windows 2000 service packs / update rollups / other issues?

i want to use windows 2000 operating system as an experimental build and i wanted to make sure im heading the right direction, for the service packs, you would just download sp1, sp2, sp3, and then sp4 individually? and then for the update rollups, after installing sp4, you can then install the update rollup 2 which is the first one too with other updates? i also have another question that i asked before but didnt get answers to it yet, i wanted to know if there is a relation between how online games update to newer patches and microsoft support? in other words, would a game like warcraft 3 still update when clicking battle.net in the menu? also, i cant really find any sources of the game's compatibility with windows 2000, however, i did read a while ago that it runs on windows 98, so i dont see why it wouldnt on windows 2000. also, this is off topic to this question too but i experimented with windows 98 and couldnt get warcraft 3 to even install, mentioning incorrect path choosen! please choose again, i looked up the problem and tried a few things but all of which didnt fix the problem. this is one of the reasons why i want to use windows 2000, w98se gave me all sorts of missing dll and other random errors and problems, and system file checkers and those things didnt fix the problems. also, want to use windows 2000 obviously because of the newer, better, and more availability of hardware / driver support.

Harley Drive2014-03-20T22:41:53Z

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windows 98 runs on dos , 2000 runs on NT like XP , 7 and 8 ( and vista) to run anything on 2000 you just need an earlier version , the core of all the windows version is the same just the libraries and the way the O/S reads the version number changes so you have to update , the main difficulty now with 2000 is drivers for later chipsets and things like USB3

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