You like to install updates from original installation files?

[wiSHmaKeR]

Well this one is for you then

98SE SP rules of course! But some users prefer to install update patches from the original update packages (the small exe files supplied by MS). Before a few weeks I have been digging into MDGx's website and I found a pack which does this, but it installed alot things I didn't need. I separated the updates from it, and added some new. And it still used a batch file to install updates. So this is where the tiny program I wrote comes:

It's absolutely easy to add new updates. It's controlled by an .INI file (you can view an example .INI file here).

And surely this means you can customize it to be used for any Multi-Installations or Updates, not only for Windows 98 SE

Here

you can download only the program with a config for current critical updates.

Or here (~26 mb) you can download program with all the critical updates included (needs IE6SP1, DX9.0C, MP9 installed).

Here you can download an updated .INI file, including IE6SP1, DX9.0C and MP9, but you should download them from the site of Microsoft and put the installers:

- for IE6SP1 in .\ie6sp1

- for DX9.0C in .\dx90c

- and WMP9 .\WMP9.exe

Edited December 12, 2005 by wiSHmaKeR

[eidenk]

It sounds like a very nice little program. Thank you.

[celtish]

I should like to try this out it seems to be a RAR file which I don't have a handler for. Could it be done as a ZIP?

[randiroo76073]

I should like to try this out it seems to be a RAR file which I don't have a handler for. Could it be done as a ZIP?

Try this for RAR's, 40 day trial

http://www.rarlab.com/

Excelent prgm, you might decide to buy

[celtish]

http://www.rarlabs.com/rar/wrar351.exe

Yes, the above appears to be a free version and it works well but unlike NetZIP (my regular decompressor) it doesn't have drag-and-drop

[bristols]

You like to install updates from original installation files?, ...but you hate the ugly .bat files output

It's not so much in my own case that hate using .bat files to install updates from the original installation files, it's more that I don't fully understand how to do it. If I knew how to properly extract from the installation files all the necessary files and install them successfully using (a) .bat file(s), I would be doing it all the time.

In the meantime, thanks for this!

[apathetic_loser]

I use batch files to install a few updates prior to running the USP, but I've always found it an annoying way to run those updates. This looks a lot cleaner, and it's actually easier! Thank you very much, this is great.

[Faisal]

Thanks a lot for sharing this.

[eidenk]

Succesfully tested here on WinMe with the 28 new ME hotfixes posted by MDGx. Even though one of the installers partially failed because of a missing target file (Q297958 and its filelist.xml from SFP that is removed from my system (It also fails when run on its own)) and I had to click on a dialog to carry on with the install, all the other ones went well. Nice job.

[celtish]

Well this one is for you then

98SE SP rules of course! But some users prefer to install update patches from the original update packages (the small exe files supplied by MS). Before a few weeks I have been digging into MDGx's website and I found a pack which does this, but it installed alot things I didn't need. I separated the updates from it, and added some new. And it still used a batch file to install updates. So this is where the tiny program I wrote comes:

It's absolutely easy to add new updates. It's controlled by an .INI file (you can view an example .INI file here). And surely this means you can customize it to be used for any Multi-Installations or Updates, not only for Windows 98 SE

Here

you can download only the program with a config for current critical updates.

Or here (~26 mb) you can download program with all the critical updates included (needs IE6SP1, DX9.0C, MP9 installed).

Here you can download an updated .INI file, including IE6SP1, DX9.0C and MP9, but you should download them from the site of Microsoft and put the installers:

- for IE6SP1 in .\ie6sp1

- for DX9.0C in .\dx90c

- and WMP9 .\WMP9.exe

This download is no longer hosted by mytempdir. Is there an up-to-date download site available?

[Maan]

The file was removed.

Reason: Hosting period expired (no download for a loner period).

[celtish]

The file was removed.Reason: Hosting period expired (no download for a loner period).

I would be prepared to host the *updated* version of wiSHmaKeR's file if he would send it to me. Edited May 23, 2006 by plonkeroo

[CLASYS]

I was away from the forum for awhile and missed this entire thread. Anyone have a copy I can download?

cjl (large files don't scare me!)

[eidenk]

I have uploaded it on mytempdir. I can't guarantee it is the exact content of the original though it should be.

http://www.mytempdir.com/682312

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Can I add updates like Dcom and DXM9X etc. to this even though they requires a reboot after its installation.

Edited May 22, 2006 by PROBLEMCHYLD