[Solved] How to get to the actual files?

[dencorso]

In XP/2k3/2k, when one runs an update/hotfix file with the /x command-line option one gets to the actual files installed by the update, without actually applying the update, and it can be done on any one of those three OSes regardless of which of them is the update/hotfix intended to.

Now, when using the correct extract/msdelta/mspatcha/dpx I can, by running:

 

C:\>expand -F:* Windows6.0-KBNNNNNNN-x86.msu D:\MyFixDir

 

obtain a set of files, including a .cab and a .xml, all inside D:\MyFixDir, but that seems to me to be some kind of delta-files and related materials... 

 

So, how on Earth can I cause those fantabulous .msu files to cough up the actual files? Can it be done outside Vista? Can it be done even on XP? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

[MagicAndre1981]

you must run expand again against the CAB file which is included in the MSU to get the actual files.

[dencorso]

  Yes!!!

 

Thank you very much, MagicAndre1981! You do rock! You really do!