Best Way to update Windows WITHOUT slipstreaming

[pistolpete_1980]

Hi,

I have been looking on the net for hours trying to find the best solution to update windows XP WITHOUT having to slipstream everytime a new update comes out....

What i need is a program that will do the following.

1) Be able to update windows xp without having to connect to the internet. So basically all upates reside in a directory, and then an ap can run all updates unattended Via WPI wizard.

2) I know all the updates can be downloaded easily via "windows update downloader" but at this point it becomes a pain to execute them 1 by one. or even slipstream it into a new CD..

I want to be able to run all updates unattended from a directory on the local disk.

Any solutions?

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

Yeah somebody already did that. It was called autopatcher. It was great. you could bring any copy of XP current by popping in the CD and clicking a few times. It was truely awesome. I keep using the word was because its no longer around because MS killed it because it didnt support WGA and therefore was very popular with the Non-genuine windows crowd

you can take a clean install of XP, apply all the updates and then copy the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder to another unpatched PC and launch Windows Update and it'll apply the updates without having to download them

the closest thing to autopatcher I've seen is http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=109430

If you are setting this up in a large environment then i would look into setting up WSUS (basically windows update inside the lan)

[pistolpete_1980]

I keep using the word was because its no longer around because MS killed it because it didnt support WGA and therefore was very popular with the Non-genuine windows crowd

I was doing some research on that ap... it appears as though it is not dead. i found this on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoPatcher

Comeback

Antonis revealed in the AutoPatcher Blog that his biggest concern after the project was shut down by Microsoft was that "people around the globe [would] start writing their own custom modules and start redistributing their own releases." He added that one of the security features in AutoPatcher "would automatically flag these releases as unofficial", but if end-users only had a choice of unofficial releases, the spread of malicious software would be very easy.

As a result, Antonis continued to work on the AutoPatcher project, creating a tool — the AutoPatcher Updater, or APUP — to automatically download the required patches from Microsoft's web servers and store them in the same file structure used in previous AutoPatcher releases. Antonis revealed that once the files had been downloaded "everything remains as you know it."[5]

I found the apup.... and found it very confusing? i guess because of the "everythig remains as you know it" I never knew it.... maybe you can help shed some light as to what i need to do with this thing! looks exactly like what i was looking for

Regards,

Peter

Edited December 24, 2007 by pistolpete_1980

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

hmm there is a version of apup here which appears to download the autopatcher engine (which applies the patches) and the actual updates themselves.

im gonna have to check this out when i get back to work next year

[pistolpete_1980]

I downloaded that APUP, basically what it does it download load the autopatcher exe. and Also all the windows updates into a folder!!! exactly what i was looking for...

However, after downloading all the updates, and then installing, I still noticed that some high priority updates were still not installed on the microsoft update website...

I then checked the download directory where all the updates are stored, and couldnt seem to find them...

Does anyone else have any experience with this program?