How to see if windows update V6 is installed

[Telenut]

Hi,

I use a bat script to install all windows updates. It also includes windows update V6. But I can't find out a way to see if this is already on the system.

I coud use IF NOT EXIST c:\?????? WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart

or

REG QUERY "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP3\????" > nul 2>&1

IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (

WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart

Just need to find out what the ?????? must be...

[muiz]

Hi,

I use a bat script to install all windows updates. It also includes windows update V6. But I can't find out a way to see if this is already on the system.

I coud use IF NOT EXIST c:\?????? WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart

or

REG QUERY "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP3\????" > nul 2>&1

IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (

WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart

Just need to find out what the ?????? must be...

just go to windows update site

[Yzöwl]

Why not just check the file version of one of its installed components.

From WU5 the file version is usually something like 5.4.3790.2182 or whereas in WU6 the file version is 5.8.0.2469. As the new version is known, test for it, and run the install if unsuccessful.

In order to check a file version the easiest method would be to use vbscript. If we wrap it in a cmd and run it, it should work fine.

:: IfOldVer.cmd - Yzöwl ©2005
:: Runs a command upon incorrect file version
::
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
ECHO SET objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >_temp.vbs
ECHO Wscript.stdout.write objFSO.GetFileVersion("%SystemRoot%\system32\wuapi.dll") >>_temp.vbs
FOR /F %%a IN ('CSCRIPT /NOLOGO _temp.vbs') DO IF "%%a" NEQ "5.8.0.2469" START WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart
DEL _temp.vbs
ENDLOCAL
GOTO :EOF

[muiz]

why do all those time consuming things???

go to windows update site and you see if its installed or not

[Raja]

Another option if u must use batch file, you can check for the file size or the date stamp. Below is the example for Notepad.exe which has file size of 69,120 bytes.

dir %windir%\notepad.exe|find "69,120"
if errorlevel 0 if not errorlevel 1 echo "Version is correct"

[Telenut]

thx Yzöwl

works perfect! (and I have learned something new)

[scp]

What about

IF NOT EXIST %SystemRoot%\system32\LegitCheckControl.DLL WUv6.exe /wuforce /quiet /norestart

[Telenut]

I'm not sure of that file is part of the windows update V6.

If it is, it would work too I guess.

Thx for the tips guys.

[Yzöwl]

@ scp

have you ever wondered why some people are just 'too clever' to see something right under their own nose!

Another option if u must use batch file, you can check for the file size or the date stamp. Below is the example for Notepad.exe which has file size of 69,120 bytes.

dir %windir%\notepad.exe|find "69,120"
if errorlevel 0 if not errorlevel 1 echo "Version is correct"

This is what I would use

dir/-c "%windir%\notepad.exe"|find "69120 bytes">nul||echo/incorrect version

[-.-PhanTom-.-]

Curious..where did you get the WUv6.exe file?

[Telenut]

found it somewhere on this forum. But I'm not able to find it back now :-)

[-.-PhanTom-.-]

Hmmm ****.. anyone else?

Really want to be able to have windows update "updated" upon first load...

[Telenut]

here you go:

http://www.telenut.be/WUv6.exe