They may not be making any new updates but all the old ones are still available . Just did a clean install of XP Pro on one of my machines , it's D/L-ing and installing 137 items as I type .
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Windows XP updates
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9 years ago
I just did that...twice.
I had various problems. First I looked for SP1. Finally figured out, you don't need it, start with SP2. Then something force me to upgrade IE. Then SP3 finally applied.
Lots of false steps and mixups. Maybe if I'm forced to do it a 3rd time it will get easier.
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I know what you mean. I gotta XP netbook that I won't even take online, for fear of exploits. Yet, when I was shutting down, today, I gotta pop-up telling me 9 updates were being installed. ?!?!?!?
From where? I've not even had this machine online is mos. Seriously.
What? M$ is now using paranormal means? Witches? Voodoo? Spooky.
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9 years ago
I use Mozilla Firefox , because IE8 sucks and many websites want a browser with the same capabilities . Won't touch Chrome though , Giggle just has too many black marks for tracking stuff .
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9 years ago
Unless you've turned it off Windoze update will go online as soon as you boot up and D/L updates . For that matter , those updates may have been on your comp for a long time just awaiting an opportunity to install .
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Download the Windows Update Agent version 3.0 installation file for the appropriate client computer architecture at one of the following locations:
x86-based versions of Windows: Download WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
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x64-based versions of Windows: Download WindowsUpdateAgent30-x64.exe
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Itanium-based versions of Windows: Download WindowsUpdateAgent30-ia64.exe
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Woke up this morning to the little update icon on my XP machine. It wants to install a new version/update of the malicious software removal tool. What the heck? All the hoopla about no more updates and then it wants to update.
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Get down there and do it a 3rd time!
NOW!
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That's why. These are the updates you didn't get during those months. Before the end of support.
A notation in a file? A "latest update on this machine" date.
I'm still getting updates for my desktop. One was that bug that made the news and the rst have been updates for the MS AV program Windows Defender, even though I don't have Windows Defender.
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But if I understand it correctly, what he's saying is that he still hasn't had the notebook "online", which I would take to mean connected to the internet. If so, it is a bit unusual that it's suddenly installing 9 updates.
I could see that happening two ways. One is that the updates could have been downloaded one of the last times he had the PC online, before not using it for months. The updates could have been downloaded, but didn't have a chance to install. Or he changed a setting controlling updates in control panel.
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9 years ago
You might be right.
I would take to mean connected to the internet. If
You might be right. Either way. I lowered the priortiy of updates when they were suspended, because all I was getting were updates for Defender, which I don't have installed.
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On Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:46:29 AM UTC-5, micky wrote: I lowered the priortiy of updates
It doesn't matter at this point...but if you go into the "Control Panel", Windows Defender, and Settings: check "do not use this program".
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Thanks. I just looked, but as I thought, I have no WDefender in my control panel, since I've never had it installed. That's what makes it so funny that it's suddenly sending these files to me.
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9 years ago
Hi All,
As part of your "XP Emergency Disaster kit", get yourself
1) a copy of your install disk with key2) make a copy on stick of your updates. Get them from WSUS:
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Nice part about WSUS is that all the conflicting and/or superseded updates are removed, so you don't crash installing them.
-T
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If you don't have your disk, find someone with one and copy it. M$ doesn't care if you have the original media, only the key.
You can't mix versions of XP, so get the same version.
You can get a later service pack of the same version.
If your key sticker has rubbed/pealed off, your can read it and print it out with Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
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XP is under the "Legacy" tab.
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The best disaster kit is simply a disk image (Disk Wizard or other image software). Take it right after you load the system, get all the settings the way you like them and load your typical suite of software. I dragged a 1.5TB around to all of my machines and imaged them all.
I also have several XP install disks and a SP/3 upgrade to get myself close.
I am going to look into the WSUS thing but for now Microsoft will give you all the updates the first time you log on. They also have a lot better sense of humor about registering your software. It looks like they will OK it as long as you have a valid key, no matter what machine it was loaded on before. I have 2 on my network running on the same key. That was unintentional but it still worked.
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Hi G,
Good point.
I like Clone Zilla for cloning:
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Although, with Windows, it is ofter better to wipe and start over fresh. Then make a baseline clone.
When you are doing the Downgrade Rights from W7Pro to XP Pro or Frankenstein 8 Pro to W7 Pro, M$ tells me to go and get a key from someone else. I have told them it is really, really unprofessional. They don't care.
If the key gets reused too many times, they will make you call in on the phone to activate.
-T
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9 years ago
I know that used to be true but lately they seem not to care on XP.
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9 years ago
+1
It's a lot faster and easier than re-installing the OS, going through all the updates, loading all the other software, etc. That's how most new PCs are shipped now. They give you a restore image of the complete as shipped PC on a separate partition and they bug you at start up to make a further copy of that onto several DVD's.
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That is a good thing.
There for about a half a year, I had to go in and manually register new Windows 7 OEM's. About a month after installing, they get a pop up saying they were not legit.
And, since I was the one selling the W7 OEM, I knew they were legit. M$ doesn't know its right hand from its left hand.