InterLinked

@i430VX How can I recompile your code? I made modifications to the batch file (install.bat) and I have all my improvements there, but it won't work if I just run the bat. install_old (original) doesn't work either. I pinpointed it to the fact that it has trouble referencing the other utilities in the folder, like wget. So perhaps the only way for it to work is to compile it all back in to a single exe again. Thanks! UPDATE: in the meantime, if I add the command to cd into the directory where the bat file is launched, everything seems to work. I'll probably just keep it this way so if I ever need to make edits, it's easy to do so. @roytam1 Hi, Roytam1, Thanks so much for work on these programs. I'm using New Moon and MailNews even on Windows 7 because they're so awesome. But there is one problem/bug that I can find right now - standard users can't set the program as their default program (browser/mail client, what have you). It tries calling helper.exe in the uninstall folder, which for some reason requires admin rights? This is what happens: Any way to allow standard users to make this the default? Thanks!

A few questions, as I tried this out and it doesn't work very well unfortunately: At some point during installation, it said something like "InterLink is the browser and MailNews is the mail client", but I think you meant Borealis or whatever. The installer itself does download the programs. However, I can't figure it out. It downloaded both of the programs (New Moon x64 and MailNews) into the proper Programs Files directories, which is good. But... IT created desktop shortcuts for both programs, but it put them on the desktop of the CURRENT USER - rather than in the "Public Desktop" folder. I logged into an administrator account to run the installer and when I logged back in to a standard account, no shortcuts. But that's not a big deal, I can create the shortcuts manually. "New Moon x64" is a good name, but I prefer "MailNews" to "Interlink" (and it opens and shows "MailNews" in the title bar anyways) so I would rename it anyways. However, from a standard account, I cannot actually run either program! When I try accessing the respective folder in Program Files, it says that I require administrator privileges to accomplish this! I know these programs don't require admin rights, so why does the installer lock these browsers down to administrators only? That kind of defeats the whole point. I'd prefer a simpler version, if possible, that just downloaded the latest of the selected programs and put them in the program files directories, and didn't restrict the directory permissions or create desktop shortcuts. Is this possible? Otherwise, could the batch file be open-sourced so I could make the modifications myself? I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate. Thanks! UPDATE: I can extract the exe using 7z and edit the batch files. So I can easily take care of the shortcut thing. I don't see anything in the script that is obviously causing permission errors but I'll look into it. Thanks for the code base! It looks like this can be run at any time to update the browsers/programs, too, without affecting user data?

After getting MSO 2010 SP2 installed recently, I found that there was no easy and intuitive way to get Office 2010 fully up to date. Even the latest cumulative updates on Microsoft's websites (and it's not at all obvious which ones are necessary, since the "latest" ones go back to September 2019 or even earlier) omit nearly 60 standalone updates that need to be downloaded separately. The goal here was to see if I could get Office updated from the get go w/o using Windows Update post-install. Starting with SP2*, this will get MSO 2010 fully up to date. This is for 32-bit Office 2010 Professional Plus (+Visio) on 64-bit Windows 7. (*This was starting with the install files for Office 2010 with SP2 already slipstreamed into the "Updates" folder, I don't think there's an official SP2 ISO anywhere). However, in Word and other Office applications, the version number does not change higher than 7243/7237 still, which is annoying since 7245 I believe is the February 2020 build #. But by "up to date", I mean when you run Windows Update, it will give you the green checkmark and say "No important updates available", woo hoo! The folders referenced below are where I have saved extracted copies of all the downloaded CAB updates, because obtaining them is a pain. The updates that are contained in each folder are provided below. Sadly, using Windows Update post-install is the only way to get the last 3 updates to install, to my knowledge. I tested pretty much every possible way. They cause problems if you try to install them manually. Anyways, hopefully this is helpful, it took hours of testing but using this procedure any vanilla Office 2010 SP2 can be brought fully up to date. PART I: 1. Copy "Office 2010 x86 Pro Plus VL with SP2" to local Desktop. This contains the latest cumulative updates. 2. Copy contents of "MSO 2010 Latest Standalone Updates" to the "Updates" folder contained in the folder on Desktop. Click "Keep both copies" when prompted in the Copy dialog. 3. Run setup.exe 4. Install Update for Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime (2017) PART II: 1. Copy SW_DVD5_Visio_Premium_2010_W32_English_Std_Pro_Prem_MLF_X16-51030 with SP2 to local Desktop. 2. Copy contents of "MSO 2010 Latest Standalone Updates" to the "Updates" folder contained in the folder on Desktop. (Yes, this means all Office updates.) 3. Copy contents of "MSO 2010 Visio Latest Standalone Updates" to the "Updates" folder contained in the folder on Desktop. 4. Run setup.exe PART III: 1. Run Windows Update and install all IMPORTANT updates only. There should be (3) important updates. The steps above minimized the amount of updates Windows Update is needed for. The 3 important updates in Windows Update for MSO won't install manually (they still show up in WU), but if installed via Windows Update, they will disappear. *** UPDATES IN THE FOLDERS *** Latest Office 2010 Cumulative Updates: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/office-updates-msi UP TO DATE THROUGH 2020/02/21 FOR KB # RELEASED REPLACES Outlook 4484163 (2020/02/11) 4475573 (2019/08/13) Excel 4484267 (2020/02/11) 4484243 (2020/01/14) Office 4484236 (2020/02/11) 4484192 (2019/12/10) Office (Access) 4484193 (2019/12/10) 4484127 (2019/11/12) Office (Word) 4475598 (2019/12/10) 4475531 (2019/08/13) PowerPoint 4461613 (2019/12/10) 4461521 (2018/12/10) Word 4475601 (2019/12/10) 4475533 (2019/08/13) Office 4464566 (2019/09/10) 4462223 (2019/04/09) Project 4461631 (2019/09/10) 4022147 (2018/11/13) **NOT DOWNLOADED** --- Install these standalone x86 updates for MSO 2010 --- 3114416 3114414 2553154 2553313 2553332 2850016 2881029 2956063 3114565 3115120 3115197 3115248 3191908 4022206 4022208 3114872 2999465 4018363 3114879 2817369 2553092 2553140 2553347 2553388 2589298 2589375 2880971 2597087 2791057 2825640 2881030 3054886 3055047 3128031 4092436 4461579 4462187 3114559 2553308 2760601 3115314 4461626 982726 2956076 2589318 2589339 3054873 4462172 2883019 2589386 4011186 3115475 --- Install the applicable (e.g. language specific) component of these MSO 2010 x86 updates --- 4022136 2956084 4461625 3114885 2956076 3203468 3213626 3213631 --- Install the following updates during Visio install AS WELL (install all other updates above also) --- 4464566 4484193 2881025 (English only) *** END OF UPDATES TO SLIPSTREAM ** --- Duplicate CAB updates --- 3203468 3114885 --- Problematic updates --- 4011610: The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service b/c the program to be upgraded may be missing or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch.

OK, thanks! What I am really trying to do is slipstream updates into the Vista ISO. Except if I just use vLite to integrate all the updates through 2017, it fails (the ISO boots and gets to "Install now" and then i get an error about install.wim or something) So basically I have to try all possible permutations of the 400 updates and see which ones fail and which ones work. It is a length process but hopefully at the end I will have a blacklist and whitelist of Vista updates so that as much as possible can be slipstreamed right into the ISO.

Apollo 13.dvr-ms Vertigo.dvr-ms Jewels of Caribbean.dvr-ms

Yes, it did! Found them immediately, thanks Vista, you rock! I guess it was relevant that the computer in question was upgraded in place from Vista to 7. The files must have been in the Windows.old folder, or simply ported over during the upgrade. "If it ain't broke, break it". That seems to be the entire philosophy here. Their rationale is just pure stupid. Vista was not even EOS in 2016, what the heck were they thinking!?? Minimize software compatibility, that's a sure way to get people to hate you! Do Chrome extensions continue to work fine in Chrome 49? If so, as long as webpages work, then I guess it's not a huge issue, even if it's four years out of date, as eventually Chrome 70 will also be four years out of date (it's already one year old) so it's a lose lose either way. My guess is this is the beginning of the end for Chromium since they don't care squat about compatibility or user experience.

How do I do this? What really strikes me as odd is how there is this huge compatibility gap when Vista and W7 are the most similar Windows there could possibly be! Just mindblowing. Although not dissimilar from the 2000/XP, though KernelEx mostly bridged that.

Now I get The procedure entry point TpSetPoolStackInformation could not be located in the dynamic link library ntdll.dll

@Vistapocalypse Is there any way to get Iron 70 (fork of Chrome 70) to run on Vista? I use New Moon on W2K, but unfortunately I need Chrome for a few things. Iron is literally Chrome minus the privacy invasions. Otherwise it's the same browser. I use version 70 on newer versions of Windows because it's the last version of Chromium before the UI/UX was completely screwed up with no option to go back to the old UI. I tried installing Iron 70, the 64-bit version, which is way above the equivalent Chrome 49 version. The exe installer didn't work. Surprisingly, the MSI installer did, and so I thought I could be smart in getting it to work. Unfortunately, once I try to launch it, I get "The procedure entry point TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll' I copied kernel32 from Windows 7 to Windows Vista and renamed it kernel33. I hex edited chrome.dll, iron.dll, and chrome_elf.dll to change all kernel32 references to kernel33 Now I get "This application has failed to start because API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L-1-1-0.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." Is there any hope? Can I hex edit my way to Iron 70, or is this a hopeless cause???

What's the status on this script? Does it work?

Found another program called Vista Update Integrator but had issues here, too. I think I'm going to have to do it without any 3rd-party tools. Is there a procedure that can be used to get all the updates installed and then generalize the install.wim file back into the ISO?

Weird, it works for me. Did you do everything in this procedure? https://w2k.phreaknet.org/guide/

@Jody Thornton @Vistapocalypse OK, so I've tried using vLite 5 times and it has failed every time. It has taken probably 30 hours to generate these 5 ISOs and none of them have worked. Either vLite is trash or something weird is going on here. This last time around, I tried only slipstreaming all updates from SP2 through EOS in 2007 (so 2009-2017). I get a 5.7 GB ISO, and when I try testing it using VirtualBox, as soon as click Install and next, I get the same error about Install.wim that I've been getting every time. But I've been deselecting updates that triggered errors in vLite before, so I'm not getting any other errors besides that one when I try installing (and the this ISO is greater than 4.7 GB in vLite...) At this point, I really don't know what to do. Manually installing 11 years of updates post-install is just not viable every time. I don't have the time or patience to go through that, whether through Windows Update or even installing offline updates. It seems like like it or not, I'm being forced to go with Windows 7 if I can't find some other fix. I did just try running vLite to create any ISO w/o doing any modifications. That creates a good ISO (same as before, in all likelihood), but that doesn't get me anywhere. Trying this with the zillions of permutations of Vista updates from 2009-2017 is also not doable. Any ideas anyone? Thanks!

It probably was, and I did download those links, too, but I didn't use them. I used WSUS Offline to download all Vista updates, and then I downloaded the Ultimate Extras updates using those links (but nothing else). I also downloaded the greenhill 2008 archive, but I'm not even to that point yet.

Well, these 4 fail on vLite: 4537767 955430 4537810 4537822 Interestingly, 955430 is already in SP2, and SP2 ISO works fine, but this one causes issues when integrated apparently. So no way to delete the 955430 update, but I'm redoing vLite once again with all updates through EOS except for the other 3. Hopefully the result is better!

I've been trying to even get up through 2017 EOS, and that's proved difficult. This is the 4th time now that I've attempted to use vLite because the first 3 didn't work, and it takes 6-12 hours each time vLite runs to do the slipstream. Unbelievable slow. I wish there was something like the Simplix pack for Vista. I used that and the boss911 script to slipstream updates from SP1, 2011 all the way through January 2020. Took 50 minutes, and the ISO worked perfectly.

@Jody Thornton Hi, Jody, I took a vanilla Vista x64 SP2 ISO and slipstreamed all updates from 2007 through 2020 into it using vLite. The process took 7 hours and vLite, and in the end, I got a 5.9 GB ISO that didn't work. Once I get to the screen where you would pick the OS, it just says: Windows cannot open the required file D:\Sources\Install.wim The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files available for installation are available, and restart the installation. How did you do your vLite slipstream? I injected around 450 updates, and I'm not sure what to do now. I certainly don't want to have to manually install them all! Thanks!

I've been using Windows 2000 Professional for several months now as my primary OS now and it works great. With kernel modifications, I even have Office 2007 working seamlessly. The problem is I really need Office 2010, the best and really the oldest usable version of Office, and I've been getting away with running it in a Server 2003 VM until now. But that adds overhead. Still, W2K is incredibly stable and fast. So if people can use W2K 20 years after it was released, then W7 should be at least as usable ten years from now, probably still more usable. At this point, I'm considering using Windows 7 and/or Windows Vista Ultimate as a secondary OS to handle things like Office 2010, which Windows 2000 is just not ideal for. That way, Windows 10 can be completely avoided, since Vista and 7 are modern enough to do what I can't do in Windows 2000 (which is really not a lot).

It seems most of them are available here: I guess it's possible those updates in question are contained here? It'd be nice to have an offline pack so I don't need to fetch them online every time. The link above says it doesn't include hotfixes, for whatever reason, so that could be concerning...

@Vistapocalypse I have the SP2 ISO. So what I'm looking at is the stuff in the middle, basically: All updates released after SP2 through EOL/EOS Internet Explorer 9 (unless that's part of SP2...) Ultimate Extras The 2008 repository comes into play only after one already has that - so I'm not quite there, yet. Simplix is a well known solution for Windows 7, right through EOMS in January 2020, but apparently there's nothing similar for Vista. It would be kind of nice to allow people to take their SP2 ISOs and then slipstream all the updates into them easily.

@WinClient5270 How possible would it be to make something like the Simplix pack for Windows Vista, now that all Vista/2008 updates are done? It would be nice to have that in an integrated ISO, as well as the Ultimate Extras, as Microsoft is already breaking download links for various updates, etc.

@Vistapocalypse That looks familiar. That is Landscapes, I believe. Or Wildlife. I have copies of both. These are pretty common and included in most Win7 systems, I just checked my archive of what I call "Windows template files" (default files that come with Windows) and I have those. The three files that I think would have either been in the Recorded TV or Videos (possibly) directory. I would have thought Recorded TV would have been more likely, but maybe not. Nope, it is 100% distinctly from Windows 7. To be specific, Windows 7 Home Premium x32, if that makes any difference at all. UPDATE: I do remember though now, it WAS upgraded at one point from Windows Vista, which is what was originally on it. **UPDATE:** FOUND THE VIDEOS! All 3 of them and more on a fresh install of Windows Vista Home Premium! So they must have been carried over via windows.old. No wonder I could never find them again! Vista for the win! Jewels of the Caribbean is video 3 of 3 of the series I am talking about, so I'm inclined to believe it was related. Anyone else here have Windows 7 or Vista systems that could confirm/deny this?

@Vistapocalypse Unfortunately, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it's nowhere to be found in there. Do you remember if the two you deleted were Apollo and Vertigo? Yes, Jewels of the Caribbean is definitely the third of the three film clips! I think I'm getting somewhere... I guess I might install Vista Home Premium and try to extract the videos, I've been looking for those for nearly ten years now!

Hey, this isn't 100% on-topic, but maybe some WMC folks here would know, I remember that at some point, WMC came with 3 samples movie clips, 1 from Vertigo, 1 from Apollo 11 or Apollo 13, and one from some deep blue sea movie, I had the original video files way back on some early W7 Home Premium machine, but that was ages ago. Now, I can't find the files anywhere. They're not online anywhere, and in my new W7 Ultimate x64 install, they're not there, either. The sample videos "Wildlife" and the other sea one I can find, but not the movie clips. Did those 3 videos only come with certain versions of WMC? Or am I just not looking in the right place? Any helps appreciated, thanks!

@X6Herbius win32 is really the source of all that, but I organized it into a very clear and procedural format that anybody should be able to use to get W2K up and running. All the steps should be correct as I followed them myself. My Win2K is as functional (probably more function, except for Office 2010) than Windows XP, really. There's not really a whole lot I can't do on it. I have modern web browsers, modern (XP) software, and everything is just very nice, smooth, speedy, and stable. My hunch is Microsoft booted this off the market quickly so that people wouldn't have adopted 2000 en masse and stuck with it forever. But I guess that sort of happened with XP anyways...