Recording updates on CD

[Paulo]

Is possible to store on a CD all the updates downloaded by windows update?
If windows needs to be reinstalled on the future, there's no need to
downloading it again!

Thanks MS Windows users winners!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Yes. You can make a slipstreamed cd using nLite. You can include updates
not already included in your current service pack.

However, I suggest you wait since SP3 should release in the next couple of
months. When it does you can download the version for IT Professionals and
slipstream that with your current XP sp2 cd to create an up to date cd for
use as you suggest. That will be much less work.

 

[RobF]

What does slipstream mean? Have seen the word here and in other groups, but
must be the only one who doesn't know. Thanks for advice in your post,
below.
--
RobF
Address anti-spammed


| Yes. You can make a slipstreamed cd using nLite. You can include updates
| not already included in your current service pack.
|
| However, I suggest you wait since SP3 should release in the next couple of
| months. When it does you can download the version for IT Professionals
and
| slipstream that with your current XP sp2 cd to create an up to date cd for
| use as you suggest. That will be much less work.
|
|
| | > Is possible to store on a CD all the updates downloaded by windows
update?
| > If windows needs to be reinstalled on the future, there's no need to
| > downloading it again!
| >
| > Thanks MS Windows users winners!
| >
|

 

[smlunatick]

What does slipstream mean? Have seen the word here and in other groups, but
must be the only one who doesn't know. Thanks for advice in your post,
below.
--
RobF
Address anti-spammed


| Yes.  You can make a slipstreamed cd using nLite.  You can include updates
| not already included in your current service pack.
|
| However, I suggest you wait since SP3 should release in the next couple of
| months.  When it does you can download the version for IT Professionals
and
| slipstream that with your current XP sp2 cd to create an up to date cd for
| use as you suggest.  That will be much less work.
|

|| > Is possible to store on a CD all the updates downloaded by windows
update?
| > If windows needs to be reinstalled on the future, there's no need to
| > downloading it again!
| >
| > Thanks MS Windows users winners!
| >
|

Slipstream means a method of "install" a service pack update into the
installation files of an XP install CD. This take all updated file /
added files and updates / merge these newer files into the
installation routine. At the end, the new revised created CD will
have all the updated files on it just like a new reised XP install CD
that you can buy.

Microsoft has the directions somewhere to "slipstream" official
Service Pack. Other people have developed "slipstreaming" methods for
all out updates.

 

[Holz]

Is possible to store on a CD all the updates downloaded by windows
update? If windows needs to be reinstalled on the future, there's no
need to downloading it again!

Thanks MS Windows users winners!

Google for nlite.

 

[Anthony W]

Slipstream means a method of "install" a service pack update into the
installation files of an XP install CD. This take all updated file /
added files and updates / merge these newer files into the
installation routine. At the end, the new revised created CD will
have all the updated files on it just like a new reised XP install CD
that you can buy.

Microsoft has the directions somewhere to "slipstream" official
Service Pack. Other people have developed "slipstreaming" methods for
all out updates.

The official word for it is "integrate" and if you search the MS
knowledgebase for slipstream you're not going to find much.

Try the following link.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900871/en-us

One thing that worked better for me was rather than running the command
from the root directory as in the article was to change to the directory
where the program is you need to run...

Anyway, I hope this is possible with SP3 when it's released.

Tony

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Take a look at http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html. AutoStreamer is also
excellent, but the guides on nLite make much better reading when you are new
to the idea.

 

[John]

Has anyone tried slipstreaming Dell setup CD? Does it work?

Note: it's not a recovery disc. It's a WinXP OS install disc that contains
no extra bloatwares.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

What does slipstream mean? Have seen the word here and in other groups, but
must be the only one who doesn't know.

The word "slipstreaming" was originally used to refer to the practice
of many software manufacturers of including updates to their product
on the distribution CD without any real announcement of what they were
doing or differentiation of the various kind of CDs. It was always a
disparaging term because it was poor practice. It was used as a way
for the manufacturer not to have to print a different box, manual,
etc. for the updated version, and to sell older stock that didn't
appear to be outdated, but actually was. That saved them money, but it
left the customer unable to tell whether he was buying the new version
or the old.

Somewhere along the line, people started creating their own updated
versions of some software, by merging the update files with the
original CD. Someone got the bright idea to call it by the same name
"slipstreaming," without realizing that the name was originally used
in a disparaging way.

The term stuck. I dislike the use of the word this way, but the
original meaning has been lost, so I long ago gave up trying to fight
it. Since everybody now uses it simply to mean a version with the
upgrade incorporated in it, I reluctantly go along.

So these days a slipstreamed copy of XP simply means an installation
CD that you've made yourself that incorporates an upgrade, such as
SP2.