If You Think 60 Mega Bytes Is Bad, How Does A 120 Mega Byte Download Sound?

[Guest]

4 Those Of You On Dial Up Who Don't Like The Idea Of A 60 Mega Byte Download
4 Windows XP Service Pack 3 Via Microsoft Windows Update, How Does A 120
Mega Byte Download Sound 4 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Via Microsoft
Windows Update? Just FYI.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| 4 Those Of You On Dial Up Who Don't Like The Idea Of A 60 Mega Byte Download
| 4 Windows XP Service Pack 3 Via Microsoft Windows Update, How Does A 120
| Mega Byte Download Sound 4 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Via Microsoft
| Windows Update? Just FYI.

Big f'n deal.
The WinXP SP2 administrative EXE download is ~260MB and I expect SP3 to be ~310MB.

Now please stop posting irrelevant information.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It is only about 65MB on an up to date SP2 system. But your point is well
taken.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Colin Barnhorst" <[email protected]>

| It is only about 65MB on an up to date SP2 system. But your point is well
| taken.
|

I did call it the admistrative update. My bad for nomenclature. I'll use Microsoft
terminology.

"Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers"

WinXP SP2 Download Size:266.0 MB
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en



And I expect the SP3 "Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers" to
be ~310MB.

I hope this clarifies this a bit more. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[Lil' Dave]

4 Those Of You On Dial Up Who Don't Like The Idea Of A 60 Mega Byte
Download 4 Windows XP Service Pack 3 Via Microsoft Windows Update, How Does
A 120 Mega Byte Download Sound 4 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Via Microsoft
Windows Update? Just FYI.

Used the MS made SP2 update CD last go around. Hope they make same for SP3.

Us rural folks with just dialup service available finding things more and
more isolated. Maybe that's not a bad thing....

 

[Guest]

If You Don't Like My Post's, Then Add Me 2 Your Kill File, Just FYI. Other
Wise, Please Do Us All A Favor And Take A Flying Leap Of A Tall Building,
Just FYI. This Original Post Was Fully On Topic And Was In Response 2 Some
Of The Earlier Posts In This News Group About The SP3 Windows Update
Download Size 4 Dial Up User's, Just FYI.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Used the MS made SP2 update CD last go around. Hope they make same for
SP3.

You can make them yourself, easily and quickly.

Us rural folks with just dialup service available finding things more and
more isolated. Maybe that's not a bad thing....

You don't have to rely on MS distributing CDs or on Windows Update via
Dialup .

Make a deal with an interenet cafe or a friend with hispeed at an office.
They download the SP Administrative install file, which is the largest and
with hispeed takes usually under 30 minutes; set it up and you take them
for lunch. On return, then they burn it to a number of CDs. Or they
give you the CD and you duplicate them, and use them as appropriate.

You pay them off for their effort; perhaps with more disks, lunch, or a nice
Calvados.

HTH
-pk

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| If You Don't Like My Post's, Then Add Me 2 Your Kill File, Just FYI. Other
| Wise, Please Do Us All A Favor And Take A Flying Leap Of A Tall Building,
| Just FYI. This Original Post Was Fully On Topic And Was In Response 2 Some
| Of The Earlier Posts In This News Group About The SP3 Windows Update
| Download Size 4 Dial Up User's, Just FYI.
|

If your post was "In Response" to earlier posts then you should have replied to the thread
of said post or posts and NOT created a new thread. That would keep the subject matter
intact and contiguous.

 

[Phisherman]

4 Those Of You On Dial Up Who Don't Like The Idea Of A 60 Mega Byte Download
4 Windows XP Service Pack 3 Via Microsoft Windows Update, How Does A 120
Mega Byte Download Sound 4 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Via Microsoft
Windows Update? Just FYI.

Sounds like Bloat City. Dialup users will need to plan on leaving
their PC on for quite awhile. I suspect 10-20 hours? A good idea to
check your disk space and defrag before the ugly deed.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Three to five hours is more likely for 65mb. Office service packs are often
as large or larger. I might wait until a cd is available from MS if I were
on dialup or had to pay for download time.

 

[Lil' Dave]

You can make them yourself, easily and quickly.


You don't have to rely on MS distributing CDs or on Windows Update via
Dialup .

Make a deal with an interenet cafe or a friend with hispeed at an office.
They download the SP Administrative install file, which is the largest and
with hispeed takes usually under 30 minutes; set it up and you take them
for lunch. On return, then they burn it to a number of CDs. Or they
give you the CD and you duplicate them, and use them as appropriate.

You pay them off for their effort; perhaps with more disks, lunch, or a
nice Calvados.

HTH
-pk

Next time I'm at the office (I also work in rural area), I'll be sure to
spank everyone for not having what you said.