[pyritechips]

Hello:

I recieved the same message about path lengths with Nreo. I ignored the warning and burned the update folders as is. They are accessible and usable on my CD's.

[Byteman]

Good to know it works even if there is that message about nested folders- with Burnatonce, the limit was 7 or 8 subfolders. After the message, I didn't try burning them!
Now that I recall, same message came up with some backups I made, so I adjusted them a bit and it worked fine. With the Updates> moving things or combining folders might spoil a long download effort. I WILL try burning them and disregarding that error message sometime and report on it. Thanks again.

[hewee]

I got me a new hard drive and installed 98 to it. The installed the network card drives so I could get online. The Windows 98 came with IE 4 so the MS update link did not want to work the same way and it said to upgrade IE to 5.5 or 6 so I did. After I got the IE 6 installed I went back to MS update and then got all the updates.

Then installed Drive Image and made a backup.

Plus I had also downloaded each of the updates to a folder like it says in the other thread Davey posted but like most of us I don't know just how to go about installing each of them.
That was why I just got a new drive and did things the way I did with a clean install of 98, the updates and a backup of it.

Buy the way without changing hard drives to look at the other drive the back up copy of the window 98 with the updates and Drive I image on it was I think 480 MB or 48? MB so it will all go on one CD too.

Lets hope all is well and this all works great.

[chalky]

I also have downloaded and saved all the M/S updates, only when it came to installing them after a clean install, as usual I messed things up, how I don't know, but it's something I do very easily.....

My question...would it be possible...If I do a clean install, get rid of all the rubbish the restore disc loads, tweak everything to how I want it then take hours to download all the updates and patches...Can I then use Drive Image to back up eveything on C Drive, then in the future just use the disc with the Drive Image on instead of the restore disc....it would make the task so much easier, or is that just wishful thinking...

[mobo]

Yes Chalky....I use the drive Image program and its very good at doing so..I Loaded my xp pro, updated it fully then intalled my favorite software packages as well as tweaks then used drive image to make an image of the system on a 3 gig partition..When I want to restore the image I open the drive Image in my programs and select restore and a couple clicks and about 10 minutes and I'm fresh installed again.

[chalky]

Cheers mobo...I hate the amount of time it takes to reinstall all the software programmes I use as well as everything else...although I have Windows 98se I am using office xp and all the settings take ages for me to alter...

[pyritechips]

FYI:

I have sucessfully saved all the W98se updates to disc.

I wanted to do the same for my W2K but when I tried I got the old "Acess Denied" with the big red "X" on the Windows Update page.

I did a search of fixes and none of them worked so I decided to go on a "search and destroy mission" in my registry. I managed to find the following offending key*:

HKEY_USERS\
S-1-5-21-1220945662-920026266-1708537768-1000\
Software\
Microsoft\
Windows\
CurrentVersion\
Policies\
Explorer "NoWindowsUpdate" = "1"

Change this 1 to 0 then reboot.

* Warning! - As always, back up your registry before making any changes. If you are not comfortable in the registry, or are unsure, do not change anything!. Make any and all registry changes at your own risk..

[georgeg2000]

Originally posted by Davey7549:
Prospect
That is how approach it. Oldest date of release first and down the line to current.

Dave

When you download the files, your file dates get set to the date of downloading so how do you sort by date. As to sorting by number, you have several different number sets to play with. In downloading updates for XP, I have file names like:
Q326830_WXP_SP1......exe
Q822925.exe
WindowsXP-KB821557........exe

How do you sort them? Just ignore everything but the big number?

[hewee]

Originally posted by georgeg2000:
When you download the files, your file dates get set to the date of downloading so how do you sort by date. As to sorting by number, you have several different number sets to play with. In downloading updates for XP, I have file names like:
Q326830_WXP_SP1......exe
Q822925.exe
WindowsXP-KB821557........exe

How do you sort them? Just ignore everything but the big number?

Get the Free Windows Security Update CD that is out now.

See this thread.
http://forums.techguy.org/t205511/s.html

[georgeg2000]

Originally posted by hewee:
Get the Free Windows Security Update CD that is out now.

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Thanks. I've got it on order. It will be interesting to see how its organized. Of course, most of this will be moot when SP2 comes out. I see that some of the security patches are already labeled as SP2.

[hewee]

Your have to just download the rest georgeg2000.

This CD includes Microsoft critical updates released through October 2003.

But you can order another CD later in a year from now or when ever they come out with a newer CD version date. So bookmark the link http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp and check the date.