updates since SP2...

[RJK]

Just installed a new XP Home ed. SP2 OEM on my Aunties machine and now it
wants to collect about 27mb's more in "Windows Updates." (she's on
dial-up - so not really practical)

Is there any way for me to download them and take them to her machine on
cd-r ?

i.e. if I collect the:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en
266mb download, can I use that, since her machine is already up to SP2 -
will it supply to her machine Windows Updates since the manufacture of the
SP2, or is this "266mb SP2" and "old" one, like the XP Home SP2 OEM I seem
to have installed ?

regards, Richard

 

[Guest]

Try getting the numbers of the downloads it wants to install,then you can
search microsoft for them,or download a small amount at a time.

 

[Ghostrider]

Just installed a new XP Home ed. SP2 OEM on my Aunties machine and now it
wants to collect about 27mb's more in "Windows Updates." (she's on
dial-up - so not really practical)

The masters of bloatware still does not seem to understand
that not everyone has access to broadband and that there aer
sizeable hunks of the world still under dial-up at 56K or
slower.

Is there any way for me to download them and take them to her machine on
cd-r ?

Try this site for post-SP2 critical updates:

http://www.microscum.com/postsp2/

Courtesy of Kurttrail.

i.e. if I collect the:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en
266mb download, can I use that, since her machine is already up to SP2 -
will it supply to her machine Windows Updates since the manufacture of the
SP2, or is this "266mb SP2" and "old" one, like the XP Home SP2 OEM I seem
to have installed ?

If I understand what you just wrote, the 266 MB download is
Service Pack 2 to Windows XP. The updates from Kurttrail's site
are the updates that were released after SP2.

 

[Mikie]

The masters of bloatware still does not seem to understand
that not everyone has access to broadband and that there aer
sizeable hunks of the world still under dial-up at 56K or
slower.


Try this site for post-SP2 critical updates:

http://www.microscum.com/postsp2/

Courtesy of Kurttrail.


If I understand what you just wrote, the 266 MB download is
Service Pack 2 to Windows XP. The updates from Kurttrail's site
are the updates that were released after SP2.

This person wants to save his/her downloads to a CD-r and then load
them on to another PC! I also would love to see the
answer...slip-streaming is to complicated for this old brain!

ThanX!
Mikie

 

[Ron Martell]

This person wants to save his/her downloads to a CD-r and then load
them on to another PC! I also would love to see the
answer...slip-streaming is to complicated for this old brain!

ThanX!
Mikie

The link posted by Ghostrider (reproduced below)
http://www.microscum.com/postsp2/
will get you a good start on these.

Unfortunately Kurt has not updated the page since last November so
there are a number of additional updates which need to be added to
that list and unfortunately I don't have a list of them readily
available.

Kurt are you there? Your web page needs some attention.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Mistoffolees]

This person wants to save his/her downloads to a CD-r and then load
them on to another PC! I also would love to see the
answer...slip-streaming is to complicated for this old brain!

ThanX!
Mikie

If one does not want to make a slip-streamed version of
Windows XP, then the alternative is to download the update
files and install them individually. And these files can be
burned directly to CD-R or extracted and then burned to CD-R.
And should one not wish to download just the important Windows
updates but just the important ones, then Kurttrail's website
is a good place for them. One might not want the entire 27 MB
of updates, such as WGA/WGN that was foisted as a "critical"
update when it certainly is not.