hotfixes istallation

[Farhan]

can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is very
painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can be applied to
XP systems.

Farhan

 

[Mart]

Sadly, no! (To both questions)

If your pc can access your ISP through DSL (using LAN or USB devices) then
it's not quite such the painful process that it is with Dial-up.

However, there is a Win98 MVP - Gary S Terhune who (sometimes visits the
WinMe group) has produced a copy of the Security Updates CD (for a very
modest fee) and wrote in March of this year :-

<quote>
My Updates CDs are now ready to go. One is a copy of the Security Updates CD
from 02/04, the other contains everything since, with a few minor
exceptions. No IE 5 or 5.5, only IE6 SP1. Good for Win98, 98SE and ME.

Anyone interested should email updates RemoveThis @grystmill.com

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com
<unquote>

Might be worth a try? Others have reported success.and satisfaction.

Good luck

Mart



"Farhan" <farhan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23%23j0Z8t8IHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is very
> painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can be applied
> to XP systems.
>
> Farhan
>

 

[Alfonse Terego]

Farhan wrote:
> can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is
> very painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can
> be applied to XP systems.
>

No. You need to download the hotfix's installer to install to more than one
system. But my personal take on dial-up has for quite a while now been that
it is too expensive these days. Hotfixes and Antivirus definitions are so
large now - on XP and later - and would be on ME if hotfixes were still
being made for it - that you will be almost continually downloading them and
have hardly any bandwidth for anything else - which, of course, defeats the
object of getting the patches and defs in the first place.

Microsoft recently released SP3, which - if you bought XP since then - takes
some of the pain out of doing a new XP installation. For a year or so prior
to SP3 a new XP installation - assuming done with XP SP2! - required
applying between 80 and 100 patches SP3 integrates those, but already there
are probably another 20 you need to download even if you do have SP3! A year
from now and it could be 40 or 50, and by the time XP support ends it'll
probably be somewhere between 100 and 200 again!

I have almost from day one been saving updates to disk/disc. Now, with XP,
if you'd done that, you didn't really need SP3, because you could install
100 patches by running them from a batch file with switches such as /quick
/norestart. You don't have that option with ME - so you have to double-click
on one patch, restart when it says it needs to, when back to the desktop
double-click the next, then reboot again. It helps to have a copy of the
2003 Security Update cd, though much of those patches have been superceded -
still it contains the important (though small) System Restore patch, and the
rather larger Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player 9. Otherwise it
is much preferable to let Windows Update install them all, because you don't
have to go through the interminable process of doing it manually.

If you are in an area where broadband is still unavailable, that's
unfortunate. The bloat of modern software assumes that everybody has
broadband and everybody has a modern computer with vast disk space and
enough RAM to run Vista, basically. Your solution would be getting someone
who does have broadband to download them all for you and burn them to a cd.

If broadband is available in your area - if you have to re-download
everything, and especially for XP too - you'll likely find that broadband
costs less than dial-up.

Alf

 

[Alfonse Terego]

Quite apart from Mart's suggestion, which may be your best option for
updating ME - a further consideration is the DirectX update. To install
offline requires the full file of about 30MB. Installing from Windows Update
downloads only those parts that need updating and is a much smaller
download. The Security Update cd - which was released in February 2004 - but
contains no patches post-October 2003 - includes DirectX 9b, and updating
from that at Windows Update is relatively pain free compared with
downloading the full installer. But doubtless Mr Terhune's 2nd disc contains
the latest version (that installs on 98/ME) - DirectX 9c - anyway.


Alf

 

[CB]

Re: hotfixes installation

I'm one of the very satisfied users of Mr.
Terhune's update CDs. The cost to me was $3.00 and worth every penny. I
have W98SE on a old P166 system and had no problem installing the
patches/updates.

Go to: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
and look for a post from him to e-mail.

Regards....

Charles Bennett

 

[Mart]

Re: hotfixes installation

Charles, I think Gary suggests :-

updates(RemoveThis)@grystmill.com

as the address to which he asks to be contacted, (see my previous post)
remembering of course to "(RemoveThis)". Certainly sounds excellent value.

Mart



"CB" <c_bennett__@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:20922-4891DF1D-315@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net...
> I'm one of the very satisfied users of Mr.
> Terhune's update CDs. The cost to me was $3.00 and worth every penny. I
> have W98SE on a old P166 system and had no problem installing the
> patches/updates.
>
> Go to: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
> and look for a post from him to e-mail.
>
> Regards....
>
> Charles Bennett
>