Security Update for SQL 2000 Service Pack 4

I have a Windows XP Professional SP3 machine on which I couldn't get

this update to install. I went to microsofts website to get the

manual download (sorry I don't have the link available to me right

now). I tried to run the install but when it asked me to select (check

the box nex to) the installed options I couldn't select anything and

so would be forced to cancel. I thought maybe I needed to stop the SQL

services before I could run the installation manually, and that's when

i saw that they were disabled (in my case: SQLAgent$MICROSOFTSMLBIZ,

MSSQL$MICROSOFTSMLBIZ). I set the both of these to manual and started

them both. I ran the manual update again-this time the installed

options were already checked for me. I clicked next taking all the

defaults and it installed successfully. I didn't want to see that

goshdarned "updates available" icon so I ran the automatic update

installation as well (it worked also). When that completed, I stopped

the services I mentioned earlier and disabled them. I restarted the

machine-the icon didn't reappear in the system tray. Hope it helps