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| Thread ID: 110248 | 2010-06-09 07:42:00 | Where are my Windows updates? | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 1108418 | 2010-06-09 07:42:00 | I am 'girding my loins' to do some work on my 'puter. My OS is XP Pro. I wonder where all my Windows downloads go (in the hope I don't have to re-download them all)? :help: will be most appreciated... :) | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1108419 | 2010-06-09 07:46:00 | They download to C:\windows\Softwaredistribution folder. Then unpack and install, reinstalling them from there though is a completely different matter (read as not exactly easy or impossible) If you want to download them and save to a format that will be able to be reinstalled in the future, speedy posted some links last week (I think) to a program that you can do just that. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1108420 | 2010-06-09 07:51:00 | Thanks - I'll look for that. | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1108421 | 2010-06-09 07:55:00 | pressf1.co.nz This one? |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1108422 | 2010-06-09 08:11:00 | Thats the post. Post 16 has the link. Bear in mind, the main file is 200 mb. This file includes ALL the .net framework files, and ALL updates (except todays updates) Thats all you need and todays updates (you need to use Nlite to slipstream them, if you want to burn todays updates as an iso). You can also download the remove addons on the link in post 16 (theres 6 of them, to remove browserchoice, Silverlight if you want it (there's an update for silverlight, you need to remove the old version before you install the new version), MSRT ( - Malicious software Removal Tool - I've got a removal addon from MSFN another site), Windows Search, and the Powershell program. And WGA. You HAVE to use RyanVM Integrator to use the removal addons I'm just testing to see if I can slipstream today's .net framework files and a later version of the DirectX redist files from this mth. With another program from the link above DXUPAC (this by the looks of it, extracts the files in the DirectX redist file, (for XP). It strips what you dont need on a 32 bit system (The x64 files), then compresses the x86 files to a 7z file (pretty neat I must say)! So, you can (hopefully slipstream it in Nlite), and hopefully it overwrites / updates the DX files that are already in the ISO I'm making. At the mo, I've slipstreamed that 200 mb file, todays updates, the updated version of Silverlight, and removed Windows search, MSRT, the validation file, browserchoice, and powershell |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1108423 | 2010-06-09 08:18:00 | The one I was referring to was in post #9 this one here (http://download.wsusoffline.net/) - As Speedy mentioned it makes an ISO file, you burn that to a DVD (due to its size) Mind you mine included SP3. Then after reinstalling XP, drivers etc, load up the DVD, and install the updates. After I did it there was a further 17MB of updates. (no big deal) Have a read of the documentation on the site, tells you how to use it, should you want to use that particular program. Actually reused the DVD again today on a customers PC that would only accept a SP2 CD, so it did save the time of downloading from scratch. ( see the "review" I posted #15) Have not tried the last one speedy posted. |
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