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can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is very
painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can be applied to XP systems. Farhan |
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Sadly, no! (To both questions)
If your pc can access your ISP through DSL (using LAN or USB devices) then it's not quite such the painful process that it is with Dial-up. However, there is a Win98 MVP - Gary S Terhune who (sometimes visits the WinMe group) has produced a copy of the Security Updates CD (for a very modest fee) and wrote in March of this year :- quote My Updates CDs are now ready to go. One is a copy of the Security Updates CD from 02/04, the other contains everything since, with a few minor exceptions. No IE 5 or 5.5, only IE6 SP1. Good for Win98, 98SE and ME. Anyone interested should email updates RemoveThis @grystmill.com -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com unquote Might be worth a try? Others have reported success.and satisfaction. Good luck Mart "Farhan" wrote in message ... can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is very painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can be applied to XP systems. Farhan |
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Farhan wrote:
can I transfer/copy installed hotfixes from one pc to another? It is very painful/long/expensive procedure on dial-up. And also same can be applied to XP systems. No. You need to download the hotfix's installer to install to more than one system. But my personal take on dial-up has for quite a while now been that it is too expensive these days. Hotfixes and Antivirus definitions are so large now - on XP and later - and would be on ME if hotfixes were still being made for it - that you will be almost continually downloading them and have hardly any bandwidth for anything else - which, of course, defeats the object of getting the patches and defs in the first place. Microsoft recently released SP3, which - if you bought XP since then - takes some of the pain out of doing a new XP installation. For a year or so prior to SP3 a new XP installation - assuming done with XP SP2! - required applying between 80 and 100 patches; SP3 integrates those, but already there are probably another 20 you need to download even if you do have SP3! A year from now and it could be 40 or 50, and by the time XP support ends it'll probably be somewhere between 100 and 200 again! I have almost from day one been saving updates to disk/disc. Now, with XP, if you'd done that, you didn't really need SP3, because you could install 100 patches by running them from a batch file with switches such as /quick /norestart. You don't have that option with ME - so you have to double-click on one patch, restart when it says it needs to, when back to the desktop double-click the next, then reboot again. It helps to have a copy of the 2003 Security Update cd, though much of those patches have been superceded - still it contains the important (though small) System Restore patch, and the rather larger Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player 9. Otherwise it is much preferable to let Windows Update install them all, because you don't have to go through the interminable process of doing it manually. If you are in an area where broadband is still unavailable, that's unfortunate. The bloat of modern software assumes that everybody has broadband and everybody has a modern computer with vast disk space and enough RAM to run Vista, basically. Your solution would be getting someone who does have broadband to download them all for you and burn them to a cd. If broadband is available in your area - if you have to re-download everything, and especially for XP too - you'll likely find that broadband costs less than dial-up. Alf |
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Quite apart from Mart's suggestion, which may be your best option for
updating ME - a further consideration is the DirectX update. To install offline requires the full file of about 30MB. Installing from Windows Update downloads only those parts that need updating and is a much smaller download. The Security Update cd - which was released in February 2004 - but contains no patches post-October 2003 - includes DirectX 9b, and updating from that at Windows Update is relatively pain free compared with downloading the full installer. But doubtless Mr Terhune's 2nd disc contains the latest version (that installs on 98/ME) - DirectX 9c - anyway. Alf |
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I'm one of the very satisfied users of Mr.
Terhune's update CDs. The cost to me was $3.00 and worth every penny. I have W98SE on a old P166 system and had no problem installing the patches/updates. Go to: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion and look for a post from him to e-mail. Regards.... Charles Bennett |
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Charles, I think Gary suggests :-
as the address to which he asks to be contacted, (see my previous post) remembering of course to "(RemoveThis)". Certainly sounds excellent value. Mart "CB" wrote in message ... I'm one of the very satisfied users of Mr. Terhune's update CDs. The cost to me was $3.00 and worth every penny. I have W98SE on a old P166 system and had no problem installing the patches/updates. Go to: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion and look for a post from him to e-mail. Regards.... Charles Bennett |
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