the xt guy

Thanks for the response guys, I will try nlite and download the RyanVM files from the guide.

I want to make a fully updated XP install CD, with all the official updates through April 2014 and all the POSReady updates through April 2019. I have several XP install disks (XP Professional Retail, XP Home OEM (generic OEM NOT Dell) and XP Professional OEM (again not Dell), all English). All of these XP install CD's are version 2002, (I think that means they includes SP1 or SP1a.) After I installed them, I would run XP SP3 and then go to MS update. Now that the XP servers have been decomissioned, a CD with all the updates slipsreamed on to it is the only way to go. In the past I have occasionally used Nlite, and I would use that except I've read here that it won't accept any of the POSReady updates. I also used HFSLIP to make an updated Windows 2000 CD in April 2013 that included some post EOS and unofficial updates. I haven't seen any mention whether it works with the POPSReady updates. I know of RyanVM's site, but never having explored there, it's proving challenging to jump in there and figure out all the different update packs, which one I should choose, if any and finding the download links (it doesn't seem as organized as this site). The last time I had to install XP (2015) I did note all the updates my computer downloaded after I ran XP SP3 and I saved a copy of all the hotfixes. I also saved all of the POSReady updates from May 2014-April 2019. This way I knew I would always have all the updates (and i could have made an install CD valid through April 2014).

My XP SP3 system (x86) with the POS registry change is having no problem with the KB3033395 update. It installed fine, shows up in my update history on Windows Update and does not keep showing up again and again on Windows Update to be reinstalled. This makes 11 months of of POS 2009 updates (May 2014 patch Tuesday through March 2015 patch Tuesday) applied to my XP system with no problems (except of course for the well known font corruption from the Feb 2015 KB patch).

Wow, that's it! Thanks -X-! Interesting that there are IE 6 updates for POSReady 2009 even though it comes with IE 7. I did a search on the net a couple weeks ago about removing IE 7 on POSR 2009 and installing IE 6 (not that I'm trying to do that). Someone on some forum (can't remember where) wanted to do that as they had a mission critical app that had to have IE 6 installed. The single response they got back was that their source of POSR 2009 would need to supply them with a special build that had IE 6 instead of 7. I can't help but chuckle at the idea that MS is still supporting IE 6 with patches until July 2015 for 2K3 (and who knows how far beyond that, with POSR 2009!). IE 6: the browser that defines Microsoft.

Can someone tell me how to download the standalone POSReady 2009 updates?

Harkaz, thanks for the June 2014 XP patches. I applied 2939576, 2957503 and 2957509 a few days ago to my XP SP3 system with no problems.

First of all, thank you *very much* harkaz, this is beyond cool! Heading home from work yesterday I was almost a bit giddy seeing these semi-official patches and thinking of all the future ones that could/will be coming our way through 2019! Let the idiots on neowin storm off in a huff! Tell them to come back in 2019. For myself, I only get 1 patch out of the deal (I don't have IE or any version of "dontnet" installed). Hmm, I didn't think about POS not having IE6. Looks like we won't get any IE 6 patches unless somebody ports them from 2003. Jaclaz, I agree it's a patch for general stupidity-let's hope MS doesn;'t start patching for that, as we'll all need petabyte sized drives. (Seriously though, the link to the bulletin 42774 that you posted; under 'System Requirements' it states that Windows XP is a "supported operating system" along with Windows Server 2003. But the title at the top of the page for 42774 just says Windows Server 2003.)

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/388477/microsoft-updates-windows-xp-to-dodge-ie-flaw Also seeing multiple posts on twitter echoing this news.

Another laugh for the day...article entitled 'Windows XP is a much gereater risk than heartbleed' http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-xp-is-a-much-greater-risk-than-heartbleed/ Quote from article above: "Keanini summed it up the pervasive threat of Windows XP: "Hunt down expired versions of XP and terminate it!" So if one night you see a mob outside your window, carrying torches and pitchforks...you've been forewarned

What all the panicked chicken-littles' are missing is that, as of right now ALL versions of IE on ALL OS are affected. One article states that the Department of Homeland Security is reccomending that people stop using any version of IE. I'm sure that MS knew of this before April 8 and is going to use this to scare as many off XP as possible. I also see some of the column writers are asking "would MS produce an XP patch for this?" Stupids! MS will be providing an XP patch for the governments etc. who are paying for the pricey post April 8 "custom support". Also interesting to read associated articles about the MSE debacle where the April 15 update of MSE crashed some XP computers and left them unbootable. The only solution at the time was to uninstall MSE. While MS did release a corrected file in a few days, those compnies who now tried to reinstall MSE received error messages, stataing that XP was now an unsupported OS! Between the two issues, it seems as if MS will be using whatever dirty tricks it can conjure up, to force as many as possible off of XP. The warning messages of XP demise delivered via Windows Update and offers of $100 off a new Win 8 PC didn't have the desired effect. MS is going to start playing hardball now.