It says you are missing two security patches: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311401 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q300845 The first is the post-SP2 security rollup package and incorprates many fixes at once; the second is a java applet fix. FWIW, the hfnetchk link you posted worked fine. .Salvatore -----Original Message----- From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of rudy Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:54 PM To: thechat at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thechat] microsoft rant (part 2) <snip> anyhow, i finally get the thing to run, and here's what it tells me -- * WINDOWS 2000 SP2 Patch NOT Found MS02-001 Q311401 File C:\WINNT\system32\advapi32.dll has an invalid checksum and its file version is equal to or less than what is expected. Patch NOT Found MS02-013 Q300845 File C:\WINNT\system32\msjava.dll has an invalid checksum and its file version is equal to or less than what is expected. * INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 SP2 Information All necessary hotfixes have been applied. would somebody kindly like to interpret whether or not my win2000 is okay? rudy </snip> by the way, i was able to reproduce that weird error i got when clicking on the download link -- An error occurred rendering the requested content. URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=31154 The underlying connection was closed: The request was canceled. typical ASP programming, if you ask me thanks for nothing, bill