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Windows ME Update Order
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? -- ~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??? |
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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? 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ============= |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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