XP Updates (again!)

[Matthew]

Dear All,

I have downloaded a load of XP updates at work, burnt them
to a CD and taken them home to install on my XP box
there. Do I have to run each individual update and then
reboot each time or is there a quick way? For example can
I stick all the updates into a folder, run windows update
and it will find and install them all in one go?
Otherwise it looks like I am going to be sitting here all
day installing indivudal updates and rebooting...

Any help would be great...

TIA

Matthew

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Matthew

If you have the Updates on a CD you will then have to install each of them one by one. WU will not be able to find those Updates on your CD. It would be better if you did reboot your PC when asked to after installing any of the Updates.

Will

 

[Bee]

There is no reason why you cannot chain install hotfixes for WinXP published
after December, 2002. You may like to check the first couple of paragraphs
in:

'The Correct Files Not Installed When You Chain Multiple Hotfixes'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;815062

Yes, "it wll find them, and install them all in one go", as you said.
Personally, however, I prefer to install my critical/security updates, which
have been individually saved on CD, one by one, separated by system restore
points. I also reboot after each update. Whichever update giving immediate
trouble will then be isolated by rolling back to the pre-install restore
point. Thus far, I have been lucky; I have not had to resort to this. This
practice of providing more control, some would say self-punishment, is my
choice.

The total number of critical/security updates I downloaded, relevant to my
standalone home computing, after SP1a and MS Windows Virtual Machine
Build3809, including the most recent 823980, 821557, is 12.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have downloaded a load of XP updates at work, burnt them
to a CD and taken them home to install on my XP box
there. Do I have to run each individual update and then
reboot each time or is there a quick way?

If an update wants to reboot, I would let it do so before going on.
Otherwise there is a risk of the updated files from different updates
getting at cross purposes, and of you finding subsequently that it is
'please wait for System to be updated;' at every subsequent boot