[Davey7549]

Listed below is great way to select and group all available updates per operating system from Microsoft's Update site and download them for storage and possible burn to CD for future use.

This Tip was provided compliments of TSG member:
Daniel_b23804

Thanks Daniel!!

How to Download Windows Updates for storage or burn to CD.

1. Go to the Windows Update web site and make sure you have the newer V4 control download on your system.
2. In the left pane, under Other Options, select “Personalize Windows Update”.
3. Under “Set Options for Windows Update”, select the check-box for “Display the Link to Windows Update Catalog under ‘See Also’”, then click “Save Settings”.
4. Go back to the Windows Update web site.
5. In the left pane, under “See Also”, select “Windows Update Catalog”.
6. Select “Find Updates for Microsoft Operating Systems”.
7. Select the operating system and language of your choice.
8. Then Click "Advanced Search Options" tab
8. Select “Critical Updates and Service Packs” or any of the groups listed you are interested in.
9. Select all of the patches you’d like to download by clicking the add button, then when done click on “Go to download basket” to download them.
10. Select folder on your computer where you want them downloaded too.

Thats it!

Note: If you have dial-up this process could take some time so do your downloading in small groups. Also at some items you will be asked to accept agreement. Just answer yes to prompt.

Tip: Created holding folder in "My Documents" before you start this process so you can direct download to appropriate location.

Dave

[pyritechips]

Thanks for that Dave!

Melissa has a very slow rural dial-up connection and there is now way she can download those huge updates and service packs (SP4 for W2K is 129 MB!) This may be against Microsoft policy but I download these, burn them to CD and mail them to her!

[Davey7549]

Jim

This may be against Microsoft policy but I download these

I think not!!
MS is the one who screwed up in the first place with Melissa's and others software so they want the users to incorporate the updates. Besides they are the ones who provided this capability for that purpose.

Dave

PS: Make sure you advise Her they may be read only and will have to be changed if so.

[pyritechips]

Thanks Dave: I double check all files before I send them to her.

I just updated my IE6 last night (I forgot after my last install ) and it ran to about 20 MB, along with security patches. She is lucky to get 40kb out of her connection. I like to brag about how fast my cable is so I put my megabytes where my mouth is and help her out in this manner. And true: if Micro$oft products weren't so buggy we wouldn't need thses fixes. Kind of like car recalls!

[XbrvhrtX]

With the end of support by M$ for win98 soon, this is just what I was looking for, Tnx for passing on the tip

[Byteman]

Hi, Have a tip- If you do like I tried to do and have the directions in a small window and the Win Update site in another side by side small window....you probably will not see a scroll bar in the white window with the operating systems...which confused me for a sec, until I pulled the Update window out far enough, then the scroll bar appears and you can get down to older OSes like win98!
Thanks for posting those directions- great way to save Updates to burn to CD! There are some for like win95 that you should do in certain order....you can look these up at the Update site, pretty much all of them have a link for More Info, which should be used...updates to things like Dial Up Networking, Winsock2, can and do overwrite files so you have to do them in correct sequence. Just search for and find the update's download page, the link for further reading is there.
EDIT::: Inside the downloaded updates when you get far enough into the folders these things make, there is a Read More text file I see....so, most of the important info on what you need to have on the system should be in those readme's.

[prospect]

Oh yeah, I gotta try this. Can ya get the criticial updates if ya already have them? Ya know when you got to the windows update page and it scans our system to see what we need.

[prospect]

Where's the V4 control thing?

[hewee]

Originally posted by prospect:
Oh yeah, I gotta try this. Can ya get the criticial updates if ya already have them? Ya know when you got to the windows update page and it scans our system to see what we need.

See this thread here.

http://forums.techguy.org/showthread...hreadid=175955

[Rox Shox]

I always slipstream all updates and Sp1 and burn it to a CD, and make it bootable with XP Pro - easy.

http://www.liquidninjas.com/reviews....wcontent&id=21

[prospect]

Is there any way to check if the updates (WIN 98 AND 98 SE) I got work? I DL all the win98/98se updates I could find. Then just for the hell of it, I clicked an update to see if it would try and install. I got this box with letters that looked like maybe it was pc talk. I'm running XP.

[prospect]

Ok, I think I got all the windows 98 updates. Now what do I do with them? I have easy cd creator.
It took me a while to get the updates. I have DSL and I though all I had to do is pick all the updates and just start downloading them. But when I went to the download basket to start the DL. The web page froze up. I could only do about 5 at a time.

If I ever get these updates on a cd, how do I install them on a fresh win 98 system?

Prospect

[prospect]

Now I'm after XP updates. I got all the updates XP,SP1
But what about XP RTM OR
XP64-BIT edition
XP 64-BIT edition sp1

Well, I think you guys are getting the picture. should I get em all?
Plus I still don't know how to put em on a cd and install them.

Prospect

[Davey7549]

Prospect
The way I have been doing it is creating a data CD-RW for storing them in numerical order and when I need to update a clean install I click on the .exe's one at a time until completely loaded on new machine. Keep in mind some will require restart of machine before proceding.

If someone knows an automated way of doing it I sure would like to hear it.

Dave

[prospect]

Yeah, ya know Dave, I was looking around in the files. And it keeps sending ya to another folder. But I did find an exe file finally. What order do ya install them in? I DL them from top to bottom. What do I do look at the dates and use the oldest first then work my way up to the latest date?

Prospect