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    #1

    Windows Xp Home Update

    I still use and I still like Windows Xp. Now here is a question for you. Since Gates Soft is going to discontinue the live update thing how can I capture the updates to a disk??? Do I capture them from my PC that is already updated or do I capture them in some way from the update site??? I need these updates because Xp is a sick puppy without them...Does any third party offer these updates on a disk already???
    Last edited by Junk Parts; 03-22-2010, 03:18 PM. Reason: add
    "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
    Mark Twain

    "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
    John Paul Jones

    There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
    Rod Serling
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    #2
    Re: Windows Xp Home Update

    Hmm?

    I don't think support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 is ending until 8th April 2014. Service Pack 2 dies on 13th July 2010.

    If you're not running Service Pack 3, why not?

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...packs?os=other

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      #3
      Re: Windows Xp Home Update

      There are still about 72 updates the PC will get even after the install of Sp3. I do run Sp3 and have it on disk.
      "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
      Mark Twain

      "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
      John Paul Jones

      There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
      Rod Serling

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        #4
        Re: Windows Xp Home Update

        Yes. If you have Service Pack 3 installed, you will receive those ~100 updates. If you have Service Pack 2, you get nothing until you upgrade to Service Pack 3.

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          #5
          Re: Windows Xp Home Update

          My Xp CD has Sp2 built into it. I install sp3 right after the install of the windows OS with sp2. Next I turn off the automatic updates and install the rest of my progies. After I'm all done on my end I turn the automatic updates back on and go to the windows update page and let the OS do its thing.
          "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
          Mark Twain

          "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
          John Paul Jones

          There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
          Rod Serling

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            #6
            Re: Windows Xp Home Update

            No problem then.

            Why don't you do this and then make an image (clone) of it?
            When you want to go back to how you were, you just restore that blank installation with all updates and programs.

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              #7
              Re: Windows Xp Home Update

              I don't now how to do what you said there....I'm a dumb ass.
              "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
              Mark Twain

              "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
              John Paul Jones

              There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
              Rod Serling

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                #8
                Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                You have a Western Digital drive don't you?

                Perhaps Acronis will work for you: http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...19&wdc_lang=en
                I've not tried this for backup/restore purposes on a single PC, I'll test it later on in the week for you. 10:30pm, no time for playing with Windows at this hour.

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                  #9
                  Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                  Linux live disks may have backup soft on them.

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                    #10
                    Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                    The old updates will be there for quite some time, there just won't be more after the dates seanc posted. After July 13th of this year SP2 wont get any NEW updates, but the old ones will still be available.

                    Windows update was still up for NT4 and 98 last time I checked, just nothing new.

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                      #11
                      Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                      There was a piece of software available that I used to use (when I did not broadband) that could do what you want. It would connect to the update website and download all the updates in a folder. I would have to dig it up and have a look for you.

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                        #12
                        Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                        If you want to integrate all those updates you will have to jot them down, download them individually, and then integrate them with nLite. I think if you check there's a torrent where someone did this already.
                        "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

                        -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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                          #13
                          Re: Windows Xp Home Update

                          I use Acronis True Image for complete system cloning. It's a really reliable software and easy to use, even if you are a beginner.

                          Try it

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