wiSHmaKeR Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 It sounds like a very nice little program. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randiroo76073 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 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 trialhttp://www.rarlab.com/Excelent prgm, you might decide to buy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 http://www.rarlabs.com/rar/wrar351.exeYes, 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristols Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apathetic_loser Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faisal Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Thanks a lot for sharing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maan Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 The file was removed.Reason: Hosting period expired (no download for a loner period). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLASYS Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 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!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBLEMCHYLD Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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