Are the updates installed, or not ..?

[Sailor]

I used nlite 1.4.9.3 (which I have used in the past to slipstream some SATA drivers for a laptop) to include OnePiece's update pack

(OnePiece_Windows_XP_Post-SP3_UpdatePack_v1.0.9_FINAL_ENU_7A2AC7C5DD72BB4BC0C18D677A8B8FB1.7z)

with my original XPSP3 disk. Nlite happily accepted it and created a bootable iso/disk, telling me that it is larger than the original (i.e. now approx 850MB). That disk boots and installs XP without any problems. However, I cannot see any evidence of the updates actually being present i.e. there is nothing in Add/Remove Programs, and there are no $NtUninstallKBxxxxxxxxx in Windows.

Are they actually installed? Or did I make some sort of stupid mistake when creating the iso?

TIA

 

[Sailor]

Ok, I'll answer this myself; I think that yes, they are installed. I can see entries in the registry for what looks like most, or all (~250 - 300) updates, at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SPnn\KBnnnnnnn\...

and the file version numbers in those entries match the files in e.g. \WINDOWS\system32. So I guess that they just aren't (readily) uninstallable. But that doesn't matter right now.

However, it certainly screws up Nirsof's WinUpdatesView.exe, though. That now returns a completely blank page

If anyone has further info, I'd be pleased to hear it.

[Kurt_Aust]

If using an update pack then all the updates will be integrated into the source, if using individual hotfixes most will be integrated but some will be run silently at T-13.

Only those run silently will show up in add/remove programs.