Windows crawls when doing Windows update

One of the Windows madness is after installation of Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 or NT SP 6a don't know if XP is affected), any further Windows Update crawls on any 2000/NT machine serving as NAT router for the network. Windows Update is so slow that your broadband connection dwindle into a 28.8k modem connection speed.

This issue happen because of problem with some of the system files that handles NAT routing that previous update replaced.

1st install - ipnat.sys dated 12/07/1999 60368 bytes
SP3 - ipnat.sys dated 07/22/2002 66608 bytes (introducing, the unnecessary loop)
After Q329251 - ipnat.sys dated 11/11/2002 66832 bytes (someone woke up)

The patch location for solving this issue ;
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a6c2374e-ce76-4f1e-82e7-8d77 c08d171d&DisplayLang=en

or do a search at microsoft.com for Q329251.

Expect a restart to complete the process. If you intend to hold on to the dynamic ip address for your Internet connection, you're out of luck.

The other madness - updates gets bigger and bigger, patch becomes more and more frequent, support ends earlier. Windows 2000 is not going to be supported after Jun 2003. Correct me if I am wrong. Notice how fast we have SP3 and now we have tonnes to update. Expect a SP4 really soon.

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