Win XP updates

galwaydude18

Is there some way to save all the windows xp updates to my pc rather than download them everytime that I need to reinstall or fomat my pc to reinstall win xp. It would save me a lot of time as I'm only on a dial up connection at the moment...

kaimera

I thought the updates did dl to yer hdd to WUTemp folder prior to installing and were deleted once installed??

has that changed with the last windowsupdate site fix a while back?

if not, let the updates dl, then cancel the install and find the WUTemp folder [it's on my C: drive]

else go here

medex

use the microsoft download website to search for your updates and then save them to disk or ur usb key

galwaydude18

How Do You Do That? At Medex...

aidan_walsh

galwaydude18 wrote:

How Do You Do That? At Medex...

Like this.

There is no way to do what you suggest using Windows Update.

galwaydude18

jesus am I stupid I read medex's post so fast that I didn't realise what I was asking. I alread know how to do that but is there some way to it automatically. I mean use win update to save all the updates to my hard drive? rather than search for them all individually? sometime you cant get the update using the search feature and that annoys me. It takes a good while to search from them all.. there must be some automatic way to do this!

Capt'n Midnight

aidan_walsh wrote:

There is no way to do what you suggest using Windows Update.

it's proxy unfriendly so you can't even cache it easily that way either

aidan_walsh

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

it's proxy unfriendly so you can't even cache it easily that way either

Well, he could get a cheap ass Windows 2000 Server box to cache them on

odie

You could also download autopatcher from here,

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=334257

It contains all the XP updates and more such as WMP10, Java, plugins etc. Very handy and it is updated monthly

galwaydude18

Cool il give that a look!

Capt'n Midnight

aidan_walsh wrote:

Well, he could get a cheap ass Windows 2000 Server box to cache them on

Tip - it saves the files as EXE's and you can just cut/paste them back into the folder again after you rebuild the server so you don't need to download them again. yes you can run the exe's by themselves, but be bloody sure you aren't running a server patch on a workstation and visa-versa

galwaydude18

Capt'n that's not making much sense to me! Can you explain it a bit more for me? I'm not well up on servers... What is a server patch? What do you mean by rebuild the server?

Spunog UIE

odie wrote:

You could also download autopatcher from here,

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=334257

It contains all the XP updates and more such as WMP10, Java, plugins etc. Very handy and it is updated monthly

that sounds pretty good, i just had them all saved individually.