Saving and burning Xp patches and hotfixes....

[marmasatt]

Hey All,

Sorry if I'm working for the Department of Redundancy Department here....... I though I remember reading this somewhere and I can't find it.

If I know I'm going to be doing an install or two of XP on some systems and I want to save all the hotfixes and patches so I don't have to redownload them again. How do I do it exactly? I can't seem to find them except in the add or remove programs. My stupid dial up will have me downloading stuff for weeks. Basically I want to save and burn all the Q815*** patches.... Are they all up to date now? Are any not worth the update? Like should I leave them out (due to system slowdowns, etc) I remember some were more trouble than their worth for awhile. Thanks alot for any assistance.

Oliver

 

[newbiepcuser]

I believe you just need to go to 3 X w dot microsoft dot com. Select the downloads. Then you just need the deployement verision of the upgrades you need.


I've done service packs for operating systems and Visual Studio 6.0 and .net.

 

[marmasatt]

What?

 

[lepper boy]

lol..

 

[cheetoden]

I slipstreamed SP1 into my original Windows XP disk.

Instructions are here

 

[lucky9]

thanks cheetoden, but i won't tell you how long it took me to get it done. Don't know dos.

 

[Nohr]

I believe the Corporate Windows Update site will let you save the updates to use on multiple computers.

 

[Jeff7]

As far as I know though, if you have to download like 20 updates, you need to install them all individually, and not in one fell sweep like Windowsupdate does when you use it normally. Am I missing a feature somewhere?

 

[marmasatt]

Bump for a resolution. I'm almost positive you can do this. Am I retarded and not articulating this right or can you not do it? I have SP 1. But all the updates from then to present (all the hotfix Q numbers) can be saved and installed again, right? You shouldn't have to download them every time you do an install/reformat, etc...

Oliver

 

[mechBgon]

WinXP with SP1 or later can have patches applied in a stack without any special fussing. WinXP pre-SP1, like Win2000, can apply a whole batch of patches in one shot, but you should run QChain.exe after the patches before rebooting, so they all come out happy.

Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and click the Customize Windows Update, then checkmark "Show link to Windows Update Catalog," click Apply, and now you will have a link on the left to Windows Update Catalog, where you can fish out any patch you darn well please

• Download the patches you'll need and save them to a folder
• Download QChain.exe if you're not going to have WinXP SP1A already installed
• Fish out the .exe files and reduce their crazy-long names down to Q815322.exe or whatever, for convenience
• Make a .txt file and list the .exe's with a -? on the end, like this:
  

  q823718.exe -?
  js56nen.exe -?
  q822925.exe -?
  q330994.exe -?
  q318203.exe -?
  rootsupd.exe -?
  823980.exe -?
  823559.exe -?
  822831.exe -?
  q818043.exe -?
  vbs56nen.exe -?
  KB824105.exe -?
  KB824146.exe -?

• Now rename the .txt file to a .bat file and run it, noting the command-line switches for each of the patches (silent mode, do not restart after applying, etc) and jot down the switches you'd want to use
• Edit your .bat file with the switches. Here's my "FastPatch" file for Win2000SP4 + IE6SP1 + Windows Media Player 6.4, for example:
  

  q823718.exe /Q
  js56nen.exe /Q
  q822925.exe /Q
  q330994.exe /Q
  q318203.exe /Q
  REM User-interactive above this line ***
  rootsupd.exe /Q
  823980.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  823559.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  822831.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  q818043.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  vbs56nen.exe /Q
  KB824105.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  KB824146.exe -u -n -o -z -q
  qchain.exe
  pause

Since I use this frequently at work, I've got the user-interactive patches clustered at the top for convenience. NOTE that Qchain.exe is called last; you need this to make it all come out right. ALSO NOTE that you must NOT answer Yes to any individual patch that asks if you want to restart the computer with a Yes/No option.

 

[zetter]

You can also "slipstream" the service pack and hotfixes into a bootable installation CD for when you do a reinstall to save you downloading and applying them all over again.

There is a WINCDMAN utility that helps in creating the slipstream CD.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: zetter
You can also "slipstream" the service pack and hotfixes into a bootable installation CD for when you do a reinstall to save you downloading and applying them all over again.

There is a WINCDMAN utility that helps in creating the slipstream CD.

Nice!!!

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: marmasatt
What?

Okay, you can download the .msi files or deployment verison from (.exe files) from Microsoft. You go into Microsoft's web sites, and just do a search in their download section of their web sites.

The deployment verison is the full setup/network verisons are the whole package so you can put it on a CD etc. I just did last week without any hitches, and you can also get .msi verison to do an Active Directory install push over the network if you're doing a large number of PCs.

examples:

Microsoft provides all these patches/hotfixes/service packs on their web sites. They are all there for IT professionals to download and put on share drive on the network. Not all companies allow their employees to patch up their own machines, etc.

XP service pack 1 network deployment, 32 bit verison

Blaster worm XP fix.