Unwanted "fixes"

[Shalimar]

Hi all,

Just a thought but since the download list is online only (so it seems) how would someone go about eliminating some of the "fixes" so things like .NET and WMP9 are NOT included.

I can't speak for the rest of you but I for one have no use for either of those at all and would much prefer to eliminate them entirely. If the particular system needs/wants them afterwards they can be installed easily enough. However in 99.99% of the cases here they are not only not wanted but simply waste a bunch of resources.

It would be nice to be able to edit/select from the list of "hotfixes" to eliminate things such as this.

Shal

[Wraith]

Run XPCREATE normally, get it to download the hotfixes etc. first.

Then, disable downloading in the XPCREATE.INI, and remove the unwanted EXE's that were downloaded previously.

[Alanoll]

SOMEONE didn't search.

[Shalimar]

actually i did search.. results it returned were useless

and I realize it can be done that way but I should have stated more clearly what I meant. Regarding having access to the "download" list before it's acted upon. Or better still perhaps having an entry in the ini to disable use of certain "fixes" which would be even better

[Bilou_Gateux]

Create your own customized HotFixes List : XPCTHLST.TXT

[OSInfo]
SOURCEVER=2KP
WINLANG=FRA
CURSPVER=4
CURSPURL=http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/0/cf065ae8-0c96-47f5-ba2b-3220da77076e/w2ksp4_fr.exe
CURSPMD5=E544DE955ACBEF25DD59C5E487F5A1C6
CURSPPATH=SPACKS\W2KSP4_FR.EXE

[HotFixFiles]
ADD SVC-DAH\FRN_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/c/7bc5f5d6-f2a3-43da-8537-cd1410a2b024/FRN_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE 10DF802DE9B7CB3A026226DCAAB7E86C
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB329115-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/c/6/0c647e2d-6b65-49cd-803e-8c50e1c1645d/Windows2000-KB329115-x86-FRA.exe F65E3B4AAD0867CEAD5C426605B33ACB
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB820888-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/1/5/b156ae49-2601-4d47-b6dd-a070d3cbbc40/Windows2000-KB820888-x86-FRA.exe FC24B45DE8D207041FBC90FCE3CA88D1
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB822831-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/1/e/51ed81bf-5fc4-4ba2-b238-2ea9c9001b5d/Windows2000-KB822831-x86-FRA.exe 13A66B7FFE236D04E0115980C1F13901
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB823182-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/5/d9585aa3-145e-45b5-b106-793161f2890f/Windows2000-KB823182-x86-FRA.exe D4158F5548892C2F38EBF995A53F7B39
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB823559-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/e/4/5e4e0e5f-14ff-4835-b7be-00b1d1c39d0e/Windows2000-KB823559-x86-FRA.exe D4FC4A9A522C5BDDF0B5D9130612201C
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB824105-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6/f/86f7aa59-0822-41e8-8c16-9965c963a9c1/Windows2000-KB824105-x86-FRA.exe 0F586CB17996C540B5BEA104C800E8AA
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB824141-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/7/9/b795b288-9ded-4efa-a8a3-91ef51d0388c/Windows2000-KB824141-x86-FRA.exe 65C271B8E0D0BCCE4C15E0AF4C0117CE
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB824146-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/e/1/ee171b06-ef1f-4ac9-a0ab-485f252af8fb/Windows2000-KB824146-x86-FRA.exe F4D76CE69208AED0BC4589ED6419EC45
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB825119-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/a/d7ae9314-a7ef-45a2-8f30-a7e7bb5cc6d1/Windows2000-KB825119-x86-FRA.exe F10CF5B9E141A4EFFE23668D99CF9D77
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB826232-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/d/a/0dac23bb-5e50-46d0-96ad-5f0078c2b32d/Windows2000-KB826232-x86-FRA.exe 27EBB266C9A1DE2983F4447F8E1B88EC
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB828035-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/f/63f4445a-e445-41c1-8dee-0707f7c38c96/Windows2000-KB828035-x86-FRA.exe B1678385BEF2EDB96E5ADAB66F57D5B6
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB828741-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/a/2/7a2fb3eb-01c2-4f77-916e-c7950d181354/Windows2000-KB828741-x86-FRA.EXE 1223F6E0B7D9DE0D90AA5261AA80570E
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB828749-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/c/6/5c6ef28e-51b0-4819-a369-36f95805e781/Windows2000-KB828749-x86-FRA.exe 43D809EB8BBEF021275172DEF7A722E9
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB829558-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/9/a89f7c9e-2378-4acf-9771-8312e767afe6/Windows2000-KB829558-x86-FRA.exe EBCD432D0F95695A9F38D4DB2C19A0B7
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB835732-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/1/6/016bd08b-1a0a-4ce6-9c3f-bc1f4ccb1b9b/Windows2000-KB835732-x86-FRA.EXE 9E4337DF697BEF2C297511E12D19258D
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB837001-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/6/f/26ff2914-057d-4ed7-a412-438376a57dbc/Windows2000-KB837001-x86-FRA.EXE DB8FD7165AEE961D5C52CDC6A8D27AE7
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB839645-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/e/1ee1393b-ce01-4844-8cbf-572195a1943d/Windows2000-KB839645-x86-FRA.EXE D13E6665D7AF0ED538F7C8C86F3F15B3
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB840315-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/b/a7b2e02c-7b7a-4f48-be1b-9e52cef377ba/Windows2000-KB840315-x86-FRA.EXE 456BA269C2CDF648C5A859907A442EF1
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB841872-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/3/3/8333a486-00eb-4bd6-a1d8-346c67bb36dc/Windows2000-KB841872-x86-FRA.EXE D352DBB7623EB5D85F210F9132C04F17
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB841873-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/6/90659de1-0747-422e-8161-2cf6310e0102/Windows2000-KB841873-x86-FRA.EXE 945868AB50B74223C129FA61745C13C9
ADD SVC-HF1\Windows2000-KB842526-x86-FRA.EXE http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/3/be3a003d-9a42-4fe3-a2d4-8b19ff353d0c/Windows2000-KB842526-x86-FRA.EXE 43D646183A5C36B94ADE8527DA102AAA
ADD SVC-HF2\Windows-KB870669-x86-ENU.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/5/5/e55bbf16-ae16-4d58-8f75-3233ec146255/Windows-KB870669-x86-ENU.exe 23F365B842C979674D02057D79FFF29C
ADD SVC-HF1\WindowsMedia-Q828026-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/c/1eca869e-f23e-4a6c-ae7c-605c01f00c0f/WindowsMedia-Q828026-x86-FRA.exe 3B35987091F03CCDF873D8740AB426F7
DEL SVC-HF1\WindowsMedia9-KB837272-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/b/b/0bbce627-51cf-416c-bb79-1bc58bd09e4b/WindowsMedia9-KB837272-FRA.exe BD5A6682C16ACF65A9DA8CB2686FAB03
ADD SVC-HF2\js56nfr.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/5/c/c5cc8633-4c82-4e21-8bf9-18ec53a71d6d/js56nfr.exe 028DAD18783F929BFDC6AC678F490F25
ADD SVC-HF2\Q831167.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/a/8/aa8cbdb2-8a3b-43f4-89e1-c16f470b021a/Q831167.exe 7C20B12AC1FE5293B6B562B59E9F73EE
ADD SVC-HF2\Q832894.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/c/a7cf4dc1-b1a0-4273-8b42-5e2a4139a478/Q832894.exe 1CA4628321AE4C1969884CD7ADCCE625
ADD SVC-HF2\rootsupd_afc57447f7caadd3253333e35777fcd.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/rootsupd_afc57447f7caadd3253333e35777fcd.exe 45407673CB041A4E0CCCD3BD4392A483
DEL SVC-POS\OE6.0sp1-KB837009-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/b/30b10402-b8af-4579-9e03-e20dc4eee64c/OE6.0sp1-KB837009-x86-FRA.exe 0642D946904F826683FE2DDD1C65EB8B
ADD SVC-POS\IE6.0sp1-KB823353-x86-FRA.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/9/87905b08-6524-4743-b2f5-b5b18dfb92b3/IE6.0sp1-KB823353-x86-FRA.exe 913129FBCF3AD9BACA8B2AE153E93E08
DEL SVC-WMP\MPSetup.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/e/7/de79b359-770c-4f4d-9168-c460cafa2597/MPSetup.exe BA89DD0C2AC91ABEB62CEE2A1EAA833D
DEL SVC-X2M\dotnetfx.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/d/a/eda9d4ea-8ec9-4431-8efa-75391fb91421/dotnetfx.exe B6241AC8E9A2D1C589826DD85FC5B531
DEL SVC-X2M\setup.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/6/90660e9c-a491-4a82-98ed-9ec6d78ffbe8/setup.exe 6085A3A3AD1792AC84BC3C7C1782BE6E

if you don't want WMP9, WM9 HotFix, DotNet FX, Journal Viewer, replace ADD by DEL in the list like in my personal 2K FRA list.

you should use a special path for the HFlist URL in XPCREATE.INI to use your personal offline HFList instead of the official.

go to zippi post here for details :

another DLURL workaround

[Shalimar]

Many thanks Bilou Gateux!!!

That sort of Kickass reply is exactly what I was hoping for >

Now w/said list it makes it easy as can be to fix.

Regards,

Shal

[Guest zippy]

that's what DLURL workaround's for on my box.

[GreenMachine]

Looks like Bilou_Gateux has this HFLIST thing mastered!

... Now, to re-think those specs ...

As for which updates are downloaded, I leave that to be dictated by Windows Update and the MBSA. Save's me from my own personal evaluation of what is "good" and "bad" ...

[Shalimar]

the downside to that is exactly what I was trying to avoid.. it forces the avg user and/or anyone not technically inclined to install MP9 for example..

A small switch would be to give a user downloadable copy of the HFlist so it can be edited.

Or better still how about an entry in the ini where unwanted fixes filenames could be added so they are not downloaded/integrated. For anyone happy with the default method it wouldn't interfere but for those that would like moree control it would allow such easily. Given the structure of the ini I wouldn't think that would be hard to add in.

Just my CDN 2 cents at least.

Otherwise it so far is a seriously KICKASS piece of work. My hat off to you

Now if only someone would do the same for "shrinking" the cd ~_^

(if u reallt want to know what I mean icq me for details)

Shal

[GreenMachine]

I hate to insist ... but dictating the hotfix lists for the average or non-technically inclined user is exactly what I am after. If such a User cannot download his own hotfixes, I sure don't want to try to debug his installation problems. WMP9 updates without installing WMP9, Java updates with SP1A, files renamed that adversly effects XPCREATE: those are headaches I will not have.

Other threads here have shown how to create and use your own download list, without the need for a web server, so again, those with the ability can do it. Personally, I would think that just downloading and maintaining your own set of updates would be easier than updating a list: that is what I do ...

Your two Canadian Cents are appreciated, as is all constructive criticism. Were this a commercial product, such options would probably be incorporated. But alas, only one user has admitted using this in a commercial environment (as noted in the EULA ... ). The Home Hobbiest, however, will still need to put on the thinking cap if more than the standard results are desired. Perhaps it comes down to this: making an id***-proof product will no doubtably attract idiots, and that I am not inclined to do for free.

As for shrinking Windows, this is something I have never desired to try myself, but I believe both jdeboeck's scripts, and nLite have had success in the endeavor.