Microsoft KB Archive

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This is a new part of the wiki - an archive of all Microsoft KB articles (currently with >210000 articles). And perhaps the only archive where you can help make it better and more complete!

See A guide to mass-adding files for a guide on how this was done. This could also be adapted for other situations as well.

Click here to view the forum announcement for this archive. We particularly thank 3155GGfd for allowing us to import his massive collection into the archive.

Important: The copyright requirements for this section are different from the rest of the wiki. Please read the wiki guidelines; this part of the wiki is NOT released under a free licence and reproduction is NOT allowed without prior permission from a moderator or administrator. The main reason is that these articles are technically owned by Microsoft, unlike the rest of the wiki (where the articles are by the individual contributors).

Guidelines

  • Place them as a subpage of this page - so for KB article KB123456, it should be at Microsoft_KB_Archive/123456, or 123456. Do NOT include the KB or Q in the link, but include any other letters if they exist (like Z10000).
  • Maintain the Microsoft KB structure as much as possible. See 216417 for an example. Headings should be in H2 form (that is, == title == ).
  • Do not blindly copy-paste to the wiki - make sure that the formatting is correct.
  • Standard wiki rules with attribution apply - which means that you must attribute the source if you got it from, say, web.archive. Include the link in "Sources". This is not required if you imported it from HTML sources like the MSDN Archives.
  • It is fine to add links to other parts of the wiki (for example one to Windows 2000 as can be seen in the sample article).
  • Please add images if possible! Special:BatchUpload can be used to quickly upload images to the wiki. They should be categorised as Category:Microsoft KB Archive.
  • There is no need to remove links that may no longer work, like old download links. Keep them as it is. You can however improve formatting (like convert tables into native MediaWiki format).

List of KB articles

You may want to use the search box to search for your desired KB article.

See this list to browse all KB articles. If you want to see a small subset (~10000?) in one page, you may want to check out List of KB articles.

The images themselves are available as a category at Category:Microsoft KB Archive.