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Windows Manual Updates, What Order?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by aleekat, 2005/08/14.

  1. 2005/08/14
    aleekat

    aleekat Inactive Thread Starter

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    Had to reinstall XP home. Over 13mb of updates. Plan on downloading them from work(dsl), to take home(dialup) for updating. Do I install by order of date released? Nothing on MS site.
     
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    If the install was not XP with SP2, first install SP2. Then check again to see what updates show as needed.

    After that, you might as well go by date order. Mostly it won't matter but if there are some where it would, that is probably the safest way to proceed.
     
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  4. 2005/08/15
    aleekat

    aleekat Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks, it was SP2. I then did the windows update, looked at what it wanted to download/update. That's how I determined which updates I needed.
     
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  5. 2005/08/15
    Christer

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    Installations that I have made of WinXP-sp2 have the option to "restart later" after installing several updates that requires a restart. Installing by date, as Newt suggests, is still a good piece of advice but on sp2, I think that any order is OK. The new folder C:\Windows\$hf_mig$ contains information for the installer to get it right.

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    (who still does it the Newt way)
     
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  6. 2005/08/20
    aleekat

    aleekat Inactive Thread Starter

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    Ok. Went ahead an installed by date, earliest to newest. If windows asked to do a restart I did, if not, went to next update. So far everythings working.
     
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  7. 2005/08/22
    Christer

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    We had a power failure at our flying club and the computer started behaving strangely. I promptly restored a Ghost Image and went through the update process, first Norton and while doing that, the yellow shield came up in the notification area.

    The first batch consisted of two updates, the new version of MS Installer and another one. After restart, the yellow shield came back, offering fourteen updates. They were all installed in a single session with a single restart which leads me toward the conclusion that the new MS Installer is quite intelligent ...... :p ...... but not smarter than us. If it can do it with a single restart, then we can.

    Since SP2, there have been at least 33 critical updates, not counting those that have been substituted and the monthly MSR. Installing all of those from square one with a restart in between each and every one of them would take almost an hour, just shutting down and restarting.

    I like the new MS Installer!

    Christer
     
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