Windows 2000 Pre-Beta

Windows 2000 was a modernization of Windows NT 4.0 which brought many of the desktop changes, including Active Desktop, to Microsoft's Windows NT line. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released, Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server. Improvements over NT 4.0 include new Accessibility Options, increased language and locale support, NTFS 3.0, the Encrypting File System and Active Directory. Windows 2000 was first planned to replace both Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 although using the NT kernel for consumer and professional editions would not happen until Windows 2000's successor, Windows XP.

Read below or select a release version to get information and downloads for Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 advanced server and BETA copies of Windows 2000 from WinWorld.

If the listed serials below do not work for a specific release, please see the Serials thread

Other Windows Versions:
| 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |



Installation instructions

BIOS Dates: 5.0.1515: March 18, 1997

Product type
OS
User interface
GUI
Platform
Windows
Download count
1097 (38 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft Windows 2000 (''NT 5.0'' 5.00.1059.0 SBS B1) 5.0.1059 Prerelease English 463.03MB 7
Microsoft Windows 2000 (''NT 5.0'' 5.00.1515.1 Professional) 5.0.1515 Prerelease English 47.56MB 15
Microsoft Windows 2000 (''NT 5.0'' 5.00.1585.1 Professional) 5.0.1585 Prerelease English 69.24MB 11
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (''NT 5.0'' 5.00.1592.1 Server) 5.0.1592 Prerelease English 173.25MB 5

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