Windows Updates

Prisoner6409

When you run Windows Updates and MS downloads and installs the updates is the actual downloaded patch left on your system. I have a laptop(no internet access) and I would like to apply some of the patches to it. I know softwarepatch.com has a lot of the MS patches but if they are being downloaded to my system when I update it I will have them already.

subway

when you go to windows update theres a link on the left of the page for "use administrator options"
click on that and then choose windows catalog and it will let you select and download any updates that you need

Static M.e.

Prisoner6409,

While the patchs are downloaded to your machine, they are NOT downloaded in the conventional sense where you can simply find the patch and double click etc.

What I like to use / store on a usb /cd is a tool called Autopatcher. Every month they release the latest version which contains all the MS patchs to date. (Less Service Packs).

For Instance you can get the 2000 SP4 October version which will install all the patchs for Win 2000 SP4 up untill the Oct patchs release. Its a very handy tool to have espically for non networked / Internet machines.

GL

subway

you can use the ms method above which does download normal exe files to your hard drive.

do you have a link to that autopatcher tool?

icom

subway wrote:

you can use the ms method above which does download normal exe files to your hard drive.

do you have a link to that autopatcher tool?

October 2006 Autopatcher available at:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=504218

tman

They should be stored in your temporary internet files folder (c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\temporary internet files)
from memory, this folder displays a little oddly if you browse to it with windows explorer... haven't bothered doing it in years, but i remember saving the downloaded files using total commander previously

Static M.e.

http://www.autopatcher.com/

Stky10

I'm having the same problem installing some machines we've just bought from Dell that require 45 windows patches. Leaving aside how poorly that makes Dell look to me, it would be much quicker to me if I could copy the files from that directory to a usb key and from there to the same directory on a new machine. I've used autopatcher in the past, but it seems a slow enough process when you're dealing with multiple machines and little time to get them sorted.

Static M.e.

Autopatcher may be a large file but its very good in the fact that you can run it and walk away. Leave it run over night to be honest if you are going to be doing multiple machines I would really look into setting up a WUS (windows update server) on an old box.