machine Accounts | Directory services | |
The Serial Number Is Decremented in DNS When You Reboot the Computer | Directory services | |
The Event Log Stops Logging Events Before Reaching the Maximum Log Size | Directory services | |
HasMasterNCs Attributes for Server Objects in the Configuration Container May Become Damaged | Directory services | |
Slow Connectivity to NetWare Resources | Directory services | |
Performance of Microsoft Commerce Server-based Programs May Degrade Over Time | Directory services | |
You Receive a "System Error 1230" Error Message When You Browse the Network | Directory services | |
Increase in DNS Zone Serial Numbers Causes Unnecessary Zone Transfers in Windows 2000 | Directory services | |
The "IPCONFIG /SETCLASSID" Command Does Not Send the Class ID in the Options Field of the DHCP Information Packet | Directory services | |
A Netsh DHCP Import Does Not Import Configuration Information | Directory services | |
Directory Service Access Audits for a SAM Object Server Have Incomplete Object Names | Directory services | |
An Access Violation Occurs in Lsass Because of a Stack Overflow | Directory services | |
The Back Button Is Available in the Domain Screen During Automated Setup | Directory services | |
An Error Occurs in the ADSI Windows NT Provider When You Enumerate the Members of a Group by Using a Binding | Directory services | |
Dcdiag.exe Issues Incorrect "Topology Disconnected" Error Messages | Directory services | |
AT Command Stops Responding When You Try to List Scheduled Jobs | Directory services | |
You Cannot Collect DHCP Data by Using SNMP | Directory services | |
Accessing Active Directory with LDAP by Using Sun JNDI Calls May Not Work | Directory services | |
DNS Caching Behavior When You Use the "All" Query Type in Windows 2000 | Directory services | |
Computer Hangs for 15 Seconds When You Use Your Zip Drive | Directory services | |
FTP Logging: Transferred Bytes Not Accurate When Transaction Aborted | Directory services | |
The Computer Hangs If You Call LockWorkstation() While a Screen Saver Is Running | Directory services | |
Possible Memory Leak in CDOSYS When You Use the IBodyPart Interface | Directory services | |
MS02-028: Heap Overrun in HTR Chunked Encoding Might Enable Web Server Compromise | Directory services | |
Only Members of the Administrators Group Can Retrieve the ntSecurityDescriptor Attribute from an IDirectorySearch Result Set | Directory services | |
Windows NT 4.0 Usrmgr.exe Does Not Display an Error Message When You Change a Password to a Weak Password | Directory services | |
DFS Client Computers Stop Responding when Disconnecting from a DFS Share | Directory services | |
Stop 0x50 Error Message When You Rename a Large Number of Files on Windows 2000 | Directory services | |
The Repadmin Tool Returns LDAP Error 32 | Directory services | |
DCOM Proxy Is Decoupled with Server Stub When It Looks for Binding Handle | Directory services | |
Access Violation in Spoolsv.exe GDI32!IcmInitIcmInfo in Windows 2000 | Directory services | |
A Digital Audio Interface PC Card May Not Function Properly | Directory services | |
The TCP Connections Established Performance Counter Reports Incorrect Values on Multiprocessor Computers | Directory services | |
A Domain Administrator Receives an "Unable to Display Security Information" Error Message | Directory services | |
INFO: Truncated Results When Calling IDirectorySearch::GetNextRow | Directory services | |
Buffer Overrun in IIS When No Script Maps Exist | Directory services | |
Multihomed DHCP Clients May Cause "Bad_Address" Entry on a DHCP Server in Windows 2000 | Directory services | |
Dump File Not Created Correctly with More Than Four GB of Memory and PAE Turned On | Directory services | |
Event ID 6008 Is Unexpectedly Logged to the System Event Log After You Shut Down and Restart Your Computer | Directory services | |
Password Change Does Not Work Over Remote AccessRadius Authentication | Directory services | |
WMI Event Registration Leak | Directory services | |
The SetUserProperty() Function Leaks Memory | Directory services | |
AutoShareServer Setting Cannot Prevent Administrative Shares on Cluster Nodes | Directory services | |
MS02-071: Flaw in Windows WM_TIMER Message Handling Can Enable Privilege Elevation | Directory services | |
Cannot Log On from a Macintosh Client After You Change Your Password | Directory services | |
The MaxPreloadEntries Registry Value Does Not Work and Defaults to 1,000 Entries | Directory services | |
An Access Violation Occurs When a Program Tries to Update Active Directory | Directory services | |
Windows 2000-Based Servers May Not Set the DNS Domain Name After You Upgrade a Domain | Directory services | |
IIS Out-of-Process Applications Stop Responding | Directory services | |
Error Message "An Attempt Was Made to Remember a Device That Had Previously Been Remembered" When You Log On | Directory services | |
Long Delays Occur When You Run Chkdsk.exe | Directory services | |
PostScript Print Jobs Containing Type-1 Multiple Master Metrics Fonts Are Not Printed | Directory services | |
A Deadlock Occurs in the Ndistapi Device | Directory services | |
Stop Error Occurs When You Start the Computer for the First Time | Directory services | |
Removable Storage May Not Refresh the Tape | Directory services | |
FIX: Isoch Callback Not Called or Error on Blue Screen Occurs When Starting Isoch Stream | Directory services | |
Disk.sys Causes an "0x0000001E" Error | Directory services | |
An OpenGL Screen Saver May Cause an Access Violation | Directory services | |
Terminal Services Client Cannot Obtain Terminal Services User Configuration From Domain Controller During Logon | Directory services | |
UPN Box in Active Directory Users and Computers Contains Corrupted Data | Directory services | |
DNS Serial Number Is Incremented During Zone Transfer | Directory services | |
Using the DCPROMO /FORCEREMOVAL Command to Force the Demotion of Active Directory Domain Controllers | Directory services | |
Cannot Promote New Global Catalog When Conflict Naming Contexts Exist | Directory services |
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