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| Thread ID: 103833 | 2009-10-07 22:31:00 | Manual Save of MS Updates | ollieogg (6593) | Press F1 |
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| 817890 | 2009-10-07 22:31:00 | Hi everyone, I found out yesterday by someone more knowledgeable than I, that you can manually download windows updates and save them. I have had to reformat and reinstall windows and then gone through the laborious job of downloading all the updates.... takes ages as you can imagine. I read o here, that you can do this in part as the website you go to checks your system and then only offers the updates it thinks you need. I was hoping to download all the updates to a DVD or a Mem stick for future use. Is this possible and if so what is the web addy I need to go to, to get them? I have a laptop running XP and 4 Vista laptops, it would save a hell of a lot of downloading over time LOL. Thank you for any/all help. Regards Katy |
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| 817891 | 2009-10-07 22:38:00 | Download Vista SP1 (www.microsoft.com) and SP2 (www.microsoft.com) and save em to a disk or flash drive. Do the rest through windows update. I think there's like 7 updates after SP2 at the moment. :) Remember that Vista SP2 is not cumulative, so if there is no SP1 installed that has to be installed before installing SP2. ;) With XP just grab SP3 (www.microsoft.com) then do the remaining updates normally. |
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| 817892 | 2009-10-07 22:55:00 | In vista if you click on the orb / windows update option, you can also go to the link by clicking on view update history / right mouse on the update / view details. Then click on the more info link. You can do the same with XP, but go to add/remove programs, click on the update (the link under it). You can also slipstream the updates with Nlite (for XP). | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 817893 | 2009-10-07 23:11:00 | Thank you for the replies:banana I am downloading now. | ollieogg (6593) | ||
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