Muppet Hunter

August's hotfix list is at its usual place - http://www.vorck.com/windows/hotfixes_xp.html

973686 can replace 973687. It's basically the same hotfix as 973687, but doesn't include MSXML3.

I link to a regfile on my list which sets this and going by what you've said, it should stop WU complaining.

Thanks, I've just sent fdv a new list. KB967715 (Autorun disable) gets replaced btw

is this the one you're looking for? I think that's the link to the old installer. The one I'm looking for is whatever the download link is from validating through this page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1d224714-e238-4e45-8668-5166114010camy apologies if that wasn't the correct link ... although it says on the page 6/22/2010. cheers! Actually that probably is the right link! I've just managed to extract the installer and it's got files from Jan 2009 inside, so Microsoft must be using the same url as the previous installer. Cheers Kiki

is this the one you're looking for? I think that's the link to the old installer. The one I'm looking for is whatever the download link is from validating through this page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1d224714-e238-4e45-8668-5166114010ca It's still necessary (and still on my List ) The *new* WMP11 contains: Wmp.dll 11.0.5721.5262 Wmpdxm.dll 11.0.5721.5262 It's really strange why MS doesn't put new version ...5268 of these DLLS into the installer I suppose Microsoft want us all to be using Windows 7

Does anyone know the direct link for the new WMP11 installer? I'm on Linux at the moment so can't validate and download to get the link Also, does anyone know if KB973540 is still necessary since the new WMP11 installer came out? It contains Wmp.dll & Wmpdxm.dll 11.0.5721.5268

Well-spotted NLZ! I'll make sure that's fixed for the next patch Tuesday (in just over a week). Thanks for reporting it.

My XP Hotfix List has been updated for June. There's just one note I've added since emailing the list and it's to point out that the August 2008 bugfix KB951978 is for IE6 or IE7. I think any major problems have pretty much been sorted out, but feel free to let me know of any issues you may encounter. Jun 2010 Changelog Updated : [Adobe Flash] SWFLASH.CAB - Updated to v10.1.53.64 (Security Update) Updated : [Roots Certificates] KB931125 - Update for May 2010 Replaced : [Kernel-Mode Drivers] KB969947 - Replaced by Security Update KB979559 Replaced : [WMP (9,10,11) Security] KB968816 - Replaced by Security Update KB978695 Replaced : [ActiveX Killbits Cumulative] KB978262 - Replaced by Security Update KB980195 Replaced : [iE6 & IE8 Cumulative] KB980182 - Replaced by Security Update KB982381 Replaced : [iE8 Compatibility View List] KB980302 - Replaced by KB982632 Added : [DirectShow] KB975562 - Security Update Added : [Asycfilt.dll (COM)] KB979482 - Security Update Added : [OpenType CFF] KB980218 - Security Update Misc : [Timezone Update] Changed default folder from HFSVCPACK_SW1 to HF Misc : IE8 users need the IE6 cumulative update to solve the 'Organize Favorites' Issue Misc : Changed the severities of the updates which were marked N/A

klenot That one ought to be included. The WMP section is the last bit on my list that needs sorting out, so in the meantime use Mimo's list or even Boogy's one. Edit : KB952069 will be included in the next lot of updates and this means that all the security fixes should be included. Some of the other non-security ones listed elsewhere probably aren't necessary unless you're having the problem described, but I'll take a look anyway.

klenot Sorry for the errors, I think I must have edited a backup copy when I last did the list. I've just recently been through the whole thing and cleaned it all up. I'll be updating as usual on Tuesday but in the meantime you can see the newer copy (attached). hotfixes_xp.html

Thanks for that bphlpt. I was just waiting for news of something like this after putting KB981669 in my list. I suppose I'll either have to add a note or roll back to KB958655 (KB967756 isn't downloadable).

Except for about 10 hotfixes which need a direct link (eg for wga validation), this should now work for English, French, German and Spanish updates. For anyone wanting to fill in the blanks, the direct links for each language are to be stored in AH to AK from row 37 down. To skip any hotfixes just enter something different in the cell (eg skip!). IE6 and WMP9 updates are skipped by default. Enter your hotfix language code (ie ENU,DEU,FRA or ESN) in cell L5. Some non-language specific updates (eg most of the 'Required to access Windows Update' ones) have been marked with a language code to ensure that they get downloaded. Just ignore this. I've fixed the deletion part of the script so that obsoletes are deleted regardless of language. *** Note - it's still a work in progress and links have to be added/checked *** hfpicker_ml.zip

Spanish works! If you have Spanish Windows then you can probably omit &displaylang=es but the trouble I found was that some languages didn't seem to work using the links containing confirmation.aspx eg :- www.microsoft.com/downloads/pl-pl/confirmation.aspx?familyId=a9beb2bd-e5f6-43f9-bbcc-a2afee5e5ceb&displayLang=pl or any combination using pl & pl-pl. In a browser, the following thankyou.aspx link works for me (and also works for &displaylang=es) :- www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=a9beb2bd-e5f6-43f9-bbcc-a2afee5e5ceb&displayLang=pl It would be simpler if the thankyou.aspx links worked as in theory these should work for all languages. The trouble is wget can't grab this link and download the file for reasons I can't work out (I get the ENU file instead). I've tried all sorts of wget options and I can only think it's because my system locale is English and not Polish. With the confirmation.aspx links, maybe it only works with some of the main world languages eg French, Spanish etc. When I get a spare moment I'll put up a new spreadsheet. If anyone wants to help test, then the wget command line options to use are :- wget -r -H -np -l1 -nd -nH -nc -c --max-redirect=2 -A cab,exe,msi,thankyou.aspx,confirmation.aspx -Dwww.microsoft.com,download.microsoft.com --referer="http://www.microsoft.com" --ignore-case --no-cookies -U "Mozilla/4.0 (Windows; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"

Mimo, using one url to get any language would make things far easier. With direct links you'd just put them in a list and use wget -i list.txt. The hard bit would be getting all the links!

@Mimo There are just generic links in the spreadsheet, let me explain. The spreadsheet has two sheets inside. One has links of the form /downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=e2acde20-a6d3-4135-b6eb-1214f743d474 for ENU hotfixes. The other sheet has links of the form /downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=e2acde20-a6d3-4135-b6eb-1214f743d474 which (for some languages) redirects to the confirmation.aspx link. On the confirmation.aspx page it says 'if your download does not start after 30 seconds, click here: Start download'. It's this link that wget follows. To complicate things further, on both pages I have seen &displaylang=en appear at the end of the url. At first I thought that I could try /downloads/pl/confirmation.aspx...&displaylang=pl for Polish, but this didn't work. It was then I found the thankyou.aspx link where I could just change the language by changing the end of the url to &displaylang=pl. I tried the portugese-brazilian link in my browser and I got the PTB file. With wget it doesn't work. I was hoping that it's not working because I have an ENU locale, but it might be a browser cookie issue. The only language setting in my spreadsheet is in A228 of the Multilang sheet for the user-agent string. There is a header accept-language option somewhere within wget but I found it made no difference. There's also a way of setting cookies in wget which I haven't tried yet.

I think mine is the only one which * might * be able to easily 'sniff' the multilingual fixes without manually chasing up the direct urls. I say 'might' because I need someone with a non-English setup to test this out. Thanks for the feedback

Updated May 5th 2011 Note that at the moment this only works for English 'ENU' updates. This is now using aria2 instead messing around with wget. It uses a simpler batch which calls aria2 to parse a list of direct urls and will download in parallel (wget does it serially). If you don't want a file then just comment the file out with an octothorpe (#) and do likewise with the HF=XYZ on the next line. Get the latest stable version of aria2, currently 1.11.1 (get the file with mingw32msvc in its name) aria2 Vanilla : IE6, WMP9, MSI 3.1, Win Messenger 4.7 + Common Upates + Common Bugfixes vanilla.zip Regular : IE8, WMP11, MSI 4.5, Win Messenger 5.1 + Common Upates + Common Bugfixes + IMAPI v2 regular.zip Extra : Regular + Extras & Upgrades + Group Policy + WGA + Bugfixes (from Less Essential Updates) + Windows/MS/Office Updates extra.zip Instructions 1/ Extract aria2c.exe into the hfslip root directory 2/ Unzip the batch and filelist from whatever file from above (ie Extra, Vanilla or Regular) into the hfslip root directory 3/ Click on the batch file in Window$ Explorer (or run from the command line) 4/ Follow the instructions and manually download anything that aria2 isn't capable of getting into the appropriate folder (this usually means downloading the regfiles) [until the hotfix list is updated EPA Enable (regfile) is here and latest Adobe Fla$h is here] 5/ Just download the new batch each month (rarely mid-month) to keep updated (new releases will be announced here) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I took over TommyP's XP Update List he gave me a copy of a spreadsheet he wrote for the purpose of making the list's web page. You put the details of each hotfix in (filename, url, kb number etc) and the webpage is automagically created. I noticed when I went to download updates via my list that on the confirmation page there is a manual link to start the download. I noticed the page url had the same 'familyId=' part as the page I had clicked from. You go from microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyId= to microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId= Anyway, I programmed the spreadsheet to get the familyid code and make a link for the confirmation page (containing the full download link). I had used wget in the past to grab certain filetypes from various sites to save me from having to click around and I saw that it could be used to scan each page and configured to follow the link to download the hotfix. The spreadsheet outputs a batch script which does all this for each hotfix in my update list. I added a column which lets you select any update that you want to ignore, ie any file you never need (rather than any file you already have). You just write any character in the cell and the link is gone. The script will remove recent obsolete updates (from the last 3 months) and download each current update to the appropriate folder (HF, HFCABS etc). If you run the script from the hfslip root directory then any existing files should be left alone because of Wget's no_clobber setting. To make the script, just highlight cells in the M column from 'echo deleting obsolete updates' down to 'pause' (M7 to M167). Copy & paste into a text editor and save as hfpicker.bat. For the Wget config settings, in the same way copy A173 to A231 and save as wget.ini. Wget can be got here. I didn't know a massive amount about the situation with non-ENU hotfixes, eg which locale codes are used, availability for each locale etc. Eventually I found another confirmation link (without '/en/' in the middle) of the form microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx. I can't properly test this as my locale is English and it might not even work, but the thankyou link ought to autodetect your locale and supply the appropriate file. I've put two worksheets together - one for ENU called Original and one called Multilang for non-ENU. The ENU one should be a little faster because of fewer redirects. There are certain hotfixes which need a direct link (mostly to bypass validation) and I've put the ENU link for these in the C column. In the Multilang sheet these lines have been 'marked' out to prevent mixing up the different languages. If anyone posts up direct links to non-ENU versions of these updates I'll see if they can be used for the benefit of others. In the meantime you can put these links in yourself and unmark as necessary. It might be possible in future to add in language selection which could be used to select the direct links based on an entered locale. Cell A5 is intended for this, but at the moment it just changes the language string in the (spoofed) user-agent used by Wget (cell A228). I'm not at all sure how the MS site detects locale, but I have unsuccessfully tried pretending to be pt-BR using various settings (I can only download PTB updates using a browser at the moment). The spreadsheet is attached, please download and test. At least for the moment it's not intended for further redistribution or business use. Copyright TommyP and Muppet Hunter. hfpicker.zip hfpicker_ml.zip

Thanks bphlpt. TP - I really asked about the HF\WMP11 thing because I added a note to my update list. I have used WMPLite to play videos in webpages, it just seems like a very heavily stripped down version plus codecs (VLC is another solution but I haven't tried it recently). FFdshow seemed to work pretty well when I tried it a few months ago. I've never really used the full WMP as I've heard that is sucks at most things media related

You must have been thinking of Windows NT 3.51

Does anyone know if the method of extracting the WMP11 installer to HF\WMP11 always works (as described on Mim0's list)? Personally I've always used WMLite11 and copied over newer dll's that I've collected from various hotfixes. I'm not sure about HFSLIP does this, but you can use nLite to rip out WMP 6.4 compatibility On the subject of using WMP 9.5 codecs, have any of the files from wmfdist95.exe been replaced by security updates? That file is from KB891122 which is over 5 years old now.

Inki - I understand that WMP6.4 is like the base of WMP and that codec installation package is from 2004 and updates Windows 98, NT4, etc. I've no idea about wuweb as I never use WU, but the latest and greatest isn't always necessary (sometimes it breaks things too). Thanks for taking the trouble to post anyway.

I saw this one on MDGx's list and it's one of those 'if you have this rare problem' kind of updates. It contains Qedit.dll version 6.5.2600.5783 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969395 Windows Movie Maker crashes when you install more than 100 video transitions or video effects on a computer that is running Windows XP

I know the list you're talking about and I quite liked it too. Absolutely no promises, but I'll take a look at that.