Download latest Windows Updates

mtroxmtrox Minnesota
edited September 2006 in Science & Tech
I set up another new PC tomorrow and have vowed this is the last time I'm going to download all (54 at last count) updates since SP2.

I've seen someone here talk about how I can download the latest, burn a disk and install them that way.
  1. How/where do I just download and save them?
  2. How do I know which ones are post SP2?
  3. If they are all on a CD, what command or file do I need to just install them all?

Comments

  • Bad_KarmaBad_Karma The Great White North
    edited August 2006
    I don't bother with microsoft updates anymore since I found http://www.autopatcher.com/
    It will install all current patches to the date displayed and skip over the ones that are already installed on your computer. It also comes with customizable options to personalize or tweak Windows XP. It is updated monthly.
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited August 2006
    Nice Karma. I downloaded the Lite version, did a checksum and will try it tomorrow. Most of that web site is down right now except for the forums. How do the updates work? They don't update the .exe file do they? Is it easier just to download the whole .exe every few months since you really should go to Windows Update after a new install any way?
  • Bad_KarmaBad_Karma The Great White North
    edited August 2006
    When you apply the updates i do beleive that it does not effect the original package just adds the update files. Evey few months they update the whole package instead of releasing incremental updates. If you want the latest security fixes I suggest you go with the increments and download the whole package just in case your install gets all buggered up or windows decides it doesn't like you anymore. :) Hope it all works out for you.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited August 2006
    Heres a guide that MediaMan wrote for using nlite. (You can intergrate drivers updates and service packs with nlite)
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited August 2006
    Bad_Karma wrote:
    When you apply the updates i do beleive that it does not effect the original package just adds the update files.

    So it sounds like the updates are applied to a computer that has autopatcher already installed. So if I'm just using it to apply all the updates to all the new machines I work on, there really is no reason to apply the autopatcher updates. I might as well just go to MS and download the other updates rather than carry around all the autopatcher updates?
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited September 2006
    I've used autopatcher on three machines now. Worked great on all of them except.....that on two of them I had problems installing hardware after using autopatcher. In both cases it was USB hardware that got caught in a loop. It would install but then keep detecting the USB hardware (one was a multi-function printer, the other a USB wireless NIC I use here) and trying to install again.

    Finally figured out that the Windows Installer was the problem. Per a MS KB article I deleted the Win Installer files, rebooted, then Windows rebuilt the installer. Things installed fine then, and Win Update downloaded the update to Windows installer and things were fine.

    Anyone else had this with autopather or was it just a fluke?
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