Now that I know your and Mark's 'whole story', I can tell you mine too:
I since upgraded to a higher powered Dell machine with WinVista Home
Premium,
but still maintain my 'fully functional', homemade WinME machine with 'all
updates' installed. Still have your Security Updates CD, Shane and Gary's 2
CD's, just in case.
Twice this situation of having a back-up system was helpful, when I ran into
trouble with 'Mr. Vista'.
But by now I am in full control over 'Mr. Vista' also and it took me less
than 3 months. It is a much better OS than a lot of people give it credit
for.
Personally I prefer it over ME now, even though I still hold ME in high
esteem.
It always delights me to come back to this group.
May it live for a long time to come.
Cheers,
Harry.
"Shane" wrote in message
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Mart,
It never occurs to me that someone might actually want the language
updates, but I guess that's about at the point where my interest fizzles
out anyway. I've been turning those off via Personalise for as long as I
can remember - and now, when I reinstall a 9x version, find myself having
to remind myself it is absolutely pointless personalising the 9x WU sites
nowadays!
Presumably by my 'list' you mean the one I posted here as opposed to the
one I gave the link to, which is solely concerning the Security Update CD
updates? If so, well, they are from "windows update.log". When you install
from Windows Update, the location each update came from is in the log -
and in chronological order. I didn't used to allow them to install - just
started the downloads then immediately cancelled them, got the urls from
the log then downloaded for offline installation. But today it is *so* not
an issue - like you say, with Broadband - to allow them all to install
online, that doing so is a much easier means of acquiring the set!
Then just do FIND /I ".EXE" "WINDOWS UPDATE.LOG" WHATEVER.TXT, then a
little tidying, for instance with Editpad, and thar she blows Ishmael me
old!
Select All/Copy is certainly the way to get more detail about the updates
which is definately useful, particularly if you don't wish to install
superfluous stuff, e.g. like on a machine that won't be going online. Mind
you, seeing as how deeply IE is into Win Me, perhaps it is still best to
update it as far as one can whether going online or not? Especially,
perhaps, if one is to insert media supplied by other users.
Anyway, I would suggest that making this list is pretty much de rigour if
one means to continue supporting Win Me users. You're probably being more
conscientious than me, so I am not going to do any more with this. I think
I am more inclined to take the web site down than update it (sic) - and
maybe won't have the option when Tiscali goes to the wall! So I'm going
back to setting up yet another Windows 7 build!
Shane
"Mart" wrote in message
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Hi Gang,
Long (unrelated) story but I've (past day or so) installed a fresh WinMe
onto 'bare metal' and have just done 'all' the updates from the WU site.
( I didn't use the CD)
Initially, there were 24 Critical Updates and about 10 (I think)
Non-Critical Updates available. I tried to select ALL Critical Updates
but it would not permit all-at-once as it wanted to do IE6 separately so
I selected IE6 only. It then reported 23 CU's and some 45 N-CU's.
Therefore this was completed BEFORE it did the 290700 update.
I then installed ALL remaining CU's collectively and it then reported 0
CU's and the 45 N-CU's outstanding.
Tried to select ALL N-CU's but it wanted to install Dx 9.0c separately,
so I did that one first. It then reported 1 new CU and 44 N-CU's (as
expected). I Installed the CU and started on the N-CU's which wanted a
further 2 CU's. However, I didn't install the (34) language UD's.
To be fair, it certainly helps to have broadband! The point being that
there 'appears' to be some sort of order in which these things are
installed, as some UD's call for further UD's. I haven't yet gone
through Shane's list - I used 'select-all/copy' of the first batch of
updates to catalogue them, but sadly, not the later ones. However, I
could possibly attempt to determine them from the update history.
Mart
"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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great - thanks, Shane (was that on a Virtual machine, or bare metal??)
--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC
Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Shane" wrote in message
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"Mark" wrote in message
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Hello,
I can not find download-able Windows ME Service Packs/Updates anywhere
on
the Microsoft website? Can you please tell me where they are located?
Thank you, Mark
The optimised version (duplicates removed etc):
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...2C896761.ex e
- 290700
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...450dc3ae6b.exe
- KB917344
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...a9d05d2eed.exe
- KB891711
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...81285bfd3f.exe
- 873374
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...3dfbe08298.exe
- Windows Media KB828026
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...58e89612b1.exe
- 823559
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...a04af2b34d.exe
- MS JAVA VM
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...CD13014E11.exe
- JAVASCRIPT JS55
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...8B4EA39180.exe
- MDAC Q329414
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...CFC147E1.ex e
- 329048
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...2380DB44 .exe
- 329115
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...B9881555 .exe
- 323172
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...40938B0D .exe
- 323255
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...DF6695 2B.exe
- WM320920
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...4F68F1F1. exe
- VBScript VBS55
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...CC2DB309.ex e
- 314757
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...8138F506. exe
- WM308567
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...FC26A971.ex e
- CRLUPD
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...619BF3AE.ex e
- 273991
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...4B652105 .exe
- 811630
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...07ED386A.ex e
- 812709
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...7AD3 B062.exe
- IE Audio
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...9933E4A23C.exe
- Euro Conversion Tool
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...567C1451.ex e
- 287564
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...D5D0B5A6.ex e
- 273017
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...06e53c3012.exe
- IE6 KB918439
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...9630fd4a9a.exe
- KB918547
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...ffaf52c841.exe
- KB896358
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...c6e9ab7a42.exe
- KB887797
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...d89121466e.exe
- DX9c Setup
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...49a878677f.exe
- KB904706
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...afab75c3a5.exe
- IE6 KB916281
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...6670014c86.exe
- KB833989
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...ce10c660a1.exe
- KB908519
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...fb8b376f52.exe
- IE KB891781
http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...aa71f51bef.exe
- IE6 KB837009