Backing Up and reinstalling Win. Updates after a reinstalation of WinXP.

[Guest Graham]

I fear I might have to do a full reinstall of WinXP SP2 on my Dell laptop.

Does anyone know if its possible to backup all the updates I can see in the

Windows folder and then restall them after i've reinstalled Windows. It

would save having to do the tedious task of downloading them all again.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Graham wrote:

> I fear I might have to do a full reinstall of WinXP SP2 on my Dell

> laptop. Does anyone know if its possible to backup all the updates

> I can see in the Windows folder and then restall them after i've

> reinstalled Windows. It would save having to do the tedious task of

> downloading them all again.

 

Unless you downloaded them and saved the actual installation files elsewhere

when you installed them (did not use Automatic Updates) - then you will need

to download them.

 

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[Guest MowGreen [MVP]]

Re: Backing Up and reinstalling Win. Updates after a reinstalationof WinXP.

 

Agreed. IF the 'backups' you see in the Windows folder look like this

$NtUninstallKB933566$, then those are the UNinstallation folders for the

updates, not the updates themselves. Those folders can be deleted and

the reference to them in Add/Remove Programs along with them:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

DO NOT delete ANYTHING in the $hf_mig$ folder !!!

Those files are needed for subsequent updates to files contained in

$hf_mig$.

 

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]

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Shenan Stanley wrote:

> Graham wrote:

>

>>I fear I might have to do a full reinstall of WinXP SP2 on my Dell

>>laptop. Does anyone know if its possible to backup all the updates

>>I can see in the Windows folder and then restall them after i've

>>reinstalled Windows. It would save having to do the tedious task of

>>downloading them all again.

>

>

> Unless you downloaded them and saved the actual installation files elsewhere

> when you installed them (did not use Automatic Updates) - then you will need

> to download them.

>