Windows ME Update Order

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Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time to
address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

dannydud0828 wrote:
I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the recovery CD
and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to normal, but I lost
all of the Windows Updates that have been installed since I purchased the
computer. I have read the threads about install order becoming a problem
and making people install updates multiple times without success. I am
hoping to avoid this problem. So I was wondering if there is a
comprehensive list of which order to install the updates. I have 31
updates to install (23 critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the
middle of 2001. Can anyone help???

PA Bear wrote:
X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
the drive.

James

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup.
Thanks.

Yes, he /said/ he reformatted but I just wanted to make sure everything's
hunky-dory before he gets lost in updating.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP


James Kosin wrote:
PA Bear wrote:
X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
the drive.

James

I undertook a similar exercise with a clean WinMe installation earlier this
year and assuming Danny intends to update from the WU site, then just let WU
follow its own sequence.

The WU seems to set its own order and will advise what can or what cannot be
downloaded in a single session. Some updates (IE6 - I think) may require a
reboot before the next update can proceed. But a warning notice will be
shown. WU generally leads the user by the hand so there shouldn't be a
problem.

N.B. Some of those critical updates take care of themselves and so the
actual count becomes somewhat less than the expected 30+ updates.

If Danny has access to broadband, then it will speed things up, but its all
worth it in the end g

Mart



"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
newsgroup. Thanks.

Yes, he /said/ he reformatted but I just wanted to make sure everything's
hunky-dory before he gets lost in updating.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP


James Kosin wrote:
PA Bear wrote:
X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
the drive.

James

PA Bear wrote:
Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
newsgroup. Thanks.

Actually, please don't. Only quote the material from prior post(s) that
actually relate to the answer you are typing. There is no need to quote
the entire thread in each-n-every post within a thread, and many reasons
not to do that. Especially when a thread gets long or when there is
extraneous material in prior posts. Thanks.

--

....Sky

Tom "Sky" King
=============

Sky King wrote:
PA Bear wrote:
Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
newsgroup. Thanks.

Actually, please don't. Only quote the material from prior post(s) that
actually relate to the answer you are typing. There is no need to quote
the entire thread in each-n-every post within a thread, and many reasons
not to do that. Especially when a thread gets long or when there is
extraneous material in prior posts.

I'd rather they post with excessive quoting than no quoting at all.

"PA Bear" wrote:

X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time to
address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer to
work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates to
install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing and
that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This leaves
me in the position where I have installed every update and every day windows
tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs installing. When I go to
similar discussions like this one, they tell me that I have installed the
updates in the wrong order. An example would be having update 2 installed
before update 1 makes update 1 not install properly. This is why I am here.
Instead of checking them all and letting windows install them in its own
order (which does not work - I believe I have read hundreds of posts on this
forum in which this is the problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1 in
the porper order saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post
saying to look at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of the
updates are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and a
6 dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply tell
me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update 3rd and so
on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

Again thank you for your time!!!!!

Dan

Which particular update is giving you problems?? - I have an easy solution
for one particular problem of this kind.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

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"dannydud0828" wrote in message
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"PA Bear" wrote:

X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to
address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer
to
work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working
computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates
to
install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing and
that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This
leaves
me in the position where I have installed every update and every day
windows
tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs installing. When I go
to
similar discussions like this one, they tell me that I have installed the
updates in the wrong order. An example would be having update 2 installed
before update 1 makes update 1 not install properly. This is why I am
here.
Instead of checking them all and letting windows install them in its own
order (which does not work - I believe I have read hundreds of posts on
this
forum in which this is the problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1
in
the porper order saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post
saying to look at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of
the
updates are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and
a
6 dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply
tell
me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update 3rd and
so
on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

Again thank you for your time!!!!!

Dan

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup,
DD.

I have installed every update and every
day windows tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs
installing.

I see. You didn't mention this in your original post. Which update?
837009, by any chance?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

dannydud0828 wrote:
X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?
paste
dannydud0828 wrote:
I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the recovery CD
and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to normal, but I lost
all of the Windows Updates that have been installed since I purchased the
computer. I have read the threads about install order becoming a problem
and making people install updates multiple times without success. I am
hoping to avoid this problem. So I was wondering if there is a
comprehensive list of which order to install the updates. I have 31
updates to install (23 critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the
middle of 2001. Can anyone help???
/paste

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer
to work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working
computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates
to install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing
and that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This
leaves me in the position where I have installed every update and every
day windows tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs
installing. When I go to similar discussions like this one, they tell me
that I have installed the updates in the wrong order. An example would
be having update 2 installed before update 1 makes update 1 not install
properly. This is why I am here. Instead of checking them all and
letting windows install them in its own order (which does not work - I
believe I have read hundreds of posts on this forum in which this is the
problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1 in the porper order
saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post saying to look
at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of the updates
are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and a 6
dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply
tell me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update
3rd and so on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

I haven't begun installing any of them yet. I have had this whole process
happen once before and there were multiple updates that I ended up installing
multiple times. However, windows update still was reminding me that I had
updates to install. In other words, I had installed a handful of these
updates multiple times and windows was still saying that they needed to
install. When I asked questions about this, I was told that certain updates
had to be installed in a certain order. In other words, some updates will
not show as being installed unless they are installed in proper order.
Therefore, before I install ANY of the updates this time, I want to know
which order to install them in. It isn't any particular one as of yet. I am
trying to avoid future problems with this by installing them correctly the
first time

"Noel Paton" wrote:

Which particular update is giving you problems?? - I have an easy solution
for one particular problem of this kind.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"dannydud0828" wrote in message
...


"PA Bear" wrote:

X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
to
address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer
to
work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working
computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates
to
install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing and
that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This
leaves
me in the position where I have installed every update and every day
windows
tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs installing. When I go
to
similar discussions like this one, they tell me that I have installed the
updates in the wrong order. An example would be having update 2 installed
before update 1 makes update 1 not install properly. This is why I am
here.
Instead of checking them all and letting windows install them in its own
order (which does not work - I believe I have read hundreds of posts on
this
forum in which this is the problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1
in
the porper order saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post
saying to look at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of
the
updates are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and
a
6 dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply
tell
me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update 3rd and
so
on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

Again thank you for your time!!!!!

Dan