[Zboing Mouflon]

How do you do this?

Andrew Bowie
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"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote in message
news:O0HhJZjTFHA.228@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> If you mean the actual downloaded SP1/SP2, or any updated patches, yes.
> Its
> an option within windows update to download the actual update as a file.
> This can be downloaded to the place of your choosing.
> SP2 is on Cd in my case. SP1 is part of my original XP install CD.
> "cc" <va@cd.com> wrote in message
> news:eC7tq4gTFHA.2124@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Can I place all the updates to the partition where OS is not located
> without
>> any help of software? How can I do that?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>
>

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Zboing Mouflon wrote:

> "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@virus.net> wrote:
>
>>If you mean the actual downloaded SP1/SP2, or any updated patches, yes.
>>Its
>>an option within windows update to download the actual update as a file.
>>This can be downloaded to the place of your choosing.
>>SP2 is on Cd in my case. SP1 is part of my original XP install CD.
>>
> How do you do this?
Hi,

The Windows Update Catalog:

Windows Update Catalog
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8973

HOW TO: Download Windows Updates and Drivers from the Windows
Update Catalog
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323166


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[Shenan Stanley]

Zboing Mouflon wrote:
> How do you do this?

You can download each update manually - based off the KB Article number,
etc. That way you can back it up/burn a CD of them in case you need them or
use them to keep a slipstream/integrated (updated) Windows XP CD.

How to use the Windows Update Catalog
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323166
(In order to use the Windows Update Catalog, you must use IE to get the
patches..)

Windows Update Catalog
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp
(In order to use the Windows Update Catalog, you must use IE to get the
patches..)

Use "AutoStreamer" to integrate SP2 and create a new CD
http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html

Creating an Integrated Installation
http://snipurl.com/el43

Integrate software updates into your Windows installation source files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828930

Really customize your CD..
http://unattended.msfn.org/


You can see the critical (security and other) patches released for a given
month using the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms##-***.mspx

At the end of this line you see "ms##-***.mspx" .. If you simply replace ##
with the two-digit year and the *** with the three character month
abbreviation, you will see the list of "critical" and "important" patches
for that month (since it only happens once a month usually, if you check by
the second Tuesday (wait until afternoon) of each month - you should be
fine) - note that future months will not work.

As an example...

December 2004's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-dec.mspx

March 2005's patches..
None released.. so that one will fail...

April 2005's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-apr.mspx

May 2005's patches..
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-may.mspx

Once you get on the page with each month's list of patches.. You can go to
the related KB articles and grab the appropriate files from there.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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